Wireless Joint

Your transmit power is empty too, which means you aren't communicating at the time you run the at!gstatus? command. Run a speed test and run the command while the speed test is going on. The modems don't maintain connections to non-primary bands, to save on resources.

It does work that way if you have a booster system where you are pulling in signals on an outside set of antennas and want to combine those and amplify that through an internal antenna that your phone is connecting to. There are also combiners that can combine 2 different antennas and you can boost ...

What is weird is that mine did the same thing! I haven't tried to mess with it yet, but the router just keeps rebooting, since it can't talk to the modem. I didn't change any configuration before it happened. I had mine temporarily outside. It was working fine. I unplugged it, brought it in to do so...

swwifty wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:40 am I wonder if you could just run all your cabling through this thing and then split it back to the modem, or if that would mess up the spatial multiplexing cause then it would be effectively the same signal?

Nope, doesn't work that way. You'd need one for each antenna.

CBA850 is connecting to internet, I can connect a PS4 and laptop via ethernet and have full internet access. When I connect CBA850 to router via usb or Ethernet, it does not produce internet via WiFi signal This isn't clear to me, so I'm not sure I can offer advice. CBA850 over an ethernet connecti...

Loaded a wifi analyzer app on my sons laptop. it will not see the 5ghz network from the we1326. It does see the 2.4ghz. Interesting enough my phone wifi analyzer does see the 5ghz network but cannot connect up. It is like the phone just see the beacon frame. The 5ghz signal is strong and the correc...

You saw much better upload speeds with the amp than without, didn't you?

Another amp?! Is that secondary antenna getting jealous of the one that the primary has?

Mine looks the similar. The networking and wireless screens have never impressed me in this firmware. They aren't very user friendly. wireless_network_screen.png I see that it is disabled for Master on yours for 2.4GHz. Did you disable it? If not, do you have the hotspot feature turned on by accident?

swwifty wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:13 pm an amplifier? a lot of the ones I've seen for LTE are $$$$

Yep. $250 for the one that @tgoodwin is using with his grid antenna.

I'll probably work with the antenna pair sometime this weekend. I don't like speed tests, they aren't often that accurate. I started a file download and was getting between 9 and 9.5MB/s (not mbps) So that's much better than 37mbps reported by the speed test. Very good point. That sounds more like ...

Seems like it should be higher. Your signal strength on the first band and 3rd band aren't horrible, but they aren't the worst. You have a reasonably good SINR. There is either interference or congestion or both, as shown by the RSRQ value. Unplug the second antenna to see if you are getting spacial...

I did try my sons brand new Asus Laptop. It would not even list the routers 5G , yes I changes router SSID for the 5g and changed channel to 149. His PC did see my homes 5G network also on ch 149. Did you try with the home wifi turned off or try with the WE1326 on a different channel than 149? It m...

If you tried to upgrade your V5 to the pre-V5 version firmware, chances are it will refuse to upload the Pre-V5 version. I meant to upgrade mine to 2019-04-10 instead of 2019-04-09. I have the WiFiX 09 version and he has the straight GoldenOrb 10 version. While anything is possible, it is not proba...

Probably the best practice is to backup and restore the configuration file. And, do not save settings when uploading the firmware. You beat me to it. That was going to be my next question. I figured that might be different/safer than relying on exact memory locations matching from one version to an...

yeah which is even more confusing, makes me think maybe its just rate limiting? I mean netflix is rate limited on Verizon... so why not everything else? Maybe you have some other users who have a bunch of torrents all queued up and are constantly downloading. :x It does seem like Verizon is more of...

swwifty wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:27 pm I'd be communicating in real time with the guys on the tower. I'd be on the other end of the link adjusting, as the other end of the link in this case will be on the roof of my office.

Ah, so the office antenna is the first antenna after the fiber comes into the picture?

Can you screen shot what your V5 looks like and what is different? Here it is: Screenshot_2019-07-17-01-05-17.png Note that it doesn't show the OpenWRT version next to the GoldenOrb version either. My version is one day behind @Lbnaz's firmware. I can upgrade to 2019-04-10 to see if it still looks ...

swwifty wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:26 pm I'm willing to bet its congestion, because a lot of folks I talk to around here have "hotspots" for home internet around here.

