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Hi Folks,
I'm new to this technology and thought I'd share a few things I found that helped me figure tower location, azimuth and elevation between the tower and my house/router. I don't know if this helps anyone else, but if there's a better mouse trap, please let me know.
First I found the tower ...

Below is a detailed review and comparison of a bunch of antennas.

A little back story: During my adventures into 4G/LTE, and learning about the technology, I found it really really fascinating to test different antennas and configurations, and many of them in different locations. These types of ...

9-11dbi Radome Yagi (https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/698-2700mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi-11dbi-4g-lte-directional-antenna/)

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Day 2 Testing

Unknown Gain Tiny Omnis (These came with this mini-pci USB ...

terryjett wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:31 pm Excellent information! Been playing with few home brew antennas trying to find best AT&T band for my area (lots of trees and tower about 4 miles away). Your info helps a lot, thank you.

you're welcome, glad it was useful to you!

Quick question:

"Location: My home, in the North East GA Mountains For reference, below is a screenshot"

Could you share what software / website you used to create the the screenshot that mapped the terrain? Looks very useful...

Thanks!

I used the Radio Mobile Website to do it: https://www ...

Yes, that one will work. And, it is always nice to have one laying around.

Did a search and cannot find answer to my question, please forgive me if overlooked it...

Looking at topic https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18

Does this still apply as of today?

Or is https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/download/GoldenOrb/we826-GO2019-03-10.zip now ok?

The older ...

An Excel interactive spreadsheet was created to assist users in creating a band and/or group of bands for various versions of the Sierra Wireless modems as well as the Netgear MR1100. Hopefully, the Quectel modems will be included in the future editions.

As with all the material on the forum, use ...

Hello,
Have no experience using a AT&T tablet plan. With that said have had my parents house set up with https://netbuddy.co/ and https://traveldata.page/. Which are both data only AT&T plans. Which I think would be similar to the tablet plan.
Have used those with.
1. NetGear LB1120
2. Nighthawk M1 ...

Thanks @swwifty! Have looked at the PI and they look firm. Maybe sometime you could create a thread with good description of hardware, bet others would find it useful and informative (like your antenna comparison).

Yeah I could do that pretty soon, but its really easy.

All you need a raspberry ...

Yes, vendor branded modems (at least the EMXXXX series) generally require changing the PID/VID.

Review the information HERE and HERE for instructions on modifying them.

I'm relatively new to this stuff but found the following to be an easy way to modify them.

Mount the modem into a router and run the following commands to change the PID/VID
AT!ENTERCND=“A710”
AT!USBPID=9071,9070
AT!USBVID=1199
AT!USBPRODUCT=“EM7455”
AT!PRIID=“9904802”,“001.001”,“Generic”

Now you ...

Daniel Wood has created a script that will convert any EM7455 to Sierra standard on latest FW.
The Script is run from Ubuntu LiveUSB and is in my opinion the simplest way to to do the conversion.

https://www.ttl.one/2018/07/sierra-wire ... m74xx.html

Frank

terryjett wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:31 pm Any others using the AT&T iPad no contact plan with non-at&t hotspots?

That's what I was using, not sure if I made that clear or not earlier.

terryjett wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:11 am I assume you're talking about sim cards

My bad, did not make that clear. Meant what model modem card(s) have you used with success on AT&T plan.

oh, then in that case I've used the MC7455 and EM7565 with AT&T no issues.

Seems you can still get but got to know what to ask for. And it is a little more expensive now. Called Global plus 15 GB. Here is a link for the info on it if anyone is interested in it. Has unlimited 4G hotspot and HD streaming.
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-39110

For Visible, you need to enable the SIM on a compatible phone FIRST before you attempt any activation in the Sierra wireless card. It will not activate otherwise. The app on the compatible phone communicates with the network to activate the SIM.

For MC7455, you want the generic firmware, APN ...

