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As a final comment on T-Mobile.

I received a late payment notice yesterday for the $55 on my cancelled Wireless Home Internet account. I called and they reduced it to $12.88 which was a pro rated amount for a weeks service. Since I only had the thing for a day wherein it did not work ...

What's your setup?

This happened to me with my Verizon but with my PS4. They are notoriously difficult (sometimes impossible) to get around their data issues. At first it started there, and eventually everything went to hotspot. I finally gave it up and got tmobile home internet the other day and ...

From past experiences with ATT setups here are the following APN that have worked:

ATT old "ipad/tablet" plan 35/mo. through their "buyasession" system = "broadband"
ATT current "tablet" plan 20/mo. = "broadband"
ATT 65/mo. prepaid phone plan = "nxtgenphone"

Try "nxtgenphone" for the APN ...

Phone plans are often a problem with using in data only devices. People have came up with various work a rounds but the Cell phone companies are constantly working to squelch those. So yes it does matter.

Sorry I'm new to the ATT thing. So I assume the "unlimited" data that phone plans have ...

Dr-BroadBand wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:20 am I have see Magic happen by removing the Sim card and do a factory hard reset on modem

Will this wipe the firmware and I would have to reinstall?

Dr-BroadBand wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:05 am Is your SIM for a data hot spot??

This is what I bought

If you are attempting AT&T why did you not buy a Data plan? Sounds like you are trying to use a phone plan.

https://www.att.com/prepaid/mobile-hotspot-tablet/

Should that matter? I just wanted to test signal strength and speed before I went all in on a plan. My Verizon was a phone plan so I ...

I was curious so I tried to set it to QMI using AT+QCFG="usbnet",0

Now the Status>System Log says this repeatingly. Also it says Provider: Failed to connect. Retrying. Instead of being hung up on Connecting

Fri Mar 19 10:51:28 2021 user.notice port change: dwn
Fri Mar 19 10:51:30 2021 user ...

Dr-BroadBand wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:59 am Think it could be your APN

Yes, apn is set to broadband

Ok so I purchased a prepaid AT&T SIM card using the $2 a day plan. In my phone I actually got nearly equivalent speeds/signal as my Verizon thanks to that new tower(mini on top of building I think. Still couldn't find it yet) they must have put up recently.

Because I spent days changing settings in ...

Would agree give the T-MOBILE a try if it works it would be the best option. Plan-B would get on the StarLink waiting list it cost $100. They are claiming a working system for the lower states by end of year. It’s a very exciting time things are changing very fast.

The fact that TM is available ...

Figured I would make a new thread. Previous thread about verizon causing a lot of issues with my setup.

My setup is dual Yagis with a WE826GO-U and a Quectel EP06-A modem.

So yesterday I check the mail and to my shock I have a package from T-Mobile. It's the Test Drive I ordered at the begining of ...

You should be able to sign up anonymously by going to a local Tracfone dealer, they usually carry all the carriers (SimpleMobile/Tmobile, Net10/ATT, PagePlus/Verizon). Enter the zip code of the location you happen to be in https://www.tracfone.com/findastore. Pick one of the smaller dealers, and ...

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. Been busy with work and a hundred other things. So for one reason or another I'm unable to go with visible that I can't get into.

I have tried the above options. Unfortunately nothing seems to work. I hit my 15GB hotspot limit in 2 days. Now I'm down to 600kbps ...

Edit: Forgot, I'm using a Quectel EP06-A modem

Anyone know what I can do? I've changed the TTL multiple times previously (117, then 65, now 64) whenever I started using hotspot data. It got me around it but now I'm stuck. All three still have me on hotspot data. I heard there was a way to change ...

Hey guys, I was back here in October. Things have been going decent with the setup. Over the last couple months I've had random issues with Verizon suddenly using my hotspot data. A quick reboot fixed this and it was back to normal. This happened probably 5 times or so. Now yesterday it is ...

This is tricky, LOS is obviously better in most cases, however, adding length to your cables looses signal. An example is LMR-400 loses 0.04 dB / ft. at 900 MHz, so in this example you have already lost well over 50% of the original signal just due to cables of 100 feet (3db loss is 50% loss of ...

So how did it go?

