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Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature

 
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Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature

Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature
Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature
2026-03-03 20:35:36 - last edited 2026-03-04 01:24:57
Model: ER701-5G-Outdoor  
Hardware Version: V1
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The ER701-5G-OUTDOOR gateway will always try and connect to the nearest cell tower which can cause performance issues.

 

A lot of times the nearest cell tower is not the optimal one for LTE/5G connections, due to heavy congestion which can make the connection unusable. Having the ability to lock the ER701 to a specific cell on a cell tower that doesn't get so badly congested would improve performance.

 

As an example, there are 2x 3UK cell towers within 2KM of my location. One is badly congested and only provides around 35Mbps when connected to 5G NSA (B1, B3, B32, N78 (100Mhz & N78 30Mhz). The other cell tower, which is a little further away, provides 800Mbps(+) using the same band combination. The ER701 will always connect to the badly congested cell tower, because it is nearer.

 

I believe other TP-Link LTE products have 4G cell locking available already, it would be a great feature to add to the ER701.

 

 

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Re:Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature
a week ago

  @nsmith1979 not having a cell locking feature is causing me a problem. The ER701 keeps camping on a cell tower that has bad congestion, the only way I can get it to use a better tower is by setting the 4G band selection to 'manual' and selecting the required band.

 

This causes another problem, because I'm having to manually select the band (band 3 in this case) I don't get any carrier aggregation (band 1 & band 32 are available on the tower) so performance is affected.

 

Can this feature be added to the user interface or made available via the terminal, using AT Commands? I believe it should be available on the Fibocom FG370-EAU modem as a standard AT Command.

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Re:Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature
Yesterday - last edited Yesterday

  @nsmith1979 

 

Agreed..... this has my vote.

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RE:Feature Request: ER701-5G-OUTDOOR Gateway - Cell Locking feature
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Valuable addition
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