It is announced: The Gateway has Line-of-Sight (LoS) ranges of up to 15 km, while for highly urbanized environments it can cover more than 2 km. IT is a perfect solution for any LoRaWAN use case scenario.
I’m doing my first reach tests and I only get about 200 meters in a city with few buildings.
Can it be a configuration issue?
Can it be placed in any way that improves the range?
Is there any way to improve reception?
I am also have this gateway running with the stock antenna and do reach 1-1,5km in our small city and the Gateway is placed indoor right under the ceiling. I would like to place it even higher in the attic but because of the poor WiFi of the Gateway I get no Internet connection there, see Poor WiFi performance (in client mode)
I think this is quite a good range. Of course it always depends how many houses are inbetween the sensor and the gateway. Some houses block the signal completely, then a few meters away I get a signal. Also it depends on the node you are using for testing, I am testing with a TBeam.
I’m testing with a pycom lopy4 and a rak5205.
The gateway is under the roof of the building connected with a network cable. I have put it near a window.
Do you keep distances with the walls around the indoor antenna?