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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 ...

Usually a high upload and a terribly low download means your tower is saturated with users and you are being deprioritized.

AllanK wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:33 pm When I have signal it works well. When I don't have signal I unplug the Visible phone from the router and plug in an AT&T phone.

Hello,
What do you mean by this?
Are you saying you don't have good verizon coverage at the house?
What does work well mean? Have you ran a speed test on it?

Loorurban2 wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:52 pm I did as you recommended and add HD to my plan and it is working now.

All right, good to hear a success story and hopefully help someone else.
Thanks for posting back.

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 ...

MOFI4500-4GXELTE-SIM4_COMBO ($320) = WE826 + MC7455 ($170)

AT&T Prepaid Unlimited iPad Data Plan = $29

Verizon Prepaid Unlimited Hotspot Plan = $65

Currently i'm using my Mofi /w the Verizon $70 a month 15gb plan.

I purchased a $19 phone + sim card from PagePlus and activated it with their phone. I confirmed that data/phone service work on it. I then put the card in my mofi (set to verizon with TTL of 65) and it won't connect. I tried 65, 64 ...

Here's a list of currently available prepaid carriers, along with some stats.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=5790#p5790

Verizon provides the best signal in my area and I'm seeking to find all options available for how to get an account that provides unlimited unthrottled data. I currently know of unlimitedville ($250) and UnlimitedIRL ($189). What other options exist?

Thanks!

Wow, those prices are insane ...

Hey Bill! Do you have personal experience of blowing through say 600GB on PagePlus over several months and not getting shut down? I'm about to serve my household of 4 and my grandma and my uncle with this service, but I really want to gather data points saying this is going to be fine before doing ...

I found this recently while doing some more research and learning on reference signals in LTE. I highly recommend watching it, and downloading the spreadsheet in the description and playing with it. This will help you understand what these values mean, and how they related to each other. I've been ...

Newbie, first time post. Looking for assistance.
I have read so many great success stories on this site over the past few days but I haven't found a "works every time" solution. It seems success comes from a lot of trial and error, a few best practices and a bunch of time and money. While I have ...

You signal strength at -107db is very poor along with quality at -12db, which directly correlates with your low speeds.
You would want to aim for -70db/-14db or better, maybe try a good flat panel instead of the Yagis, they tend to perform better.

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 ...

Hello,

Don't know how to set up the pi device.

If you hot spot Visible it technically can be capped at 5 mps and be aware your pings will always be double of Verizon basically. Heard that Iphone won't let them limit hotspot to one device so you can connect 5 devices to an iphone.

Here is a video ...

For years now I have been molested by ISP's charging me hundreds of dollars for finite data plans. I live in a rural place so there are very few options. All I want is stable, unlimited data, at a moderate speed... (1-5mb/s) Is that so hard?
After searching for ages I found this strange deal from ...

Follow up on the Visible it is currently down. They have an billing issue and can't take payments. Been trying to pay them for 4 days. It is insane! Can't get the service going because it won't take payment. No one to talk to just chat people. They have now idea how to fix it. Just tell you the same ...

Typically wifi antennas are reverse polarity, and are not compatible with the LTE SMA setup. The antenna will screw into LTE SMA connector, but wifi sma-rp antennas are female and LTE SMA bulkhead connectors in the cases are female as well.

Here is link to AT&T tower find help
https://www.cellmapper.net/map?MCC=310&MNC=410&type=LTE&latitude=34.773558262394914&longitude=-92.3905316896484&zoom=11&showTowers=true&showTowerLabels=true&clusterEnabled=true&tilesEnabled=true&showOrphans=false&showNoFrequencyOnly=false&showFrequencyOnly=false ...

Hello
So in my opinion wouldn't worry about what tower you are connected to now. Once you get directional antennas you can point to the tower you want. This is one of the advantages of them.
Just did this last week for someone. When their at&t went out switched to TMobile. That same tower has both ...

