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Long story short, we bought a baby monitor that had almost no transmission range. Took the camera housing apart, and found the antenna connector(it was either a mh4 or ufl type) was disconnected. Attached it, and it'll transmit from anywhere in the house! Wouldn't know what to look for if I hadn't ...

YES, I have been having the same issues. I did speed test on a bunch of different sites, google 0.6, testmy.net 600kb, fast.com 1.5, speedtest.net 60+, websites take 20 seconds to load and downloads a lifetime. Its definitely getting throttled by At&t, can stream youtube or netflix videos at low ...

Best Effort, anyone????

The modem shows up on the mofi interface, but I can't access the space used on the internal memory module. Not sure if this is the root cause of no internet connection, without a lot of research this is currently over my head.

The solution was simple(turn the wifi on the computer off, duh!), enabling me to get to the MOFI flash page. After doing so, the wifi light came on, and I was able to get wifi on the MOFI. However, the internet light never came on, and I had no internet, leading me to suspect there may be a modem ...

Long story short, I installed Pure VPN on my 4500, followed their instructions, and it got bricked. Watched the MOFI tutorial on factory reset by manually flashing the firmware via ethernet, but the 192.168.1.1 site that MOFI requires to flash it is being used by my Nighthawk. Now what? I sent an ...

Starlink just raised their prices to $549 to deposit holders from $499, and $599 for new orders, with monthly fees going up to $110/mo. Hmmmmmmm.......

FWIW, my MOFI 4500 is still going strong at the moment. If 3G is actually shut down now, it didn't affect me.

Managed to hook up a laptop via ethernet to the MOFI during a slowdown mode, still got the slow speeds. Kinda leaning toward AT&T shenanigans. Currently bandlocked on 2 and 5, as I have been for the past year since the new tower was put up.

Tried Google speedtest on a laptop and a tablet, same results. Rebooting the MOFI sped things up to normal. Will try the database here for clues.

SFC and DNS flush didn't help. Changing the DNS didn't help. However, Chrome and FF is blocking me from accessing any VPN site. There must be a setting somewhere in Windows that's hamstringing the internet, and keeping speeds slow.

Google speedtest and testmy.net speeds were the same on a fresh install of Firefox.

I also have to add that I use the Speedtest app on my PC desktop to get the fast speeds. Speedtest on Chrome is also OK, Google's speedtest on Chrome is at 500K. Testmy.net is even slower, at 360K.

For the past month, web browsing has been frustrating, at best. Even though Speedtest runs at about 30mb/s, and I can watch YouTube at 4K, regular page browsing and downloads have been stuck at 500K on Chrome, and 1.5mb/s on Firefox and Steam. I'm running AT&T through a reseller; has AT&T ...

I'll have to agree with Matt that the Amazon Netgear antenna won't help much with the signal strength you have. However, you will need TS9 to SMA female adapters to use with the ebay antenna. The Wireless Haven sells them, the ones I bought for my Nighthawk fits pretty good.

As for a router, I guess that depends on how much area you need to cover.

I'm assuming you have line of sight to the tower from your home? A lot of this depends on how much antenna cable you need to run from the antenna to the mifi.

All the equipment can be had at The Wireless Haven.

Antenna: 700-2700MHz WiFi | Cellular 7dBi Directional MIMO Antenna (± 45°) N Female ...

I'll bet the 5500 isn't cheap, especially with the 9191! Wonder if they're working out the kinks in the software?

If you don't use Credit Karma already, sign up with them and check your credit, in case the collection notice on your bill dinged your credit.

Does the yagis have sma connectors, or type N? If they are type N, you'll need adapters to fit the MOFI. The Wireless Haven has them in stock.

FWIW, I had canceled my TMO service(it was slow, avg. 3Mbps) after about 40 days(though they charged me for 2 months service), and about a month later, they sent me a $100 Visa card. The last thing they said was that I was welcome to try them again, anytime.

Go to advanced bandlock on the menu, and check B2, B4, and B5. Leave B12 unchecked.

This guy managed to pull it off, but your mileage may vary.

Well after messing with this darn thing for 2 days I gave up. I even installed the pigtail directly to the board because the new ones didn't work either. But could not get any better signal even with it attached to the outside MIMO antennas at 40ft in the air. :roll:
So I am going back to my MoFi ...

On your TMO app, it should tell you the bandwidth of the cell you're getting your data from. If it's just 5mhz, then all the bars in the world won't help you much. You say that the speed quadruples when you get close to the tower, verify that it's the same tower you get at home. You've probably ...

Until last night, I always accessed this sit using https://wirelessjoint.com. I tried to use that address using Chrome last night, and it downloaded a small 9kb file, which when viewed by notepad starts off with "This file is part of the phpBB Forum Software package." This doesn't happen using MS ...

