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I honestly don't know if a fiberglass dtv dish will reflect LTE signals like they do the ka/ku band signals.. That'll be a research question.

Hmmm... So I've been attributing my fixed AT&T problems to using custom DNS servers. I've entered 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 into pretty much every manual DNS spot in my LTE router and normal router. While that may or may not be what fixed it, I do ALSO have a VPN tunnel on my main Asus router. The rou...

That signal strength is excellent... You're close enough to the tower to not really need any big expensive antennas. A Verizon Jetpack 8800L might be all you need...

From what I can decipher from his post, the em20 doesn't support band 71 at all, while the telit can do 2+71, but 4x4 only on 2, while both modems can do 2+12, again with 4x4 only on 2. With most of your bandwidth coming from 2, I still think having 4x4 only on that band would give a nice increase, ...

gscheb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:31 am Was considering doing this with a WG3526 does that make things different? Would need like a 30 foot USB wire.

That should work fine as long as it's a quality cable.. BillA has reported success with that setup. You might want to ask him what brand of cable he has.

It's in the firewall settings... Probably also would have worked had you left stock firmware on the Archer instead of goldenorb. I wouldn't worry about it since you have it working, though. Basically, since the 850 is a router in itself, you didn't need goldenorb to do the modem stuff, and it won't ...

In the case of the external USB modem, you would flash your main router (Tmobile Asus) with GoldenOrb/WiFix to be able to control the TTL settings. I'd find out exactly what model that router is before making any decisions. If it's an Asus rt-ac1900p (aka Asus rt-68u), then the wifi won't work at a...

I'm sure an openwrt package could be built to do so (if one doesn't already exist), but Idk if that could be done on mofi software... If it were flashed over to rooter then sure..

4x4 in one unit looks great, especially at that price, until I realized it was an Omni with 3dbi max gain

I've seen better signal with stock omnis in the right spot inside the house than I have with even my parabolic grid in the attic.. There's just too much attenuation up there.. It's probably even worse for me because of the radiant barrier, but getting the antenna outdoors was a solid 25dbi gain.

The best bang for your buck would probably be a WG3526 router with a cat12 Sierra card inside (the pci-e one, so you don't need the M.2 adapter), the The Wireless Haven flat panel mimo antenna (15dbi), and enough lmr240 with proper connectors to hook it all up. That should come up to somewhere aroun...

Carrier aggregation is connecting to multiple bands... MIMO can work with even just one band. MIMO basically just increases the amount of data you can move across a given spectrum. 2x2 can up to double the data rate from a single antenna, while 4x4 can up to quadruple it. In order to take advantage ...

I got nat 2 on my gaming devices through AT&T by routing only the consoles through a VPN in the same city that all my normal AT&T traffic goes through... Doesn't add much to the latency on the consoles, opens up the nat for them, and has no effect on my other devices...

Good to know.. When I Googled my way to the OpenWrt page on modem manager it mentioned enabling it in the make menuconfig, so I wrongly assumed it had to be built with it instead of just installed later.

I had the issue on my first 2 routers with my em-12g on AT&T... Current downloads, video streams, etc would keep going but any new web lookups would fail. Both of them weren't directly supported by goldenorb so I had to make my own builds. The wg1608 build isn't exactly official yet, either, so ...

You should be able to compile a modemmanager build of the snapshot and get it going without full goldenorb... If you've never setup a Linux build environment, though, be prepared for some trial & error... If using a virtual machine under windows, be sure to allocate plenty of hard drive space, a...

To define custom DNS servers in goldenorb: Network, Interfaces, LAN... That's one of the first things I do when setting up any new router, as most isp's dns servers tend to be dogshit... Avoiding them solves many problems..

For LTE modems, in-line boosters tend to amplify the noise as much as the signal, so you don't really gain anything. Better antennas is about all you can do.. Are those nice 10dbi whip omnis or smaller 5dbi ones?

What's the dbi on those lpdas? Something like 9-11? I'd get a pair of 15dbi flat panel mimos instead.. Half the price, more gain, only 2 antennas to mount. A simple J-pole will suffice to mount them both. Modem seems good enough. The router, I haven't heard much about.. Not sure if it'll accept gold...

If your focus is on band 2, take a look at a parabolic grid with a mimo feedhorn... Should be over 20dbi gain at 1900mhz

At only 2.1 miles you should be okay at roof height... The trees aren't that big of a deal with decent antennas (15dbi flat panel or better). My tower is farther with no LoS (lots of southern pine) and I can still pull in over 100mbps down / 40up with a parabolic grid. The biggest thing is keeping y...

Great news... Maybe your success can be shared by the others having CA problems with these modems.

@Yipzy you're right... Idk where I saw that 2+2+2 spec, but everything I'm finding now only shows 2+2+5 or 2+2+13... My tower doesn't even seem to have 5 or 13 so I guess 2+12+30 is the best I'm gonna do... Thanks for saving me the headache of tinkering with firmware updates...

