Wireless Joint

hazarjast wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:55 pm Hope you can forgive this with that understanding

Ack! I get it now and I can't believe I missed that. I edited my comment (and you can edit yours to take out my quote) -- sorry for missing that, and truly: thank you for all of your efforts to help keep people online!!!!

Once logged in via Putty you have at least a couple of ways to send AT commands to the modem. The most elementary involves simultaneous echo and cat of the AT device ('/dev/ttyUSB2') ex.:

cat /dev/ttyUSB2` echo -e "AT+EMGR=1,7,\"010101010101010"\r\n" > /dev/ttyUSB2`

However, you must be ...

Has anyone ever setup the Orbi LBR20 to do load balancing between the LTE and WAN connections? I'm considering trying to set it up but I am not sure the best way to go about doing it. I am considering one of two options.


I was looking at this for something completely unrelated to my LBR20's ...

Has anyone cracked this Orbi open and replaced the U.FL internal LTE antenna's with short U.FL to SMA Fremale to use with a 4x4 mimo antenna?


Yes, I have it wasn't hard at all. I put it all in an external enclosure.


Do you have any stats before and after? I know every location will be ...

I have looked at Verizon's offering - we could go that way, but I'd really like to keep this to one device. It would be more of a last resort.

I did see the WiFiX WG1608D-M -- it certainly ticks a lot of the boxes. Are they reliable?

First off, I hope I'm posting this to the right place. If not, just let me know and I can delete/re-post it elsewhere.

I'm looking for a solid/reliable router for our out-of-band access to our colo rack. I'm currently using my personal WE826-t2 for now and it just doesn't feel reliable -- I have ...

I’ve traveled with my setup and it has worked great everywhere I’ve had a sprint or T-Mobile signal (last time I did that it would try to go to sprint first if available and fall back to T-Mobile.)

On a separate note could someone explain what tethering is? What are the bands high and low and the ...

Also, I’ve been using calyx for 2 years now and can confirm that it is truly unlimited and without throttling (other than normal network deprioritization).

My specific use case is different but our needs are similar. Here is what I do:

I have a calyx membership for my main connection. This comes with a Sprint/t-mobile sim with a device.

And then I am in a Visible group with $25/mo internet. This runs on Verizon’s network. Tethering on my account is ...

Visible officially throttles the tethered bandwidth to 5Mbps, so if it seems like you're bumping up to any limits in that approximate range (assuming you get faster speeds on other devices, like you said) then your traffic is probably being classified as tethered and throttled as such.

When I hit ...

Good to know.

I've always added one frequency there to keep my connection consistent; I hadn't considered adding the others and let the device/network float me to others. Maybe I'll give that a try to see if/how it impacts performance (and the network drops I've been seeing).

Interesting -- do you happen to know how the Airmaster handles that list? Is that setting any kind of priority or is it just making a list of options you're allowing it to use? I'd love to be able to put a list of frequencies that I know are in my area and just let it figure out which one is best.

This is really interesting - my airmaster started doing this after a few months of near flawless performance.

I will try the factory reset and post up my results.

Is there any kind of firmware update for these?

I'm running an AirMaster 4000D and noticed that one of the tabs in my management UI causes the interface to crash. The device stays online but the interface goes blank and takes about 30 seconds before it is accessible again. I get this by logging in to the device, then going to the "Status" tab ...

Good point! I guess at my distance (~5 miles) the elevation of the tower was the easier guess than the elevation of the land in the span between me and the tower. I was able to drive by the tower to get a good idea of what I was working with, and then just watched the numbers as I adjusted up and ...

Trees (specifically, the foliage) have been the single biggest factor in my own testing -- I think (as others have said) trying to get your antenna as high as possible is going to be key.

I would recommend plugging in your location and that of the tower you're connecting to into the elevation ...

I wrote up this step-by-step walkthrough for a few friends who also jumped on the airmaster bandwagon. Hope it helps!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jglj9pplfaee ... o.txt?dl=0

I bought the quarterly membership payment to Calyx for that exact reason — I wanted to make sure it would work before I spent the yearly cost.

I can confirm that I was able to easily swap devices without any issues (no calls to sprint or anything like that).

If you read thru this thread you’ll ...

Heh... I guess my ignorance about the bands is showing a bit! Thanks for the info -- that does make sense, and for the reliability I'm getting, 8 Mbps up is for sure very usable. The high end of the upload I saw on b25 is enticing, but not at the expense of reliability.

That is fantastic! Your info (via @terryjett, plus their own additional assistance) got me online with this. My settings are the same as what you just posted above.

Edit: And mine will pick up no signal (LED or in the admin pages) with or without a sim unless the ND&S tab is updated. Seems like ...

After moving the AirMaster outside and in the very general area of where it will be mounted, I can say that I'm very happy with the results:



I still have more to adjust, but this will for sure do the trick!

Well this is interesting -- since I had to guess at a few things while I was setting up I just was going through and changing some settings, and switched PLMN back to Mobile, and BINGO it connected right away.

So in this case, I just had to enter the ND&S info and that was it.

Speeds are still ...

Good to know you're able to do it without issues. It seems like such a vulnerability to just be able to call in and ask them to swap devices on a SIM without any other kind of account information!

So, are you saying that you did have to call in to Sprint before you could use the Calyx SIM with ...

Interestingly, it actually shows "SIM Card State: Ready" in the overview page, and "SIM card state: NOT_BLOCKED" in the actual "SIM" tab of the config. So hopefully it is just a settings issue that I messed up.

Ok, so I've made some progress.

The mifi8000 didn't have the connection info, but between what I pulled from the mifi8000 and from cellmapper.net (since I knew which tower I was connecting to: the only Sprint tower in the area) I was able to load in the proper mcc / mnc, EARFCN, PCI, and frequency ...

Fortunately, I do have the APN from my old modem, so I've got that going for me.

One other thing to add in case it is relevant (for you in case you've seen it, or others who come by this later) after adding the SIM card the light is solid but the status in the airmaster doesn't show "active" -- it ...

Ok great -- I really appreciate the details! It doesn't look like this sim is going to work in my other modem so getting the details is going to be challenging, but at least this rules out several variables.

I think I have what I need to do some more testing with this.

That is really good to know. I was surprised, too, that the troubleshooting guide said that it should pick up a signal even without a sim.

Did you have to call to get the device activated with the sim or did you just pop in the sim and it started working?

The airmaster came with a PowerDsine 3001 so it should be the right power.

I have one Calyx account (sprint from the mifi8000) that I’m trying to move into the airmaster and a second T-Mobile account thru simnet wireless (in the nighthawk).

According to the troubleshooting guide (linked in my ...

Thanks for the link — the mifi8000 doesn’t provide all of the debugging info that is needed for that guide so I am working with only part of the data. This seems like something that needs to be 100% correct if you’re going to go that route.

I have another modem that does have more debugging info ...

Thanks for the quick reply.

The device information page specifically mentions needing cat6a or better:

NOTE: A Cat6A (or better) Ethernet cable (not included) must be used to connect the 4000D to the PoE Power Adapter Injector. While a Cat5e Ethernet cable will power the router portion of the ...

I've just received an AirMaster 4000D and am not getting a signal even though my Calyx MiFi 8000 is running on band41 currently (indoors with no antenna it picks up a slow but solid signal).

The AirMaster 4000D is powering up but the radio information is blank, much like this post (which sounded ...