The M1 has settled down in the past week, running B2 95% of the time from the 14 mile tower in the low 20s. It does have the occasional hiccup, but the MOFI did the same, so I blame these on the network.

I have one more experiment with the M1; attaching it to a drone, as explained here. I'll attach ...

You can do it, but you'd have to get a pcie to m.2 adapter, get the firmware to work, then be stuck with the 100mbps max throughput of the mofi router. I'd get a wg1608v2(that already has the m.2 interface, plus gigabit throughput), and sell the mofi whole, after you get the 1608+RM500 running ...

In this case, I know where all the towers are; I've seen them on Google maps, and have even visited them(without any equipment), so I trust the cellmapper data here.

Pointed the antennas toward the 4.7 mile tower(about 70°, ENE), and was awarded with a very crappy B12 from that tower(<1 DL). Moved ...

It's been an interesting morning; currently, the M1 is getting data from a tower that's 170 degrees from where I'm pointing the antennas. There's a couple of small forested hills (50 feet high, about a quarter mile away)on the other side of where the tower is, but I wouldn't think they would bounce ...

Parts arrived today; the connectors are high quality, they fit snug on the T9 ports of the M1. Don't know if it does CA yet, my main PC is on another floor from the M1. I'll try to install Putty on a backup laptop and hook up to it.

It did snag a different tower than usual(90 degrees off from ...

USPS van stopped by here, and dropped off my filters today. Never saw the guy before. Also saw an Amazon van near here, too.

Meanwhile, the connectors are "In Transit, Arriving Late". I'm assuming the Paducah P.O. has them chucked off into a corner until they can get to them. Right now, I'm more ...

Oddly enough, I ordered some furnace filters from Amazon, and it went through that very same post office. I'm getting them tomorrow, only after three days. I guess if it has a smile on the box, it gets better service?

Doesn't Red Pocket only have 20GB max on their data plan? Is there a way to get more data?

The parts from The Wireless Haven are now farther away than when I first ordered them! :? It sat at the PO in Lebanon, TN(150 miles away) for 3 days before making it to Nashville. A day later, it was in Evansville, IN. I figured my parts would get here today, but nope, they are now in Paducah(160 ...

Outside the novelty of 5G, that doesn't seem like that great of a deal. How long would it take to whizz through 100GB at 5G speeds?

I've never seen that setup before! Do you have a 12V adapter for the MOFI, are you using an inverter?

I guess the purpose behind the experiment is that if I get get the M1 to work well, I'll sell the MOFI. The M1 had started to lose connection and reboot, but it may have been the AT&T transparent proxy issue, not sure.

Actually, a better deal would be to sell them both, and get a whole new rig ...

Before I found this site, I bought an M1. Bought the TS9 external panel antenna from Amazon, but didn't do much good. I gave up, bought a MOFI, and a couple of Iskra antennas with SMA connectors.

As you all know, the Sierra 7455 in the MOFI is cat 6, with no band 66 access, vs. the cat 16 w/band 66 ...

According to cellmapper, the tower info you have above indicates your MCC/MNC is VTel Wireless. The tower with the 223 eNB/ID# is located on Walnut St., just north of Brandon, VT. It has bands 4 and 12. Hope this helps!

You may have to zoom out a bit to find a tower; the tower I used to use from AT&T had about 10 closer towers, but due to the geography, connected to it instead, I think 13 miles away. Look for a TMO tower that supports band 4, then check the eNB/ID # and see if it matches your tower.

I'm afraid ...

The drone I'm getting (Holy Stone HS720E) has altimeter readings on the controller display, so in my use case described above, I wouldn't need a tape measure. If I were to try to find an optimal spot over a large area such as yours, I'd get a bunch of marker flags, and number them 1 to whatever many ...

The only advice I can give is to try a different speed test site, such as testmy.net. Maybe speedtest is giving incorrect readings, for some reason?

Since your router and the TMO Home internet device(RTL0102) are both made by Askey, they may have the same MHF‑SW23 connectors. Didneywhorl said that The Wireless Haven is getting some.

Didneywhorl wrote: Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:13 am thewirelesshaven.com is working on stocking them asap

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for them! Hate the idea of having a pair of good antennas setting there useless.

I take it the MHF-SW23 is not compatible with MHF-4? Could one leave the mains alone, and just use u.FL adapters to the diversity plugs to attach antennas to? Wonder how much of a performance hit it would take doing it that way.

As it is, My 3rd party AT&T reseller told me that they are pulling the ...

I thought of this while laying in bed(isn't that when the best ideas happen? :lol: ), so if you you get a good chuckle out of this harebrained idea, then it's at least worth posting.

If you take a drone with a camera, tie a string or a 100ft. measuring tape to it, and take it up until you get LOS ...

Have you tried calling Tmo customer service to see if they can allow you to switch device?

