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Is a well setup antenna the only way to optimize ping?

Followup: I contacted my Sprint provider, who gave me a Sprint number to call for Tech Support, and after going through some diagnostics, determined that my SIM/hotspot was bad, and authorized a warranty replacement, which they said would take 7-10 business days.

A week later, after exhausting my ...

Ok, so I'm going to post a butt ton of pictures here on how I put together a WG3526-P Router w/Sierra MC7455 Modem inside a DM25X19 Antenna. The pictures will be posted on this thread as a series of posts instead of one SUPER long single posting.

NOTE: It is recommended to build and configure the ...

I am going to butcher all of the terminology here, and I am sure I will get corrected by those smarter than me, but here is my layman's understanding.....

The 3526 has load balancing built in, but not bonding.

Load balancing is when a router manages two internet connections and routes device ...

Hi Jim, you're totally right. One of the pigtails wasn't attached well to the MC7455, which explains the periodic signal drops.

Argh, spend 2 hours last night trying to diagnose/fix when it was something this simple!

Thanks again!

CA worked with two omni antennas without issue. Signal strength is a bit weak (64%), but am able to lock onto B41 and get CA. Speeds now ~45 down, 4 up. Download is obviously way better, but up is much lower than B26. I assume this is due to weaker signal strength. I'm happy with this as I don't ...

Just wanted to close on this.

New unit came in and I was finally able to allocate time to set it up and fire it on. Outside of a stupid user error on my part by mixing up the 4G and WiFi antennaes, the new unit works great on WiFi and hard line. Connection to my wireless carrier for the LTE has ...

I didn't know where else to post this. But I continue to provide evidence that disproves the "dumb blonde" theory. Observe my mental skillz.

Ok. SO the backstory to all this is I had a 4g thing set up for unlimited internet with a company called --freedata.io--

It was all fine and dandy until ...

I agree with most of what you say, except the splitter that one should use. I would argue that the best one is https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/accessories/com ... r-divider/

Woops I 100% agree. :)

Perhaps an opportunity to explain a bit more about how a splitter/ combiner works.

The basic ...

I think this topic raises a point worth mentioning. When someone is experiencing issues with a router and/or modem, it is best to start reading the various topics on this forum. If you can understand the problem and its cause, then finding a solution becomes a lot easier.

Most everything discussed ...

Hey! The guys over at the ROOter forum have some good examples that they have been helping me with. Also on things like antenna theory, MIMO vs. CA, modem commands (AT commands) for certain situations, and the hardware builds themselves by sharing what they’ve been doing.

I know some of them are ...

The code from April did the trick. The WE1326 is running like a champ with the MC7455 and allowing the gigabit hardline connection as well as the AC level WiFi.

I am surprised that we had to go through all this to get the WE1326 running. I guess not many people buy this unit. The internal 4G ...

Those of you that have to use the Recovery Mode on a WE | WG router will have the pleasure of looking at a Chinese language screen. While it isn't hard to figure out what should happen, it is nice to know exactly what is being said here.

I've translated the recovery page so you can see what is what ...

I was trying to figure out what I could contribute to this forum as a first time poster. There is already a wealth of knowledge being shared here from what I have read so far. I do LTE network installations in my free time and have had to do some digging to find appropriate antennas for multiple ...

I've written a bash script to automate the entire process of setting up any of the EM/MC74XX series modems (Generic, Dell, Lenovo). This assumes you have the Sierra card inserted into a USB enclosure.

From the script description:
- Only for use on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS LiveUSB
- All Needed Packages ...

Is there a reason for going with 2x WG3526-P instead of using 1x WG3526-P and a USB enclosure for the second modem? ROOter has modem load balancing built in.

As for power requirements:
802.11af does 15.4 watts
802.11at does 30 watts
12v 2.5A is 30 watts.

That all said, I doubt there is any ...

Let's see,

The card was supposed to be generic, but it wasn't. So when I tried to flash the newest generic firmware to it, it failed putting the card into some kind of boot wait mode. That was after following the guides here telling me to use such and such a driver and then to reset the card to ...

