Wireless Joint

Sorry I haven't responded to this thread, been super busy. If I can help answer any questions let me know, for now my WISP project is on hold due to trying to find funding.

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'm guessing by the -40 RSSI that its totally clear LOS and within less than a mile. You could get away with a omni antenna, and not yagis. Try a "worse" antenna and see if it improves. More than likely the 4G modem is getting overloaded by the extremely strong signal and making throughput worse.

oh neat, more crackdowns from the carrier cartel.

Short answer to your question is: Yes, this is possible.

I'm guessing by the title of "DX" you're a ham radio guy or short wave listener? It's entirely possible that you occasionally are connecting to that distant tower due to propagation enhancement. I'm a ham radio guy, and am really into high ...

I am about to begin the journey of setting up my own installation and had a few questions for you:

1. Did you terminate all the cables yourself to get the minimum possible length?
2. Why did you go from LMR-200 to LMR-400 instead of just using LMR-400 for everything?
3. Can you explain how the ...

Wow! I've been trying for days to make sense of all the LTE gumbo since I started down this rabbit hole a few days ago. Your thread is master's thesis worth of material. Thank you so much for sharing! I've been looking for a tried and true rural setup, and your's fits the bill perfectly (except I ...

If you'd like, I can help you activate PagePlus or Simple mobile remotely with video throttling disabled through my dealer account, all you have to do it simply insert it into your router and it should be good to go. But first pick up a sim activation kit from your local Walmart, Target, BestBuy ...

gscheb wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:53 am Well I called T-mobile on the phone told them I had my own device. They sent me a sim card. I put it directly into the MC7455 and activated it.

You activated with the MC7455 IMEI or a different one? Their website seems to think the MC7455 isn't compatible with their network

Yeah, not sure why I can't send PM's anymore here.... Bill you around?

gscheb wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:09 pm Have you tried? To get a sim and put it in?

I got a customer setup with a t-mobile account through third party, but they activated it for me.

I don't understand how to sign up for t-mobile with a MC7455 modem directly? I put in the IMEI and they said its not valid.

Can someone please explain how one would sign up for a t-mobile plan and use a MC7455 modem? This is not clear to me at all.

...so someone fill me in.

I have one of these plans. A couple of days ago, my connection dropped. I have troubleshooted and the only thing I can come up with is that AT&T has blocked/cancelled my account, at least for the rest of the month (I have used a total of 550gb this month). However, I can still log into my account ...

Is this list still current? I'd like to move a customer that had ATT ipad plan to T-mobile but I don't understand how to do this and activate properly?

We called them on the phone told them we already had our own device. They didn't even ask what the device was. They mailed us the sim card and I activated it in the the we826 with mc7455.

Check out this post here is a person that just did it. Maybe can reach out to him as well.
https ...

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Yes this is true.
T-Mobile will activate right with MC7455.
TTL 64 will work for it not to hotspot.

Then depending on plan rather you have HD streaming or not.

If they live in a very strong T-Mobile area and don't need outdoor antennas they actually sell a $50 internet ...

Sorry for all the questions, but this is still very unclear to me. I have a customer that has a MC7455. Can I just sign up for this plan with t-mobile online, get a sim in the mail from them, and then activate in the MC7455? You said TTL 64, but that seems wrong? It would easily show hotspot data ...

Hello Swwiffy,
Is this customer 55 or older? Ask because can get even better deal if they are thru t-mobile

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=888&p=7520&hilit=plus+up+data#p7409

Yeah sorry I should have read scroll back, but this thread is looongg.

That doesn't look like ...

does anyone have a link to the t-mobile plans folks are using now?

I have a customer who has Verzion, but got rate limited almost immediately with almost zero use on the "Unlimited plan"....

I'd recommend using the Raspberry PI foundation PoE hat. The latest version, the first versions had some bad bugs.

Didneywhorl wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:47 am Swwifty,

That's cool! Im curious though, how much loss does each one add to the cable runs, specifically?

Might be worth looking into for many more people if its negligible.

