Wireless Joint

Right on. The ping trick does work; I was just hoping that there might be a quieter way.

I feel less bad about generating traffic for CloudFlare (1.1.1.1) than I do about polluting the radio spectrum with unnecessary beacons. But I suppose that lake is big enough to shamelessly pee in.

Not activated. Sometimes H refers to HSPA (a 3G technology), but if it's showing as the network name, that's different.

Hey folks,

There's an interesting phenomenon that I've noticed with all of my LTE modems: If the modem stays completely idle for more than a minute or two, the next usage will be much slower (ping > 200 ms) . That slowness is temporary and goes away 1-2 seconds after the next traffic.

I've been ...

I've been trying to figure this one out, too.

There should be 4 hardware models based on Quectel's timeline:

ES (Engineering Sample)
CS (Commercial Sample 1)
CS2 (Commercial Sample 2)
MP (Mass Production)


The ES units are clearly labeled as Engineering Sample on the die. The other aren't ...

I'd go for the Sierra EM7565. It's a Cat 12 LTE modem (Qualcomm Snapdragon X12) with much broader LTE band support. Similar US carrier acceptance. Easy access to drivers, docs, firmware updates, etc. M.2 form factor.

The RM500Q-GL is a risky bet since it's not even trying to get US certifications ...