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Visible Quectel Modem SetUp

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firmware recovery mode

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Thank you so much I'll give it a shot!

With Verizon typically band 13 is the slower one.
Try just blocking it out.

2+4+5+66
AT+QCFG="band",0,2000000000000001a

All bands:
AT+QCFG="band",0,42000000003300185a,1

Ok, I just ordered that, standing by to see what that tells us.

Didneyworhl, Would you bridge the orbi to another router somehow? I guess you'd be double-nat unless you did something to that effect. Orbi 4g ---> OpenWRT ---> Devices? I guess I thought unless you could somehow move the OpenWRT in front of the Orbi, how would you ultimately mod your TTL? NM, seems ...

For easy build always like the the Quectel EM12.

So for anyone else looking. Didneywhorl was correct - it gets passed as hotspot in VZW Tablet plans. I am having great luck on page plus though!

Thanks, I've looked around on ModemsAndMen but nothing really for answers. I've also looked around on OpenWRT which I used to know inside and out many years ago. I scaled back my testing to just getting ICMP (ping) to work from an external IP.

Hay

AaronMiller I feel your pain I have a friend in the same tight spot.

Your problems fixable but, unfortunately will cost more money $400 ~ $500

See link WG3526-P outdoor build.
They also have a list of parts used.

https://youtu.be/-SbNkn1161s

https://youtu.be/WMhEMOqNNwQ

I finally installed the WiFix update-working great!!
thanks

WiFiX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1ts4R ... sp=sharing

I've been using the 2021-06-06 version with my EM160R-GL on VZW. Been working fine.

http://www.aturnofthenut.com/upload/WG1608-16M-GO2021-06-06.zip

So I ended up using ngrok.com as the tunnel into my network behind the LTE. I've got a stock Pi4 on the LAN side of my network with VNC enabled. Installed and setup ngrok to run on boot/reboot "./ngrok tcp 5900" And all is good for remote access of my LAN. I mostly needed it for configuring the 3 ...

Didneywhorl wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:20 pm Any way I can get you two write up a tutorial on this?

If so, that'd rock! Post it here: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewforum.php?f=21

Yes, I've got a bit more testing, once I'm happy with it and know it's works well I'll write it up

You may try to block the sides and back of the 4x4 MIMO antenna with some kind of grounded metal shielding. The other cell towers could be causing your issues, called cross-talk. When there are multiple cell towers nearby with the same bands on them overlapping their broadcasting it creates ...

I’m using a $50/m Autopay AT&T plan on a x750 spitz running GoldenOrb. Signal strength is around 40% and stays on B4 most of the day and does CA with B66 or B12 when I’m assuming the tower is congested. I’ll get disconnected normally once a day or less per my connection log and I have connection mon ...

The “dishes” I was seeing being installed like week were on the recently constructed tower that is supposed to be for AT&T to transfer their services to. I’m assuming just based on what I’m learning as days pass that our current AT&T service is still on the *old* tower along with T-Mobile. I have not ...

I tried those changes to the LAN interface and now the modem is able to connect and get an IP address but it does not allow me to browse any websites. I keep getting a DNS probe error. Any suggestions? I tried it in QMI, MBIM, and ECM mode. If it is showing 'connected' to LTE but you can't load web ...

Hi all, I've been using Visible for a while with my EM7565 setup, but lately I've been getting throttled to 5mbit pretty consistently. Couple that with high pings and significant streaming throttling and I'm looking for a new LTE option. What's everyone using these days for a reliable, decently ...

I'm in!!! The modem never showed up after disappearing but after 10 minutes I cycled the power on the router anyway and it all came up. Is 70% Signal strength good or poor? What else should I look at? Thanks guys, I could never have done it without your help!!! I am sure there will be more questions ...

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 ...

Didneywhorl wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:58 pm Meaning 2 modems each using half of the 4x4 MIMO antenna?

Might work. Might present noise. Not really sure. I should try sometime.

It would probably work, but you would have to play around with the antennas "pairs" to see which combination works best on two 2xMIMO modems.

Thanks, i've implemented your suggestion and will see how that works out going forward. Just got my LM960A18 in today with some new antennas/cables. Excited to see what the new modem and 4x4 mimo might yield. Another solution to keep the mobile connection alive constantly is by streaming a web page ...

Hm, interesting. I don't plan on running it 24/7 I missed that detail. If you don't plan on running it 24/7, your current setup is ok because you've already spent the money and comfortable with it. Also it has to be able to easily hide tethering or else I'd be reduced to 3G speeds. You can't hide ...

Honestly, I try to avoid any providers that route their traffic through different/additional portals than the main providers APN. This is why visible ping times suck. Granted i've not tried them to see if you can avoid their APN or not, but initially liked the idea of a carrier (US Mobile) having ...

Follow this step by step exactly and get back and let us know if it works out for you.