Those are some night owls if they were clogging it at 3 am.

Based on the Status screen it looks to me to be a V5. Interesting. The memory matches the V5, but the model doesn't say V5 in it. On mine, with the WiFiX/GoldenOrb firmware, the model shows as "WE1326v5". Unless, if you *do* have a pre-v5, then maybe the firmware is only grabbing 256MB an...

JimHelms wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:53 pm The Pre-V5 versions are 512MB memory where the V5 is 256MB.

Going backwards was nice of them. Are there any features that they had to chop out of GoldenOrb for the V5 version?

The backhaul PTP parabolic dishes will have to be actively aimed while someone is on the tower. So do you take part in that process (telling them where they are at by you using the ubiquiti software), or do they use their own equipment that is locked onto the dishes such that they know the dishes a...

That's a good idea. It seems like i'm getting 2x2 MIMO given that typically my upload speed is half my download speed and we all know that LTE only does SISO on upload, but I can give it a test. Yeah, I agree. You would think, without any congestion, and with great signal strength and SINR and equi...

swwifty wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:31 pm That test site is... interesting.

It isn't the best user interface, but I played around and got it working and used it for my own testing. It sure eats up the monthly bandwidth to do repeated tests.

You're on unlimited with Verizon, so shouldn't matter.

JimHelms wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:12 pm Are you running the WiFiX version of GoldenOrb. If so, I wonder if this may somehow be associated with the internal ping/reboot modem script.

Maybe the clock is off, so it is doing it during the day instead of the real 3 AM?

I'll be hiring a company to climb the tower and install equipment that is certified to do so with the tower owners/company. Do you give them the angles to mount things at, or do you have the antennas pre-angled on a mounting system, or do you do an active test with them up there with them adjusting...

JimHelms wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:50 pm I am wondering if somehow you have a pre-V5 router--which is what we plan on returning to.

Plan on returning to? Does that mean you'll be selling pre-V5 routers instead of V5? What is the reason for that?

So it seems the tower is probably not all that congested, i'm just rate limited. I suppose the question there is whether you are being limited by only getting 2 carriers or limited within a carrier, or both. It is *possible* that they don't have spacial multiplexing MIMO on that tower. You could te...

It might be just a timing thing, but really hard to confirm that unless I logged data about the modem all the time and could graph it somehow. This might help with that: https://testmy.net/auto It won't show you how many bands you have, but you could possible tell, indirectly, based on speed. That ...

While I logged in to and navigating the router's Web UI, it happened to disconnect on me, and it seemed like the entire router froze up. After attempting to refresh the page a few times, everything came back to life, and the internet was available again. According to the uptime command (ran over SS...

5ghz doesn't handle foliage very well at all. Essentially all customers on 5ghz frequencies need to be clear line of sight. That would be my biggest issue here. Relatively flat, but some hills, and no mountains to allow for beaming across open air from high points. Who puts the antennas on the towe...

xdavidx, Jim latest testing is done with no other 5G networks around me, It does not matter. This unit stated it can do 5G it should be able to do this. I am struggling with using another router for wireless network when this is supposed to be able to do this. Yeah, I agree that it should do *some*...

I tried changing bandwidth for tha AC protocal, same results. I then tried N band with each bandwidth selection, same results. At this point I am thinking it is a hardware problem. What router and firmware are you using? That's frustrating. My primary wifi router is an ASUS RT-AC5300. Very good wif...

Band 13 (750mhz / 10mhz wide) Band 5 ( 850mhz / 5mhz wide) Band 2 (1980mhz / 10mhz wide) Band 4 (2120mhz / 20mhz wide) Band 66 (2165mhz / 10mhz wide) You've got quite the smorgasbord to play with there. :D Also note during this screenshot I was doing a speed test and in this case only ONE of the se...

If you do it at the same "time" and the air time was split 50/50 then you'd have 55mbps transmit and 55mbps receive at the same time. Okay, I'm clear on what it is now. That's what I thought it was at first. I'll likely be splitting most of the air time for download, since most users want...

It *should* be fine, but unfortunately, these things do seem to be lacking in the wifi area. It might give you slower speeds than what you get on the LTE side, depending on how fast that is and the distance you are from the router. I have a Roku Ultra here (setting it up for my parents). I just trie...