Good! It's working just fine for her google meets. So far so good. Im letting visible go and just using Verizon. I upgraded the plan to the Do more to get the most out of it. I seem to get more priority for my data than I did before.

When using for netflix/videos you can tell ...

Carrier aggregation. Is when the tower combines 2 or more lte bands to make a stronger connection. Your modern only allows certain combinations. When I said band 66 aggregates to itself I meant that it can combine 2 band 66 connections.
Bands 2 and 5 can also combine on our modem.

Better upload ...

Band 66 aggregated to itself or band 2 aggregated to band 5

What does band 66 aggregated to itself mean? For video chat google meet recommends 3 up. So how would I obtain that but keep my download speed? Not possible? I will have to dink with the position more this weekend. Literally packing up ...

Finally some good news :)

A few more thoughts on your upload speeds:

1) Time of day and weather can make a huge difference on both upload and download. For me 6am is always far better then lets say 7 at night

2) Speedtest.net and others like it can be REALLY unreliable. Try 3 or 4 different ...

Let there be light!

Sort of.

Okay soooo. Went out to the house and finally finished putting up the fence so I go to tackle my internet issue. First, this is with my verizon SIM which I upgraded to Go Unlimited (I think that's what it's called. Gives 15gb hotspot, 5g access etc.)

First try ...

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 ...

In theory if these antennas are 90° apart should be able to be touching and wouldn't matter.
Now with that said have heard allot of people say they worked better with some space between.
Can read these reviews for spacing people used when The Wireless Haven used to sell these kind of antennas ...

Mine is only about 25 feet TOTAL, meaning its on the roof, one story house with attic on a 2 foot pole. If your trees like mine are that tall it might be better and easier to use a short 3 or 4 foot pole mounted directly onto the roof or into the facia. I think mine is called a Jbar mount. This ...

Did you do this test from your rural location? If so, it's picking up a different tower in that test(In Batesburg-Leesville, #154029) than the one in your last post (near Harmony, #154093). Have you checked out tower locations in cellmapper yet?

The only other bit of advice I can give is to ...

Ok lets take a step back.... In general the higher the better, so the roof is the right place. You should always keep the antenna parallel to the ground, though a few claim aiming it a degree or 2 upwards works better for them.

I assume you know roughly which direction the tower you want is in N ...

I had my antenna planned based on signals strength. Aka had them pointed where they could get the absolute strongest signal. I think they used band 13 as that was what their meter picked up. You should do the same but monitoring the signal on your router. Once you find the strongest signal and ...

Lets go back to basics. I saw your pics of the antennas and they look fine. Is your setup that you have a long lmr400 cable running from the yagi, into the house and then converted on a pigtail to sma which then plugs into the routers 4g antenna ports? No adaptors or extra connectors right? Make ...

Ok so I'm not sure if something is wrong with my setup or if I expected too much. But I was on my roof messing with this thing for hours. And it's done next to nothing in terms of getting me better data. My best signal with my phone was -105 and I was able to hit -98 with the Yagis. My rsrq usually ...

Ah cool thank you

Yes as long as it is N Female both ends and 50 ohm.

Hey real quick..I'm literally standing on my roof right now adjusting these things. They were stuck on band 5 so I wanted to test 13.

I typed in

AT+QCFG="band",0,1000,1

And it connected me to 13. All my signal stuff looks better than 5 but ...

The way your router can beat your phone is thru good outdoor antenna if your signal is weak. My router is 10 times the speed of a phone because of the parabolic grid antenna it is connected to.
Now if was in the city setting in great service a phone would more than likely whip the router all day ...

In my experience the phone will always be equal to or better then a router. A few reasons.... First most newer phones support 4x4 mimo, your router is 2x2. Second most phones are many cat levels higher then the router, I think mine is like cat18, meaning higher speeds and more levels of CA.

Don't ...

Numbers look pretty good. Is that with antennas?

Just learned something that might prove to be useful. Everyone says you really need LOS (line of sight) to the tower. Well I dont have direct LOS, far from it. But I did a little digging as according to the link gsceb posted in another thread I am ...

I was just testing with Verizon since I seem to get better data rates because if I'm getting good speed on my phone and slow in the router it would be more obvious since visible seems to have lower data speeds. I'm on a family plan on my in-laws plan. I think it's $40 a line? Whatever that is.

