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The easiest method (without having to remove the modem and installing in a USB to Mini PCI-E adapter and reprogramming the modem) would be to reinstall GoldenOrb.

Then, use the AT-Terminal to place the modem in QMI using the following commands:

at!entercnd="A710"
at!usbcomp=1,1,10d
at!reset ...

I have a WE826 with a 7455 modem in it.

When I first got it the LEDs for power, status and internet worked. Now it seems I only have the red power, blue wifi and ethernet leds.

What I don't have is the LEDs for internet connected/activity

Is this a config in the software? I am currently using ...

FIXED! Spent the better part of the day getting this up and running! Pulling 15-30mbps down, and 5-15mpbs up from the bottom floor of my house. All for 25 bucks a month since I'm taking advantage of the Party Pay. Reminder: Visible deprioritizes Visible customers when Verizon customers are active ...

Well I said before time will tell if places are legit resellers with AT&T.
If you read this message seems they where more than likely selling the ipad plan.

Got this message today thru email.
https://traveldata.page/?na=v&nk=41-b981308a6f&id=3

Seems all these resellers are moving to T-Mobile and ...

I have been testing with visible in a number of phones and devices (s9, pixel 3a, netgear mr1100, and gl.inet mifi with the ec25-af modem). My findings are that you can I get decent speeds on devices themselves, put packet response (ping times) are generally high (100ms +). It worked on all of the ...

Update: OMG I can’t believe I wasted a year with the booster! I positioned two yagi antennas 90 degrees to each other pointed toward the tower (though absolutely blocked by hills and forest) and connected both to the mofi 4500. We now have consistent and steady internet, no more devices competing ...

gscheb wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 9:05 pm What modem do you have?

Sierra EM7565

Here is a paper about the "Fresnel Zone and Cellular" I wrote up some time ago and just found it. Did a little refresh on it today. Originally compiled for a lecture I gave few years back. Maybe folks here will find the information useful.

Keep in mind that I am a country hick, so grammar is not my ...

I prepared an Excel spreadsheet to assist in programming bands and/or a group of bands, on the Quectel modems.

As with all material on this forum, use at your own risk.

I have plans on including other Quectel modems when time permits, as well as a quick tutorial for commonly used AT Commands for ...

So the SIM card is active.

Since it was working before you lost power, and it will no longer connect, I would first make sure the APN is entered and spelled correctly since resetting the firmware to its defaults would have erased it. And, SAVE & APPLY and hard reboot the router.

I am wondering if ...

I did as you recommended and add HD to my plan and it is working now.

AT! Commands for setup:

at!entercnd="A710" : Establishes admin access to Modem
at!usbcomp=1,1,1009 : sets MC7455 to MBIM mode, required for most interfaces (routers)
at+cgdcont=1,"IP","VSBLINTERNET" : sets APN as visble (seems that capitalization matters)
at+cgdcont=1,"IPV4V6","VSBLINTERNET ...

There's a hole beside the black plastic thing.. You stick something small in there and it ejects... Then it's like a tray you place the sim in and pop it back inside

I can confirm, the LM960 will not work with T-mobile post paid phone nor tablet plans.

Same here. Band 13 is strongest but band 4 is much better speeds (less congestion I guess). So trying to find antenna setup to maximize band 4 signal strength and quality. I have one parabolic and two log periodic antennas (I think all the same from John Barth’s video), trying out different ...

at!gstatus?
!GSTATUS:
Current Time: 1962 Temperature: 53
Reset Counter: 1 Mode: ONLINE
System mode: LTE PS state: Attached
LTE band: B4 LTE bw: 20 MHz
LTE Rx chan: 2050 LTE Tx chan: 20050
LTE CA state: INACTIVE LTE Scell band:B5
LTE Scell bw:10 MHz LTE Scell chan:2450
EMM state: Registered ...

gscheb wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:10 pm No don't have one for this

Did you enter this in the putty?

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echo "2c7c 0306" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id

What does

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ls /dev/ttyUSB*

list after entering the first line?

Try

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picocom /dev/ttyUSB2

and see if you get a response when you type ATI

Try running

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ATTERM

First

Tried the AT command to change modes got this error = Can't open device /dev/ttyUSB.
When you say external modem adapter/enclosure you mean one of these?
Enclosure.PNG

Yes, that enclosure should work to reflash the modem.
However, you could try this emergency method if you're feeling ...

