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I think you would love the NEXR5GO router, with your modem of choice, over the NEXQ6GO.
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/routers/wifix-routers/nexr5go-cellular-router-poe-with-dual-band-2-4ghz-5-8ghz-wifi/

If you want to tether your phone as the modem, you can do that. iPhone ...

Yes an outdoor antenna is the only way I know of to improve that upload speed. With the sound of your goals don't need super expensive modem just quality antenna.
Have you checked to see if you qualify for T-Mobile home internet? If you did get equipment free. And cheaper monthly than magenta max ...

What modem are you going with?

Before you get to antennas would test with the ones that are on the router.
If needed bring your setup to the tower for testing to get a base line of speed.

Antennas are the next level of this nut you will need to crack.

Can use a Power Inverter if needed, something ...

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 ...

To be honest it looks like another MVNO that is going to get shut down by t-mobile in 6 months. I think you would be better off grabbing a simple mobile sim and prepaid card. On both the 90 and 110 dollar plans they have a caveat there that after 900mb your account will be flagged. Seems like it ...

From the plans page

900 GB is considered the average use for Pink Plan. Usage above 900GB is considered data abuse and your account will be under review.

And from the terms and conditions

The Pink plans have a 900Gb limit

They don't seem to understand what "average" means.

Before I had T-Mobile home internet just used there post pay phone plans. Used allot of data too and it was just fine. Don't have to worry about streaming throttling.

And holy smokes that inverter is expensive, I shouldn't be surprised though as I live on a boat and that's actually way cheap for a nautical one....



Ya a little over kill, they also make a smaller 400W for $100.
They are designed for boats & campers.

It came in handy the week Texas froze ...

Fyi, a little off topic

Not sure if you need a new phone but TM has a deal on iPhones 12
Looks like they are clearing out stock for the NEW iPhone 13 in Sept.

See link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOsWYQi2Yg

I am going to make this one as short as I can, and hopefully it can still help many without everyone needing to repeat this information over and over again.


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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 ...

So the router and modem are on their way, and we have the T-Mobile sim card now and the plan's activated.

Could anyone please tell us, is there anything else we need to get started? :)

And if someone could please confirm what we should do when the stuff arrives, I'd rrrrreally appreciate it! I ...

Set up for TMobile is

APN=fast.t-mobile.com
TTL= 64

If you are using rooter you can send and receive text messages In there.
Go to modem then sms messaging

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 ...

If you run into any trouble, I can mock up a duplicate of your system and send you a copy of the configuration file.

Then all you need to do is make a few modem settings and you're done.

Honestly, it's better if you try to set up yourself first so that you have the experience if and when you need ...

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 ...

Would agree with Adm1jth, you will be up and running soon!!

The only hard part of this game is spoofing your self onto the network with an older $20, iPad SIM.
It can be done but sometimes it takes a little black magic.

A weak signal can be a little of a challenge but can be solved with a good ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

USA 4G See Chart

Signal Numbers.png Your lack of speed is due to poor signal numbers.

Your RSSI is OFF the chart :shock:

Short term fix is doing a road trip with your setup, go to the tower.
Long term get and antenna .... antennas Qty-2

The #1 trick to this game is location... location...LOCATION!! :lol:

https ...

The label on the bottom of the router shows the exact location for each antenna.

Sure.

This is what I use for road trips to keep my family blanketed in WiFi.
My son was able to do ZOOM School at 75mph, wife placed a grocery order for curb pick up! :lol:

https://www.amazon.com/UpBright-Fidelity-15015002-Bluetooth-MF-15015002/dp/B06ZY7WH99/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=mofi+12V ...

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 ...

For your testing would remove the WiFi Radio from the equation. To simplify things. By Turning off Wi-Fi.

WiFi is sexy but is Half duplex, half the speed of copper.

Also take good notes, log what your Signal strength is, Single quality, single to noise ratio.
Time of day, what day, weather ...

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 ...

blobfish,

You may have connected to a different tower.
Would add tower "ID" to the list of things to track.

Or they just updated your tower??

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 ...

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 ...