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looking into the end of the connector

Not all pictures have that angle but for those that do, the antenna side is male and the chassis is female.

Amazon will ship it to me tomorrow.

You've been busy :)


Yes, there's a HUGE amount of high quality information here.

I apologize for my 100 followups, I am really doing my best to take everything in and promise my followups will taper down over time as I understand things better.


Trying to find your tower isnt real hard, but ...

Thank you.

I will try. I found this too if it helps you

https://forums.quectel.com/t/lte-cell-p ... -ec25/3581

Hell send me the needs and Ill quote you out a whole set with full specs.


Will do.

At the moment, we decided that by next week we will be handing out ~$10 (used) USB2 routers with GO loaded with bandwidth monitoring enabled on them to help us collect datapoints.

The assumption being made is ...

Just FYI, Bill here does sell and activate plans so you don't have to look far.

I am sorry you had to go through this. Please report the listing as this is not right.

Bill thank you for confirming my suspicion. I hope more people find this thread and don't end up wasting their time (a critical resource) and money.

Mike, if you can please, order a Quectel (I recommend the EP06 ...

I have the GoldenOrb_2020-03-01 (OpenWrt 18.06.7) rolled out and the modem experience is absolutely hands off and exactly what you want it to be

I have not heard/read anything official from ATT but it seems like ATT is starting to value their LTE at $13/GB and axing any usage that falls below that metric.

Since a large number of lines will be cancelled because of this decision, they are collecting logs of line behavior that can be shown to ...

In general expect every US provider to become brokers of LTE data. Voice/text is going LTE too.

As a result, focus on maximizing ROI on LTE investments/BW goes up.

ATT's internal metric this quarter is reaching $13/GB (not roaming which is $120/GB, crazy I know). They are going to try tune all ...

Altice is not a viable alternative for home internet unless you know for a fact that you will remain well below the 50GB data limit. Their T&C makes it very clear they DO NOT want you to use them for your home internet.

"You are prohibited from inserting a Cricket SIM Card into a device other than a Cricket authorized phone, smartphone, or tablet Device to access our data services." Does that mean eventually they will notice it's being used strictly in a router and cancel my plan or is this just something to ...

I'm beginning to lean toward something that's a little more flexible than the M1 but not overly complicated. What are some good routers / devices that support openWRT AND usb>card modem? Or is this a bad idea?


I request you to read: http://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1495#p10118

Might be dependent on area but in the CA desert, using the T-mobile Magenta Max plan in a modem is resulting in 0.6Mbps symmetric, throttled and depriortized connection

My AT&T iPAD plan has been rock solid and as advertised. I don't abuse it and download TBs of data.

On the other hand, I have 2 ...

Hm, interesting. I don't plan on running it 24/7


I missed that detail. If you don't plan on running it 24/7, your current setup is ok because you've already spent the money and comfortable with it.


Also it has to be able to easily hide tethering or else I'd be reduced to 3G speeds.


You ...

It's been a few months since I signed up for Visible but I remember having to download and run the Visible app to "activate the Sim"

SomeAnonGuy wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:54 pm Do modems show up as tethering to the network?

Yes.

Depending on the plan, you might not even get any service on the modem.

SomeAnonGuy wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:54 pm So I suppose I'm asking if I should look for another rootable android phone and use it as a modem (to avoid any sort of suspicion or detection)?

Yes.

The VZ branded Moto E4 that I purchased brand new from WM for $40 and then unlocked for $3 can make and receive calls and text on TMo, ATT withut any hassle.

Since it was VZ branded I had to call their CS to let me use a Visible SIM in it but after calling around was able to do so.

4G/LTE works ...

essentials only has 3G for hotspot, that may be part of the issue.


It definitely is. This plan is not meant to be used in a hotspot


It's on the T-Mobile Essentials plan.


Sorry, this plan is not meant to be used in a hotspot.

If you chose this plan because it's cheap, look at my latest ...

Has T-Mobile specifically done this before?


Absolutely.

I documented it in details about what they did to our small rural community in 2019 here.

If you can't find my post, I can search for you. let me know, but here's the gist:

Offered us free hotspots for 30 days, gave us the $50 price ...

vnmb13 wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:13 pm Is there any way I can use the modem in the router, while at the same time using the imei from my samsung?

No

Hello,

This decision by AT&T is just to reduce their support call volume. The redress depends on what legal constructs you have available in your state.

My neighbors and I are in California, and have filed disputes citing SB 822: AT&T (or any other carrier) is not allowed to exclude a device that ...

The modem connects within 2 minutes of your bootup:

[ 88.560547] usb 1-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3

… it then diconnects within 6 minutes:

[ 345.806966] usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 8
[ 345.812814] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now ...

SSH tunnel over a public VPS - or use something like ngrok.

Things change, but in general it wasn't necessary to overcome hotspot data limits, as ATT seemed to use APNs for data use channeling. Not really sure to be honest, outside of that.


Hey, Thank You for responding!

So, AFAYR, modifying the Hop Limit field in IPv6 header wasn't necessary but also ...

brcisna wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:06 pm ngrok is the go to for this .
If someone has an even more transparent setup for web server access, please post your setup.

please look into Cloudflare Tunnel

Also, for devs here:

https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy

On the DATA front my understanding is many cellular devices will keep working if they are LTE even if they are not on AT&T whitelist up until a IMEI sweep finds them


In my case, such LTE devices had their speeds throttled to sub 100kbps and I had to call in to get the line "whitelisted" at ...

The outgoing connection is CGNAT with some tricks. If you are not internet savvy, the ATT plans aren't the best to try and self host. Yes, you can self host using these ATT plans but they take different traffic routes - which is where the tricks come into play so there's a lot of work that needs to ...