@tiredoldwhistler: Nice first post! Congrats!

Feel free to post another topic if you are having issues and I'm sure others will be happy to provide feedback. You mentioned signal issues.

Both the Ubiquiti and Cambium radios got about 110mbps aggregate, so max of 110mbps one direction.. Sorry, I'm not understanding this. If they got 110 Mbps aggregate, and if aggregate the total of the send speed plus the receive speed, when sending and receiving at the same time, then how is it 110...

Aggregate throughput here means the total throughput possible on the channel transmit and receive combined, like you mentioned. Wifi chipsets normally transmit and receive on the same frequency. That means they are half duplex (they can only transmit or receive at any given moment, not both at once...

Maybe try N just to see how that acts. Also try lowering the bandwidth to see if that helps. Which model Roku is it? Do you plan to use the wifi on the router permanently? The wifi isn't a strong-point on these LTE routers. Daisy chaining the LTE router to a regular router that excels at wifi perfor...

I could probably have a thread just on tower leasing. Looking forward to it! :D I did some basic longer range testing this weekend with some CPEs (Customer premise equipment) off a mountain I'm going to be going on, and a location about 3.5 miles away. So this is a CPE antenna to a CPE antenna? Agg...

@james1193: That sounds frustrating. Thoughts: - Do you have a PC where you can run a constant ping to see if Verizon is putting you in a weird state due to inactivity? Something like this in a command prompt window: ping -t google.com - Far out idea, but maybe the source power to the power supply i...

Do you have another client device to test against the router, so that you can rule out an issue with your phone or an issue between the router and the phone combination? There are two 802.11 protocols that work on 5.8GHz. 1) 802.11n 2) 802.11ac To make things a little easier, have you separated out ...

joshb86 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:14 pm For fun and to make my wife question me... I dropped a car Jack in the living room and mounted the antenna's on the handle.

Something tells me that you achieved both goals.

Inside with my current antennas (paddles from a cradlepoint I used to have), I'm getting between -120 & -124 RSRP, -10 RSRQ, and -80 RSSI. Weird thing I've noticed is that my cell phones which are also ATT, I get much better signal and speed because they are picking up on the closest tower. Cur...

Thanks for starting this. I'd be very interested in hearing more details about contacting tower owners and leasing space. What the contracts are like (duration, pricing, etc.). Equipment used for the hops to get closer to the customers (tower to tower) and equipment used from tower to customer would...

Do you have any other devices nearby that are on 5 GHz? I see the exact same symptoms in connecting to my non-LTE router (my normal wireless access point), due to a conflict between one of the 5.8 GHz radios on there (it has 2, one at the lower channels and one at the higher end) and my T-Mobile cel...

I'm using the MC7455 and did verify I have the 2A adapter. I believe my issue may be more related to signal quality, so I'm going to correct that issue first. I ordered a set of these: https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/directional-panel/700-2700mhz-15dbi-4g-lte-directional-...

swwifty wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:27 pm We probably should create another thread to discuss this, and not hi-jack this thread anymore

Go for it! Interesting topic!

Yeah it is. Hopefully it'll be a bit more fun once I start building out the network and hook up customers who are going to be thrilled. Customers are a nice thing for a business to have! :lol: Right now it's a lot of business planning. Although, I am looking forward to doing some long range testing...

Gotcha that makes more sense. I thought earlier you were saying that band 12 was a PCC when you were closer to the tower. No, I generally get Band 2 or Band 66 as primary. I do have one tower where my notes show a possibly Band 12 as primary, but I could have written that down in the wrong order. S...

swwifty wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:14 pm oh, but the PCC wasn't Band 12, right?

Nope. I've never gotten that. I haven't tried blocking all bands except 12, though. That might do it.

But that's not my goal. I just want Band 12 or 66 as a 3rd carrier, to go along with Band 2 and 30, or along with Band 2 and 4 on another tower.

What kind of antenna were you using up close at the base of the tower? I've noticed while switching antennas, that just the internal UFL cables and SMA connectors act as an antenna that is good enough to pickup the 700mhz band, heh. I saw this both with some small omni antennas and the 15 dBi panel...

