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I've not had much time to play with this in the past couple days but did want to give a quick update. I have a different setup that uses the EM7565 and ATT tablet plan and the WE1326 router that has worked flawlessly for around a year now. I remember looking at connection comparisons the other day ...

I'm in the same boat as you xdavidx, I too have att tablet/sierra combo and am looking for a backup for safety net reasons. The way I see it is they are cracking down on the data hog abusers as of now, when they see non legit sim they suspend the account. I'm pretty sure if you keep your numbers ...

Router1: WE1326/Sierra EM7565/ATT Tablet plan
Router2: WE826-T2/USB Note5 phone/ATT prepaid plan
Loadbalance: "wan" interface = internal sierra | "wan1" interface = ethernet cable from Router1 to Router2 WAN port.

That is just how I have it setup currently. You could just as easily use only 1 ...

Might check around in rural areas for old American Tower Company 'Special Series' TV antennas. They were very popular before Satellite TV. I'd hate to know how many have been removed and tossed in the trash in the past 10-20 years since that era OTA signals were kinda a thing of the past. They come ...

for the most part that is correct, except on the return path rather than "Verizon or TMobile" the vps routes the return packets via multiple TCP connections over "Verizon AND TMobile". The built in mwan3 in OpenWRT/GoldenOrb (aka Load Balancing) is basically the return path being "Verizon OR TMobile ...

On the other hand, I've been using Verizon, Viaero Wireless and a local phone company's DSL for the last month with reasonable results. When I run Speedtest.net, I can see traffic passing on all three of my WANs -- with similar numbers on the two cellular links. On top of that, I've used about the ...

I wouldn't underestimate what the pi is capable of, especially the pi4. The pi4 has gigabit lan and usb 3.0 and there is firmware for all versions of the pi floating around. It was even powerful enough to run OMR which I had used to bond 4 separate providers and use as my main home router. Only ...

I have the RBM33G that I purchase several months ago. It was a little tricky getting the Rooter firmware on the device but after that its just like any other router device, except it has dual sim, muliple gigabit LAN, wide range of DC input for power including poe, usb 3.0 and dual onboard pcie ...

Not positive but I do believe I was having trouble with the onboard slots. I know it has to be inserted into one or the other and jumpers set correctly etc. I'd say if you got to the point you had that firmware installed and running on the board then there is a good chance things would work ...

I take it back. I can't leave it at that as I think I see the issue. Putting everything aside and looking at your screenshot, first thing I seen was your signal strength. I know you said your signal strength was better at some point but 29% is pretty low. It's possible for whatever reason, the new ...

Do you have to call AT&T to find this unlimited iPad plan? Does it have to be an iPad, or can you use an Android tablet? I have heard many people talk about these AT&T tablet plans, but have yet to find any reference to them on an AT&T website. I also don't have an iPad...

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As far as overall bandwidth, will I still see an improvement after bonding even with such relatively high latency?
I saw another writeup that mentioned needing 20 ms max for an OpenMPTC instance to work well: https://milankragujevic.com/openmptcprouter-true-bonding-of-2-wan-connections-for-cheap ...

Additionally, our phone testing is with Visible which should be the same as the VZW modems, but throwing that our there for full transparency.

Not quite sure if your testing setup (phone setup) contains the visible sim or if the new equipment but either way SIM provisioning (provider) will ...

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Not sure on TTL. Connecting phone to router via USB and enable 'USB Tethering' should work.

It would be really hard to tell if one of the legit hotspot devices aren't also dropping out and reconnecting except it sounds like they are actually 'reconnecting' if they did drop. About the only way to tell for sure on one of the hotspots would be to start a ping loop and check back in say a day ...

I agree that running through a VPN sucks and is a last resort for most, however, I was only suggesting to try using a VPN to rule out if the carrier is blocking ports. I have a feeling this happens a lot and most don't realize it.

Depending on which test, the diagnostics only shows a partial ...

If you possibly have power at the end of your driveway I would mount the modem and device in an enclosure at the end of the drive. Then a wireless point-to-point setup to get back to your main router at the house. Best if you could stay ethernet/wired but I don't think you would lose much if any ...

The prepaid ipad plans have been getting axed on all devices that dont match the imei to the registered imei on the account. AKA if it isn't an ipad or tablet imei, its likely getting axed.

The Post Paid plans do not seem to have this problem.

I think the initial 'flag' is the data usage, then ...

What APN? The ATT phone sim's should be 'nxtgenphone' and not the 'broadband' APN.