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The Quectel EM12-G CAT12 M.2 Modem

I updated the builds to the latest OpenWRT release candidate with some additional packages like modemmanager and USB/filesystem support needed for mounting external storage(required for modem firmware updates since modem firmware is too big to fit into ram/flash). ModemManager's OpenWRT integration ...

Got it! Don’t know what I did. Connected but no service. Think that’s just because I’m in the middle of nowhere roaming

It's been a few months since I signed up for Visible but I remember having to download and run the Visible app to "activate the Sim"

Hello again, This tutorial has to be followed exactly to work. Allot of times I will get a different internet source and load the tutorial page on my computer screen. Then once no longer have internet as long as you don't refresh that window it will stay there. Then disconnect that internet ...

Mobile Swap Shop has backed off offer the service, as it's getting harder to deal with Sprint as they faze out to tmobile. The only time you truly need to provision is if you want to use an officially supported device that has Sprint branded firmware. Those devices will not work by simply swapping ...

Yes M1 and M5 are similar the diff being M1 is not a secure boot enabled device and not fuzed the prob you will run into with it is the ADB port is blocked on M1, it can be enabled but takes some work to enable it I was reading about the efuses. What will they think of next? Everybody wants to keep ...

Didn't work. Found some settings on the t-mobile website once,but can't find them now. Stay away from Mofi unless you're very well versed in everything router. You'll get no help from the mfg. If anyone gets a 5500 to work on T-mobile, please chime in. See my post here: https://wirelessjoint.com ...

Will have to give it a shot. For my purposes, even 5mb on cellphone is ok. Need the download speeds for downloading/uploading larger files for work. Possible even with a 5mb connection, but slow.

The reason for this antenna array. 3 pairs of crossed polarized. Each pair going to a LTE router. This is 8 miles from the tower over two ridges heavily forested in the Cascade mountains .

Have had resellers sims go out allot. Yes streaks are totally normal.

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

Yeah you guys are right. I have an AT&T SIM for my phone and swaped them out and changed the settings on the admin page for AT&T and low and behold internet! So the router wasn't the cause of my Visible SIM card going bad (as far as I know) but it is bad non the less because it's not working on any ...

Didneywhorl wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:02 am Welcome to the forum!

Which hotspot did you get from Calyx?

Thank you, seems like a great forum! I got the Linkzone 2

Just did a 1,500 road trip Texas to Arkansas the T-Mobile Home Internet work in the mini van with no problems no external antenna
https://www.t-mobile.com/isp

Thank you again! I am in the process of learning Bands and AT commands. Locking to band 25 works great and I have my speeds back.

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

Due to replies showing that the separate IPv6 script 'firewall6-start.sh' was not applying ip6tables rules I tested myself and found that indeed 'firewall6-start.sh' was not loading the IPv6 TTL rules on reboot/startup so I have updated my instructions below to reflect a single 'firewall-start.sh ...

Well I dont like messing with my router to much as its my sole source of internet other then my phone, so I figure will let someone else flash and tell me if the interface is in there

correct, even things like apn and ttl will need to be typed back in after a flash

I have run in the past rooter, official pre builds of goldenorb and wifix all interchangeably. I do seem to recall there were some instances where I had to do the Full Factory Reset method where my router was put all the way back to its chinese boot and then load up the individual firmwares. As far ...

Thanks. I appreciate the help!

Verizon's New Mobile Hotspot Plans - 150GB Premium Option for $80/mo

See Link.
https://youtu.be/XIfGYeB2O6E

New firmware

See

https://tmo.report/2021/08/firmware-mr4 ... vpn-issues

It seems like I'm not able to hold onto the "Primary" b66 signal and that is kicking me off of "Secondary" n71 and into "Primary" B71, which is the home of bad speeds. There apparently is a known issue with this dropping 5g read somewhere and a new firmware update is suppose to work. The old ...

I’ve put together this guide to help anyone wishing to Cell Lock to a specific cell. Please use at your own risk and know the pros and cons of cell locking before jumping in. 🤓 Netgear Orbi LBR20 Cell Locking Author: shinesmart Login using PuTTy: 192.168.1.1 UN: root PW: your admin password To query ...

Here are some additional useful commands: To disable Cell Lock: echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2 To query Cell Lock status: echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\"\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2 You can also lock multiple cells using the following ...

I am interested in this. Is the free account capable of occasionally linking into to a remote LTE network to run (e.g.) RealVNC on a LTE attached Windows desktop, like OpenVPN provides? If the answer is yes, using RPi3 with GO as my main router, can it be added to the Pi3 or should I upgrade to a ...