Let me get this straight: you want to cut the lock off of privately owned equipment and turn on the power to it?

I guarantee you they placed a lock on it and it has a purpose.

I recommend you call the number to the AT&T NOC printed on box and tell them your plans beforehand:) Bet they will find ...

Okay, I'll just get you started on this long, complicated process. First of all, your Network (HSPA) and cell ID (41663) indicate a non-LTE (slow 3g) connection. Probably because you are too far away to get an LTE signal. Before you do anything go here: https://opencellid.org/#zoom=15&lat=34.44606 ...

Just like phones, a modem's firmware is programmed to always search out the best possible signal based on the received RSRP and RSRQ signals. Unless it's a buggy firmware, there's really no need to lock it to any particular band. Due to environmental and tower changes in the signal, it's actually ...

That makes sense. I will leave the bands alone. I just selected 4G only, that is acceptable is it not unless I move it to a location where 4G is non existent?

Yes that should be fine, but for heaven's sake don't suffer with 3G speeds (lol). You'd be surprised how much difference even a few ...

Hi All. I’ve been reading this site almost non-stop the last few days trying to figure out how to improve my only source of internet at the house. Great info, I’ve learned a lot and appreciate the time everyone takes share their experiences.

I’m a user of AT&T’s former WHPI product. Yesterday I ...

Will give you my take on your speed issues. I am experiencing the same. One hour (heck few minutes) speed is good, then goes to nothing. In rural area.

Have AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile (simplemobile) all running on different devices. They are all over the place when it comes to speed. Good one hour ...

has anyone gotten the bandwidth monitoring to actually work. I have it running on a mofi4500/WE826 and it is not working. The stock mofi firmware monitor did work but this one is a no go. Any suggestions?

Mtr87 wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:02 am So I’m also wondering if the UBIFI service I’m paying 89 a month for is just reselling the band with no body wants or something. The one tower with in range of the yagis is like 5 miles out.

$89 is pretty high price to pay for AT&T service.

Got to love finding stuff after you make a post about it.

PagePlus: Does work, requires alternate APN and TTL values. Seems like it must be activated in a cell phone first. I have a moto g7 unlocked that would work with these SIMs.

Verizon: Seems to flag users that use mofi-4500 setups? This is ...

Hello BillA,
Do you or someone you know have experience with one of these plans with the sim in the router?

I have helped someone set up their existing postpaid Tmobile plan on a WE826.
The only items you need to set up are the time zone, time/date, APN = fast.t-mobile.com, and TTL 64 or 65
It ...

I've been running Pageplus with a Mofi4500 for the last 2 months. In fact today is the end of my second billing cycle. I've had decent speeds depending on congestion considering my signal situation is far less than ideal. I've noticed my ping has been significantly higher for the last few weeks. It ...

Thanks everyone for the info on pageplus. It was one I was considering. Now I know not to mess with it.
Any other plans that people have success on?

1. After taxes and fees, how much does the $20 iPad plan come to?
2. First month it's $50+ (for the $30 activation)?
3. Can anyone without any prior ATT relationship/phone lines, go to the store and get this plan?

1: ~$35
2: First month add $50 for activation unless you have an ATT account ...

Bill,

I'm trying to understand the logic of a 117 TTL.

I understand why the 65 TTL exists for an Android driven stack but why would Page Plus choose a a 117 TTL?

It's something people toyed with and found to work specifically with Verizon. They tried all sorts of TL settings and 117 started ...

LoveMeSomeCALTE wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:26 pm 4evernetless, did you ever pursue the Visible route?

Quoting someone is the best way to tag them, if its setup in their profile, it will notify them when they are quoted. If they still have their email setup and didnt silence all notifications.

How can you tell? The only way I can is by looking into the end of the connector, the outsides are identical between RP-SMA and SMA. That is something I've never had get mixed up..... Yet

I personally would have a hard time ordering an 4G LTE Antenna for hundreds of dollars hoping it would work without trying to lock down the position of the tower and figuring out if it would be worth it.