Nice work on those Bi-Quad antenna structures. Ive got a pile of leftover 1900 Mhz 4-patch PCB (14.5dBi) and back plates. The PCB mounts aprox 5mm above the back plate and is fed by a pin or center of the grounded coax. I can mail you a set if you PM with an address. Its free. Rather see em in use ...

Hi fellow LTERS,

I would like to build a custom WE826-t2 router with Telit LN940A9 / fibocom L860-GL as they are cheaper than sierra wireless and also they are with higher Cat 11/16 range.

If someone has built successfully pls point me to right direction or material. that would be great ...

Also here is a antenna review I did a while ago, but is still very relevant. viewtopic.php?f=24&t=251

This is for my uncle and he has very good Verizon coverage at his house. Literally can just put a hot spot on the kitchen counter and ready to go. And they don't use much data at all. Visible said they used 14 Gigs of data last month. My issue is really don't know what else to set them up with ...

Very good information on carriers @BillA!

I have the AT&T ipad plan and you are right on. 30 down and about 15 up is best I have seen on adverage.

Looking for better so might just experiment with t-mobile since will work with my em7455. Any suggestions on settings if get a prepaid sim for t ...

Thanks for the links.
Placed my order today
I went ahead and purchased two new antennas to be certain they were same.
I will post results when I get them installed.

I had similar issues with my Airmaster 4000D when using it at my house. Eventually I got it working everywhere except for near my house. Was really odd, but with some setting changes I was finally able to get it going at home and it has been rock solid since. If I didn't change all of these settings ...

I looked at them a while back, and they were all low level CAT rated, verses buying the newer Sierra MC series modems which supported the latest LTE releases.

The HAT version doesnt have a modem embedded like the shields previously. Its pretty new-ish.

https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi ...

To follow up on this project I now have the Nighthawk and antennas relocated. I ran 100 ft. of direct burial network cable and light duty (#16) direct burial power cable to power the unit. I Have the nighthawk enclosed in a Coleman six pack cooler. The cooler has to vent holes with filter screens ...

" Sounds like you have lots of old tech stuff like me..."

That is the understatement of the year, lol. About a year ago my wife got on to me about a storage rental (12x24). Told me I had not been in it for over a year. She was right. Way in the back was a commodore 64... Most went to electronic ...

OK so I'm curious about AT&T Bands 3 and 11 showing up in the debug info my understanding is ATT does not have these bands on thier towers in my area, well according to cellmapper.net that is.
Is it possible this info is not correct and these are not displaying correctly?
here are the screen grabs ...

Hello
Think this is what you are looking for.
Look at this post page one jim helms post air advantage.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=884#p6074

Came here to say that tried it, it didnt work for me either. DNS lookups were ok, but only could load www.att.com or www.paygonline.com websites.

Based on the above info, they don't seem to be blocking the modem since you're able to ping by IP and access those two sites, but more likely ...

Thank you, Mr. Terry! That was as easy as I hoped thanks to your detailed instructions!

Quoted from BillA:
Someone should try the ATT plan with a Quectel modem, maybe they are only blocking Sierra's.

I have Verizon post pay plan for cell phone service. Lowest level plan called start unlimited. So low it has no hotspot data allowed at all
Anyway have tried it in several Sierra ...

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 ...

Hey BillA, howz it hanging bro? Hope the world is treating you with respect :)

I wanted to try PagePlus for a friend some time back (actually thinking for wife as she is working from home for unforeseeable future). I read "At 60 GB, we reserve the right to review your account for usage in ...

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 ...

Using Jim's spreadsheet to generate correct code for locking EM7455 to band 41, but modem will not connect after reset. Before I go into more troubleshooting want to make sure every thing is correct with code.

This is what I have after spreadsheet: AT!BAND=10,"SP41",0,10

Entered that into modem ...

Hello,

Don't know if you have seen this post or not. Thought I would include it here encase you didn't see it.
Wonder if IPV4V6 not being set is the issue possibly?
[Please note all these commands are for a Sierra Wireless MC7455.]

Re: MC7455 and Visible by Verizon, Grammie help!

Post by ...

Hey, that is great news. Least there is hope for good experiment.

