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I use a T-mobile plan direct from T-Mobile in an LTE router. I told them I was using it in a tablet. They gave me the Magenta Plus unlimited plan for tablets. Its like $50 a month. SimpleMobile should also work great for like $50 or $60 a month. BillA is our local SimpleMobile expert I think.

1. The Wireless Haven version has a few nuggets added, nothing major different overall.
2. This is a great place to talk goldenorb/rooter, but the main dev board is https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3vx1k1r3?p=650
3.-ish I believe you can ssh into any goldenorb/rooter router. [url]http ...

B71 is a far reaching band. Lock your modem out of B71. It may see that radio and like it better. Maybe just lock it to B2, B4, B66 and B12.

Ive not yet used SimpleMobile, so I cant answer. Im just parroting info on that.

The Magenta plan isnt the senior plan. Its a standard plan.

Yeah, usually it should start shutting itself off at 75c or so. 95 is high.

You can remove the top cover, but youll have to remove the antennas an mount or secure them somehow. I 3D print a bracket for them myself.

Put a big alum heat sink on the mod m too

No this is just a phone plan on post pay tmobile

One of the best investments you can make is to get a higher CAT# modem, such as a Sierra 7511/7565 or Quectel EM12/EM16/EM20 which can aggregate multiple channels for higher speeds. Course a good high gain antennas helps too.

That is what I am finding. I wrote a post a few days ago as a primer ...

Check out this post here is a person that just did it. Maybe can reach out to him as well.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=1216&start=30#p8482

I found the name Travel Data on another string here and gave it a shot. Found they moved away from ATT plans due to the changes - They ...

Fantastic! Great write-up! <highFive>

I pay like $50 a month for my Tmo plan. Im under 50.

You can build a gigbit router with a WAY better modem for less than the MOFI4500

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

You aren't getting 66 because you didn't include it in your 0F creation command.

Also not sure why you are including the leading zeroes. Did I miss the need for this? I believe it isn't necessary.

AT!BAND=0F,"B66 plus others",0,80A, 2
AT!BAND=0F

I don't care about hotspot allocations but I am still confused between the SimpleMobile $50 and $60 plans:

1. is the on device LTE handled any differently between the two plans?
2. does SimpleMobile still throttle to 20 Mbps up/down? Or you hit T-Mobile postpay speeds with diprio?

The only ...

There are too many variables for anyone to give you a concrete answer, so just try it to find out.

Is there something I can read up on?

For example, I like to run USSD codes like #3282# or #932# to keep tabs on my account activity but currently:

1. Have to detach the LTE modem from the router
2. Connect it to a PC and run the AT+CUSD command after setting the GSM encoding
3. Reattach the LTE ...

I just went through an ordeal with them, also had by $35 Ipad service canceled.

I ordered the "AT&T PREPAID Unlimited Plus" which is $50/month after the $25 discount for autopay with Hotspotting. Got the SIM yesterday, plugged it in and it activated and would connect to service but I could not ...

For 5G routers/modems, you may want to take a look in this thread.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1172

For 5G sub-6Ghz bands, you can use standard external LTE antennas, all those bands should be covered.
As far as external 5G mmWave antennas, they don't exist for a couple reasons ...

Is there any way to band lock 30 as primary? If open band 12 and 30 it always connects to 12 as primary and won't CA 30. Yes that sheet is awesome, have been using it ever since @JimHelms pointed it out to me in a previous post :)
Thank you so much for your help!

The short answer to this ...

Ah I see now. Those flat panels are definitely going to have to come down the road, I am going to need about 100' (x2 50') of that LMR400 cable. So that setup is going to end up costing me $250+.

Maybe I can get a set of those paddle antennas for now and just lock band 30 for a little ...

Okay. Here's another question for ya. On my phone connected to my pc I get a average pung of 60-70. On my mofi I get a ping of 100-300 and it's all over the place. No idea what's happening. I get better signal and everything. Even tried the same bands and towers. I have two towers less than 2 ...

