Wireless Joint

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 ...

I wanted to do a complete post on my setup with context, and technical details on what I did. I'll start by giving some context on the why.

Last year I moved to the Northeast GA mountains. I work as a Systems Engineer, and work full time remote. Thus, as part of this move, fast and reliable ...

Welcome to the forum!


I still say the WG3526-P is the way to go. It is a solid unit. https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/routers/lte-routers/wg3526-p/

Then plug a USB3 adapter enclosure into the USB3 port: https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/pcie-m-2/m-2-ngff/usb3-to-ngff-m-2-key-b-3050-5g-adapter ...

thanks! is there a specific one you would suggest? like quectel em20 or so? do you have any suggestions on antennas etc for such a set up? would you still just suggest going the route of em16 with the wg3526? because as it is currently with the mofi my speeds are awful and I know some places I can ...

Hello again,
With this set up are you getting capped at the 5 down? I finally ported my number from Verizon to Visible to try it out. On Verizon was tether my phone on a WG3526 at full capable speeds of the phone. Now with Visible it is capping me at that 5 down. Not sure what I am doing wrong ...

Hello again update,
OK so went and hooked up my visible phone to this and was getting the 5 up and down on it. Then in the GL.INET firmware went to "more settings" "advanced"
Then it opened another window to log into. Some kind of open wrt firmware. User name auto filled with root. The password is ...

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 ...

I followed your instruction, but unfortunately I'm still being throttled. I've pasted some screenshots of various screens that I was hoping you could check. It's possible that my previous provider has changed a setting that could be causing an issue, or I'm probably missing one of the more basic ...

Awesome, I'll do some research. Thank you!



The preferred method for tethering a phone to a router is via a USB cable, which is faster than WiFi and also charges the phone at the same time. It's actually quite simple to do it on a router which has a USB port and is flashable with OpenWRT ...

I've been using Visible wireless and a mofi 4500 sim7 at my parents house since October 2020 for their main internet. they previously had dial up (56k) modem access until the local company dropped them because only 3 other people in their entire service area had dial up and it wasn't worth the ...

This explains more from your other post.

Your modem uses both antenna ports, whether there is one antenna plugged in or two. This is another reason your phone is smoking your modem.
You should always use two separate exact matched antennas each with their own cable. Also, are you using satellite ...

If Verizon works well, I wonder if you could get a Visible SIM and just pay when you want it? Dunno. The Month to month part is the hardest for me.


As far as hardware, you may be good with the plug n play of the MBR1400V2. It's a good unit, but Visible I havent been able to get working with the ...

The Best?

My favorite: (Not 5G)

https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/routers/lte-routers/wg3526-p/
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/modems/quectel-modems/quectel-em160r-gl-cat16-m-2-modem/
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/pcie-m-2/m-2-ngff/usb3-to-ngff-m-2-key-b-3050-5g-adapter-enclosure-with-sim ...

For example, if my phone here was directly connected to a cell tower configured the same, upload/download speeds between those towers should be identical. If I could amplify my broadcast to even 1% of that tower however, I’d be in the 3mbps UL range, 30mbps DL rather than .07mbps UL, 30mbps DL ...

Try removing the TTL setting. Then power cycle.

Then set TTL to 64. Then power cycle again.

Test after letting it get fully booted up and connected.

You need to be setting both IPV4 AND IPV6 TTL too, make sure.

I have currently, and successfully, setup a mofi4500-Sim7 v3 at my parents house and at my sisters house. I have no idea what actual modem is inside it though; so no idea if this is helpful or not.

The biggest issue I have had with visible is not activating the stupid sim card / account ...

In order to change the TTL settings you should first delete it all and reset and allow the router to connect without any custom TTL settings, them enter the new custom TTL settings, then reboot again. I don't know why this works, but it does. Of course that is assuming your TTL settings are correct ...