I can't remember exactly but I'd suspect its .1 - .2 db. not very much. It wasn't a cheap filter.

Hi, I’m looking into doing a similar setup as yours and I’m wondering what the high pass filter does?

It filters out any radio frequency below 600mhz so the modem doesn't see it at all. I did this originally to try to help the modem from being overloaded by strong nearby signals below that ...

Hm. Can you link me to this "direct Verizon unlimited plan"?! Or could you be more specific, I guess? I just want to be clear so that if I follow in your steps, I'll be good haha. We have 4 postpaid lines. Did you just add an extra one of those?

I got it a while back, sometime last year, and ...

I'm trying to get a LTE modem router setup on my postpaid Verizon plan as a tablet. Apparently the plan is only throttled under congestion from my most recent check here (and tablets get video up to 1080p):
https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/connected-device-plan-faqs/

Is this how you ...

Swifty you sound like the man with the plan.
I having some pretty painful issues. still learning cellular world.
So I have a mofi 4500 V2 router, 2 WirEng wide band antennas(dont worry i didnt pay for them), and using ULLM240 cable, 25ft. I will probably shorten.
So I just purchased 2 new ...

Being a short-term/prepaid service even if it's auto-paid, the carrier is under no contractual obligation to honor the initial signup price of the service, and the TOS states that they may cancel at any time without a prior notice.
Unfortunately that's just the way it is, and as the saying goes ...

ughh it is gone for new accounts, great.

oh man i hope this doesn't happen for real. I have a bunch of customers on this, and they are gonna be pissssed, if it gets canceled on them.

It's very common on the outskirts of san antonio area. Kinda of a monopoly for us. Vtx took over rock solid from my sources. Crowded network makes it's difficult to use. If only I can find a card that would support the AWS band to take full advantage of lte, but using mofi I still dont think it ...

I was messing around with google earth for line of sight. I almost have line of sight, but I was just making a random guess at tower height.
I guess I could just stop being lazy and go climb a tree with my binoculars to find out how high up my antenna needs to be. :lol:

it shouldn't matter how ...

Anyone know an easy way to find the height of a specific cell tower? cellmapper doesn't seem to have that information, or at least not that I see. antennasearch has been down for a while for me, not sure if they have height or not.

Thanks

-radec

antenna search was the best. there's other ways ...

PTP means Point-To-Point packet radio service, with the advantage of really long range (over 30 miles), which can deliver up to 100Mbps (in the real world is less than half), and it's expensive compared to cellular. In some areas where there's no cellular service, PTP or PTM (Point-To-Multi radio ...

What are the highest gain antennas that I can buy, honestly? I’m at the point where dumping a few hundred dollars just for antennas is worth it.

Also, what about the WeBoost situation? can it even handle the dual antenna and still see results, or is wiring it straight into my Nighthawk the way ...

WhiskeyLifa wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:17 pm I’m 6-9 miles with hardly any LOS, will this work?

No idea without you actually trying. The situation is different for every user.

There are users though that use these high gain antennas to connect to towers over 5+ miles away with no issue.

Do you think switching to Yagi antennas would help at all? I turned off my booster and used OpenSignal to get the best idea on where to point it. I also mapped the tower it’s possibly connected to and get it pointed in that general area that match with the direction from the app and my google ...

is the weboost antenna a signal antenna?

If it's only one antenna, thats probably half your problem right there. It's also possible your antenna is pointed in the wrong direction for the tower its actually connected to. If you have a few in range, it can hop between them.

I'd recommend getting at ...

Didneywhorl wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:29 pm The HAT version doesnt have a modem embedded like the shields previously. Its pretty new-ish.

https://sixfab.com/product/raspberry-pi ... cie-cards/

oh that's pretty slick, but a USB enclosure is still cheaper.

Granted if you're tight on space, that's not a bad idea.

Didneywhorl wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:36 pm Have you seen the LTE modem Hat for the Rpi? I'm wondering how well it works

I looked at them a while back, and they were all low level CAT rated, verses buying the newer Sierra MC series modems which supported the latest LTE releases.