What if it ended up that it would not because the tower is just in a poor position? No ...

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 ...

Thanks Bill for getting back to me, Is there any other Carriers/plans you would recommend? Also If I wanted to do another PagePlus account how could I get rid of throttling and 480p?

I can turn it off through my dealer account, but only at the time of new activations, can't be done on existing ...

I wish I understood what transparent bridge meant :/

Look up the command AT+QNWLOCK

I'm about to fall out to ed. I'll try to dig up more info for you. I'm not certain the EC25AF supports this command. Try it by entering it in the AT command terminal with only a ? at the end, like AT+QNWLOCK? or AT+QNWLOCK=?

Your good

Ask away. This place gets better and better as more people search the forum for answers and ask questions when they cant find them. Great stuff.

Sprint not an option? I have some customers out in the farmlands of Cali, and they love their Sprint.

Usually the only way is to log into your cell account and look. That is IF it gets reported for you to see. There may be a way to set it up to monitor from the device, but I don't know it. Might just be a project for ya!

gscheb, this is interesting. So is Tmobile throttling outgoing connections to a block of IPs that are known to belong to Netflix?

Does Netflix run their own datacenter to be fingerprinted like that?

... or something else is at play here? (like Fast.com literally streams HD video behind the ...

Deprio can be avoided only by upgrading your account type. Typically the order is:
1st responders
Business accounts
Post paid accounts under their soft cap
Post paid accounts over their soft cap
Pre paid accounts under their cap
Pre paid accounts over their cap
MVNO operator accounts

I could be ...

The post paid is a great way to go. The pre-paids are, as you say, better off in the ipad.

Hello,
Don't use visible currently but have Verizon post pay plan for cell phone the lowest tier available which is always data managed. In one town will literally get less than 1 down. Then drive down the road 20 minutes and it will just up to 40-70 down. Does seem some towers on Verizon act ...

In my experience those online mapping sites/apps are often inaccurate due to their crowd sourced data.
Cellphone signals work differently in the real world, greatly affected by bouncing/multipath, attenuation, and dynamic carrier management. There's nothing better than getting a high gain flat panel ...

gscheb, this is interesting. So is Tmobile throttling outgoing connections to a block of IPs that are known to belong to Netflix?

Does Netflix run their own datacenter to be fingerprinted like that?

... or something else is at play here? (like Fast.com literally streams HD video behind the ...

Yep. Not that specific setup, but I think they started scanning the imei on you. The IMEI of the hotspot it must like, then it sees the IMEI of the EP06A and says NO!

So is this something new they started doing? Didn't have this issue before.
What I don't get is this is a legit Hotspot verizon ...

The MOFI SIM7 uses a category 4 LTE modem, the Quectel EC25AF. It is a great modem, and connects to some of the rarer cellular bands, like B71, but it is a bit old. Your phone likely has a Category 16 or greater modem inside. The difference is Cat4 modems cannot use Carrier Aggregation, and is only ...

You may be much better off with a flat panel directional antenna. Yagis are not very forgiving on non line of site situations. With no line of sight I always suggest flat panels. I wouldnt mix antenna types either. Another thing you may want to do is up your devices power supply .5 or 1 Amp. Sounds ...

Unlimited LTE plans i have seen so far

https://www.unlimitedinternetprovider.com/product-page/have-your-own-device-and-sim-card
https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/gear/overview-i3-mobile-cellular-data-plans/
https://www.unlimitedtogo.com/product-category/plans/
https://unlimitedville.com/plans
https ...

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 ...

So for fun tried my Verizon Cell phone sim card in the EP06 and it won't work either. It used to work in those. It wouldn't work in the Sierra Wireless MC7455 but would work in the Quectel EP06. As a Sanity check decided to try the Quectel EP06 with AT&T to make sure nothing wrong with device. And ...

EP06 is from china they all from china.
Verizon cell phone post pay.
Verizon jetpack plan prepay.
T-Mobile post pay is awesome no bullshit.