I deleted everything from the custom firewall and entered in the code you recommended, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to have yielded any improvement. Perhaps that is only one piece of the puzzle or there are some other settings that were previously set that need to be changed.

Anything else ...

Hello,
You can't block a certain tower from your device. But you "kind of sorta can" if you are lucky about band selection. Using Visible there is a tower that is terribly slow. Has bands 13 & 66 on it. So what I did was set my band lock to 2 + 4 + 5. Since that tower doesn't have any of those bands ...

Thanks for the response, I thought same thing about being throttled. Putting the sim in my phone though I get speeds on average at 75mbps. Peaking higher that that alot too. So that's kinda what made me think it was something else. Thanks



If you're getting around 50Mbps on your phone, or to ...

You can see your available bands with cellmapper.net

The rooter firmware doesn't have a built in "band scanner" like the mofi, so you have to kind of do more research and guesswork. Tradeoff for more power and configurability.

Make sure you have the TTL settings set to 64 so that you can get past ...

The above is spot on. The SIM7 has zero Carrier Aggregation capability. You'll want a Cat6 modem or above for that.

myself, also once, got a hold of visible via their online chat when I was only getting 5 up and about 5 down. they walked me through all kinds of "shut this down", "turn that on", "reboot that", "lets re-provision your sim", and stuff like that. For me, the one step that worked was when they had me ...

I started using these, with good results...


Then tested these, with same results in terms of gain, typical yagi results...

https://www.signalbooster.com/products/yagi-antenna-directional-full-band-75-ohm-surecall-sc-231w?variant=24848971910&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google ...

I live out in the country, I have the EM160 that I'm testing in a H761. I did have a Telit 960 in a 3526 doing 4xMIMO with no issues. But the EM160 seems to be a solid choice as most of the towers near me will do 3xCA, near the towns I sometimes see 4xCA. Its 4xMIMO and I have not had to create band ...

If you want to keep band 71 optimized, you don't want to go with the first antenna. The second antenna, the The Wireless Haven 5g Yagi is solid, I have 4 of them and they work great with all bands. I would go that route. I tested the The Wireless Haven 5g yagi against an old 698mhz yagi for band 2 ...

Got a pair of these (NEXR5GO) for testing, I wanted to see if the WiFi performance was better than the 3526 and 1608. Out of the box, this is a nice size router, solid metal construction, with plenty of room to work. It’s slotted for 2xMimo unless you forgo the wifi ports which defeats the purpose ...

Didneywhorl wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:57 pm Check above, it may not be needed.

Thanks for this. I was all set to apply your fix, as I ordered two NEXR5GO's and EP06A's. But the first set I assembled worked out of the box with the 6-9 release. THe build quality on this thing is top notch. I can't wait to see how it peforms.

So I am an avid user of Band 71, and have tested Shurecall, Bolton, RSRF for this band. I then noticed that The Wireless Haven had these in stock:

https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/yagi/600-3800mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi-11dbi-4g-lte-directional-antenna/

A 600Mhz antenna that ...

I would like to follow up on my prior post 10/15/2020; the cell tower (less than 3 miles away) I was communicating with (given my system setup) suddenly stopped allowing my Netgear MR1100 1.2 gbps to achieve what I considered “super” 400mbps speeds and speeds using the Mofi4500 at 180mbps. This is a ...

OK I got my USB adapter to work, and now the router sees my Modem!

I'm still very unfamiliar with this firmware so I hadn't installed any software packages.



There's nothing else to install, under Modems select the proper usb modem, set the APN/TTL and test away.
To make sure that the router ...

What are your TTL settings? Is the VPN for Prime to get around the 480p cap, or to be able to use it at all?

Hello again

The TTL that works for Visible is 64. It is 65 if tethering a phone.

Also for good measure copy and past this shown below in to custom rules
Tab to the left of custom TTL ...

I haven't experienced any reboots or disconnects.

I'm using 35ft of cat6 23awg solid copper outdoor cable.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JAVMVQ0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I don't have a 110v outlet anywhere close. It sounds like it would be a good idea to add a 2nd ...