It's an em-12 for now... I know the 1608 is overkill for the modem, but I wanted the internal m.2 slot for future proofing...

Awesome... I may give it a shot myself if I find time to pull my modem out of the wg1608.. That isn't a fun job with the length of those pigtails

Well didney has a15 for you to revert back with if goldenorb doesn't like a20.. I'd go for it if it were me. Also, could you paste that link? I don't want to try typing it from the picture

Ah, okay... Ant4 is out of position, then... It's on the same plane as 3 in the drawing.

Looks like 5 antennas... I'd guess 4 are for 4x4 mimo LTE and the 5th is the wifi. And am I seeing things or are those mhf4/u.fl connectors near each of the antenna connections? If that were mine I'd probably fry it with my tinkering nature. What you should do depends on your level of comfort with t...

There's a hole beside the black plastic thing.. You stick something small in there and it ejects... Then it's like a tray you place the sim in and pop it back inside

I've never had that problem with usb-c, unlike microusb... Maybe the included cable is cheap af... All my anker cables fit very well and last forever.

What does the connection status on the Asus show when the internet is down? Is it still showing the mifi under usb devices with a valid IP address?

Sounds like an issue with the communication between the Asus and the mifi... Have you tried a new USB cable? Preferably a quality one like an Anker.

On another note, on A17, though my CA stays working even after a week without reboots, I can't seem to get any intraband CA working at all. I thought it was just my tower, but my phone seems to do band 2 + 2 just fine. If I lock the modem to band 2, then there's no CA at all. Opening all bands it al...

I was thinking more of 2 flat panel or parabolic 2x2 mimo antennas with one upright and one tilted 45deg, so a + and an x... With 4 single antennas it would be more like | - / \

My assumption is that it would work best with one vertical, one horizontal, and the other 2 at +-45, and definitely all pointed at the same tower. From my limited understanding, all the different polarizations aren't a mandatory thing, it just helps to isolate the signals from each other without the...

gscheb wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:39 am Register?
Sent message at this location here.
https://www.quectel.com/support/technical.htm
Is this the right thing to do?

Yeah, that's where I asked about the firmware updates, but before that I registered here: https://www.quectel.com/member/register ... l=/member/

I got that same message when I first registered on there, and just ignored it. When I asked about firmware updates, another person got back with me pretty quickly with the a19beta and the software to load it.. She also said they'd send me the release version once it's complete. Support seems pretty ...

Looks like it's only seeing one other cell, and it's on the same band as the primary that you're connected to (intra as opposed to inter) ... Band 14 if I'm converting the channel number correctly?

AT+QENG="neighbourcell"

That can give you some indication of what is available from your tower, as long as you can decipher the output.

Another option: don't use the cheapest possible injector... 16w is very very low-end.. 30w is still fairly cheap, and 60w exists... You can also use 2 usb cables from the pi to the enclosure (1 for power + data and 1 for extra power only).

Can't go wrong with that splitter... The Wireless Haven only stocks what's been tested to work well with the routers and modems they sell.

Vipers post above was talking about taking it apart and looking for standard connectors for pigtails (like mhf4), and if so get 4 SMA bulkhead pigtails so you can run 2 mimo antennas with proper connections for 4x4 instead of getting 2x2 with those problematic ts9s. I don't quite understand the 2x2...

There's also the option of putting the mifi in an enclosure on the roof and running a high-quality active usb cable to it... Would be cheaper than antennas and you don't lose the 4x4 mimo that it has internal. Generally, if you see 5 bars with good SNR on a fast band on the device by itself, then ad...

If you're getting that kind of signal with an 1120, then you may not need any tower or antennas... They may not help at all even if you had them. I'd test out an M1 next and see what it does. The modems and antennae in those are far far superior to the 1120s. If the m1 gets anywhere near 100mpbs the...

Pretty sure they're 2.1mm. I use a 2A splitter and it works fine with my em12-g, though a 2.5A would probably be better. As for the injector, a 30w should suffice for a 2A splitter, but a 45w or 60w is generally recommended as it will support longer ethernet runs and not be always pushing near its m...

If the m1s get decent signal without external antennas then I wouldn't add any.. Their internals are quite good with 4x4 mimo, but they only have 2 bad ts9 ports for an external, limiting them to 2x2 mimo. Honestly, if price isn't an object and signal isn't good without externals, I'd ditch all thos...

I would keep the cable runs as short as possible... Yes, high quality cable has less loss, but there's still loss that can be avoided. If the wifi doesn't reach everywhere from the location the LTE router needs to be in to keep the cable short, then just run ethernet cable to a normal router... No u...

It was either alibaba or aliexpress.. ~$60 The specs say 1700-2700mhz, but I still get band 12 with it. AT+QCAINFO +QCAINFO: "pcc",1025,75,"LTE BAND 2",1,427,-89,-12,-55,15 +QCAINFO: "scc",5110,50,"LTE BAND 12",1,332,-96,-12,-75,6 DL +QCAINFO: "scc",...

