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I am also on Verizon and had the same issue.... It always seeing my data as hotspot data. Unfortunately while I did find a work around you likely won't like my solution. I ditched the mofi (also had a sim4) and built my own unit consisting of a wg3526 and an ep06-a modem. Total cost was 160 USD. The ...

Hello,
Have follow up question about visible. Have set one of these up for someone. Was wondering if you found a way around the Video throttling at 480 p with visible?

It's a double edged sword.... Short answer is no I don't use hd anyway... Longer answer if you could work around it your data ...

I had a mofi setup as well but found building my own gave me more flexibility. Specifically I wanted ca AND band 66 for example. Mofi does not have such a configuration. Sim4 doesn't have band 66 sim7 doesn't have ca. Just something to think about when you look at things. If you need/want band 71 ...

Well I just wrote a long explanation but it didnt save and I am to lazy to write it all again.

Basically I tested the 4 main types of antennas and for my tree filled signal path found the yagi (wedge) worked best. You have to remember the higher the db the narower the focal path. If your shooting ...

I had no idea I could test different bands. How do I do that? I just assumed my phone chose the best signal and I couldn't do anything about it.

Out here the very best I've got outside around my house was -107dbm and Rssnr 2.0. At that I have a decent enough signal to stream youtube on my phone ...

So what should I do, two Yagis or a mimo parabolic? Obviously the two Yagis are cheaper. But I can swing the parabolic if I can keep the modem/router to about 200.

A mofi will run you about 300 plus tax and shipping. Make one yourself and you can come closer to that 200 figure.

Question, you ...

I think there is WAY to much good infirmation in here for one person to process so let me try and break it down a little to make it more "digestible"

When you going to get al your internet needs from cellular you ALWAYS need a few things:
1) A cell plan
2) A router
3) Some kind of antennas to ...

See for antenna clues

https://youtu.be/xzqkoPL9t9A

https://youtu.be/kFsYem_7eZg

https://youtu.be/73jEQgihpso

That last one you need to be careful of. He is very detailed and makes specific recommendations but some of his information is REALLY flawed. If you watch the whole series he ...

good choices but one issue:
The router you picked has no outputs for external antennas. You would need to drill holes in the case and add in some sma connector pigtails.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DWD5R47/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There is a pic of that mod on this ...

makes me really appreciate that i got a quectel instead of a sierra modem

Hey guys and gals,

A couple of weeks ago I decided to try a LTE home internet setup in order to ditch ViaSat (I live out in the boonies). I found a Verizon reseller who seemed fairly legit, and ordered a MoFi 4500 SIM7. I found a window to perch the MoFi where I can get 20+mbps @ 4am, and 6 mbps ...

You do bring up some good points many of which I had considered myself. I had also started with a mofi, a mofi sim4 as I knew right off I wanted to mess with carrier aggregation even though mofi support tried to convince me it really wasnt useful as most of their customers bandlocked to a single ...

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I did find a copy of the EP06 AT command PDF, when searching for EC25 AT commands several days ago. I figured the basic commands were likely to be the same. Unfortunately my MoFi won't let me use the WebShell and SSH via PuTTY ...

Cool link. Thanks. I was trying to do it the hard way with google maps and math! Does it look like I set it up and interpreted it correctly? I really wasn't looking at the device type stuff...just the elevations. I put in the coordinates of my house and the tower. I set my side at 25ft ...

Not sure what your budget is but you can get a prebuilt wg3526 with an ep06 modem all put together and already loaded for like $275 and the 826'a for about $200

I wouldn't say budget is not an issue, but I'll pay for whatever works. Is the pre built on Wireless Joint store?

the The Wireless Haven store is closed again, so no.... someone i bought my modem from but not sure I am allowed to post information like that on here. If I could figure out how to ...

I am on verizon and the ep06 modem covers all the verizon bands including 66. What kind of upload/download speeds do you get on your phone through the booster? As without external antennas what you get on your phone is likely best case what you will get on your router.