Looking at the walmart listing, I see they claim FDD-LTE:B1/B2/B4/B5/B8/B17 4G coverage.

That does not agree with my reading of the datasheet. I would like to stand corrected

The modem's data sheet is accurate, the Walmart listing is not. They can put whatever the heck they want in the ...

I should probably just return it. No point keeping it just for the router - I can get the same router without modem for $35-40 on Aliexpress or Banggood.

Walmart claims it will take returns from "marketplace" sellers - time to test that. I think Walmart's policing of third-party sellers in non ...

swwifty wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:32 pm ATT is killing all of these plans that violate their terms of service. They aren't notifying customers at all, just doing it... very frustrating. I have a lot of customers using this plan.

Always have a backup plan.

Depends on the performance you're looking for and how much you're willing to pay for it. The old adage "You get what you pay for!" certainly holds true when picking mobile service.

Visible is fine if you don't need high speeds and can live with high latency.
PagePlus gives you higher speeds (I've ...

Why does my cell phone significantly outperform my MOFI (speed wise):
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1457&p=9973#p9681

Why does my cell phone can download stuff just fine and my MOFI is extremely slow, - is the wireless network provider treating it differently?
https ...

^ This would be preferred.

I also wanted to clarify, it's up to the tower to allow CA over a band mix and band-locking might disable that compatibility.
If band-locking is being done because other bands don't provide the expected throughput, it's unlikely the tower will allow CA to occur unless a ...

heartbeating and am really glad I did not get the MOFI.
For one, if MOFI continues to do this, segregating MOFI traffic by an ISP will be trivial.
It seems extremely short sighted on their part at best and planned obsolescence at worst.

Let me respectfully disagree with you. Have you seen what ...

It is a VERY expensive process to get carrier certified. MOFI did a great job of setting themselves up in this niche. regardless of their lack of customer service. It's almost uncanny how many people come here to get support. I say bring them here all day, more info the better for this forum.

I have activated and used Google Fi, SimpleMobile, and Tmobile Unlimited Prepaid or the past month and a half. All of them I just placed the sim in the modem (em7565) and turned it on and they immediately worked. All of them I activated online. Project Fi throttled after the cap down to 70kbps for ...

Yeah, not sure why I can't send PM's anymore here.... Bill you around?

If you'd like, I can help you activate PagePlus or Simple mobile remotely with video throttling disabled through my dealer account, all you have to do it simply insert it into your router and it should be good to go. But ...

You posted EXACTLY what is needed. A log before problems AND during the problem. Bravo dude! If everyone did this, we could help more people much quicker.

General network info says your still good on the network.

Do you HAVE to band lock to B12? I would unlock it to see what happens. Your signal ...

No problem.
To try to explain it all better. Red Pocket sells data only plans good for a month at a time utilizing AT&T as the carrier. They are supposed to be LTE. and not speed limited although they are not prioritized like a normal AT&T customer.

After first setting up my new router/modem ...

i have a couple att unlimited plans i can rent you a line from. it allows hotspots.
bradcox5975 at g mail

Shout out to NetSolution on facebook who has been trying to help me work through this as well!

Thanks again for the help & info. FWIW, it seems a lot of what you're doing is over my head (I had to google mechanical turk, for instance). I'm hoping for a pretty straightforward plug-and-play type solution.

If it makes any difference, I was never looking at the Mofis. Prior to looking at TPLinks ...

On TMobile yes.

On ATT it works, for now, but they are backporting what they learn from Cricket DPI into ATT.

I am expecting to see some public announcement soon and will point to our group here to that but VPN/P2P data is currently already backported and will be tagged as "hotspot" data.

For ...

Situation report:

Many thanks to BillA for setting up the SimpleMobile SIM with video compression disabled. Router is up and running with some details to note:
* This is not the intended modem I'll be using (currently EC25-AF, Cat4 modem, which I do not believe does CA)
* The base-grade antennas ...

Got a confirmed solution. Mine is up and running.