Yup. Seems similar to caylex but it's supposed to never expire. They let you choose what network you want to be on. (Everything but Sprint) The above experience was on AT&T with one day of usage so far. I used it last night for my Netflix streaming and it worked flawlessly. Better than my page plus ...

Worked with data without even being activated yet. No phone number appeared in my settings and I got these results....
https://i.ibb.co/DWZMnHT/Screenshot-20200916-164955-2.jpg

I'll be placing it in a Netgear LB1120 that a relative of mine has for their small business. They have a tower ...

I would get the WE826 and save the money since you don't need the WG3526 for gigabit port.

Ok day 2 still going strong. I haven't been tracking my data usage but I used it last night at home for like 3 hours worth of Netflix. I placed it in that Netgear modem today (CAT4 with shit banding that I bought intitaly as I got into LTE stuff)
Here's the speed tests from that:
https://i.ibb.co ...

I use an att ipad post paid plan. Works fine. You dont need another device on plan to get it. They just charge like a $50 setup fee if you dont have a phone plan as well.
You usually have to go to a real Corporate ATT store. The franchise owned stores seem to ALWAYS act like it doesnt exist.

$20 ...

Update:

I went with a BYOD on a Magenta Plus Tmobile post-paid plan. I am about a month in and getting consistent 25mbps down and 10 up in my MOFI4500. Its been life changing with my current work from home situation.

One thing that is confusing me is related to how the data usage is showing in my ...

2 of those should work, but at that price you'd be better off with a parabolic with a mimo feed. You don't want to point at 2 different towers, btw... CA aggregates multiple bands on the same tower, and MIMO depends on having multiple paths to a single tower. No provider is going to bond 2 different ...

The MoFi is not a hotrod of the modems, but I have gotten 78Mbps DL / 31Mbps Up
(AT&T, Band-2, sitting in front of the tower). You just need to find the correct cell carrier, cell tower and band!

For me B71 is more about reach and being stable, the low 600HHz is better for traveling through trees ...

Well it went out last night. Testing around 0.5 Mbps now. Definitely not unthrottled lol
Lasted a while though on light use. If it really is free for life it would make a great supplemental SIM or regular phone/tablet SIM. I'll have to see how it performs after the month resets.

I don't mean to nitpick but is NoLimitData really a MVNO? My understanding is that the likes of Mint, PagePlus and the carrier owned retailers like Visible and Cricket are MVNOs with agreements with the carriers and I think regulated by the FCC. The resellers seem to be simply reselling plans which ...

Hey Guys,. Thanks so much for trying to help. I switched from page plus to simple mobile and its the best change I could have made. No clue why but I have 0 issues now.

Well I just wrote a long explanation but it didnt save and I am to lazy to write it all again.

Basically I tested the 4 main types of antennas and for my tree filled signal path found the yagi (wedge) worked best. You have to remember the higher the db the narower the focal path. If your shooting ...

What TTL did you use ??

Sounds crazy, but in NM, I used 117---but then moved to TN, and now using 65. Go figure :o

I did use this:

# This file is interpreted as shell script.
# Put your custom iptables rules here, they will
# be executed with each firewall (re-)start.

# Internal uci firewall ...

good choices but one issue:
The router you picked has no outputs for external antennas. You would need to drill holes in the case and add in some sma connector pigtails.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DWD5R47/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There is a pic of that mod on this ...

The $20 Postpaid plan IS available, you DO NOT need a phone account. The reps in the stores won't be able to see it on their plan list, they have to SEARCH BY PLAN USING IMEI. If they do that and you give them a tablet that can use their network, it'll show up, $20 tablet only plan. I'm using it ...

Been a while since that thread and the other one you and I were in about the wg3526. I am now also running a cheap archer router (C8) on the head end for all the wifi part and the wg3526 as a dedicated modem. For me the wg3526 worked great by itself for things like streaming video and even got good ...

Using stock, right from the box. It runs a form of Rooter. You can go into advanced menu and set TTL firewall much like we do on the we826.