I see the "NCM" in Windows device manger under others so that makes sense.

"Whirlpool ROOter forums". Not being lazy, just have not seen the link you speak of. Searched many times about L860-Gl and most likely not using right term ...

I posted this on the ROOter forum too, but given the single thread nature there, tutorials tend to get lost in the clutter. So, starting with this post -- I'm going to post guides here too for some additional staying power. :-)

If your network consists of a mix of different operating systems, and ...

I didnt. I never had enought sprint signal to make it work.

And here's the follow-on post I did, about a month later, after moving to the x86 router box:

If you missed my original post on this amazing upgrade to your ROOter setup (assuming you have at least two decent sources of Internet available), you might want to have a look at this post first whrl.pl ...

These things can be a little funky to get the settings just right, but once working they are really awesome. I was the poster in the other thread that had put all the settings from the debug tab into the applicable settings in the Airmaster, but I've recently found I was able to get the same result ...

Unfortunately 99% of non-technical users would be lost on the server setup, let alone the client/server settings

My apologies if I gave the impression that this was an "anyone can do it" sort of post. There's little documentation on OMR, and no step-by-step guides for deploying it, so for anyone ...

The airmaster can be little difficult at times to setup. I highly encourage you to look back completely through this thread and try each way to setup before giving up. There are a couple of different ways in this entire thread and one of them just might get yours working.

I set one up other day ...

I wrote up this step-by-step walkthrough for a few friends who also jumped on the airmaster bandwagon. Hope it helps!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jglj9pplfaee ... o.txt?dl=0

Another newb question: it's often recommended that TTL rules be specifically applied to ipv6 in addition to ipv4, but I don't fully understand the oft-quoted firewall rules even after a brief read of the iptables man page on my linux box. In a vanilla GoldenOrb setup where the Custom TTL is enable ...

I'll report back to say that I experienced throttling regardless of ttl using the 007 rule, but had success with the potentially overkill four rule / newb table mods. This is in QMI mode, using a phone data only (no hotspot) unlimited plan, so those and other variables may alter which types of rules ...

All references are generally in spanish, but that's exactly what it is. An affiliate link system that supports aliexpress.

I have to ask why you used a link like t.ly/px that forwards to preferredby.me/su/esud and then reveals the product @ es.aliexpress.com/item/28.html ?

All this seems little fishy to me...

Sorry it's the habit of doing it. I have deleted the link.
Whenever I copy the links it self-affiliate ...

The guys on the whirlpool forum who made the firmware for Jim could prob answer you better.

Brave antenna installers, pure ballz.

Good point! I guess at my distance (~5 miles) the elevation of the tower was the easier guess than the elevation of the land in the span between me and the tower. I was able to drive by the tower to get a good idea of what I was working with, and then just watched the numbers as I adjusted up and ...

You'll need separate antennas for your WiFi from the LTE antennas. Different frequencies and uses. I recommend a higher powered wifi Access point, as the WE-826 is weak in the wifi dept.

A high gain flat panel directional antenna pair, or dual mimo is my favorite type to use. Like.... https ...

Yes sir, but we are talking about the A7 (least that is what OP stated), not the C7. If you read the first link I posted you will see that there are differences.

I caution anyone getting a A7 to cloesly read the info @ https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_a7

Or you might end up with a closet ...

I used to have a C8 now that I think about it. It was solid. I'll grab a C7. Thanks for the advice!

terryjett wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 8:13 pm Please do not take offense, but very difficult to read when you do not make paragraphs. Old folks like myself lose where we are and give up...

You mean TL;DR ;D

AT! Commands for setup:
Run each one at a time waiting for ok.
at!entercnd="A710"
at!usbcomp=1,1,1009
at+cgdcont=1,"IP","VSBLINTERNET"
at+cgdcont=1,"IPV4V6","VSBLINTERNET"
at!reset

After that make sure apn is VSBLINTERNET.
If it isn't type it in there and save.

Then set TTL to 64 and save and ...