Thanks to -LOM- over on the Whirlpool forum.

GoldenOrb does have a bug regarding it's Bandwidth Monitoring Service.

https://whrl.pl/Rf4NEk

There is because something changed in OpenWrt 18.06 from the earlier versions and a folder is not being ...

Sorry to strafe from main topic here, but how do you go about disabling video compression on the simple mobile sim?

It can only be done at the time of activation through a dealer account.

Now, a big WARNING for anyone using a Quectel EC25-AF modem, seems like Tmobile/Simple is blocking this ...

I would like to understand what this IP passthrough means?

The router to which the WAN port of the modem is connected will masq. any packets that come to it so what exactly is the need for IP passthrough?

You want to run some server that needs to know the external IP its exposing its port to ...

Thinking out loud-

If your signal was strong enough so you could keep costs low without additional, expensive antenna kit, bundle 3-4 of these plans (each with its own modem/hardware setup) into a load balancing/failover router. Or figure out how to do this with a single piece of router kit and 3-4 ...

Thinking out loud-

If your signal was strong enough so you could keep costs low without additional, expensive antenna kit, bundle 3-4 of these plans (each with its own modem/hardware setup) into a load balancing/failover router. Or figure out how to do this with a single piece of router kit and 3 ...

Just another update -- I'm still using the iPad plan, so it certainly does seem like only high data users are getting kicked.

To be fair, did you really expect to not be booted for using north of 400GB a month?

If carriers claim unlimited, then it should be truly unlimited (like Tmobile ...

I was in one of my prepaid ipad accounts and noticed under the plans that the $34.99 unlimited option is back.
Not sure if this is available for existing customers or everyone. Haven't seen it mentioned anywhere so I thought I'd share.

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Just a quick update...

I was at the lake house this past weekend and tested Tmo & Verizon. Both had similar, acceptable speeds (40-60Mbps down, 5-10Mbps up) including from inside by a window.

Came back home last night and on the way I picked up a TP-Link Archer C7 v2 yesterday ($15, woot ...

Situation Report:

First off and this is IMPORTANT if you have not read up on past posts regarding this subject:

It appears SimpleMobile is getting wise to router use, and is suspending/hotlining/blocking SIMS based on a number of criteria. You've been warned.

Backstory: Using a EC25-AF modem in ...

I highly recommend these omni-directional antennas https://www.amazon.com/Eightwood-Antenna-Wireless-Outdoor-Cellular/dp/B07KY9MNG3 they are comparable to the Cradlepoint big paddle antennas that I have and a little bit better too imo. I have tested about 5 to 6 types of omni-directional antennas ...

I highly recommend these omni-directional antennas https://www.amazon.com/Eightwood-Antenna-Wireless-Outdoor-Cellular/dp/B07KY9MNG3 they are comparable to the Cradlepoint big paddle antennas that I have and a little bit better too imo. I have tested about 5 to 6 types of omni-directional antennas ...

I have tried a similar set of paddle antennas, and while they are not truly directional, they seem to pull in a better signal after fiddling with the paddle orientation. Course you can always go with BigFu*k antennas too (lol)
https://www.amazon.com/Bingfu-Cellular-Compatible-SPYPOINT-Wildlife/dp ...

I just wanted to warn people about my experience with the latter ones since you posted a link to them. People might get the impression of you recommending the cheaper choice with similar performance and then get disappointed after receiving them.

I just wanted to warn people about my experience with the latter ones since you posted a link to them. People might get the impression of you recommending the cheaper choice with similar performance and then get disappointed after receiving them.

Don't worry I edited the original message and ...

TIL that 3m makes thermal-conductive tape... If it holds anything like their VHB tape then those heatsinks won't come back off without taking the chips with them 😂.

Always been a fan of Arctic Silver compounds and pastes myself, but if didney recommends these and that's really 3m-branded tape then ...

