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not really sure will leave that to others that are smarter then me.

I do know however that a vpn, even expressvpn (one of the best) will eat up anywhere from 20%-40% of your available bandwidth in overhead for encryption

better then 5 now huh?

Probably easiest to just load up a vpn on a computer that uses the router for internet. To answer your next question, Proton vpn is a FREE vpn I use to test things like this. For a long term solution I would never use a FREE vpn but for testing its fine.

in the router go to network/firewall and along the top select custom ttl settings select 64 off the dropdown box. then of course click save and apply This in theory should keep you from being throttled (5 meg) due to visible seeing you as a hotspot (makes you look like just a regular phone) I believ...

I always get higher in morning... like you i can see up to 30 in morning till about 10am or so but much less at lets say at 8pm - 11pm sometimes as low as 10 or so. Not sure if its weather or utilization in my area or what. Never settle :D As far as being throttled have you tried the ttl settings ch...

check the bandwidth on your bands as well its is the paren after the band #. 5mhz could get overutilized fairly easily making its speed show all over the place while a 20 mhz bandwidth has much more room for traffic and could be more stable even if its weaker and slower. Again taking my personal set...

As far as an extender or wireless AP setup the absolute simplist way is to run an ethernet cable (in walls, in attic whatever) from your router to the farthest end of the house. Then buy a cheap regular router and configure it as a wireless AP connected to the main router via the ethernet cable. I c...

As a TEST you could try the dont ask dont tell method we dont discuss details of in here. That way you can eliminate the TTL trick no longer working as the router would BE the phone.

Well to give you a comparison my signal strength is between 40% and 50% download is anywhere from 13 - 30 and upload is usually about 2 - 4 with a latency of 30s to 40s This is with dual antennas meticously aimed on the roof. Numbers can change drastically based on time of day and weather conditions...

have you tried using a vpn so they cant monitor traffic?

Bandlocking is done via AT commands: I copied this from a previous past and stored it as I use it on my EP06-A but I believe the commands are the same for all quectel based modems: Enter the following AT commands, and write down your original band values before changing anything. AT+QNWINFO < Curren...

Well your talking to a 54 year old kid that IS definitely dangerous. lets try and simplify things: go to modem then miscellanious in the area labelled AT Command: copy/paste the first command AT+CGDCONT=2,"IPV4V6","vsblinternet" and then tap the send command button in the empty b...

Just take it a step at a time its really not as overwhelming as it seems and once its all setup it just works

If all the sim information is showing up aka phone number and imei and the sim works properly in another device it means for some reason the visible is rejecting the sim when in your router. Due to forum rules I cant give you the exact solution but would suggest you do some google searches on repair...

Did you activate the visible sim in a compatable phone first and make sure that phone had internet.
You must activate it in a phone first or it wont connect

if its not connecting that is almost always 1 of 2 things:
Something with the SIM card... not installed right (physical issue) or not activated correctly
or
You are using an incorrect apn for your provider

Is the sim information showing up or is it all blank?

To quote one of my favorite books DONT PANIC!! You plug the sim into the unit when powered off. There is usually a slot on one edge of the router, it will look just like an sd card slot. Push it in and it should click, again just like an sdcard would. As far as all the gobbley gook that shows up, re...

Are you sure you have configured the apn correctly?

dbshelton wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:57 am Went ahead and ordered the NEXR5GO with the Quectel EP06-A from The Wireless Haven . Maybe not the latest and greatest, but it seems to be a pretty common choice.

I have an ep06-a as well, in a different router but should be able to help with some of the basics like band locking and such

In the old days a few phones had antenna jacks in them that you could hook a passive antenna into but I havent seen anything like that for years and that was just for making calls.

Should I buy something like the WG3526-P from The Wireless Haven? Can I take the EC25-AF out of the GL-X750 and use it? You could use the ec25 but it is a lower end card that is not capable of doing carrier aggregation, making it a much less optimal choice, but it would work. The wg3526 is what I u...

OK. Trying to get this to work. Visible SIM works fine in phone. Wireless connection is strong and connected. When in GL router I get "SIM card not registered" Is this one hard to setup? Already changed apn to vsbleinternet and applied. What should I try next? I believe apn is vsblinterne...

AaronMiller, There hope even at 4mile through trees 🌲 Am sure the group can fix this!! The more detail you share the more we can help. What: Modem? Router? Carrier? Cell Band? Definitely hope i am about 7 miles through trees and mountains but you need to give as much detail as possible so we can he...

Even simplier then that what is your sinr? The booster will boost EVERYTHING including noise so you may infact just have a very strong very noisy signal. 400k will still make a reasonable phone call but as you noted makes for horrible downloads.

I would agree with Dr-Broadband you are likely on a different tower now as bands just dont change like that. As for commands I have a quectel modem so the commands and command syntax are completely different. So I am afraid i wont be much help in specific commands. As far as tower id you can get tha...

Honestly you are thinking about this wrong, you need to find what carrier works best in your area then buy/tweak equipment to match the carrier not the other way around. Also the GL-750v2 is a router, which modem is installed in it? Or were you planning to tether a phone to the router? If verizon wo...

what does your ecio number look like where you get the 10-15 upload speeds Again drawing on my own person expierence I had a situtation where i could get a stronger signal OR a cleaner signal (ecio is how clean the signal is) and what I found was the "stronger" signal which was roughly 80%...

I have a different modem then you but that appears to be the correct spreadsheet. As far as bricking your modem with the wrong command..... yes and no You COULD POSSIBLY soft brick it meaning the router woukd no longer be able to send commands to it but even in that case all you would have to do is ...

