wg1608 + quectel em12 + att sim

[aenionrex]

Hello all

I am having problems getting my rig up to speed. I am using the equipment in the title and the wg1608-2021-01-06 image of goldenorb. I am using "phone" in the apn; "broadband" doesn't work, and "nextgenphone" gives the same results as "phone". My ttl value is 65.

I am only able to get 10 mbps down and 1 up. Other people I know have been getting 60-100 down and ~20 up. I am not sure where I am going wrong.

I have read recent posts that some router/modems are getting stuck on 3g. I'm not sure that's my issue. But I can't find clear instructions on how to check if my rig is using 3g or 4g.

Thanks in advance

[Didneywhorl]

What plan is the SIM activated to?

[aenionrex]

What plan is the SIM activated to?

I took the sim out of a phone issued to me by my company, so an ATT corporate plan. Because of covid I have been working remotely, and haven't had a truly stable and worthwhile internet connection. I was hoping my company's sim would allow me to have that without added expense to myself such as ordering a new line, or new device, etc.

[MattB29]

Two ways of seeing your connection. You can go to Modem>Network Status>Signal information or you can go to Modem>Miscellaneous and give the AT command: AT!GSTATUS?

Also in Miscellaneous there is Cellular Mode where you can select 4G only.

[aenionrex]

Two ways of seeing your connection. You can go to Modem>Network Status>Signal information or you can go to Modem>Miscellaneous and give the AT command: AT!GSTATUS?

Also in Miscellaneous there is Cellular Mode where you can select 4G only.

Thanks for this. I issued the command "AT!GSTATUS?" and got an error message. Is that bad? I'm not sure what it means. As you can probably tell, I'm groping in the dark a bit here.

I changed the cellular mode to 4g only and did see an improvement downstream but not upstream. Upstream remained at 1 mbps. Even the downstream improvement, at its strongest, is about half of what other people are getting though. I'm not quite sure what to look at next for a fix to this.

Addendum: There are other times that my down stream speed is no better than it was, even on 4g

[MattB29]

So what does your network status> signal information say? As it is, without knowing your signal information, it is impossible to give any advice other than I would wonder about your APN and why you get errors over AT commands.

[aenionrex]

So what does your network status> signal information say? As it is, without knowing your signal information, it is impossible to give any advice other than I would wonder about your APN and why you get errors over AT commands.

Apologies. Here we are.

Network Status - LuCI.png

I am using an antenna with this. What I'm currently doing is playing with the positioning of the antenna to see if I can pick up anything better than what I'm getting.

The error on at commands does concern me. When I give the command it just echos the command in the terminal and says "error". Not a lot to go on.

[MattB29]

Quectel AT commands are different than the Sierra and what I gave you might not work with it. You can get the entire AT command set from: https://www.quectel.com/UploadImage/Dow ... l_V1.0.pdf

Maybe someone else can give you better advice on which would be the best to use.

Does look like you are connected LTE based on your results posted.

[Didneywhorl]

Your pic shows your on LTE. To make the modem stay in LTE issue the command

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AT+QCFG="NWSCANMODE",3

[Didneywhorl]

Your cell tower may be different than 'others' can you get better speeds with a cell phone in the same location using ATT? Your tower may be congested, or the em12 may be sticking to a band that is saturated, even though it may be the strongest signal.

[aenionrex]

Your cell tower may be different than 'others' can you get better speeds with a cell phone in the same location using ATT? Your tower may be congested, or the em12 may be sticking to a band that is saturated, even though it may be the strongest signal.

Thanks for the direction to head in!

I am using cellmapper to figure out whats going on in my area. I found a thread talking about how to program the band and another thread with a quectel specific spreadsheet.

Hopefully I can get to the bottom of this