On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 11:56:53AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hello, > > The large number of readers with extensive expertise > motivates me to post here. Apologies for being out of > scope. > > A friend uses a phone, connecting to a cell tower about 10 > km distant, as an access point in Tanzania. According to > this map, there are LTE routers which work in N. America and > part of S. America and other routers which work elsewhere > in the world. http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html > > This TP-Link MR200 router works in Ghana. > http://www.ebay.ca/itm/122151615059 > I expect it to work in Tanzania as well. Can anyone confirm > or deny that? Will any similar router work throughout the > world? Or in N. America and Tanzania at least? Any > additional recommendations for a router?
The relevant details here are the LTE channels that the router's radio can tune: 4G: FDD-LTE Cat4 (800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz) TDD-LTE (2300/2600MHz) 3G: DC-HSPA+/HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS (900/2100MHz) 2G: EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and how that matches up in Tanzania: 900 1800 3G 2100 Airtel Tanzania; 3G 2100 Tigo; 3G 2100 Vodacom; 4G LTE Smile Tanzania - Vodacom 800Mhz; 4G LTE Tigo ; 4G LTE Smart Telecom; 4G LTE TTCL ; 4G LTE Zantel in Zanzibar ; So, yes, it looks like you can buy a SIM and get LTE with this router in Tanzania. There are various places where the radio frequencies won't match up; hopefully you aren't going to those. -dsr- > > The connection to the distant cell tower should be better if > one of the monopole antennas is replaced with a directional > antenna. Any recommendations for that? > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > > > > > > > > -- > > 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 > Tel: +1 360 639 0202 Pender Is.: +1 250 629 3757 > http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca > -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. there is no justice, there is just us.
