{"id":5265,"date":"2018-01-31T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2018-03-24T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T13:47:15","slug":"huawei-b2338-outdoor-lte-cpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/huawei-b2338-outdoor-lte-cpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei B2338 Outdoor LTE CPE Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

In regions with poor LTE reception, if you wanted to use LTE as a DSL replacement, you had to rely on a combination of an\u00a0LTE router<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and an external mobile antenna.\u00a0The Chinese network specialist Huawei now offers the new LTE outdoor CPE B2338<\/strong>, an interesting combination of LTE modem, external antenna and router unit, which promises significantly better performance in poorly served regions.\u00a0Technically, there is a strong similarity to the recently introduced on\u00a0Huawei B2368<\/strong><\/a>, but the B2338 has a directional antenna instead of an Omni-directional antenna.<\/p>\n

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LTE modem with directional antenna<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Huawei B2338 consists of two parts: there is an outdoor mobile phone antenna with integrated LTE modem<\/a> and a router unit with wireless and external device connections.\u00a0The mobile antenna is mounted outside of the building and should ideally be aligned directly with the cell towers.\u00a0Wind and weather can not affect the technology if installed correctly.<\/p>\n

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The Huawei B2338 CPE supports\u00a0LTE Cat12<\/a>\u00a0in the downlink and\u00a0LTE Cat13 <\/a>in the uplink, ie depending on the network up to 600 MBit\/s in the download and up to 150 MBit\/s in the uplink can be achieved.\u00a0In addition, the outdoor LTE CPE supports not only FDD LTE, but also TDD LTE and can use up to 4 \u00d7 4 MIMO antenna technology, depending on the operating mode.\u00a0Various LTE frequency bands are supported, including the bands B1, B3, B7 and B20, which are common in Europe and Aisa.<\/p>\n

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The advantage of the modem is the integrated directional antenna, which can not cause losses due to an antenna cable that is too long.\u00a0The gain of the antenna is at 9 dBi in the 3.5 GHz range according to Huawei.<\/p>\n

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The power supply and the connection to the router unit are via RJ45 Ethernet LAN cable (Power over Ethernet, PoE).\u00a0The SIM card is plugged directly into the antenna unit, and you will also find some small LEDs on the bottom, which indicates the operating status.<\/p>\n

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Router with PoE function<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to the modem-antenna combination, the router unit is the second important part of the Huawei B2338<\/strong>.\u00a0The small box has an integrated WLAN radio module, so ideally it should be positioned in the house where most WLAN users are expected.\u00a0The WLAN works on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and supports the standards 802.11b\/g\/n\/ac.\u00a0On the back there is a WPS button for fast and secure Wi-Fi encryption.\u00a0You will also find on the back of the connection for the power supply and a small toggle switch for switching on and off the device.\u00a0On the front, various LEDs signal the device status.<\/p>\n

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The Huawei B2338<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has two RJ45 Gigabit LAN ports for connecting computers and other network devices.\u00a0A third RJ45 LAN port is equipped with PoE function, so has an integrated power supply.\u00a0This port is for connection to the modem or external antenna.<\/p>\n

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Telephone function and possible applications<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to two RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports, the Huawei B2338 also offers two RJ11 phone ports to which analog telephones or fax machines can be connected.\u00a0This makes the B2338 Modem Router combination ideal for a remote office or\u00a0home office.\u00a0It would be conceivable, for example, the use of the device in a mountain hut or in a national park office, where you cannot get on with ordinary LTE router technology.\u00a0In general, the B2338 will probably be used more in the business customer area, because the antenna must be professionally mounted outdoors and aligned as well as possible – for most residential customers, this is too complicated without an experienced fitter.<\/p>\n

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Market launch and availability<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the market, the Huawei B2338 outdoor LTE CPE<\/strong> is currently not available, the market launch is uncertain.\u00a0The main sales market, according to Huawei Product Manager in Europe, is mainly the sparsely populated eastern states.\u00a0For example,\u00a0T-Mobile in the Czech Republic\u00a0offers\u00a0the device. We will keep updating the news about Huawei B2338.<\/p>\n

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If you need similar LTE outdoor CPE, we have the Huawei B2268S<\/strong><\/a> LTE CPE now with almost same functions.<\/p>\n

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In regions with poor LTE reception, if you wanted to use LTE as a DSL replacement, you had to rely on a combination of an\u00a0LTE router\u00a0and an external mobile antenna.\u00a0The Chinese network specialist Huawei now offers the new LTE outdoor CPE B2338, an interesting combination of LTE modem, external antenna and router unit, which promises … Continue reading Huawei B2338 Outdoor LTE CPE Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,3,1156,35],"tags":[2547,2553,2800,2554,2548,2552,2551,2550,2549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}