I ...

gscheb wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:29 am Good point
Check with Ethernet wire then not thru WiFi on router. See if that is closer to your phone. WiFi on these things are not the best. Allot of people use a secondary router plugged into the lan port.

All I have is my phone or a laptop which doesn't have an ethernet port

Your phone is probably a higher category modem than the router.

Moto g7

Networks + Bands - Carrier Aggregation, 4G LTE (DL Cat 7/ UL Cat 6), CDMA / EVDO Rev A, UMTS / HSPA+, GSM / EDGE 2G: GSM band 2/3/5/8 CDMA BC0/BC1/BC10, 3G: WCDMA band 1/2/4/5/8, 4G: FDD LTE band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/20 ...

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 ...

gscheb wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:09 am Typically been told that visible likes mbim mode not qmi.
Do you see where it says qmi mode?

Under General Information? Yes

Ok so real quick. Strange thing is I brought it to my current house now and it's showing it's working. So I'm not sure what's going on.

Ok so this is what my window looks like

But I am getting signal. Problem is I can't test with my phone because my phone will either give me my phone's cell signal or my signal to wifi.

Any ideas? I'm wondering if this is somehow tied to the fact that I get zero change in data rates when pointing ...

Well I'll be going out to the house this morning in a couple hours to try and fix this. If anyone will be around then that can help that'd be great.

Also I notice after getting on my roof and physically holding the Yagis and pointing them, I saw no increase in data speeds at all(I'm hitting max ...

Those are blank and the one above it

How do I check my signal strength on this router software?

I go to Modem>Network Status and under signal information it shows

Network FDD LTE
Signal Strength 48%
RSSI -83 DBM
CSQ 15

Problem is it never changes. No matter where I put antennas or move the router. Am I in the right spot? I have the ...

Very common for the phone not to match the router. As far as restricting bands, yes you can, but I would wait. The nature of the yagi antennas you bought are to point and pinpoint one specfic tower. Unless the 2 towers in question are in the same direction and fairly close together once the ...

All right I'm using speech to text so sorry if some words come out a little funky. I'm currently driving home from my new house I got the router working but obviously the signals garbage where I'm at without any outside antennas. the problem I seem to have is that it's connecting to a different ...

lol he beat me to it this time.... yes two of everything the idea being basically 2 parallel paths, so 2 antennas, 2 cables, 2 sma adaptors and plug it into two seperate ports on the router

Do you know if I was correct on my connectors in the modem? I connected to m1 and D1 bit there was a ...

gscheb wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:23 pm Two wires
Two antennas
Two sma connectors on the router/modem

Thank you

Hey guys I just realized, do I need two runs of cable, one for each yagi antenna? It totally slipped my mind and I only ordered one.

If I only need one cable and I'm doing a mimo setup, how do I connect both antennas to the router? Is there an adapter I need to combine the two antenna? I'm confused ...

gscheb wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:14 am Once it is put together and all that will need to do at commands to get modem to work with visible.
Here is the link to set this up on a Quectel modem.

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32 ... lit#p11658

I will try that tomorrow morning. Thanks.

gscheb wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:42 am You got some more steps to get visible to work. So do you have it all put together?

Yes except for outside Yagi antennas. I'm just trying to get the router/modem working

Possible. I am not on visible anymore as I was able to switch to a true Verizon service. I can give you details on that as well. If you get the imei and phone number info on the modern page then it's usually something to do with the sim being denied. If the sim works properly in another device you ...

Did you put in the correct apn. Under modern > connection > apn? .. It will default to Verizon but for visible it's like vsbinternet.. check that though I am going from memory on all this

Yes I did..however when I look at the debug log it shows VSBLINTERNET along with all the verizon APNS like ...

gscheb wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:15 am Did you end up getting a Quectel modem?

Yes I got the EP06-A

Yeah that's how I would do it. Follow the tutorial and if you have issues or something doesn't make sense just post here.

Okay already having an issue.

First the tutorial shows a sierra card being installed in the modem. The two 4g antennas with pigtails I plugged into M1 and D1 on the modem ...