Just a heads on on Visible's speeds, they are currently allowing up to about 40Mbps due to the Corona virus pandemic, but eventually are planning on dropping it down to below 10Mbps... we shall see. Latency will always be higher due to the data running through both Verizon's and Visible's sever. The ...

I am, by no means, an expert. There are many available to you on this forum.
This post covers what I have learned the hard way, in an effort to save you significant time and money. It is a combination of best practices that I have gleaned from others on this site, boiled down and simplified for ...

It's probably no help to you , but I just popped my Visible SIM into my USB enclosure, changed the connection profile in Rooter to VSBLINTERNET (previously broadband for my AT&T sim) and it just works. The USB enclosure is connected to a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running GoldenOrb_2020-03-01 ( OpenWrt 18 ...

Maybe I should just buy a different modem? Currently I am unsuccessfully trying to get working the WE826GO-U with MC7455 on Visible.

Hello again,
Don't know if this matters at all. Sounds meaningless but what the heck. The only difference between the mofi and yours is the mode you are in. The ...

I wanted to get back and report my progress, I was out of state foe a couple of weeks, so could not test.I want to give a BIG shout-out to (terryjett)--(please tell me how to give proper thanks on board--where to click??)
My custom rules were set like your example already, with the # sigh in front ...

1337Jess wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:04 pm I am completely satisfied with 96Mbps DOWN \ 27Mbps UP. I think I may just look at moving the router by a windows on that side of the house.

Awesome
An easy success story.

Interesting info professor Terryjett, I will cuddle up with it tonight in bed and dive in.

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Here's a list of currently available unlimited prepaid plans for mobile routers

1. ATT

ATT iPad/tablet plan $35/mo, 30Mbps speeds, 40ms latency, deprioritized after 30GB, has been discontinued.
ATT unlimited prepaid $65/$75/mo, 30Mbps speeds, 40ms latency, deprioritized after 30GB
ATT ...

Hmmm... unfortunately I'm not much of a Linux expert, the only thing I would suggest is try to read through all those installation instructions, or maybe try compiling it based on this:
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/Compilation

It's probably best to move the modem into an external usb ...

Here's another post I did earlier this year on the ROOter forum, which is now a bit difficult to find. I did this post in late January, and I've since moved from the Raspberry Pi 4B to a Qotom x86 (i3) industrial PC with 4x gigabit Ethernet ports, 2x USB3 and 2x USB2 ports. OpenMPTCProuter needs an ...

on another note...I just noticed I joined this forum on Friday the 13th, Dec 2019 and its Friday the 13th today!

Maybe that's a sign

For users having more than 1 internet connection and wanted to run a primitive load balancing - there is an open source GUI utility called Network Monitor.

[url]http://www.sortbyte.com/software-programs/networking/network-manager[/url]

I played with it for a week and I am quite impressed. I used a ...

I blindly jumped in not thinking that I have EM7455's based off the Dell versions. When I did the AT!RMARESET=1 it wrecked the modem. Even worse my dumb arse did it to two of the modems, lol. Late night mistake, should have been in bed.

So if you are not using the MC/EM7455 directly branded by ...

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 ...

Thanks! I have not picked them back up as frustrated with myself for screwing them up, lol.

Love to get your buddies advice on easy method to reset the Dell branded EM7455.

Got a few more coming over by slow boat from China so any advice is appreciated.

If you muster up some courage, you ...

I got two of these used if someone wanted to buy one.

WiFix NexQ6GO-U with a Quectel EC25AF inside completely setup and ready for your ATT, Verizon, or T-Mobile (BAND 71!!!!) SIM card. ;)

No assembly of anything needed, other than inserting your SIM card with care.

WiFi speeds have tested as fast as LAN speeds on these!

This is brand new ...

Thank You Terryjet !!!!

This worked and the EM7455 is now flashed to generic firmware

Back in WIndows 10 its now listed as Generic EM7455 under Network cards and has 2 COM ports as SNapdragon under Com ports (in Device Manager)

However when i look under network connections it does identify my ...

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