I tried a WE1026-5G which uses the same 2.4Ghz chip as the WE826 and found the wifi signal was somewhat weaker than my Asus RT-AC68U using factory firmware. However, the download speeds I got from both were about the same.

I also looked at a Xiaomi Mini which uses the same MT7620 chip and the ...

I recently purchased a pair of these antennas (https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/outdoor/outdoor-cellular/directional-panel/high-beam/) for my 4G project I've been working on. I couldn't find any good detailed reviews with these antennas, so I thought I'd share my experience with them. (I ...

Nice results! Thanks for sharing. Do you happen to know what the speeds are with just one of the directional antenna? Are two matching antenna needed to see such a large improvement? Or can you get significant benefit with just one? I don't really understand how MIMO works.

I have not done any ...

Update: with some interesting info

Yesterday afternoon, I had some time to play around with these antennas some more, and discovered some interesting things. My goal for this time was to test a few things.

1. Check signal strength and speed again (as compared to my previous test).
2. Test both ...

This connection test is shown from a PS4.

The first picture is 4G LTE (hard wired)
Please note, I have no LOS, many trees, and I live in the Foothills of SC.

The second picture shows the "connection" I've dealt with for the past 12 years, on AT&T DSL. (hard wired)

My setup is a WE826 router ...

Yes, this would be a great tool to have compiled into the GoldenOrb firmware.

I'll attach my build to this post in case anyone needs it, it's essentially stock OpenWRT master with the modemmanager package feed added. I also compiled in the necessary packages for mounting and formatting the SD ...

I managed to get my WG3526-P to connect to sprint using my custom OpenWRT build(I'm attaching an updated version where I removed a package that could potentially conflict with modemmanager), I had to manually configure a number of the settings.

I set these AT commands, I'm not entirely sure if ...

I too had similar issues with the WG3526 WiFi. It was suggested that the issues arrived from installing the WiFiX version of GoldenOrb and did not uncheck the box to save settings.

It is common to uncheck the box, then browse to the GoldenOrb firmware to upload, and when returning to the flash ...

Thanks Jim,

I was able to use this forum to get my WG3526 with the MC7455 working. I had been using a Verizon sim card form my work iPad and had no problems. But when I switched to a TMO sim card from another tablet my speeds were less than .5Mbs. After much searching I finally found these ...

Just wanted to comment on this thread with some info on what I experienced implementing this MOD. To re-cap, I was also getting a dropped internet connection (i.e. wifi devices indicated they were connected but no internet present) - however the modem did appear to still be connected. I was doing a ...

Update the script for these entries below............change 1.20.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb TO 1.20.0.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

deb_libqmi_glib5='libqmi-glib5_1.20.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb'
deb_libqmi_proxy='libqmi-proxy_1.20.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb'
deb_libqmi_utils='libqmi-utils_1.20.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...

I haven't had a chance to buy any of the testing tools, but I believe you guys were spot on about the power usage. I followed some advice in another thread about the 2.4 GHz band dropping out, I lowered the transmit power(I had it set at 30 for some reason, can't remember why), and I've only had one ...

The trick from Rooter did work. I had to do this:

echo 1199 9091 > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id

on my WRT and the connect with picocom /dev/ttyUSB0 and set the correct 1,3,1009 and I got my modem back!

Thanks!

First I want to say I am very inexperienced when it comes to Linux and running scripts.
After much time and research, I got the bash script written by danielewood to run and to flash a Dell em7455 modem.
Below are some the pitfalls I ran into and my way of getting the script to run. Many steps ...

After quite a bit of looking around I have (with the help of others here and elsewhere) and with the assistance of previous answers to previous posts, found my solution and back to operational mode with my rooter/EM7455. One particular link to a 'tool kit' led to the very instructive instructions ...

Here is the little bit that I know. I'm running a tablet sim from Verizon, my ttl is set @ 117, it hides the hot spot use! I have a unlimited plan, 2 phones, and 2 tablets, 1 tablet I use as a tablet, the other sim is in my router. So I pay tablet rate, 20@ month, mines military discount. 17.00 ...