I have not; I have read somewhere(either here or Reddit, I can't recall) that the sim stays with the device. I have seen mods to the device where you can add antenna ports to the side, but how much would ...

Are you talking about the same Franklin unit that went with the TMO test drive? You'll have to read the ToS thoroughly to see if you can switch sims, I hope you can. Don't think the Franklin unit will work too well three miles out. YMMV.

hey, 99 is pretty good from where I'm at....

My only thought on this is that if the seller has 0 transactions, don't buy! I know ebay has consumer protections and all that, but it's still the hassle of getting a refund.

Taking the "EC20EQAR02A13E2G" off the modem itself and cross referencing it comes up as a cat 3 with 100mbps DL max, with no ...

Perhaps you should hook up another router to the MOFI, and have everything run off that instead?

Turned in my hotspot; no point in trying to see if I can get TMO internet, since the sim is stuck to their device, which has no external antenna ports.

If the regular service is going to be this expensive, I think I would rather upgrade my LTE system a la swwifty.

If I replace the port 80 and 443 values with other working ports(if there are any), will that stop the interrupts? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Halberd Bastion has antennas designed for mobile use that'll go up to 6k mhz, but alas, will only go down to 698 mhz.

This is the antenna setup I have here at home. I actually found these on ebay; shipped from Latvia, they cost $110. I live in a low area, with no LOS to any tower nearby. My main tower is 13 miles away; using the wide paddles on the MOFI, I would max out at 5 down, usually 1 or 2. With the Irskas ...

Google maps says the tower is near Harmony(there's a church near the tower); it's probably a former settlement where only the locals call it that.

I don't have a pic of my antenna installation, but here's the antenna set I bought. I need to do a write-up on them in the antenna section; I bought ...

Ok so testing Verizon in the modem I followed the guide here https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1703&p=11859&hilit#p11658 to get it to connect. Worked fine. I didn't add the last AT command for ipv6 since that was based on visible and not verizon. So it's working but not.

In the first ...

You may want to see if T-Mobile Home Internet is available for your location. :geek:

https://www.t-mobile.com/isp

The purpose of the test drive is to see if I could even get TMO service here; The closest tower is 6 miles away. Not sure if that's the tower I'm getting data from; the Franklin ...

Got mine today. I have to use the cell phone booster and use 5G band wifi to get it to work, but I'm getting 7 down, about 1 up. In case you want to know, the T9 uses a 9207 LTE Modem, which is cat 1.

It says though, I only have 20GB to play with. :x Will see how it does with connectivity over the ...

So the trial SIM is locked to the Franklin. Does anyone know if the actual plans sim is locked to the TM-RTL0102
LTE WiFi Gateway?

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/images/devices/manual/T-Mobile%20LTE%20Wi-Fi%20Gateway%20User%20Guide.pdf

From TMO's website

Does T-Mobile allow ...

I'm kinda guarded on whether T-Mobile's Rural Internet gateway will work here; there seems to be no antenna connectors on the device, and I'm 99% sure I'll need something to help the signal. T-M claims I can get 5G here(yeah, right).

It'll be interesting what the free trial hotspot will do. Saw ...

T-Mobile has supposedly expanded their Home Internet coverage, so in order to see if I can actually get T-M service here, I signed up for their Test Drive 30 day trial. They are supposed to send a hotspot with a sim card; I wonder if there's a way to take that sim, and install it in the MOFI ...

Spent many hours as a kid listening to faraway stations on AM and shortwave, still have a shortwave radio, though there's not nearly as much to listen to anymore. We have been under the influence of a strong high pressure system the past few days; I even got a 43 mbps D/L (which is 50% higher than ...

I can "see" the tower on cellmapper using Google Earth, using the data provided by a cell signal app(not cellmapper) on my wife's phone, and matching the eBN ID on cellmapper. This is verified by taking the MOFI hex provided, and using a hex calculator. The eBN ID of the tower I get most of my ...

It's doing it again! DL 11mbps, UL 2mbps. Weird!

Operational Mode: LTE
Band: B4 LTE bw: 5 MHz (1700 Mhz)
Carrier Aggregation: ACTIVE LTE Scell band:B29
Signal Strength: -120 (dBm) (Very Poor or No Connection)
Signal Quality: -15.5
Diversity Signal Strength: -116 (dBm)

Long story short, I live in an "AT&T LTE hole" where the surrounding towers are beaming away from me, so the closest tower I can actually regularly connect to is 13 miles away. Using a set of Iskra P-58s, I can get, on a good day, in the low to mid 20s on B2(15mhz) with my MOFI.

Last night, I ...

Is the sim a nano sim? The LB1120 requires a micro sim, so if you have a nano sim, you need an adapter for it to work in the LB1120.

Using a sim from an ebay reseller at $65/mo, and currently at 660GB this month, no throttling as far as I can tell.

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