I believe gscheb is only posting what tablets will work with ATT's unlimited tablet plan. I would assume that almost any tablet that is capable of "4G/LTE" would work but its good to know model numbers of verified devices. I would hope that the 'main purposes' of buying an LTE router would be to ...

Heck a PtP prob wouldn't lose anything even further than that, with a decent system. I love those things, I just wish I had more use case for them in my situation. :) Fun to play with.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I've spent sooooo much time playing/building PTP and multipoint setups ...

It does get annoying if you log in to the router a bunch. Fyi, you can disable the forced https redirection if you so desire. Log in via ssh and modify the following near the top of the file in '/etc/config/uhttpd':

# Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS if possible
option redirect_https 0 ; <<-- "0 ...

Are you still using this setup?

I'm looking at doing a similar setup, but with PoE. I just ordered a PoE splitter, but it looks like I need a PoE injector as well?🤦‍♂️

Honestly, I think would be much better off grabbing a setup off of the website here rather than modifying the MR1100. Been ...

I have a feeling you are going to go round and round until you swap over to an imei that is a supported device. I have never heard of anyone being able to actually activate the quectel imei and be good to go. Even though they (att rep) did it and say its okay, I would put money on the problem still ...

Sure sounds like you have it narrowed down to congestion fore sure. I've used many of the MVNO's along with prepaid and postpaid accounts with the 3 main carriers but never the vzw tablet plan. I do have vzw prepaid line but honestly i've never noticed any throttling on any of them at my location ...

Those 'NR5G-NSA' values only indicate that the modem is capable of connecting to 5G and from the numbers you can see that it is not connected (max default values such as 32768, 65535). I see this when I lose the 5G connection. As far as I know vzw only has 5G in very select highly populated city ...

Also, using the Network Diagnostics page, ping, traceroute and nslookup all work OK, but I am unable to get internet on my PC.

This would confirm that it not on the provider side of things if you can ping/trace/lookup from router to a website such as google or yahoo or similar. Might plug in a ...

You will find RM500Q-AE antenna port mapping shows lower bands only available on ports 1 and 2. See my first couple posts in this thread for details. Also, see those posts for the possible ENDC combinations. The trick is the primary ports are 1 and 2 and they are also the lower band ports so both ...

I agree with cagordon1985. I also have the 4x4 MIMO panel you referenced. Even though it does cover almost every sub 6ghz frequency, it doesn't seem to give as much gain as might be needed in the n71 lower frequency. Depending on the distance to the tower and interference you might be good with the ...

Last week I moved from my trusty EdgeRouter X over to a mini PC (celeron + 6gb ram) running OpenWRT. Initially I found Mwan3, replicated my load balanced setup with edgeos and everything was running great. My aim was to run MPTCP, but only for one or two devices.

Confused on exactly what ...

Sometimes an alternative to modifying the imei is to use a VPN. It all depends on status of the connection to the tower. It might not be the answer for the average user, but it can be an option sometimes. I've seen it with both ATT and VZW where they block certain traffic rather than disconnecting ...

In your screenshot is shows "Registered to Network=yes". That is pretty much a confirmation that all of the hardware seems to be working properly and you actually have an 'LTE' connection to the tower. It looks like you are being blocked from internet access only (anything past the tower). If I was ...

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Surprised it doesn't happen more often. You know that got me thinkin, I think this may be the only forum I've ever visited in the past 20 years that doesn't have or need moderators. Just goes to show you what type of crowd we all are

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After posting I dug around the net a bit and all of the logs I could find showed the same result. Seems when you are in 5G mode you will not see readings on the last 2. Switching to 4G mode and all show as normal. Not sure if this is a firmware/modem issue or if it is just the fact that these modems ...

Also the decent results for T-Mobile have been on a RM502Q-AE

AT&T best results have been with EM160R-GL.

I will get to test a RM500Q-AE this week in a WG3526-P, without the 50' coax runs. Been waiting forever for CATV enclosures, cable glands and other stuff from China. (I hope the WG3526 MPCIE ...

Sorry, wish I'd have seen this post earlier. Yes all providers block incoming traffic. Your on the right track though, I have a pi3 setup with reverse tunnel to get in from the outside. I have mine setup to forward to a vultr server as my middle man. Might check out ngrok.com, seen a post here about ...

I tried those changes to the LAN interface and now the modem is able to connect and get an IP address but it does not allow me to browse any websites. I keep getting a DNS probe error. Any suggestions? I tried it in QMI, MBIM, and ECM mode.

If it is showing 'connected' to LTE but you can't load ...

