If you were to produce something with this same form factor, but with 5G bands (SA and NSA) and with 2.5Gb Ethernet, I reckon your sales would explode. There aren’t many outdoor 5G routers available and those that are lack the ruggedised enclosure which your product appears to have. I am currently working overseas in India and I can tell you the market here would be massive. The mobile operators have rolled out 5G over vast areas and although Fiber connections are available in cities, they suffer terrible outages. People want 5G as a failover ISP.
Have got this once recently on my quest to hook up all my properties with NVR and camera systems (no real reason to do it, besides joy of connecting stuff together). One and half issues that I see so far: The half issue is that speeds achievable with this are somewhat worse than speeds with Huawei B525, which is a CAT6 lte device with internal antennas. Granted, I did tested both setups indoors, and only next week will test and tune how it performs on a pole, but I did expected somewhat better performance than from the relatively cheap and old router with no directional antennas. The other issue which is more serious is the POE out port - can't get it to work. Connecting POE device to the second port triggers some sort of error with the blinking red light, and I assumed it was due to power constraints from the tiny power supply when using the included POE injector. However, hooking the SXT6 to the 96W PoE switch only solves the blinking red light issue, as power is still not delivered to the PoE device. I red on Microtik user guide this port is "for connecting another Microtik device" - does it mean that non-Microtik devices cannot be powered from the secondary PoE port?
What is the exact difference between the "old" SXT LTE6 and the new 2023 SXT LTE6? Can I use link aggregation for the two eth ports (because the modem is (theoretically) faster than a 100Mbit ethernet)?
If you're in a primitive or isolated environment, why would you want to pay more just so you can get the same performance? Not everyone uses these in a dense environment.
This device is for extreme rural locations where there is nearly no cell coverage and you bet any internet at all. No reason to have even 100mbits, if you only get 5 from the mobile operator
I am bumping this up too. I want to use this because I can get higher speeds in LTE than DSL in my area (150+ vs 50 mbps). A Gigabit option (with 5G support) would sell really well. If it is just a chip change I will do it myself... The next option is the LHGG but it is almost double the price. I know I can use the chateau series of routers but in my case, I have to mount external anntenas and then connect it to my main router for better Wi-Fi Coverage. So why not go with a solution like the SXT.
Can 2 those be combined in a manner, that only one of them needs to have the SIM installed? And if yes, could they do a switch-over in case the other one gets a better signal. I'm thinking of a situation in a suburban environment where you have operator antennas from more than one side. So if above would be possible, I could install two together but one on one balcony and the other one on the 2nd balcony pointing to 2 different directions. Or is the antenna anyhow almost the same for every direction? Thanks.
Not really, no, that's a bit outside of the SXT usecase. Our suggestion would be to try a different LTE device with a wider angle to cover more towers simultaneously if there are recurring problems with the mobile operator tower. Also, have you tried reporting the issues to the mobile operator? These towers should normally be pretty stable, unless there is a massive influx of people during the day.
@@mikrotikthank you very much, for your answer. Ah that's too sad, but I assume it's a telecom requirement of having the SIM card actually always installed in that specific device, where a mobile connection is established. I haven't purchased one yet... but I'm still curious about that product. Would it possibly make sense using a Mikrotik Chateau router and connecting the external antenna with a suitable antenna cable to the STX on the balcony to get the best result? Or would that make no sense because the Chateau has 2 LTE antennas... and this one would only be one of them?
@@mikrotikanother questions I'm having is what you roughly would assume how much power that device takes in idle mode? So, when there is no actual data transmission and only some keep alive packages are exchanged? I assume there can't be any real power saving mode for exactly that reason (AP and ISP provider very frequently sending such packages to keep the connection up, right? Still I would assume less power consumed from the AP, when there is no payload sent or received ... so maybe you have a rough number, what average power it usually consumes without payload (e.g. Backup Syncs finished at night).
@@mikrotikThank you very much for your answer. Would it be possible e.g. with a Chateau to extend the two external LTE antennas using high quality cables and 2 separate professional antennas, whereas one of them would be placed on one side of the house and the 2nd antenna on the other side of the house? Or what are the requirements, if you want to use external antennas, e.g. for the Chateau? Thank you.
This device is not for 300mbit internet, but for long distance in rural areas. If you are very close to the mobile tower and can get 300mbit speed, you need our Chateau model instead
This device is for long range LTE in rural areas, in those conditions your speed will not be higher than 100Mbit. If you are close to a cell tower or in a city, you need a Chateau device instead
This thing is awsome i put it in my country house along with a cheap ass ap and it works wonders i get 30 meg during the day and some times up to 70 during the night considering the placment of the property its awsome i wish it had a usb port though so i can run pi hole docker on it but it might not have the horse power for that and apsolute killer device never the less
Gak masalah sebenarnya, apalagi di Indonesia.. masih jarang banget operator yang bisa mentokin 100 Mbps kok, itu pun paling hanya di lokasi tertentu dan jam tertentu, biasanya paling cuma 15 Mbps 😜
Sxt in my experience has multiple issues. Drop outs like there bigger brother's lhg lte range. Duel sim with fall over that gets confused which side to use. I'm install rural broadband. I've had to strip out mikrotik antennas for the likes of zyxel equivalent with cat 20 modems. 0 issues and I mean 0! Mikrotik have kicked the arse out there range with over thought feature. The base fundamentals should be ease of installation and speed reliability. Mikrotik had so much promise but ultimately are extremely unreliable.
