Question Looking for a router with LTE Cat 7

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kamild1996

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Hello, I'm looking for a router that:
  • supports LTE Cat. 7 (for 1800+2100 band aggregation)
  • has at least one gigabit ethernet port
  • has Wi-Fi ac
  • (optional but very welcome) has support for bridge mode and/or adding static routes
  • doesn't exceed the ~$170 price point
Huawei has a bunch of routers with LTE Cat. 7 - in fact, my current favourite for purchase is the B535 (I currently have a B525), but its configuration possibilities are very limited. I haven't explored the combinations of "standard router with an expansion port + LTE Cat 7 expansion card" but if you have any suggestions for these, I'm all ears.
I've had a look at what TP-Link, ASUS and Teltonika is offering but it seems like neither of them have any routers with LTE Cat. 7. Mikrotik also doesn't have those - they do have a Cat. 12 router but it's quite out of my price range.

The router will be used indoors, about 300m from the only BTS in my area with bands 900/1800/2100. I live in EU, in case that matters in terms of router/modem selection.
 
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kamild1996

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Oh, I wasn't aware you can use DMZ this way. And I managed to never hear about "IP Pass-Through", I'll certainly read up on it. But I do have a question.

Right now, my Huawei B525 router has one small issue - when there's a lot of traffic generated from my PC (simplest example being browsing servers in a game), the internet connection tends to cut off for a minute or two, which is quite annoying for me.
One of the LTE routers I tested is a Mikrotik wAP ac LTE6 kit. Its signal reception was much worse compared to the B525 (and the transfer speeds were cut to 1/3rds of the Huawei's) but despite that, the issue mentioned above was gone. Was it because the Mikrotik has much more powerful specs (4 core ARM CPU @ 700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM)?

I'm asking this because, if the Huawei B535 turns out to have the same issue, I'd like to know if using either DMZ or IP Pass-Through to pass traffic through a more powerful router would also solve this issue, just in case.
 
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IP Passthough is very similar to bridge mode. IP Passthrough will force the modem's DHCP to work, while bridge completely disables everything and tosses it to the Router.

If you do use IP Passthough , make sure you set the IP subnet on its own, and then config the router behind it to its own subnet as well.
Example:

Modem: 192.168.10.x
Router: 192.168.1.x

Or you can set the Modem on 10.10.10.x
But just make sure your router and modem are on different subnets because you can not disable DHCP on the modem, and will run into DHCP server conflicts.

About your cutoff, i am guessing its probably more on the ISP side with LTE.
A Lot of things can cut your LTE even a cell phone sitting near the modem, to a helicopter.
There is no real way to determine what is wrong unless you can find out what exactly is going on each time it cuts off.
 
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kamild1996

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I got the Huawei B535, which after looking into the control panel seems to have bridge mode, contrary to what I googled... But thanks a lot for the info on IP Passthrough :)

As for the cutoffs, I already confirmed it was the router. The issue is gone with the B535 :)
 
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