It makes me wonder if these devices are creating some sort of tunnel or using unknown custom DNS settings.

I too believe it may be DNS related. All of my amazon devices 'phone home' in some way, shape or form and use their own DNS settings. This can be quite the pain so I wouldn't be surprised ...

I can't seem to get the speeds I 'should' have out of my setup so I'm not a good source for speedtests with my Tmo setup, however, I can say I have test many antennas and these are the best I have found for that lower 600mhz band. My system is down at the moment so I can't test but if I remember ...

I do not use the trash can setup, however, I'm working with the same Tmo 5G bands. You are correct about the bands, on my setup the go to bands are 4G B66 primary and 5G n71 and when things are working perfectly it will pick up an extra band of 4G B71 for CA.

If I was to guess it seems you need ...

Been there, done that along with probably 100+ hours of troubleshooting at this point. You are correct though, antenna no longer the problem, using 4 of those particular yagi's and signals are as good as they can get minus using dish/grid, but I think these yagi's even out perform those too. Pretty ...

Running things through the VPN would add at a minimum 1 additional hop so I guess makes sense that when you add one or more to your TTL it works. It kinda sux that if you want the additional speeds you will have to use VPN but once you get it all set up its not really all that bad and is transparent ...

I don't think you will have much luck with typical "IT" PC store. They may know of the networking side of things but i'm sure at this point you would know more about the "LTE" side of it unless they have experience already. At this point it could be several things such as comms (mbim vs. qmi, etc ...

Surprisingly, this doesn't get mentioned much but the TTL modifications need to have the correct interface or its really not doing much of anything. In your case the device talking to the internet is the MR1100. The MR1100 is connected to the routers WAN port (eth0.2). Since you are using it in this ...

How is it connected to the RBM33G? Did you install in one of the internal slots or did you connect via usb port? I think I ended up running mine in the pcie slot closest to the outer edge of the board. If you want usb3 speeds you will have to run it via usb port as the pcie ports are usb2 at best ...

Having said that, you do need to be careful with cellular connections that you're not trying to combine two identical devices from the same carrier. Two identical modems on the same data plan, hitting the same tower, will aggregate poorly -- and likely will be no faster than they would be ...

I've had a few plans across pretty much all of the providers typically used and usually see anywhere from 25ms to 100ms latency. 25ms is about the best I've seen in a few years. If using an MVNO provider they are even higher latency due to additional routing on their end of things through different ...

I never actually used the phone for services or VoIP. I only used it for latency& speed tests.

Right, however, the phone still may have the ability to prioritize certain packets differently than a data only modem/router setup. I'm not saying this is what is happening, just offering that it may ...

[*] Should I reset the modem after changing the heading (AT+CFUN=1,1) or will the modem settle on a new better cell eventually by itself? I want to avoid having the modem stuck to an inferior but useable cell because then I won't have accurate metrics for that heading.
[*] Will 4x4 MIMO only kick ...

Both. Wireless has a long way to go to reach 5G full potential and on the other hand laying fiber for local telco companies seems as common as running copper was 30-50 years ago. It's amazing what my local telco provider has accomplished with expanding their footprint in the past 5 years, well ...

I would be careful with those units. I have a couple but remember when I purchased them there were several people that stated the voltage regulator is extremely underpowered. I also seem to recall finding the datasheet and confirming this and ordered and replaced them. Something to keep in mind ...

Back few years ago, the only option that was available to me was vdsl2. About 10 years ago local telco ran a fiber trunk line through the county and looped connecting a few towns. One of their dslam's is located about 3/4 mi. down the road. I had them come back out and find out why my dl/ul speeds ...

If Network Engineers are designing their infrastructure on less than 35GB per day, or 1TB a month then that is a failure on their end, and they are overselling "unlimited data". Here are some simple figures below....my PC has a 2k screen, and so does my oldest sons. So if we both watch a SINGLE 2k ...

All cellular modems set behind CGNAT (carrier grade NAT). No access from the outside unless on specific plans through the carrier. Reverse ssh tunnel is typical solution for most I think. Might explain your issues?

I would be interested in learning from you a different usecase I have in mind - instead of aggregating 5-6 LTE connections, I want to efficiently broadcast them over different APs from the same router:

On hosting multiple modems via USB3 adapters, I was wondering if it could be possible to have ...

Great idea for those that leave their setups alone and not redo / reinstall / reflash / reset things every other day lol. But yes, if I ever get to the point I can leave things alone it would be a great way to track it!