An outdoor mimo flat panel antenna definitely couldn't hurt here, maybe even a parabolic grid.. Your signal is on the border of barely usable and non-existant.

Idk anything about those providers, but as for the mofi, I'd avoid it... It's just a rather cheap router with a decent but outdated modem for about 3x the price of just buying the same modem and router...

Boosters work fine for getting usable phone service... They are not so hot for LTE modems...

As for band locking, there are plenty of threads on these boards with those commands... I'm not familiar enough with that modem to know them off-hand.

I wouldn't lock into band 2 as you probably won't get any CA, but I might lock out band 4 since it's really bad in your case. Maybe look into a parabolic grid with at least 700-2700mhz support, those have a bit more gain that your flat panels (~26dbi on the high end) and are more directional. Also, ...

A VPN tunnel tends to bypass the router's and the provider's normal NAT and dns routing as everything runs directly through the VPN. Maybe try manually entering Google or OpenDNS addresses on both the router and your devices instead of allowing them to use the provider's dns...

It needs to be in a USB enclosure connected directly to a PC... Quectel support can send you the firmware and the loader if someone else here doesn't already have it.. I only have the a19 beta and I'd be wary to install beta firmware.

How high have you mounted those antennas and have you fine tuned the angles for max signal? Your signal strength, even on the 'good' end, is barely usable...

Yes, you're on A15... I can't guarantee that's the problem, but going up to A17 or A18 probably couldn't hurt...

What firmware versions do you guys have on your em12s? I think mine is on A17 (even though quectel sent me the a19beta, I haven't tried it yet), and my CA stays up all the time on AT&T. Up until my modem went completely non-responsive and had to be rebooted last night, I had 7 days of straight u...

Is there a VPN setup on the nest? That can throttle your speeds if the router cpu can't handle it.

VPN speed is more dependent on the router than on the VPN servers.. The encryption will keep your router cpu maxed out. To get your speed back, use a better router between the mofi and your devices, with the mofi set in bridge mode so it becomes a dumb modem.

Yes, the 3g/4g modem settings have the APN settings there. Sending AT is a pita, though... I have some more info on that here:

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17 ... 9338#p9338

Most Asus routers will 'work' with these modems... You can even send AT commands if you're comfortable in a Linux shell. I couldn't get decent speeds with my EM12-G connected directly to my Asus rt-ac1900p, though. It capped at around 20mbps for whatever reason. Probably the lack of actual Quectel d...

I haven't measured it on the map yet, but I'm guessing ~4 miles... Lots of pine trees between us, though..

Yeah, the parabolic I got from Amazon pretty much only covered band 2... Band 12 reception was handled by an Omni on the diversity port. I have since swapped out the feedhorn with a mimo that covers 700mhz-2700mhz, so the omni is out of the equation and my speeds are much better (see image below). I...

Does the Asus connect to it when it's in router mode? If not, then maybe the Wan port on the Asus is bad? Lan1 can be used in that case, just turn the dual-wan failover on with Lan1 as primary. If it does work in router mode, and it just isn't passing the dhcp when in bridge mode, Idk enough about t...

So what type of areas will you be primarily working in? If you'll be mostly in/around metro areas, constantly surrounded by multiple towers from all providers, then those 3-5 dbi omnis would suffice. If there's room in the case they could even be mounted directly to the modems and still be vertical ...

Might have something to do with being in the attic. I'd try getting them outside, if possible. Maybe the yagis aren't quite as affected by those materials since they're a bit more directional. I started with a cheap netgear flat panel in the attic, then tried a parabolic grid in the attic. Neither w...

Omg at that price with a cat4 modem inside... Makes cradlepoints look cheap. You could probably get better speeds from a single cat20 modem inside a WG series router with a couple flat panel mimos in the case (of course the case would have to be upright and pointed in the general direction of the to...

With AT&T, simply swapping over the sim and making sure the APN is correct is generally all you ever need to do

I don't like VPN's because they slow down all connections. I'm not sure how robust the openvpn settings in OpenWrt are, as I've always used my Asus router to handle that, but I do know that with the Merlin AsusWRT firmware I can set it so that only specific IP addresses/ranges get tunneled. Right n...

A heat sink and fan will help keep it as close to the ambient temp as possible, but I'd expect it to still stay around 60c if your attic is baking at 53c all day. Could you just mount it to the ceiling and pop the cable down through one of those brush faceplates? Mine is actually mounted right below...

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Nice innovation... Looks sturdy

Do you have any other router laying around that you could connect to that one? Wifi to the 2nd router, ethernet between the two.

Do you have it locked to band 2? That's a fairly high-frequency band and your signal isn't good... It would normally seek out a 'worse' band with better signal if it's not locked. You definitely need to work on your signal either way.

Could be the slot.. Have you tried a different sim?

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