FIRST STEP
Ethernet RJ45 specifications ipv4 in "edit connections"
IPV6 -> ignore

IPV4 :
IP: 192.168.1.5
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway : 192.168.1.1

Connection mode : Manual
=============================================================================
SECOND STEP :
- Log the 192.68.1.1 router ...

I'm not sure what your speed expectations are, but you want as much bandwidth as you can get. It is possible that there are other bands on those CIDs and you aren't seeing them, because your modem can only do 2 carrier aggregation. A 3 or 4 carrier aggregation modem may provide more bandwidth on ...

Nvm solved the problem weird seems AT&T doesn't like ipv6 enabled

Got it all hooked up working like it suppose to with Verizon.

New to site or at least don't come hear enough to know what's been posted about M1. Here is something that helped me a lot. I had slow speeds because of over crowding. Locking my M1 to band 14 helped a lot for my area. This link tells you how to manually select bands. Sorry if it has been linked to ...

Decided to try out the pcie to m.2 we'll see if there's a big difference between the USB method

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I recently received the WE1326V5/MC7455 router/modem and wanted to upgrade it to use the 698-2690MHz Cisco 4G LTE Antennas And Extension Base. Since the WE1326 has internal LTE antennas the case must be modified to install the TNC pigtail connectors. In stock condition, it has 2) RP-SMA and 2) SMA ...

According to Sierra, power consumption can also depend on bands which I found interesting.

That is an interesting find. I wonder if they truly mean B66 is special or if they mean it has 20MHz available, so more power to deal with the higher throughput? Although, if that were the case, why would ...

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 ...

I managed to find how to fix this, no thanks to google :-) had to figure it out on my own.... in the modem properties you will see something like, enable modem for load balancing.... I know it seems like such an obvious answer, and maybe it is, but i never thought to look there... seems very ...

After reading THIS thread I was pretty cautious building my new router. I too had the same issues with the screws touching the router case on the bottom(between pcb and case) and 1 of the pan heads of the screws touching the underside of the modem.

So to fix the issue I used needle nose pliers and ...

Now that my setup is nearly done I would like to pay it forward and share the details of my antenna mast and some of my build for anyone interested in something similar.

My 10' mast is mounted to a 33' old tv tower. The mast itself is made from a 10'; 1-3/8" chain link fence top rail. I also ...

So i ran into the same problem when hooking up my 4000d. My problem was the cat5e cable i originally used did not provide enough voltage to activate the antenna and the modem. It just activated the antenna and appeared to be running as intended. Bought new cat6 cable and immediately had connectivity ...

Hello,
I have a MC7455 modem with Mimo Configuration 2 log periodic antennas with lmr 400 cable.
Positioned on top of a TV tower antenna. Receiving down load of 48 to 62 mbps.
But even as I improved this speed still couldn't get HD quality on my tvs and computer streaming.

Then realized the issue ...

Had some time on my hands while the wife was attending a conference down in Austin TX. Thought about spending it tossing a few brews/fishing with the buds, but decided to do something more constructive:)

I have built quite a few wifi 2.4GHz quad antennas over the years and each one of them ...

1. install usb, serial and mbim modules according to this receipe https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/wwan/ltedongle
2. unpack mbim.zip
3. Copy and replace /lib/netifd/proto/mbim.sh with the one from the zip
check permissionss, must be executable
4. Copy luci-proto-mbim_1.0-1_mipsel ...

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 ...

For those curious, I did find the fix to this issue. I tried clearing cache through browser but to no avail. I am not experienced with PuTTY software, but was able to login through SSH and use command line

rm -r /tmp/luci-indexcache

to clear the indexcache. Everything is working as expected! This ...

I have read about several Verizon users having a similar problem. I found a reply on the Sierra Wireless forums that the problem can be caused by running the generic firmware and the there "will be no IMS APN profile thus SIM OTA will not be triggered". The recommendation was to download the Verizon ...

Thanks, good to know. I've read somewhere about being locked, but I think that pertains to not being able to use it in an HP/Dell/Lenovo laptop, which has been flashed with generic firmware (something to do with the laptop's bios checking for authenticity). But it seems like it works the other way ...