I have two of these yagis installed at 45 degrees to each other and they are hooked up to a MR 1100 Nighthawk. They are about 12 ft. up on the pole and I am 1.4 miles from the tower.
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/yagi/698-2700mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi-11dbi-4g-lte ...

My build is fully operational and ready to mount outside close to the antennas. Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution here, not sure I would have attempted this without seeing someone else be successful with it.

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awesome! thanks for sharing! that looks like a nicer setup ...

I dont believe that it matters which end is on top, so likely keep the weep holes facing down. I believe the the angles used are an attempt to match the plane of the carrier equipment of the tower your using. Common practice seems to be 45 degrees from vertical plane. One tilted "left", the other ...

I've read about this signal blocking phenomenon a while ago, and it turns out that in places where the soil is rich in metallic minerals it can leach into plants and trees, causing a stronger signal blocking effect than in non-mineral rich places. It actually makes logical sense, as I have ...

The problem with signals at longer distances, it can vary with the air's ionization, humidity, clouds, rain, snow, blooming trees, etc. So just because you may get a great signal on a nice clear summer day, you could also get really crappy signal on a humid rainy/snowy day. Generally, a high ...

Hello all,
I have set up 4 LTE setups now. All times have used either log periodic directional antenna or proxicast mimo panel antenna.
Every time it has been just under 5 miles or just over 5 miles. Know someone else that would be 5.85 miles away. Not sure if this would be getting to far away at ...

that's very interesting, must have been causing some multipath destructive interference. Typically with LTE you'll want some obstructions and not just clear LOS because then you can take advantage of MIMO better. This is a complicated topic, and counter intuitive to what one would expect.

Noone's forcing you to, I just wrote about the options for those who may want to consider it. ;)
The whole idea behind it, is for those who prefer the main router to be inside the home for easier access for testing, tweaking, etc.
I have a question for you, by running a diag command on both the ...

I just noticed the latency in general was higher with the Rpi vs my Mofi4500. It could be something else though, time will tell...

I can't imagine you could notice a 10ms latency. I'd suspect something else was going on.

I think a human can only notice a latency as low as about 250ms or above ...

Those errors seemed to be adding ~10ms of latency for me. I eliminated them by adding the following commands to the Local Startup. It sets the min/max scaling frequency to the maximum so the processor always runs at full speed. Note that I'm using an Rpi3B+ which runs at a max of 1.4GHz, yours may ...

Oh right, you have all your gear up on the roof in an box. Hmmm... so the purpose of putting everything up there is to minimize the RF signal loss in a long coax cable run, but then you could just put the radio modem up there by itself with a long active usb extension cable (though you'll need to ...

The high mount antennas makes a great lightning rod. xD
Jokes aside, I wouldn't dare put them up higher than any other nearby metallic object even with the best built-in lightning arrester, while the other end of the antenna cable is connected to the router sitting right on my work desk. Yikes ...

Are you connecting via wifi to the Mofi or ethernet? Try a direct ethernet connection if not, and run some speed tests.

For testing purposes you could use your cell phone tethered via usb to the router as the secondary internet source. All you have to do on the phone is go to Settings > Mobile > Tethering > Enable USB Tethering, then on the router set it up under Network settings, and use the mwan3 setup. Let us ...

I recently bought some out side antennas from the LTe store. I got them installed yesterday. They are the they are the 700-2700 mhz 15 dbi I live in bad signal area in a dip with mountain and lots of trees. Closest tower is 11 mile drive. So probably 6-8 miles as a crow flys . Would hooking up ...

You may want to look for any package conflicts, such as:
"Ensure no other multiple WAN package is installed such as multiwan – having multiwan installed at the same time as mwan3 is known not to work."

I was wondering if channel-bonding (binding multiple connections into one speedier one) would ...

I got my EM7565 and RPi3+ up and running and noticed the system log on the Pi is filled with change cpu frequency errors. Is there a fix for this?

Tue Dec 31 14:29:05 2019 kern.err kernel: [ 2655.501272] cpufreq: __target_index: Failed to change cpu frequency: -22
Tue Dec 31 14:29:13 2019 kern ...