According to Sierra, power consumption can also depend on bands which I found interesting. That is an interesting find. I wonder if they truly mean B66 is special or if they mean it has 20MHz available, so more power to deal with the higher throughput? Although, if that were the case, why would the...

I think you have it a bit reversed. All I can say is that theory is fine, but it doesn't trump what is done in practice. If you are saying they won't give out lower frequency bands to those users close to the towers (those with strong signal strengths), that isn't the case here. I have physically b...

The cable company is setting up a wireless network? That seems odd. No. What I am saying is that in my situation, if a competitor sprung up that was taking away cable customers, they could face harrassment from the cable company. The form of that harrassment could be trying to create legal problems...

well I'm not trying to resell my internet. I'm doing a full blown ISP with a carrier grade whole sale connection :) I was saying the cable company could try to create problems (even if there weren't any FCC rules being broken) on the RF front through the long range wifi network being set up. And it...

My wife thinks I'm obsessed too, but all of this has lead me to start a WISP where I live, so I think it's a good thing :) Now *that* is an idea! Wonder how long it would take for the cable company to get me shut down if I tried that. Our house and the handful around ours can't get cable, but a lot...

The cell mapper websites/apps were pretty useless because a lot of them are based on user info and I guess there are not many users in my area. I have plenty of people around and they were still pretty useless -- at least regarding location of the towers. I didn't do a ton of comparing the bands th...

Which modem are each of you using? An MC7455, for instance, won't use as much power as an EM7565. Maybe a 2a adapter is okay for the MC7455, but a 2.5a needed for the EM7565. Just speaking in theory here.

Good question! I haven't looked at mine close enough to tell and it did seem like more should have been in use. Interested in hearing what others have to say. It might be a limitation of router firmware too.

My understanding of parabolic physics is limited but I believe for a grid antenna to give 24dbi gain at 700mhz it would have to be more than 6 ft. in diameter. That's probably why you don't see them. Good point. Generally, not as much gain is needed for the lower frequencies, since they travel fart...

I heard back from the ebay seller. He doesn't have any horns that go down to 700MHz.

Very nice.

So you don't see band 12 at all on this feed horn, or you are manually blocking it in the modem?

Maybe the mf279 is picking up some other bands. Are you able to see which bands it gets?

With an ethernet connection I get 85+ with the mimo setup, 45 max with a single antenna connection. I'm on ATT, very rural, lightly used tower. Although the tower is 7 miles away I have clear line-of-sight, not so much as a leaf between my antenna and the tower. That is darn good for 15MHz. You hav...

Those are some crazy setups!

How would you like to climb this one? http://i.imgur.com/5IYr8t7.jpg

The one in the top of the tree was fun too: https://i.imgur.com/FHxPVMb.jpg

@coldknob: Are you saying you are getting a peak of 85+ Mbps from a single carrier Band 2, 15 MHz wide?

FYI, I contacted the seller to see if they have any feed horns that go down to 700 MHz too. I'll report back if they reply. They sell different models, but the one that @coldknob bought is the widest frequency spread. That's the only problem I see with it is that you can't get any 700 MHz bands, or ...

Another test would be to allow all bands except Band 2. This would show you if there are other bands on there that it might give you if you can't get Band 2.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Band 4/Band 66 thing. It will show up only as 66 on a Band 66 capable modem, I believe. I did some digging and I don't believe Band 66 can be the primary band for carrier aggregation when there are other bands present. The exception would be Band 70 and 71. So that's why ...

Maybe just try a few times to see if it gets in there?

Careful. That looks like you have the configuration flashed, but not the true image flashed, since the ID for generic doesn't match either of the lines above for the images. Was that after a reset of the modem?

Oh, I see. That explains it. Good luck with the flashing!

If you haven't re-aimed the antenna yet, maybe that's another reason it jumped CIDs. Maybe a more focused aim would change which CID it prefers.

If you want an alternative, the AirVantage over-the-air flashing is fairly risk proof. Don't even have to take it out of the router or anything.

Maybe you are close the sector boundary and it is jumping between the CID ending in 612 and the one ending in 614. Obviously, those B66 chunks are nice, but the 20 MHz B4 was nice too.

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