I generally use antennasearch.com and download the "antenna" spreadsheet.

I then locate the tower/antenna that I am interested in, and the plot the Lat/long on all the antennas on google earth along with the location where my antenna will be mounted.

I then connect them with lines that reference ...

The WiFiX branded WE826-T2 and WE826GO-U are The Wireless Haven - The Wireless Haven's newest version of the WE826.

This tutorial will take you through the complete build process. We will reference and use other tutorials when appropriate.

The most common modem used on the WE826-T-2 is the ...

My build is fully operational and ready to mount outside close to the antennas. Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution here, not sure I would have attempted this without seeing someone else be successful with it.

Didneywhorl wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 7:40 pm Your gunna smoke you rpi with that.

I agree with Didneywhorl here.

You need to step down to 5V DC on the PoE splitter end. Try one of these:

• http://amzn.com/B07YB1JF2G
• https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/poe-splitters/4 ... t-splitter

I'd recommend using the Raspberry PI foundation PoE hat. The latest version, the first versions had some bad bugs.

Very excited to see what updates you have in store. I very much look at your project as an inspiration for what is possible. Now that I've had a taste of real high speed internet out in the mountains, I can't help but want more! :D

I posted a more specific thread yesterday and received some ...

Thought I'd post with some interesting updates.

It dawned on me the other day, that I could probably come up with a test, so to speak for my multipath issues I've been having. My theory was to unlock my modem from band 2 (let it connect to any band), and see if the other bands (I knew this would be ...

Interesting results, this is still using the yagis? I'm surprised that they can perform so well on channel 12. So regarding the multipath issue, are you just going to leave it unlocked or are you going to try to continue experimenting with other solutions?


This was using the yagis. I was ...

@Swwifty

Just recently ordered a setup to match what you have here, except i ordered the panel antennas instead of the yagi's. I currently have a Mofi4500 w/ AT&T sim, and while speeds are decent, after seeing your setup, i realized that there was much more to be had. I also ordered the EM7511 as ...

Apparently i've got some more research to do. So here is what i'm trying to accomplish so maybe you can point me in the right direction.

I want to be able to hard wire a few items in (couple of playstations and a PC), but also be able to have wireless access for phones, ipads, apple tv, etc ...

Any recommendations on a switch?


Depends on how many ports you need but this is a good place to start: https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-8/

Also has PoE, but you'll need an adapter for 24v PoE.

Or you could just go with this switch which does all PoE modes: https://www.ui.com ...

Hi again BillA,
I was looking at some routers to do this with and realized that you had said if I connect my phone to the router to usb tether, I can't attach external antennas to boost the signal? So does this mean I'd just essentially just be turning on my iPhone 7 hotspot and and broadcasting ...

That's a good start. I don't see anything obviously wrong or missed.

The nema enclosure I got from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0791KB3TK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I would go with the 9-11dbi "Yagi" Antennas on the The Wireless Haven store that are +/- 45 degree ...

I've decided to build a Raspberry Pi setup, vs putting a modem in a wifi router body. I'll use my existing Wifi router for now (wired downstream of the Pi), and just use the Pi as a modem. I'll be using POE to power the setup, so no power bricks (or even nearby outlets) will be necessary. That's a ...

This is a WG3526-P build I just finished.

RM500Q-AE Modem
Mini PCIE to M.2 B Key adapter,
16MM N female to MHF4 bulkheads,
20mm - short body 8P8C connector - ethernet gland. (tight fit for the board, full sized 8P8C wouldn't fit)
TEA-005C model number diecast case. (it had all the proper threaded ...

Awesome job, thanks for sharing!!

What is your max outdoor Temp and modem Temp??

See link to another WG3526-P outdoor build.
They also have a list of parts used.

https://youtu.be/-SbNkn1161s

https://youtu.be/WMhEMOqNNwQ

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 ...