Wireless Joint

tetranz wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:06 pm Why do people do it if it's not necessary?

Some don't know it isn't necessary. Others likely do it as a precaution in case it ever becomes necessary.

How is it price gouging when someone is offering a service that I really want and I have the money and I am 100% OK with paying for it?

I've been leasing multiple lines from different people for the past year. On the service it feels shady only because it's new and not something most people ever ...

They should be shipping me a Nokia within the next couple weeks... I'll happily take it apart and take pictures if no one else has...

For example, if my phone here was directly connected to a cell tower configured the same, upload/download speeds between those towers should be identical. If I could amplify my broadcast to even 1% of that tower however, I’d be in the 3mbps UL range, 30mbps DL rather than .07mbps UL, 30mbps DL ...

Sounds like you hit the limit for hotspot data. Solution should be simply playing with the ttl setting until it no longer registers as hotspot data but as device data. I think 65 is what generally works but don't quote me on that. You should find the setting in the firewall section.

There's apparently a 12/02 goldenorb up now... Anyone done any analysis on the differences? Changelogs sure would be nice, but with all the routers they're supporting I suppose that would be far too much to ask.

Try "any" or "1-65535"... That should cover all ports.

Unless they're changing imei's then there's likely nothing illegal going on. Definitely violating TOS and the huge markups might be borderline price-gouging, but there's nothing to be done about it other than attempting to educate others to avoid them.

Actually it does list the gain... 20-25dbi if you were to believe the description... DO NOT BELIEVE THE DESCRIPTION. There's not an lpda on the market with anywhere near that much gain. Most are 9-11dbi.

That is normal... The value you see on a ping test is actually the remaining ttl on the return packet. If you didn't have custom firewall rules overwriting the ttl then it would vary a lot depending on the sites you're pinging and how many hops it takes along the way. Since the mofi is setting it to ...

Ignore me on the TTL.. The result showing on a ping test is incoming, not outgoing.

They've been updating the goldenorb builds to the latest 19.xx OpenWrt versions. Personally, the 11/16 wg1608 build wouldn't play nice with ipv6 for me, but I haven't tried 11/23 as the old 06/10 works just fine.

From what I've been reading, the transparent proxy problem seems to have been resolved. Personally, I haven't had to reboot in over a week, and I had attributed that to setting up dnscrypt, but it appears to be just a coincidence since the problem has apparently disappeared for everyone else..

I just use the postpaid unlimited elite consumer plan. Since I already had that for my actual phones, adding a line only runs me ~$35/mo. Nxtgenphone or broadband for the APN. Ttl changes aren't necessary for AT&T, but 116 is what my phone reports when doing a ping directly from a terminal interface ...

Honestly I don't even know if you'd need modemmanager/rooter to tether a phone. Stock OpenWrt will probably work. I've always just used a modem with my setup. Someone with more experience phone tethering should probably chime in here...

7565 will do 2+4, 2+4+5, or 2+4+12. Sierra modems also have that nice AT command that shows the stats of each antenna. I don't think you can go wrong with that one.

As for 2x2 mimo, that means either using 2 matching antennas, or a single cross-polarized antenna with 2 outputs. If you're only using ...

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_a7_v5

Seems the Archer A7 v5 is compatible with the latest OpenWrt versions. You could install vanilla OpenWrt and add modemmanager, or build your own goldenorb binary (or just kindly ask dairyman to do it for you over in the whirlpool forums).

You don't need a cellular router for that. Any OpenWrt-compatible router with a USB port will handle the job. Also most Asus routers can do it with stock firmware.

You only need the cellular if you want to install a modem directly into the router.

I'll 2nd the em12-g... Mine has been performing beautifully for the past 6-7 months. For routers, the 3526 is more than good enough, but the 1608 is even better. If that parabolic is a single-output, I'd drop about $60 on a mimo feed for it from aliexpress. Doing that basically doubled my download ...

According to the specs, all 4 antennas are on vertical polarity... I would expect significant cross-talk between 2 modems on this antenna. I doubt it would even work well on a single 4x4 modem, especially with such low gain. To put it bluntly, that anteena is probably trash..

The parabolic mimo grid at The Wireless Haven has the most gain on those bands. Your signal is already decent enough, though, so a cheaper mimo panel antenna should suffice.

You guys get ipv6 on the 11/17? Mine wouldn't automatically add the wan1_6 interface like the 06/10 version does. Adding it manually would result in the interface grabbing an ipv6 address, but it wouldn't pass through to my other devices. Also, a reboot after adding another interface to wwan0 ...

Solution include the use of VPN's or just a secure DNS (DNSSEC) such as DNSCrypt (https://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/)

Dnscrypt might have solved my problems. Been having to reboot multiple times per day for the last couple of weeks, but after installing this in rooter last ...