Just an update,
Days after making this post I decided to get the mofi sim7 and go with the t-mobiles magenta plan instead of risking it and getting the tablet plan since I wasn’t sure if it would work. I’m on a family plan so I’m only paying 35 for the SIM card in the mofi. Also my Internet is sooo ...

Anyone know where to get the manual for AT commands for the EM20-G? I have been unsuccessful locating it on the internet.
Cheers.

Most Quectel modems share a common set of commands with some extras in newer models.
The EM20 uses the BG96 chipset, here's the AT command manual.
https://www ...

The only other experience I had with no phone tech support was just the week before. That was a real scam that I exposed and recovered from.

The lesson from that information is that there will be hard days and hard attitude seeking relief via getting into these products (personal conditions) of ...

Gscbeb pointed out. The mofi4500 sim7 has a Quectel ec25af inside.

Your looking for better antennas, if you want to keep your mofi. What does the signal info page show you.

Your iphone10 has a category 18 modem I think, at least a category 16, and bigh powered well engineered 4x mimo antennas ...

Another thing. Peeps need to stop looking up firmware updates, especially on modems, until its needed due to problems. I've seen story after story after story of locked up modems due to firmware updating gone wrong, and no one knows why they are updating. The general idea I get, 'Newest is best ...

It would be a curious project for sure. I don't think an analog RJ11 connected phone device would work per say since there is no dial tone on a cellular line. But some form of voice channel/port usage programming and some circuit wizardry would prob get the job done.

Way outside my wheelhouse, but ...

The mobile data plan we use in our routers usually includes unlimited calling too, which is normally unused and wasted every month (except on the ATT iPad plan which doesn't include calling).

Most modems are both data and voice compatible, so I was wondering if anyone has been able to tap this ...

Bill,

the video stream, if HTML5 is over HTTPS, is encypted - there should be no way, besides DPI, AFAIK for Tmobile to detect a HTTPS stream is video unless they are looking at IPs and matching them to known providers (like YT).

My IP theory has support from your observation that a regular ...

I am actually curious how USSDs work on phones - I have noticed that USSD codes like #3282# don't work on my unlocked phones but they do on locked phones, so there's something programmed into the locked phones where they work as intended while the unlocked phones don't know what to do with it ...

about how much those antennae typically cost and what additional hardware like a metal mast, cabling and their associated cost etc is needed to support those antennae so they can actually be used?

Take a looks here > https://thewirelesshaven.com/product-category/antennas/outdoor-antennas/
This ...

If someone here has these "HD streaming turned off" LTE plans (as Loorurban2 did before they enabled the option (for an additional fee?)), that they can double check by running Fast.com and getting poor results - can they rerun the test but now via a regular proxy, as Bill suggests, and confirm if ...

Bill,

on another thread I made an assertion that: On Verizon, you can't stick in any IMEI that's not "approved" on their network and have it work like you can on ATT/Tmo.

I have some supporting evidence to my assertion, for example: Quectel even has a guide on how to whitelist their devices on ...

I know someone who has tried it, and they throttle speeds severely after 25gigs.... it's Goodbye Mobile. lol

Including Visible?

Can't do it on Visible, they use their own servers on top of Verizon's to slow down all data not just video, and also introduces a pretty high latency >150ms which makes gaming, voip and other time sensitive application useless.
You can get a PagePlus (Verizon towers) or ...

i have firstnet was just trying to find something a bit cheaper and yes i live in a very rural area. nothing but farms dunno if u ever heard of the northern neck but thats where i live.

Hi Everybody,

Received the Sim card on Monday, installed it and everything went more or less well up until this morning. Internet is not working at all anymore. In a test, I have taken the SIM card our the router, put it in my phone and Internet was working. Put it back in the router, Internet ...

let me plug it in an booted up i consume around 250 300 gigs

International an dplus are gone now. I use the "Magenta Plus" plan with a tablet imei

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