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I have tested both the Telit LM960 and LM960A18. The regular 960 worked fine on Tmo and ATT, got 4xCA on both carriers. My issue with the 960 was no band 71. Hence, getting the LM960A18....

Works fine on ATT, though I got info this modem will throttle after 100GB of use on ATT. I haven't run into ...

I posted in another thread on this, but its related here as well, details as follows...

I have tested both the Telit LM960 and LM960A18. The regular 960 worked fine on Tmo and ATT, got 4xCA on both carriers. My issue with the 960 was no band 71. Hence, getting the LM960A18....

Works fine on ATT ...

So far the 7411 looks like its CA TMO band 71 on DL, which is a first for a router I tested. I'm seeing a DL performance boost of about 40% during peak times. I'm still learning the Sierra AT commands, I'm more familiar with the Quectel's. Output as follows...

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I run two routers, with different carriers/towers. I have both run into a USG Pro4 with load balancing enabled. It does not do WAN bonding, but it does load balance across the two routers/modems and it also fails over to one if the other one experiences an outage.

There are WAN bonding setups you ...

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 ...

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.

We have a lot of routers deployed in the field, along with several The Wireless Haven units we built based on intel acquired on this site. I'll give it a full review.

Didneywhorl wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:23 pm Did you have it started up and working in the 5G device first? Tmo is great about SIM swapping, but the hotspot plans are usually not.

No, they sent me a demo unit but it hasn't arrived yet and offered to active some sims. Its on my to do list to do more testig.

Just a question, what kind of signal strength are you getting and what power supply are you using. Also, what tower ID do you have and did you verify it didn't change. The carriers are doing upgrades all the time now it seems, taking arrays down on one tower causing the router to register with ...

The auto reverse change is doing that. What I do is hard wire up via ethernet. And I set the IP on network interface card on my laptop to dual IP's the one current, example 192.168.1.7 and add an additional IP/subnet mask for say 10.1.1.7/255.255.255.0. Then when the change applies, I just change ...

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 ...

Happy to help. I also run a two router setup like you, two routers, one on Tmo and one on ATT. My Tmo router is the same as yours, 3526, Bolton on it, 7411 and I CA 66 with 71 and get great performance.

Hey, the Wilson yagis are 698 if I remember correctly. So if you keep it, you upgrade the second ...

LOL, then there's the more efficient approach. Happy holidays to you too.

The miss matching is not recommended at all, and I do agree with that. But the installs I did, the colleagues insisted on the Bolton and only one. I went vertical alignment with the 2nd yagi.

As far as antenna tilt, I have tested it and have not seen any improvement. Keep in mind I'm usually on ...

Not yet, I have to flip the 3526 to the same carrier so all things are equal. I thought about setting up a speed test server on a LAN port so I can really try to max it out as my internet connectivity ranges from 6mbps to 60mbps depending on tower load.

I have three units with March release of goldenorb where the DHCP service does not play well with windows devices. I have not pinpointed what causes it, but disabling IPV6 seems to fix it. Or making the edits restarts the DHCP daemon. Either way this fixed it and I haven't had an issue with PC's ...

Yes, I have Tmobile on WE826-T2's. Just change the apn and you will be fine, also change the TTL to 64 or 65.

I think Tmobile has all but banned the LM960A18 on every plan but their overpriced data bucket plans.


Yea, same thing happened with my testing. I had the LM960 and the LM960A18. The LM960 worked fine, but the A18 needed a pooled data only plan. Both however work fine on AT&T.

Band 71 is more ...

The EM160 I just got from The Wireless Haven is doing 3xCA out of the box with no changes out in the country, which isn't bad at all. I plan to take it into the city and see what it does like I did with the Telit 960.

EDIT: Just now, as load comes off the towers they tend to open up...

Mine is running solid with an EM160. I did try to put an EC25AF in the mpcie slot and when populated, the router see's no modems. I was going to try a few other modules to see if it was specific to the EC25.

This is why I haven't posted my write up yet, as wanted to further troubleshoot this first.

Every time I leave IPV6 enabled, eventually the DHCP service as a whole (on OpenWRT based devices) hoses up. So I also disable it by default.

Additionally - Boosters amplify everything, which includes signal noise which in my experience causes an erratic/less consistent data connection. There are high end boosters (3k plus) that have noise filters, but have never tested one.

For the mofo sim4 , simply go to the advanced band lock screen and toggle the bands you want and save it.

