Re: Point 2: - You are so right, a few days ago i made an enquiry to a sales rep of Chinese manufacturer of 5G External filters regarding the item cost plus shipping to the UK for a specific filter rx3.8 - 4.2GHz with a stop band from 3.4 to 3.7GHz that was listed with the model number etc for ordering purposes and with all the other information for the device. A reply came back asking for a particular requirement to be specified that was already in the product spec sheet catalogue number .... this flagged up alarm bells as to whether i would actually end up with the right product being delivered. It was also nearly three times the cost of the one i already had.
Ideally i need to have the opinion from an RF engineer who also possesses the RF test sets to see if a slight re-tune of the one i have, to increase the stop band from 3.65 up to 3.7 GHz is possible or not.