Looks like a $60 router with a $170 modem and an extra $100+ markup for no good reason.... I'd say no. Same for Mofi for that matter... Those are $60 routers with $70 modems and a similarly absurd markup.

That should do quite nicely... Though the TP (not TPP) model should also suffice for a lower price. It has 30W on half the ports and 15.4 on the other half... Unless your cameras need over 15w each, I'd probably go that route.

Hello again,
Sorry got confused! Last post.
If you have a POE switch supplying power will not need a injector too. The power switch would replace the function of the injector. Shown in this diagram.
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1208#p7869
Actually I have a switch at my house ...

I don't think anyone else noticed that your phone is Verizon while both hotspots you tested were on at&t... It's possible your AT&T tower just sucks and won't go much over 20mb no matter what you throw at it.. If it only has band 12 and that's congested then eh...

At the top of the article it calls him a 'Master Agent', like he runs an official TMO retail outlet, but his statement seems more like that of some small-time reseller. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone getting shut down is on resold pre-paid plans...

There's also a Sierra cat20, but it is expensive AF. Then there's the Nighthawk M1 and Mifi 8000 hotspots (cat16), but the 4x4 only works with the internal antennas as they only have 2 external ports.

I have one of the cheaper ones with a replacement mimo feedhorn... It still picks up the lower frequencies but with little to no gain. That's fine by me since those bands are slower anyway.

My sim came already activated... I just popped it in and it worked. Never been in a phone.

AT&T? If so this is an ongoing thing for many people... Apparently using a VPN will keep the connection alive.

Not the actual throughput, the negotiated link speed displayed in the connection properties... If it's not showing 1000 then something is wrong with cabling/ports.

Ah, I missed the part about that being on the roof.. Thought it was from an upstairs bedroom. I'll have to reread later when I have more time to review.

What is the link speed showing up in windows? If it's showing as 10mb half/duplex that would explain the throughput. A bad cable or NIC could cause this, or an accidental setting change to the adapter forcing it to 10.

In that thread you mention you get -93 on an AT&T iPhone... That's almost as good as the signal I get with a parabolic grid. You may be better off with just a Nighthawk hotspot and no antennas... Depending on the bands you receive and congestion, you could hit over 100mbps with the internal 4x4 mimo ...

2 of those should work, but at that price you'd be better off with a parabolic with a mimo feed. You don't want to point at 2 different towers, btw... CA aggregates multiple bands on the same tower, and MIMO depends on having multiple paths to a single tower. No provider is going to bond 2 different ...

MSS clamping and custom ttl settings will require entering custom firewall rules. That's a bit above my head right now, but you should maybe search around the OpenWrt site for documentation on those rules.

Right now I don't think any carrier supports aggregation from multiple towers. I'd go with wide-band but not omni-directional. Note wide-band means the bands it supports (ie 700-2700mhz), not the width of the beam. I would probably get a pair of 15dbi flat panels (or a single 15dbi mimo panel if you ...

It's a beefy router but uses Broadcom chipsets including its WiFi chipset and hence not the best match for GO.

This is true, but that router can USB tether hotspots/phones innately without goldenorb. It can also do modems in USB enclosures but lacks the drivers for proper performance. It works ...

Afaik, AT&T has only ever killed pre-paid accounts, including mvno accounts. I've never heard of post-paid being shut down for usage. I'm not sure what agenda you're pushing with that $13/gb number you throw into every thread.

When you turn on the hotspot on your phone, the phone reports things differently. An LTE modem doesn't do that. A phone won't even do that with the right set of apps running. Some providers use other means of telling the difference, like the TTL. AT&T doesn't, at least not yet.

MIMO and CA should improve average latency between you and the tower, even if only by increasing maximum throughput so that you have more available for the overhead. Basically, when your connection is maxed out latency will skyrocket, even on a good hard-line connection. Having a higher speed ...

AT&T doesn't care about ttl

I saw a build in another thread.. Not goldenorb but modemmanager and other LTE relevant stuff included.. I don't have time to look for it atm but it shouldn't be too hard to locate

Connecting to different/worse bands maybe?

Idk... I only have an em12-g to play with. Bear in mind that all em-20g are engineering samples as there has never been an actual production model. I think quectel has pretty much abandoned it for the time being.

I think you need a ,1 at the end to enforce it immediately, else it takes effect next reboot.

Someone else will have to chime in on pre-paid activations. I've only ever been on post-paid. I'd assume sim-swapping in an unlocked phone would be fine, if that's even necessary with AT&T. They generally don't care what kind of device you're using. My sim came already provisioned so it went ...

That explains the pings.. As for the signal, have you tried unscrewing one antenna cable at a time to see if it goes away completely? That would tell if you're actually only receiving one feed or if the modem is just misreporting with the AT+QRSRP command.

Generally, for 4g LTE, 700-2700mhz wide-band will get you everything you need. That is what *most* of the flat-panel/lpda's operate at, anyway. I would avoid any true yagis as they tend to only support 700-900mhz. Do note that a lot of 'yagis' are actually lpdas, though.