So tested it again this morning, put a EC25AF in it, did some wonky Qualcom modem "connecting" then neither modem showed up and both disappeared with errors in the debug log of no modem. I recall reading somewhere that the Quectel EM160R which I have does not play well with certain modems. I don't ...

I was about to post my writeup without a second modem. Downloading this now.

Clean upgrade this time @Didneywhorl. It did say it needed the pw changed, took my old pw and I simply rekeyed in it and it was happy. I have noticed the latest builds of GO doing this. Modem connected fine this time, everything is clean. Time to install a second modem and SIM card.

If its going into nwscan mode constantly, it means you have a weak signal, possible resolutions include but not limited to:

1. Need external antenna, or realignment, or 2nd antenna
2. Need an upgraded power supply, The Wireless Haven sells a 2.5w power supply that has solved my issues

Lastly you ...

I run the 7411 on tmo, have gotten it up to over 80mbps when it aggregates 71 and 66, ymmv depending on tower....

I have the latest one with the protection circuit, been running it as my primary and it hasn't burned out yet. I got it from The Wireless Haven, will be posting a review once I get a second modem to work in it. I don't know what gen the ones on ebay are.

I got a 7411 to test in the second slot, so will be posting back shortly.

Yes I have both. If you don't need band 71 the 160 outperforms it. Especially when it aggregates band 2, 4 and 12 or band 2, 12 and 66. And because it can CA on UL it will match or beat 71. Where I'm at band 71 is great on UL so when the 7411 combines 66 and 71 is also awesome. But I wouldn't ...

I missed this, I run the EM160R-GL, used it on both ATT and TMo with solid results. On Tmo, it aggregating on Band66 makes up for the lack of 71 - but... the leaves haven't grown back in and thats when 71 saves the day...

What TTL did you set on these for IPv4 and IPv6, what DNS and time servers did you specify. Also, ATT's vpn.accessmylan.net may add latency and network management depending on the reseller configuration. It's a back haul service that gives them more network management.

Sweet, I know the command to find neighbors but you have to run it a bunch of times manually to get an idea of what the router is seeing.

You can view pics and zoom in on it here.

https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/routers/m2m-rou ... ar-router/

I started using these, with good results...


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

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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 ...

I’m late posting this, but I was one of the ones that bought the H721 V5 routers for testing. I been meaning to post a review sooner, but have been wrestling with the 2nd modem slot with Quectels with no success (using a Quectel EM160R-GL on the M.2 slot). So I have a Sierra 7411 that I will be ...

They are do out between June and July. Will ask about pricing.

Same here, great success with the RM500Q's. Testing a RM502Q next week.

And to be specific, for my testing, on B71 vs n71 on Tmobile, I saw a 40-60% increase in download, and a 20-30% increase on upload on the same tower with the RM500Q.

Agree with Didneywhorl. Home run the antennas into the modem, and then enable wifi calling on your iphones. Will allow for a clean data signal, plus the antennas and boosters that come with the typical kit don't broad cast all the bands that modem can see, especially if its a kit from before Nov of ...

Your signal is good, but ouch, haven't seen band 71 on 5MHz in awhile. Where I'm at, its provisioned at 10Mhz offering more. I would do a band scan, and see what other bands are available. After that, I would build a router (or buy) with a 7411 in it so you can CA band 71 with one of the others.

Didneywhorl wrote: Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:24 pm Everything I have seen so far, including the "magic" mirrors the EM7565 and em7511 modem. No definite info yet though.

Same experience here with the 7411's.

I'm a heavy B71/N71 user here. I use a Quectel RM502Q. I'm in a rural area, and have it hooked up to boltons which are hard to align, but also tested it with yagi's and panels with similar results. I have it in a H71 router that I got on The Wireless Haven.

Its in 4 & 5G NSA mode, which means it's ...

I would also see if Band29 is active, it just started popping here for ATT and its helped quite a bit with CA.

2 boltons, 4 The Wireless Haven yagis tuned for B71.

It depends on your location, where I am at its a strong band and with the 7411, I'm seeing it carrier aggregate with Band 2 and 66 giving it quite a boost. I have noticed better tree/forest penetration on band 71 than band 12. Also I have found Band 12 to always be saturated due to the number of ...

I put a 7455 in one and couldn't get it to work. I was able to get it to work with a EM12. I am running OS7. The EC25AF worked as well, but the band locking menu wouldn't populate and have not spent much time on it since given that it is a CAT4 modem.

The EM12 seems to be the common go to on other ...