Good luck, let us know how it turns out and of course if you need anymore help

Thanks. I just got my router and modem in this morning. My antennas and other stuff came in yesterday. Activated my visible service this morning too. They also just finished getting power to the new house so I'll be ...

gscheb wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:53 pm All the above just terrible.

Does it do at least one room? 90% of the internet usage in my house takes place in the living room. If I can get that much out of it I can live with it for the time being.

Thank you. I'm putting in my order now. I have another catch 22 and that is that the best signal comes in on the opposite side of the house from where the router would need to go. So I think I'm stuck with a 50ft run. Otherwise I'd have to put it up higher on the side the router needs to be on and ...

Unfortunately there really isnt. I have a guy on ebay I bought my ep06 from, i have messaged him to see if he has either a wg3526 or ep06 for sale presently as I believe both items are out of stock here on The Wireless Haven.

update: Ep06-a is listing in stock again on The Wireless Haven now we ...

good choices but one issue:
The router you picked has no outputs for external antennas. You would need to drill holes in the case and add in some sma connector pigtails.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DWD5R47/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There is a pic of that mod on ...

Could bring the modem to the tower to test what Bands and speeds you have to work with.
Then add distance and antennas

Unfortunately I don't have much time. Kinda gotta get it all at once or nearly. If it works enough for what I need it I can look at improving it later. How on earth do I test ...

Okay after spending time researching I think I'm going to try this setup. Please tell me if it's okay? I'm pretty computer literate and have a small amount of coding experience in C, so I'm not worried about manually configuring the modem as along as I have basically an instruction manual lol ...

A mofi will run you about 300 plus tax and shipping. Make one yourself and you can come closer to that 200 figure.

Question, you say you need band 13. Have you tested the other available bands? Not just for strength but also for quality and speed? Again using my own example, band 13 is fairly ...

Two for Mimo. Like combines signals. Really important to get good signal quality.
Can be confusing at first.
These modems are just different form factors.
Like different puzzle pieces in a way. So certain ones take different wires and might require an adapter.

So what should I do, two Yagis or ...

Okay so here's what I'm looking at

Two of these (why two? Do they work together to increase signal strength or quality?)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J14YEHQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_3b-EFbK8S2RX6

Now I keep seeing MOFI, or get an LTE modem and wireless router. But I see some with a mini PCI modem ...

The only 600MHz antenna that I have found is the
Ultra Wide-Band Cellular Antenna (Long Range) High Gain Parabolic Grid (Weatherproof)(26 dBi Gain)

It's not easy to dial it in. It's like a laser pointer. I only have one at the moment.
I am looking for other options for MIMO.

https://www ...

I would agree 100% with the 1710-2690MHz 3300-3800MHz 21dBi MIMO Grid Antenna on thewirelesshaven.com
How they did the MiMO is killer!

There are Pro's and Con's to every thing the con with this antenna is you give up the lower bands
for example T-Mobile B71 600MHz also B12

The lower frequency ...

I just went through a very simular situtation. It took me a year and a half of reaearch and testing but I finally have a solution. I now have alot of answers so I should be able to help you both with your rural internet plan as well as equipment, and no it wont take over a year, most of that was ...

Check that cell mapper and see if there are other towers around. Other than Verizon. Don't have to have cell phone reception always to use these data plans if you have outside antennas.

Yea I tried At&T. It's all garbage HSPA where I'm at. I don't get a single LTE signal until about 15 miles ...

WoW

The key is the SIM/Data plan The word "unlimited" has many meanings in the Cell Data Hot spot world.
Like unlimited until you use 25Meg of data (Qty-5 netflix movies) then you will hit the wall. Zoom school is going to burn data!

Verizon is the hardest to work with, could try visible they ...

Dr-BroadBand wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:32 pm Plan-B

See https://unlimitedville.com/plans

I have not used this company before but I have used some like them. They are all a little sketchy .... use caution that no contract cuts both ways.

Their red plan is showing up as unavailable. Also there's no way I can afford 249$ a month.

So first off, I'm basically looking for suggestions on what I should do. I know computers "ok" but I'm absolutely not a networking/cell phone guy.

We are moving in about two more weeks or so out into the country. Initially I was just going to get satellite and deal until Starlink comes out our way ...

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