Agl539 wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:46 am I use and do this which has worked well enough.

http://static.dxengineering.com/pdf/weatherproofingcoax-techtip.pdf

Great link! Thanks for sharing.

Have this exact setup myself and been considerin changing. Even using band 2 and 12 as well.
Always been leary if the the pi set up and the outside box. Since have never done that before and would need to buy more items too.
My question is couldn't we do the exact same thing with our mofi routers ...

No, I thought these n-connectors were designed to be waterproof so I didn't do anything but tighten them down.

Thanks for the info and video, looks like I have some work to do.

I'm considering redoing my whole setup which currently has 2 50 foot runs of Wilson 400 cable connected to a Mofi ...

What about foliage? Is it true the Omni antennas do better with foliage? Or do the log periodic directional antennas work just as well in foliage? Just dont have a way to space the Omni antenna apart really like they should be.

I'd go with directional antennas, since this is a fixed position ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBYlayNG1zg This guy does it right.

Did you put anything on them at all to protect them from water ingress?

I normally first do a wrap of electrical tape in a "shingle" like fashion (overlapping itself) from the bottom up.

Then I use some coaxial waterproofing tape (this stuff is really really sticky) and do the same thing.

Then I ...

Welcome to the board! You came to the right place with your questions.

It sounds like you've done a good bit of home work already which is good. AT&T is who I was going to recommend as they have a reasonably priced plan.

As far as antennas go, you will need at least two, or one that is defined as ...

What about foliage? Is it true the Omni antennas do better with foliage? Or do the log periodic directional antennas work just as well in foliage? Just don't have a way to space the Omni antenna apart really like they should be.

Even though these antennas are directional they have a very wide ...

I'm not aware of anyone trying it. I may have in the past while testing antenna setups, but I can't recall.

There shouldn't be much issue aiming some log periodic directional antennas. They have a pretty wide beam width as they are fairly low gain (10dbi or less.)

It just takes some time to aim ...

very cool, thanks for sharing!

Any recommendations on a switch?

Depends on how many ports you need but this is a good place to start: https://www.ui.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-8/

Also has PoE, but you'll need an adapter for 24v PoE.

Or you could just go with this switch which does all PoE modes: https://www.ui.com ...

Apparently i've got some more research to do. So here is what i'm trying to accomplish so maybe you can point me in the right direction.

I want to be able to hard wire a few items in (couple of playstations and a PC), but also be able to have wireless access for phones, ipads, apple tv, etc ...

Appreciate the info! I'll do some more reading on all of it tonight.

I believe i have everything ordered that i'll need, and your are right, i think i will do a quality router for inside the house for all the other accessories to connect to.

I plan on doing an outside mount as you did with the ...

@Swwifty

Just recently ordered a setup to match what you have here, except i ordered the panel antennas instead of the yagi's. I currently have a Mofi4500 w/ AT&T sim, and while speeds are decent, after seeing your setup, i realized that there was much more to be had. I also ordered the EM7511 as ...

that's odd. A few questions

1. You postive you have service at your new location?

2. you're sure the sim/plan didn't expire somehow in between the move?

if not, maybe try and factory reset the modem and see if that fixes it.

Hello again,
Now discovered this issue is due the Mofi Software. First hooked up a non mofi we826-t2 with mc7455 modem installed with golden orb for one week and no issues. Then hooked up the mofi again then immediately when trying to download a game kicked me off the internet. So then I took the ...

keigan wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:41 am Fantastic thread!

QQ: did you notice any changes with the band / high pass filters installed on the LTE side ?

Not really, if there was any changes they were minimal.

SoNic67 wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2019 5:14 pmOn a MVNO?

No idea, I would guess they get less wireless resources since they share the infrastructure from another carrier.

Swwifty my friend, you are more helpful than you know and your build has helped quite a bit with other questions I might have had. Your testing with the panel antennas was also quite enlightening. I'm assuming my best bet is to just test with the antennas I get and see what bands I pick up with ...

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