I tether my Visible phone via USB directly to the gl-mt300n (link removed). I do not use the built-in wifi for much. What I have setup is a 4 port unmanaged ...

If I leave my em7455 open for all bands, it craps out. Hence the reason of only using verizon bands. Even the other tutorial states that. Maybe you will have different experience.

StarLink is for rural location that need internet.

If you ever had to use Hughes Net (NO NET) in satellite country you would understand.

If you only have a weak Cell Tower with no bandwidth all the antennas and high end modems
you will only get 7down and 7up 20 miles south can get 175dn and 50up ...

SIM Solution, 100GB, 5G, T-Mobile, $50

Not sure if you can bring your own device.
I am still reading

SIM Solution, 100GB, 5G, T-Mobile, $50 :o

See
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/5g-just-got-better

I'm surprised that Tmobile is limiting their high speed data to just 100GB/month ...

In order to use Visible service on your LTE modems, there are only a few steps needed.

NOTE: This works as of 12/19/2020. Visible could change things and change the needs, but as of today this works. I made the tutorial as I walked through doing it myself.

This tutorial is using the NEXR5GO ...

I'm not 100% sure about the best tablet to use for activation other than the newest you can afford. It should work with ipad or android. My account is about 8 months or so old, and I've never done any imei funny business. I've swapped mine to multiple devices, every week. I use it for ATT tests.

Yes, lots of people on the Facebook group have touted over 1TB of use, to which many will say they are abusing. :shrug:

I do not know about the ebay sellers though.

So they wouldn't let me unless I added a line to postpaid account. So it's currently working in mofi but I'm afraid they'll cancel our entire phone plan if they find out... Seems speeds are better than with att prepaid ipad plan, was getting like 12, now 20-25mbps.

I may see if I could get this ...

Anytime!

MOFI isn't a terrible unit, its just marketed to be WAY more device than it is and all you are really paying for is the firmware. They don't tell you that its modem is very dated and the wifi throughput is trash. They say high speed cutting edge! Then charge over $300 for them. Nuts. But ...

Anytime!

MOFI isn't a terrible unit, its just marketed to be WAY more device than it is and all you are really paying for is the firmware. They don't tell you that its modem is very dated and the wifi throughput is trash. They say high speed cutting edge! Then charge over $300 for them. Nuts. But ...

The only way to get it to stop doing the IPV6 version is to leave the Modem Connection Profile APN setting blank. Then set the APN manually with AT+CGDCONT command. It should persist once set. Keep the MBNCONFIG AutoSel turned off.

TTL is set in the firewall rules, this is mine for ATT:

# A ...

Hello,
Been using this for a few days now. Have now disabled IPV6 and it has gotten better with disconnects. Still doing it like once per day. Seems to always happen during meetings. Like a company teams meeting or a college class type meeting, Literally every time it fails it is during some type ...

Hello BillA,
Was wondering if you might have time to show me what is highlighted in red ?
Regarding to what is highlighted in blue above. Does this need to be done on my house router too? The (access point) that is plugged into the router?
My set up has the WiFi Disabled and another router for ...

I just did a chat session with tmobile and told the rep someone is giving me an old Tmobile phone. It was no big deal for them to not have the IMEI. I should have my sim and new phone number in a couple of days.

See Cell Mapper
It's a helpful tool, to know where cell towers are and what bands they are putting out
but things are changing very fast and it may not have the most up to date data.

https://www.cellmapper.net

http://www.aturnofthenut.com/upload/

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 received my Android tablet and I can confirm that it works quite nicely with my EasyTether / WireGuard setup in a Raspberry Pi. It's not as fast as native tethering was on the iPad but I'm getting between 20 and 30 Mbps most of the time so still not too bad as a $20 per month "unlimited" hotspot.

This worked for an EM160R-GL on Visible. Only change:

Instead of
- Set to 4g LTE only Command = AT+QCFG="nwscanmode",3,1

Use
- Set to 4g LTE only Command = AT+QNWPREFCFG="mode_pref",LTE

You've lost 4.4 dBi on your cables alone. That makes a net gain of maybe 1-2dBi over stock antennas. Upgrading to LMR400 will get you back 2.1 dBi. If you put the modem and router up on the pole you could get most all of it back.

Your number one focus should be signal clarity and strength.