For download speeds a 2 ...

rbridges wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:31 pm Thanks. I'll order the setup you recommended. Anything right now would be a huge step.

Cool, he doesnt have the wg3526's listed on ebay but he does have them. Just shoot him an email via ebay

The gigabit ethernet prob won't make too much difference, but the 5ghz could have been useful. Either way, I'm just stoked to be a step closer to getting this going. Thanks for your help.

If you want 5ghz you can easily get any dual band router and let it serve your wifi via ethernet. In fact ...

Thanks for the responses. Now that i think about it, i really don't have the luxury to tinker around a bunch to get the RPi setup going since my girlfriend works from home. It just needs to work.

That said, i'm thinking about going with the WE1326 and remove my Netgear R7000 from the mix. Would ...

Congrats, you now have a very overpriced 826 unit with a sierra 7455

agreed sell it and buy yourself TWO new better quality routers for the same price

Been a while since that thread and the other one you and I were in about the wg3526. I am now also running a cheap archer router (C8) on the head end for all the wifi part and the wg3526 as a dedicated modem. For me the wg3526 worked great by itself for things like streaming video and even got good ...

Ok now that you know you using the correct band let me ask you this.... are you using the built in wifi on the NEQ6GO? As you may have read the built in wifi can be very substandard. I didnt believe it either when I read about it as I could stream 3 movies at once so how could that be bad. Well once ...

I also have a wg3526 and have used it BOTH with a usb to pcie adaptor (externally) and internal card slot. Use the wifix firmware (its a modified version of goldenorb). Mine is dated 5/16/2020 though I have the NON poe version and am not sure if the firmware will differ for your version.

As far as ...

I have played with a setup like the one you are proposing. I also tried a small mimo antenna and placing it right under the wireless broadcast panel.

I can give as much detail as you like but the short answer is 2 cheap yagi antrennas and some lmr400 cable converted into smc and feeding the router ...

I have read the only way to be sure your modem isnt banned is for verizon to have the device registered in their database under your account. You can call in and register the device. Simple. Of course if verizon has the device registered they will know what it is and most of the things like changing ...

Ok so with above results I am getting an sinr of 13?
Awesome as I am in the mountains and heavily wooded. I would have exp[ected a far worse result

A few questions:
If you have a mofi that usually has the modem card internal why are you not using this configuration?
Are you using goldenorb or the specific wifix version of goldenorb?
what are you trying to acomplish with goldenorb that mofi firmware cant do as honestly for the little time I used ...

Ok I will just keep monitoring this thread

I must be misunderstanding..... the EXTERNAL ip address is your PUBLIC ip address and is issued by your isp. You cant just change it.

I wouldnt do it as a passthrough, Make the zbt device your "modem". You make the other device handle all the wifi and dhcp and make 2 seperate ip networks.

Connect one port on your zbt to the WAN port of your "dedicated WIFI router"
Thats it for hardware setup

Set the devices to different IP ...

I have found with ALL these routers the "built in" wifi is weak. Over and over you will see that most recommend using a seperate dedicated router for wifi use. Personally I use a cheap c8 router even though I have a completely working wg3526. The wifi is simply much better on the c8

If you not ever seeing the "congestion" on the phone but are seeing it on the modem device then verizon is likely seeing your plan as a tethered data type plan. Phones use a different data type unless of course they are tethered. In THEORY changing the ttl should make your modem device look like a ...

Had the same issue when using a wg3526. Connected a secondary router via ethernet and let it do all the dhcp and wireless requests and like you I saw a big increase overall speeds. Since the secondary router only cost me $40 I honestly never looked back and am still running that config today.

The ...

A dedicated wifi AP, like the ubiquiti UAP-AC-LITE-US, only uses max 20W during full load. Might not be as cheap, but the wifi throughput is top notch.

I use dedicated access points for my wifi. WAY simpler, and no dual router NAT to turn off and deal with.