Is the em12 in mbim mode? Mine came that way by default, but the pings are better in QMI mode.

As for the AT+QRSRP, mine normally shows
-~87,-~87,-140,-140. Sometimes one of the first two numbers will also read -140, but simply sending the command again will show the correct values. If you're ...

Yeah, I'd check all my connections, especially the seating of the mhf4 connection on the board itself. Those numbers should be close to the same.

That's the gist of it... Deprioritization over xxGB doesn't usually mean much if you're not in a high population density area so that the towers aren't congested. I tend to go over 2TB with a 100GB post-paid phone plan without noticeable drops in speed. As always, though, YMMV.

Should be fine... Only reason to wait it out would be to use up what you've already paid for.

I don't think it matters since the dish itself is round... I have mine at 45deg since my antenna is ovular.. This, at least in my head, balances the two polarities instead of one getting the full width of the dish and the other spilling over the top and bottom

Most Asus routers can do this with their stock firmware... Rt-68u is a good one at a decent price. If you want to go cheaper, find an Archer c7 on eBay and load it with goldenorb.

Can always revert to stock OpenWrt and install modemmanager and any relevant drivers.... Goldenorb breaks true bridging for whatever reason

How close is your router to the window? The short 'pigtails' are usually very thin. Not flat, just thin. Thin enough that maybe you could make a small groove for them to sit nicely in using a round file....?

I would keep the antennas you have.. They cover more bands than the yagis you listed.

Lightning arrestors are cheap... Your hardware is not. I'd get em installed and grounded to the house ground.

Lmr400 is great, also thick, unwieldy, and expensive. Lmr240 should do for the length you're working ...

It's not that simple... That cat6 modem in the mofi isn't capable of 4x4 mimo, so first you'd need a much more expensive modem (cat16 I think is the baseline for 4x4), an adapter to install the modem (newer modems are m.2, not mpci-e), and at that point you might as well sell off the mofi and start ...

Not a fan of the mofi units... Considering they usually go for $300+ and you can get the same modem and router for closer to $130, I'd probably cancel that and use the savings to add on a mimo (or a pair of single) antenna(s) and the necessary cabling. You don't want your LTE router running on your ...

Won't the VPN tunnel bypass both the NAT on the goldenorb router and the CG-NAT of the provider? At that point it doesn't matter that your AP is behind 3 layers of private IPs as the tunnel should have a public IP that punches through all that..

Possibly the pings the connection monitor is doing is also keeping your connection alive and preventing the modem from going into low-power mode...?

Also, the most fool-proof to lock onto a specific tower, with any modem, is a highly directional antenna... If that's the only signal it can see then that's what it gets... Parabolic grids are the best for this.

1 works if both the modem and the tower support intra-band CA on the band available, otherwise it's 2.

Also, the only modems without any CA are dated AF and will also have no MIMO support... Go with the highest category you are willing to spend for.

I think most of us are using 'phone' plans... Mine is an extra line on my postpaid unlimited phone account.

Aliexpress shipping really isn't usually THAT bad.. The couple things I've had to get from there made it to the US within a few days. Took me a couple weeks to actually get them thanks to customs, but eh, not too bad considering the whole pandemic.

TIL that 3m makes thermal-conductive tape... If it holds anything like their VHB tape then those heatsinks won't come back off without taking the chips with them 😂.

Always been a fan of Arctic Silver compounds and pastes myself, but if didney recommends these and that's really 3m-branded tape then ...

I'm not home to check my current usbnet setting, but I'm pretty sure 0 is correct for QMI.. I know 2 is MBIM (had much slower pings on that) and when I accidentally put it on 1 I couldn't do shit from my goldenorb router... Had to connect it back to the Asus to be able to issue AT commands through ...

The single polarity feeds are ovular, but the mimo one like The Wireless Haven offers is round... Makes sense when you think about the physics of it... I've got either wasted space on the edges of my dish if the feed isn't as wide as the dish for that polarity, or I've got the other polarity missing ...

I'm not sure if they're blacklisting by imei or what... The imei on my em12 seems to be recognized as an IPhone X by AT&T 🤔

Also, going with the higher category isn't just about the CA, as the 4x4 mimo capabilities can quadruple the speed of a single channel, even on a single band. Intra-band CA is ...

It's a rather cheap one from Amazon, honestly probably not optimal for the mimo feedhorn as it's an ovular shape instead of being round, but it's working for me.

So you want the "go big or go home" approach... I can respect that, and it's generally the best bet if you're not looking to save money up front, as you may save more in the long run not having to toss out cheaper hardware to upgrade later.

So source out a wg1608 router and a Quectel em-20g (or the ...

Yes, tethered to say an Asus router you can do anything you could do with an actual modem.

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