As curiosity, and after today's T-mobile Home internet failure, I decided to see if Starlink was available in my location. Their website requires your address and a request to order before giving you any information. It says it is slated for mid 2021 in my location but they would happily sign me ...

Thanks for the replies. A quick update.

I re-flashed router with this package:
http://www.aturnofthenut.com/upload/ZBT-WE826-19076-GO2021-03-06.zip

This is working well, UI is full speed. No disconnects from internet in last day, good speeds for my location. I think that band locking to the bands ...

I know for me, there is/was a HUGE difference between channel locking on a 10MHz band that has beautiful signal strength for me and channel locking onto a 20MHz channel that really only seems to ever have two bars. the 20MHz channel with supposedly less signal stomps the crap out of the 10Mhz band ...

Shouldn't be. Visible is very carefree and simple at the moment.

Ahhh. Gotcha.

To be honest you would do MUCH better if you had a pair of dedicated antennas attached to the MOFI and use the Booster for just Voice use.

A pair of these would work great and not cost much: https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/yagi/600-3800mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi ...

Agree with Didneywhorl. Home run the antennas into the modem, and then enable wifi calling on your iphones. Will allow for a clean data signal, plus the antennas and boosters that come with the typical kit don't broad cast all the bands that modem can see, especially if its a kit from before Nov of ...

Hey welcome to your first post!

Super duper subjective question.

General rule I've used is the Bandwidth of the Band you are on can be multiplied x5 for generally the MOST you can get out of that channel.

In this case you are using the SIM4, which has a EC25AF inside. This modem can use B71, but ...

Your results make sense if you look at the frequencies of those bands.

5 and 13 are low frequency bands (850Mhz and 700Mhz) that typically are provisioned with no more than 5-10Mhz Bandwidth.

4 and 66 are high frequency bands (1700/2100) that are typically provisioned with 10-20Mhz Bandwidth ...

let me chime in about the external enclosure and mounting the router outside via POE. That is certainly one way to do it and if you on a tall pole one of the better ways, however, if your just going to mount antennas on your roof and your home is a one or 2 story you could also just run some high ...

Sorry I didn't see that you are using your cell as a hotspot and the booster with the parabolic. Others have already posted that a "booster" does just that noise and all. In fact a booster can be worse than nothing at all because of this. Also a booster does not have the ability to use MIMO antenna ...

Only real way to minimize noise is with a MIMO antenna setup, which boosters do not support. All LTE routers require a SIM card in the modem. As I pointed out in one of my previous posts I was at the same point as you, nosey signal and poor booster performance. So I switched over to using a LTE ...

Has anyone experienced a speed drop using AT&T? I'm on the $20 Ipad tablet plan using latest Voxel and magic and usually get 75-135 download on speed test but tonight only 25-30. Currently it's connected to band 14 but usually connects to band 66. I've tried rebooting several times hoping to connect ...

My specific use case is different but our needs are similar. Here is what I do:

I have a calyx membership for my main connection. This comes with a Sprint/t-mobile sim with a device.

And then I am in a Visible group with $25/mo internet. This runs on Verizon’s network. Tethering on my account is ...

Also, I’ve been using calyx for 2 years now and can confirm that it is truly unlimited and without throttling (other than normal network deprioritization).

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 use the b66 with ca to b66 as my main setup. I have my bands locked to 66 only. What the CAA part does is as follows:
The initial connection to band 66 in my setup is either 20mhz or 10 mhz seems to depend on something on the tower side that I cannot control. The CAA kicks in when the tower deems ...

For the EM12

AT+QRSRP
+QRSRP: -105,-107,-140,-140

First number is your primary antenna, the 2nd is your diversity antenna.

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 ...

I have a phone USB tethered to an AR750S, and as long as I'm not being deprioritized I pull ~15Mb/s, sometimes even as high as 50mb/s late at night. While deprioritized though it can drop as low as 1-3mb/s.

For example, there was about an hour this past Wednesday where max DL was ~300kb/s , but ...

Hi All,

New here and also not the most tech savvy.

Interested in the solutions you all put forth on this topic!

If you are lucky to get T-Mobile it could fit your needs.

I had a friend that was not in the service area.
He put his name on the waiting list, and got a phone call two days ...

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