The VZ branded Moto E4 that I purchased brand new from WM for $40 and then unlocked for $3 can make and receive calls and text on TMo, ATT withut any hassle. Since it was VZ branded I had to call their CS to let me use a Visible SIM in it but after calling around was able to do so. 4G/LTE works full ...

essentials only has 3G for hotspot, that may be part of the issue. It definitely is. This plan is not meant to be used in a hotspot It's on the T-Mobile Essentials plan. Sorry, this plan is not meant to be used in a hotspot. If you chose this plan because it's cheap, look at my latest post to get ...

Has T-Mobile specifically done this before? Absolutely. I documented it in details about what they did to our small rural community in 2019 here. If you can't find my post, I can search for you. let me know, but here's the gist: Offered us free hotspots for 30 days, gave us the $50 price that beat ...

Running things through the VPN would add at a minimum 1 additional hop so I guess makes sense that when you add one or more to your TTL it works. It kinda sux that if you want the additional speeds you will have to use VPN but once you get it all set up its not really all that bad and is transparent ...

Jayhawks659 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:30 am is there any way to use a device to find out the TTL and HL number in your current location instead of just using trial and error?

Simply just connect to the device you are wanting to check and ping it, it will return your outgoing ttl

Updated version of Voxel firmware is out (V9.2.5.2.25SF-HW): https://voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/Orbi-RBK50-Voxel-firmware/LBR20/LBR20-V9.2.5.2.25SF-HW.zip I have updated the OP to reflect this as well. Release notes can be found here: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build ...

What they are doing there is locking to specific cell radios on their tower. This allows you to force the radio to use only very specific radios on one tower. This way, if you can figure out your absolute best radios (Info from AT+QENG="servingcell" and "neighborcell") you can use QNWLOCK to force ...

If its blank, its not connected to an active ssh session.Atleast I believe so putty will not open its cli if it is not connected. Type AT and press enter and you should see the black screen populate with OK if you are logged on, putty's settings are prob set to clear font, this happens by default ...

If you want to make sure you have usable data when you move around will need more than one option more than likely. Would look into these plans 1. T-Mobile home Internet 2. Visible phone service 3. Calyx Institute 4. AT&T Post Pay Tablet Plan 5. T-Mobile Magenta Max Far as equipment yes there are ...

vnmb13 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:13 pm Is there any way I can use the modem in the router, while at the same time using the imei from my samsung?

No

dbshelton wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:05 pm Not yet. Probably will tomorrow. Not sure where I am going to put it yet. I really don't think the current location is best.

I think the basic rule of thumb is to put it on one edge of the roof and don't aim across your roof. Always aim away from the house.

Who knows? I'm no Guru, hell I didn't even sleep at that famous hotel. As I understand it, Android uses a native TTL of 64 as does Linux & Apple & Mac, Windows uses 128. So, if an ISP is using TTL to identify a device as a phone they'd be looking for 64. The Android native tethering app decrements ...

Thanks for yours and the others help. I can't flash any firmware onto it so far. I downloaded Openwrt today, I am waiting for a new LAN USB for my pc, old one isn't recognized any more by windows after upgrade, this one comes with drivers by TP-link. Then I will try to flash OpenWRT, for WE826-B and ...

Well...I switched to Verizon. At first I couldn't connect until I switched the ttl to 64 lol. I'm able to get service in an area where before it took 5 minutes just to load a page on a cell phone. Pretty interesting to me.

Well it looks like still a hodge-podge pool of support for the traveler and it may be a contention between the EG12-G and the EM7455 in the backpack, plus add a few specific modems if you demand "above normal" speed .... There still seems to be no such thing as a true universal modem and there may ...

Good deal! I think your main issue was that you had two modems in different protocol modes. The router cannot load both MBIM and QMI drivers for the USB bus. It has to have all modems in the same mode. Now to add a 3rd! :) Oh good to know that have to be all using the same protocol!! Thanks! Well ...

Can you provide traceroutes through CyberGhost with Verizon and Visible. Comparison might yield some info on whether Visible is blacklisting/throttling public VPNs or if it is just very slow transit between Visible and Cyberghost. Do you have access to a personal/private VPN or maybe a work related ...

@ michaeljcallahan There is a much easier way to get root on these devices, you do not need to reload the firmware and go thru all of that, just use the challenge response generator that is on the web and either unlock the MEP or use the openlock command/query and then change the advance command ...

Would be neat to see someone do something like this with a RPi & 4g modem. Looks like they have integration for it.

https://raspap.com/

*Maybe unpopular opinion, but openwrt is such a drag*

You can pull firmware directly from the device via ADB such as boot,sbl,recovery,tz,etc. Will need to push arm static compiled mtd-util binaries to the device to create system ubi image and modem ubi image to be loaded via fastboot. sys_reboot bootloader in telnet or adb will get you to bootloader ...

I also asked at the sierra wireless forum and a forum user gave a workaround for the issue ! It seems that the modem exposes the AT serial interface but the driver does not recognizes it. I:* If#= 4 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=30 Driver=(none) E: Ad=84(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0ms ...

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