I sure you know this, you need to point the antenna at the cell tower giving you service. You can find this a couple of different ways. You can download a signal strength app and walk around outside the cabin and see where you get the strongest signal. Hopefully this works for you, it didn't for me since I have 3 towers all roughly the same distance away. Two of them are from my provider so I focused on them. I went out and found the GPS location of them (drove to them and recorded it). I picked one that appeared to be a clearer view based on terrain between the house and the cabin. Using GIS tools (Expert GPS) I loaded the GPS location of the chosen tower and that gave my the compass direction to point the antenna at.
The reason I have the cradlepoint router is that I have internet cameras at the farm that allows me to keep an I on the place and email me when they detect motion. I also have a weather station at the farm that can be viewed on the internet at
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/lassig/index.php?view=main&headers=1