Failed how? Email our support for assistance (support@mikrotik.com). These devices can work for many years in any weather. We use them all over Latvia where there is a lot of rain and bad weather all year round
WARNING: This has 100MBit (one hundred) Ethernet only... yes the LTE Modem can theoretically do 300MBit, but the Ethernet is the bottleneck at 100MBit. Mikrotik... WHY??? It's 2023 for crying out loud
About SXT. This product is for use in rural areas where signal is poor and you can’t use small indoor LTE devices. Consequently- your SXT is far from the tower, you will not realistically have speed above 100mbit. If you could read higher speeds, meaning that signal is good, maybe another MikroTik product is a better choice then
When Mikrotik release 5G outdoor router?
I'm more interested in base stations or olts.
When SXT 5G and ATL 5G please and thank you
Bought the previous model only three months ago. 😢
Same...
If you were to produce something with this same form factor, but with 5G bands (SA and NSA) and with 2.5Gb Ethernet, I reckon your sales would explode. There aren’t many outdoor 5G routers available and those that are lack the ruggedised enclosure which your product appears to have. I am currently working overseas in India and I can tell you the market here would be massive. The mobile operators have rolled out 5G over vast areas and although Fiber connections are available in cities, they suffer terrible outages. People want 5G as a failover ISP.
POE Out - Nice, well done Mikrotik
Have got this once recently on my quest to hook up all my properties with NVR and camera systems (no real reason to do it, besides joy of connecting stuff together).
One and half issues that I see so far:
The half issue is that speeds achievable with this are somewhat worse than speeds with Huawei B525, which is a CAT6 lte device with internal antennas. Granted, I did tested both setups indoors, and only next week will test and tune how it performs on a pole, but I did expected somewhat better performance than from the relatively cheap and old router with no directional antennas.
The other issue which is more serious is the POE out port - can't get it to work. Connecting POE device to the second port triggers some sort of error with the blinking red light, and I assumed it was due to power constraints from the tiny power supply when using the included POE injector. However, hooking the SXT6 to the 96W PoE switch only solves the blinking red light issue, as power is still not delivered to the PoE device. I red on Microtik user guide this port is "for connecting another Microtik device" - does it mean that non-Microtik devices cannot be powered from the secondary PoE port?
Would also love to see an ATL 5G soon..
Does both sims work together???double the speed or single sim works simontaniosly
What is the exact difference between the "old" SXT LTE6 and the new 2023 SXT LTE6?
Can I use link aggregation for the two eth ports (because the modem is (theoretically) faster than a 100Mbit ethernet)?
The new one has a gigabit eth the old one is 10 /100 im pretty sure. So even with better modem still limited to 100 down on the old one
Can you guys start working on your support tickets and not only on your marketing and config videos?
Let me know your ticket number and I will check the status
i like the way you're talking in a keep it on the low down, hush-hush tone of voice to your hundred thousand subscribers. it's funny
So, can i use mikrotik lte antennas as wifi client, or AP ?
Hello, is it an antenna you have to point to the base antenna and which will be more sensitive?
Cool shirt
какой смысл запихивать модем выше 4 категории, если ether-интерфейс всего 100 мегабит?
Category 6? Why build stuff that is so outdated?
If you're in a primitive or isolated environment, why would you want to pay more just so you can get the same performance? Not everyone uses these in a dense environment.
You won't need anything beyond CAT6 in Africa which is one of the places this product is targeted.
We have CAT18 and 5G models too, just watch our other product videos
@@mikrotik I was looking at your website and I do not see LTE18 product in SXT form factor
100 Mbps LAN in 2023 device?
This device is for extreme rural locations where there is nearly no cell coverage and you bet any internet at all. No reason to have even 100mbits, if you only get 5 from the mobile operator
I am bumping this up too. I want to use this because I can get higher speeds in LTE than DSL in my area (150+ vs 50 mbps). A Gigabit option (with 5G support) would sell really well. If it is just a chip change I will do it myself...
The next option is the LHGG but it is almost double the price.
I know I can use the chateau series of routers but in my case, I have to mount external anntenas and then connect it to my main router for better Wi-Fi Coverage. So why not go with a solution like the SXT.
@@mikrotik yes, LTE Category 6 (300Mbit/s Downlink, 50Mbit/s Uplink)
no reason to have
How to know if the model I got from shop is the latest one or the older model?
The newer one will have the "FG621" in the product code
Can 2 those be combined in a manner, that only one of them needs to have the SIM installed? And if yes, could they do a switch-over in case the other one gets a better signal.