That works too. I think mine is 18w ...

lol but can you build a REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY better router

Personally I am budget conscious and use a wg3526 and an ep06-a combination. Its like the mofi 4 and mofi 7 had a baby with the best of both units.

Honestly haven't been impressed with WiFi out of any of the lte routers. Always use access point router anymore. Seen allot of people that struggle with good signal don't see speeds over 100.

Right, thats why I was recommending the router with the gigabit ethernet ports. You will never get a ...

Better usually means more flexible, able to utilize more bands, able to use carrier aggregation, use carrier aggregation on upload and possibly more then just 2x and of course better would mean 5g capable if thats even something you need/want

Personally if don't plan on going over 100 Mbps like
WE826 and a Quectel EM12.

I dont like the lower end router only because their wifi is so weak (and only 2.4ghz) and they only have 10/100 ethernet ports. For a little more you should get the wg3526 which has gigabit ethernet ports.

As far ...

Just dont wanna anger anyone.... like i said I like it here and think I can help.

Hopefully you and gscheb dont see me as a trouble maker as i have been known at time to be a little to strong in my opinions and a little to free at expressing them.

Like in the last post on the numbers for lte

The -P supports power over ethernet

Does your verizon plan have unlimited tethering data or does it like mine slow data on tether to 2g/3g speeds. Wondering if it is working properly but that verizon is seeing you as tethering and thus slowing your data to unusable speeds. TTL trick never worked with me on verizon thats why I suspect ...

Sure, Just keep in mind I am like the poster child for worst case scenerios to get good signal. I have mountains and thick trees and my closest tower line of sight is about 10 miles away. Before all this it was difficult to even make a good phone call.

With the booster setup I would get anywhere up ...

What you really need to ask yourself is
do I really want to mount and AIM 4 seperate antennas?
or
get a single device that needs aiming?

I have clean line of sight to a Verizon tower with only B13 about 10 miles from my house with no other towers available. I can pull it in, but the signal is not great even with a 7-10dB MIMO panel antenna. With RSRQ around -11 and SINR about 8 I can get around 3 megs down and 8 up on a good day ...

get a good quectel and put it into that wg3526. A combination that is well supported, good thermals, and very popular.

if it aint broke dont fix it

Thats why i have been recommending ep06-a

no pigtail change needed and a really buget friendly choice.

Just my 2 cents

thewirelesshaven.com of course

let me chime in about the external enclosure and mounting the router outside via POE. That is certainly one way to do it and if you on a tall pole one of the better ways, however, if your just going to mount antennas on your roof and your home is a one or 2 story you could also just run some high ...

Once the sim is activated you put the sim in the router and the router becomes a stand alone unit. You could even take the router with you and use it anywhere with the included whip style antennas.

As far as anything else to look into if you have setup a basic wifi router before this one is much ...

Ah, so I wasn't being clear - it looks like that to activate the Netflix subscription, it'll involve either 1) putting the sim card into a phone to use the T-Mobile app or 2) logging into T-Mobile's website, which involves...putting the sim card into a phone so you can receive a verification text ...

I know for a fact this can be done though I used an old phone that now sits in a drawer turned off. That said if your tablet will EVER go back on verizon network it will likely cause you lots oh potential headaches, having 2 active devices with the same imei is bad news.

For a more :legal" solution ...

If on android I use either LTE discovery, network cell info lite or cellmapper. They are all in playstore and all free. More a matter of whoch interface you find easiest to use.

Its really not hard at all. The basic setup is almost identical to setting up any home wifi router. You can setup things like dhcp and firewall stuff or not. Goldenorb just adds in a section for the modem, and honestly all you need to do in that section to get up and running is put in the APN.

If ...

You're very kind, thank you! :)

So, this seems like a very basic question, but if you could please point me in the direction of any sort of guide for getting set up I would greatly appreciate it!