These are for indoor use but I get what you mean with how cheap are you could modify for outdoor use. Or you could get the outdoor omni-directional ones from the shop but you can't rotate them like the paddles to maybe get a little better reception. I have no experience with the outdoor ones so I ...

Thanks for detailed and honest feedback. I appreciate you taking the time.

Currently my internet is coming from Hotspot enabled on my Android phone (through ATT). The problem is that I don’t get very good signal at my house. The only ways Ive found to get decent service is to attach an external ...

Here's another update. Nothing has improved since last week. I called T-Mobile back for an update just now. The guy started asking what I was doing that made me think I had a speed issue as opposed to phone hardware issue. Couldn't get him to answer what the update was to being told the last time ...

Most Asus routers can do this with their stock firmware... Rt-68u is a good one at a decent price. If you want to go cheaper, find an Archer c7 on eBay and load it with goldenorb.

AT&T doesn't care about ttl

All of the last few years versions of Goldenorb support The Quectel EP06A

It's a beefy router but uses Broadcom chipsets including its WiFi chipset and hence not the best match for GO.

This is true, but that router can USB tether hotspots/phones innately without goldenorb. It can also do modems in USB enclosures but lacks the drivers for proper performance. It works ...

Is there a hotspot device that will roam on band 2. The 8000 doesn't but my note 9 does. At the moment it's USB tethered to my asus router and it always over 50mbs. Yet the 8000 just sits with it's wheels spinning
What ASUS router are you using? I would like to tether MIFI 8000 and want to make ...

You may want to take a look at MWAN load balancing "full blown" guide;-)
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/net ... iwan/mwan3

Or better yet, true channel bonding/load balancing OpenMPTCProuter.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1078

Got this new email today from Travel Data.
Can anyone guess what they might be reselling this time?
Look at the line I marked in red

Mon, Aug 24 at 8:21 PM

Beginning September 5
New Red Plan Available
Great News! Now you can choose from two of the nations fastest LTE networks!

TravelData is ...

Post pay TMobile is cheaper than that if you have that service in your area.

Need some help from the group here. A little background. I am looking to take a 2 week trip across Route 66. I currently do have some hardware I use for local camping in my Class C (I will list it below). The issue is with the Route 66 trip I will be staying in places one, maybe 2 nights at most. So ...

I think what you want to do is set up three different routers, like the nexq6 with three different modems, one for each SIM card.

Attach a 2x2 mimo Omni to each one.

Then run each router to a single bonding router or a simple load balancing router. The edge router X, though discontinued ...

Never used cricket. Have set up three AT&T post pay tablet plans with no issues yet.

The network is seeing the imei of the hotspot, and it doesnt match your phone plan imei. So it declines the data connection.

Why not just get ATT Prepaid Unlimited Plus for $50?

Is "magic" legal in the United States? Having hard time finding straight forward yes or no for this.

Without beating around the bush, the straight answer is "NO", there's a federal law on the books against "cloning". Some people do it with a "donor phone/tablet" which should never be used at ...

Would IMEI be the reason when we are talking about tethering the phone? Wouldn't think so.
Every once in awhile it does work and gets past the 5 Mbps.
Think there is some way they know when you select USB tether on the phone must be flagging them somehow. Cause even after disconnecting it from ...

Hello all,

In some post in the past there as been an issue with someone using to old of a tablet/ipad to get this service with and not getting a LTE SIM card. This concerned me when ordering my first one. So the goal for me was to get the cheapest Tablet possible to get the IMEI # to get a LTE card ...

Rooter is starting to be built on openWRT 19.07 so maybe so or soon.

Unfortunately it doesn't work. I tried several settings including 66. I know my TTL setting works because I use it on Visible. I'm pretty sure it's seeing the "hotspot" APN which I can't change.

I bought the iPad especially for this a couple of weeks ago just when the change happened :( but I'm ...

If you're using an Android phone or tablet, there's no need to tie up a computer for EasyTether (consequently lose some speed and increase the latency), instead you could tether it directly to a mobile router via USB or WiFi. Here's how to do it:
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303 ...

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