Just sharing back for community (although will put a more detailed post up when Im finished testing).
With the omnidirectional antenna I see 11 down, 1 up, with the 15db flat panel literally thrown up and randomly pointed in the rough direction I see 28down, 9 up! This is just with a single panel ...

Signal strength -45 dbm
Signal quality -11.7
Signal diversity -45 dbm
This is with 2 Wilson boosters. Is this good?

Your signal strength is good, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're amplifying the carrier signal. In case of really weak incoming signals, a booster will just amplify ...

I too almost bought a mofi before reading the reviews about thier customer support on Amazon. So glad I found thewirelesshaven.com! For just a little more $$ I was able to build a WG3526 with Em7565 modem vs mofi's (imo outdated) pre-built router. Plus with thewirelesshaven.com you have an entire ...

success!

Received the EM20 today and installed, adding the additional 2 antennas for the 4X4 MIMO. Powered on and the router/modem connected to cell tower and I now have internet. Getting about double the bandwidth as compared to my S9, signal is pretty weak here, but got up to 12Mbs vs around 4 ...

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 ...

A brief follow-up. It appears the disconnect issues I was facing with Sprint & the EM7565 were indeed related to inadequate amps reaching the modem inside the M2 enclosure. For context, the Linksys WRT1900ACS has a 3A / 12 v supply but the output of the USB port itself was inadequate. After adding ...

Thanks Bill
I think I have what I need. I filled out a Survey here https://thewirelesshaven.com/internet-service/
and they got me all straight. Great service.

Thanks to Jim and Jessica.

At some point it's time throw in the towel, once too much time and effort has been wasted on a relatively inexpensive device which was clearly not meant for production. Not trying to disappoint, but during all this time trying, could have worked the same amount of hours at a regular job, and ...

Alrighty then, Received the new mini pcie to m.2 card today and just plugged everything up and it all works great. Thanks again Jim for spotting my issue.

I got curious because of this thread and decided to rip my Coolpad Surf open to see if maybe there are hidden external antenna connectors...... Looks like there is!

I think I will order another set of MHF4 to SMA Female Bulkhead 5" pigtails and see what happens.

If I can get it to accept another T ...

@shoulin333 yeah I popped mine open as well and was looking at those. Curious to know if the antennas work out for you. I wish there was a way to see what Band you are connected on.
If you want more internal pictures and pictures without the shields covering everything up, you can check out:
https ...

For Linux users, I wrote a little shell script to display LTE band values.

#!/bin/sh
#
printf "%s%20s\n" "Band L-bandmask-1" "L-bandmask-2"
LBAND=1
BBAND=1
while [ $LBAND -le 48 ]
do
printf "%-6s%016X\n" "B$LBAND" "$BBAND"
LBAND=$(( $LBAND + 1 ))
BBAND=$(( $BBAND * 2 ))
done
LBAND=65
BBAND=1 ...

Using a higher current supply definitely helps. Have you tried the 2.5 Amp power adapter with a WE826? The data sheets for the MT7620 wifi chip show it draws 840mA normally and can draw peaks up to 1400mA. The 7455 can draw 1100mA continuous when transmitting and can draw more momentarily. There are ...

And finally, regarding the 7455 modem in MOFI.
BTW, if one wants to see how MOFI interacts with the modem he can simply login to MOFI using SSH, open minicom session and use the MOFI GUI - all AT commands sent to the modem will be printed/echoed on the screen. But having an opened minicom session ...

Done. Thanks Jim! Btw, I'll even be trying MIMO antennas through two boosters to the modem. I'm excited to see how that goes.

The flat panels arrived today. Amazing service from The Wireless Haven!! I had to take them for a test drive.
Top 4 speeds are standing on my porch, holding the antennas in my hand and guessing at where the tower is. Pretty stable 20 download!
Bottom 4 speeds are to a tower in the opposite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Give us the output of AT!GSTATUS? In the AT Command terminal, please.

Update:

I decided to order a new Pi, didn't have time to test the USB3 with modem from a windows machine. (says the Mac owner)

I received the new Pi and configured and installed and still experienced the modem disconnects.

In addition I ordered ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JYVPLLJ/ref ...

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 ...

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