The thing is, I am a bit flummoxed as to where to even start! So for example, the modem I've ordered ...

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Should be good to go then. Put those antennas outside pointing toward desired tower plugged straight to modem. No booster. Fine to use booster for phones.

Absolutely right, and honestly matches my setup 100%. I have 3 antennas. One dedicated to the booster which ...

Short answer... yes you have to open the case. Wen you do you will see the green board like in the pic and the modem slot is the bottom right hand area. In the pic you see the modem already installed.

If you look closely at the green board pic that silver square is your modem. You can see the 2 ...

Line them up best you can and you can EXTREMELY gently rock them a little till you feel them push in.

I will be honest with you I bought the epo6-a modem for a few reasons but one main reason was it uses the larger gold connectors... and they are still pretty small and challenging to connect.

If ...

You can cheat.... the (2) 4g antennas are the ones that run from the modem on those wonderful pigtails you just installed, Looking at the pic from above again the green board one that would seem to be your front left and front right ones.

Sometimes the antennas are "keyed" differently aka the ...

before yu go to antennas try changing lte bands and also post numbers from your modem/netwirk status page.
Specifically
signal strength %
rssi
ecio
rscp
lte band

Also be aware those numbers can change drastically based on which lte band your commected to. Lte band is also shown on that page under ...

As far as antennas and what to hook where if you arent sure crack the router box open again and like i said follow the wires. those 2 gold connectors youhad so much fun with run from the modem to connectors on the router box. Thats where you want to hook your 4g antennas to.

As far as changing ...

I have a different modem then you but that appears to be the correct spreadsheet.

As far as bricking your modem with the wrong command..... yes and no
You COULD POSSIBLY soft brick it meaning the router woukd no longer be able to send commands to it but even in that case all you would have to do is ...

just an aside when i was using visible i think i had to use the apn vsblinternet not visible but I am going from memory and I am old

Honestly you are thinking about this wrong, you need to find what carrier works best in your area then buy/tweak equipment to match the carrier not the other way around. Also the GL-750v2 is a router, which modem is installed in it? Or were you planning to tether a phone to the router?

If verizon ...

what does your ecio number look like where you get the 10-15 upload speeds
Again drawing on my own person expierence I had a situtation where i could get a stronger signal OR a cleaner signal (ecio is how clean the signal is) and what I found was the "stronger" signal which was roughly 80% but with ...

An even easier first step.... try putting your router near a window or in different locations inside the house. Then get an extension cord and see what type of signals you get outside.

Also your using band 2 which looks to be only 5mhz. Changng to another available band like 4 or 66 will usually ...

I would agree with Dr-Broadband you are likely on a different tower now as bands just dont change like that.

As for commands I have a quectel modem so the commands and command syntax are completely different. So I am afraid i wont be much help in specific commands.

As far as tower id you can get ...

Bandlocking is done via AT commands:

I copied this from a previous past and stored it as I use it on my EP06-A but I believe the commands are the same for all quectel based modems:

Enter the following AT commands, and write down your original band values before changing anything.

AT+QNWINFO ...

The above recommended antenna solution should resolve your signal strength issues just fine, I can add nothing to that recommendation, other then you may want to research MIMO for your antenna solution.

Using a dedicated router will solve your other issues:
1) It will allow you to set TTL like ...

if I remember to activate a sim for visible it must be installed into a "vsible approved device" aka one of the devices listed on their certified list. Luskily when I was messing with it I had an old original generation pixel xl which just happens to be on their approved list. i have seen others ...

I would agree I used visible for a little while but ended up with my long term solution being with verizon directly

wireguard is a specific proticol used in VPN
so it will help as much as any vpn would help with visible.
In case your interested
https://www.wireguard.com

Didneywhorl wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:01 am AT+QRSRP isnt implemented on the EP06A I think

I can confirm that enterimg that command on an ep06-a modem comes back as error, so I would agree its not a valid command on ep06-a

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