Simple Mobile is T-Mobile. They also work in other devices than phones. Think their unlimited plan is around the $50 mark. Not sure exact devices they work in but I've moved mine around quite a few times. They use their own APN portal "simple" but I don't care for the extra MVNO hops or any of ...

As far as bonding goes, I'm fond of the Protectli Vault 4 running OMR. As far as modem setups, a modem in the usb 3 enclosure plugged into a WRT32X running rooter/goldenorb is by far the fastest/snappiest I've tested. I've not tested all of the different routers for rooter/GO but I've dabbled in my ...

I doubt anyone has tested all the different routers, but if you had a resource with your opinions on the ones you have tested, that would be SUPER useful. Could you share any highlights from your experience so far, good and bad?

Uh lets see. My first was the WE1326. She's still in use with an ...

I love the idea of the RBM33G, but I've heard people have SO MUCH trouble w/ getting either ROOTer or OpenWRT on it. Same for you?

No trouble here after figuring out what is trying to get accomplished. If you know how to use ssh and have a spare router around with rooter/GO installed you should ...

The H721 may have a capable internal slot as that is one of the few I've not tested. I will say this however, these new modems are power hungry lil turds and in my personal experience, I've had trouble with about every setup with the random disconnects and such. Most of the time these modems are ...

Good point. I didn't think of that. Matter of fact there are A LOT of settings in Quectel modems that are handled in this way. You must first 'enable' the ability to change a setting to be able to actually change the setting. IMO, the most important command for checking signal strength/integrity ...

I have between 4 to 5 LTE modems running at any given time. They all plug into the Protectli running OMR.

Example Modem/router setup:
WE1326 router with internal EM7565 modem
RBM33G router with internal EM20G modem
WRT32X router connected to RBM502Q-AE modem in USB3 enclosure connected to WRT32X ...

I believe OMR does support direct connections, however, I'm not sure if it can handle multiple as i've never tried. Also the OMR box is already extremely busy with everything else so I'd recommend keeping the modems separate. It all depends on how fast you want your setup to go really. LTE equipment ...

In situations like yours I think the ultimate goal would be to get an external antenna up as high as you possibly can. Best bet is above the tree line with direct line of site to the tower. In determining which antenna I would start with the provider and cellmapper. Use cellmapper to get an idea of ...

From prior post:
"+QRSRP: -85,-100,-129,-96"
This is indicating all port are being used.

Your latest posts:
"+QRSRP: -82,-84,-140,-140"
This is indicating either the modem is in an 'idle' state or is not using all ports.

You could start a large download and run the AT+QRSRP command a few times and ...

For aggregation or improving SINR. The modem can use the signal from all antenna ports to improve the overall signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). My bet is if you disconnected the diversity antenna and watched your SINR levels you would find that it isn't as good as it was which ...

TTL is used to mask hotspot use. If for some reason they are seeing hotspot data and you have used your limit of hotspot data, your done for that billing cycle and there is no resetting to get speeds back. The fact that you can reset the modem and get speeds back makes me think it is something other ...

Thanks for the help, Didney. It could very well be that my signal just isn't strong enough. Although the signal I was receiving on B2 was comparable to B14, only 14 worked. I'm currently locked on B14.

The lm960 is is 4x4, so is that RSRP and RSRQ for the first set of main and diversity antennas ...

I wouldn't recommend opening any ports if you didn't have to anyway. Just that much more of a potential security vulnerability. If its that much of a problem I would dig around and find out just exactly why those ports need to be open for proper operation? Usually the only time a port needs to be ...

Am I correct that it isn't possible to "open" a port?
Could this be the cause of me not being able to complete a tracert?
* https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=5551#p5551

For the most part this is correct. LTE providers basically use what is essentially a private network. You are not ...

Many don't realize this but you have to make sure your device name is correct. Not saying this is the problem but worth checking. Under the interface tab look for your connected internet interface. Once you find the interface look and see what the "device" name is as this can change based on the ...

Nothing a little electrical tape can't fix right, LOL. That or if you have it handy the self fusing tape would be optimal. Ultimately not that big of a deal I wouldn't think.

What a headache right? I guess the first thing I would do is find out exactly what 5G services that AT&T is providing in your area as its probably all for nothing. I did the same thing and set up another line for 5G etc etc all to find out that its slower than their 4G offerings. I know in my ...

Verizon bought Simple Mobile. Worst experiences with carrier service since then. They pushed updating your equipment to '4G capable' (whether its already 4G capable or not) and tried to make you upgrade your device. All 3 of my lines were newer samsung phones (2 were 5G capable) and they still ...

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