I'm thinking of a situation in a suburban environment where you have operator antennas from more than one side. So if above would be possible, I could install two together but one on one balcony and the other one on the 2nd balcony pointing to 2 different directions. Or is the antenna anyhow almost the same for every direction? Thanks.
Not really, no, that's a bit outside of the SXT usecase. Our suggestion would be to try a different LTE device with a wider angle to cover more towers simultaneously if there are recurring problems with the mobile operator tower.
Also, have you tried reporting the issues to the mobile operator? These towers should normally be pretty stable, unless there is a massive influx of people during the day.
@@mikrotikthank you very much, for your answer. Ah that's too sad, but I assume it's a telecom requirement of having the SIM card actually always installed in that specific device, where a mobile connection is established.
I haven't purchased one yet... but I'm still curious about that product.
Would it possibly make sense using a Mikrotik Chateau router and connecting the external antenna with a suitable antenna cable to the STX on the balcony to get the best result?
Or would that make no sense because the Chateau has 2 LTE antennas... and this one would only be one of them?
@@mikrotikanother questions I'm having is what you roughly would assume how much power that device takes in idle mode?
So, when there is no actual data transmission and only some keep alive packages are exchanged?
I assume there can't be any real power saving mode for exactly that reason (AP and ISP provider very frequently sending such packages to keep the connection up, right?
Still I would assume less power consumed from the AP, when there is no payload sent or received ... so maybe you have a rough number, what average power it usually consumes without payload (e.g. Backup Syncs finished at night).
@@mikrotikThank you very much for your answer. Would it be possible e.g. with a Chateau to extend the two external LTE antennas using high quality cables and 2 separate professional antennas, whereas one of them would be placed on one side of the house and the 2nd antenna on the other side of the house? Or what are the requirements, if you want to use external antennas, e.g. for the Chateau? Thank you.
Have a question: at specifications Ethernet port 10/100 so how can I use LTE up to 300mbit???
This device is not for 300mbit internet, but for long distance in rural areas. If you are very close to the mobile tower and can get 300mbit speed, you need our Chateau model instead
@@mikrotik What is the distance when SXT starts to be a better option that the Chateau?
why have LTE and 300mbit/s with ethernet connection limmited to 100mbit/sec??????
This device is for long range LTE in rural areas, in those conditions your speed will not be higher than 100Mbit. If you are close to a cell tower or in a city, you need a Chateau device instead
Please available this product in 🇮🇳 India.
do I have to pay for date
This thing is awsome i put it in my country house along with a cheap ass ap and it works wonders i get 30 meg during the day and some times up to 70 during the night considering the placment of the property its awsome i wish it had a usb port though so i can run pi hole docker on it but it might not have the horse power for that and apsolute killer device never the less
I want this, but with 17dbi HLG antenna
CAT6 Carrier Aggregation with 10/100 Ethernet port? Ini sih ngajak berchandyaaaa...... berchandyaaaa...... 😁
Gak masalah sebenarnya, apalagi di Indonesia.. masih jarang banget operator yang bisa mentokin 100 Mbps kok, itu pun paling hanya di lokasi tertentu dan jam tertentu, biasanya paling cuma 15 Mbps 😜
Sxt in my experience has multiple issues. Drop outs like there bigger brother's lhg lte range. Duel sim with fall over that gets confused which side to use. I'm install rural broadband. I've had to strip out mikrotik antennas for the likes of zyxel equivalent with cat 20 modems. 0 issues and I mean 0! Mikrotik have kicked the arse out there range with over thought feature. The base fundamentals should be ease of installation and speed reliability. Mikrotik had so much promise but ultimately are extremely unreliable.
Lack of true water proof. I had 3 of such antennas - all failed.
Failed how? Email our support for assistance (support@mikrotik.com). These devices can work for many years in any weather. We use them all over Latvia where there is a lot of rain and bad weather all year round
Rodrick Turnpike
Old Cell Lock AT command doesnt work on this modem.
WARNING: This has 100MBit (one hundred) Ethernet only... yes the LTE Modem can theoretically do 300MBit, but the Ethernet is the bottleneck at 100MBit. Mikrotik... WHY??? It's 2023 for crying out loud
But it has five such ports plus WiFi, enough speed for all devices
@@mikrotik ??? SXT has 2 100MBit Fast Ethernet ports and exactly Zero WiFi
Oooops commented on the wrong video 😳 this was about hAP
About SXT. This product is for use in rural areas where signal is poor and you can’t use small indoor LTE devices. Consequently- your SXT is far from the tower, you will not realistically have speed above 100mbit. If you could read higher speeds, meaning that signal is good, maybe another MikroTik product is a better choice then
Hello. With This product i need a router to connect my cellphone Over WiFi , or antena already has WiFi?
The price is good because thete is no stock allways mikrotik
What is not in stock? We have good stock of devices
@@mikrotik I live in Portugal I can't find stock of any of the ax devices
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