As far as antennas and what to hook where if you arent sure crack the router box open again and like i said follow the wires. those 2 gold connectors youhad so much fun with run from the modem to connectors on the router box. Thats where you want to hook your 4g antennas to. As far as changing bands...

just an aside when i was using visible i think i had to use the apn vsblinternet not visible but I am going from memory and I am old

An even easier first step.... try putting your router near a window or in different locations inside the house. Then get an extension cord and see what type of signals you get outside. Also your using band 2 which looks to be only 5mhz. Changng to another available band like 4 or 66 will usually bri...

if your using an omni on the booster do you know where the actual tower is located that your using/want to use? The antennas in the pictre are directional meaning just like the name implies you kinda have to aim them at the tower you want. Omni directionals have less range but pick up signal from al...

before yu go to antennas try changing lte bands and also post numbers from your modem/netwirk status page. Specifically signal strength % rssi ecio rscp lte band Also be aware those numbers can change drastically based on which lte band your commected to. Lte band is also shown on that page under......

You can cheat.... the (2) 4g antennas are the ones that run from the modem on those wonderful pigtails you just installed, Looking at the pic from above again the green board one that would seem to be your front left and front right ones. Sometimes the antennas are "keyed" differently aka ...

Line them up best you can and you can EXTREMELY gently rock them a little till you feel them push in. I will be honest with you I bought the epo6-a modem for a few reasons but one main reason was it uses the larger gold connectors... and they are still pretty small and challenging to connect. If you...

Short answer... yes you have to open the case. Wen you do you will see the green board like in the pic and the modem slot is the bottom right hand area. In the pic you see the modem already installed. If you look closely at the green board pic that silver square is your modem. You can see the 2 smal...

Interesting. So just so I'm clear on this, I'll activate the SIM using a different IMEI from the one that exists on my WExxx. Once service has been established, pop the sim into the back of the WExxx and hope for the best? Correct thats what worked for me back when I was on visible. There is also s...

For visible you need to find a device to actuvate the sim in first. I used my old pixel xl phone. Once activated you can then slip that sim into your router and use it without issues. At one point visible even gave you a free phone and you could use that to activate the sim

on the modem/network status screen which is likely where youare getting tat connecting status from is anything under the modem/sim section filled in? Everything should be filling in except possibly sim name

Sending the Router back. Piece of Amazon Junk. Did you load up a version of goldenorb? If i recall the kufi comes with chinese firmware and should be flashed to golenorb immediately. The we826 and ec25 are a good bedget combination and the kufi variant is the exact same hardware as any other we826 ...

You're very kind, thank you! :) So, this seems like a very basic question, but if you could please point me in the direction of any sort of guide for getting set up I would greatly appreciate it! The thing is, I am a bit flummoxed as to where to even start! So for example, the modem I've ordered (d...

IMG_20190928_154720429_HDR.jpg Should be good to go then. Put those antennas outside pointing toward desired tower plugged straight to modem. No booster. Fine to use booster for phones. Absolutely right, and honestly matches my setup 100%. I have 3 antennas. One dedicated to the booster which is us...

boosters do not support mimo the x configuration your talking about. The routers we use here do but boosters only support one channel aka single feed antenna

If on android I use either LTE discovery, network cell info lite or cellmapper. They are all in playstore and all free. More a matter of whoch interface you find easiest to use.

Its really not hard at all. The basic setup is almost identical to setting up any home wifi router. You can setup things like dhcp and firewall stuff or not. Goldenorb just adds in a section for the modem, and honestly all you need to do in that section to get up and running is put in the APN. If yo...

Ah, so I wasn't being clear - it looks like that to activate the Netflix subscription, it'll involve either 1) putting the sim card into a phone to use the T-Mobile app or 2) logging into T-Mobile's website, which involves...putting the sim card into a phone so you can receive a verification text. ...

isnt there s guide somewhere to convert a mofi to run goldenorb? I will be honest i didnt read through everything to know which mofi and all but pretty sure the 4500 for example can be converted to goldenorb with a factory reset flash. Then many in here would be much more versed in exact steps to ta...

I know for a fact this can be done though I used an old phone that now sits in a drawer turned off. That said if your tablet will EVER go back on verizon network it will likely cause you lots oh potential headaches, having 2 active devices with the same imei is bad news. For a more :legal" solu...

How are you going to use netflix ... on a computer or a device like a roku? As I dont think your thinking about this setup in the right way. the router you just bought works just like if you had comcast or att and they gave you a modem device. Once the sim for your router is activated and installed ...

Once the sim is activated you put the sim in the router and the router becomes a stand alone unit. You could even take the router with you and use it anywhere with the included whip style antennas. As far as anything else to look into if you have setup a basic wifi router before this one is much the...

You say its definitly your current hardware.... but it is the router or the modem? You could likely re-use whichever is not causing the issue. Also constant dropping could well me a carrier issue as I have seen that time and time again in these forums. That said for the router box you cant beat the ...

let me chime in about the external enclosure and mounting the router outside via POE. That is certainly one way to do it and if you on a tall pole one of the better ways, however, if your just going to mount antennas on your roof and your home is a one or 2 story you could also just run some high qu...

Have you tried moving the gateway around your apartment, mayybe closer to w window?

lol its funny I just posted in another thread but bottom line was I tried many antenna types and even though I am high frequency I had much better luck with the cheapo white plastic yago antennas that look kinda like flags.

This is exactly what I ended up doing. You can do all the research and map out things with all the utilities but the bottom line is the only 100% accurate way to find the best tower/location and point your antennas at it is to get up on the roof or wherever your antennas are, with a meter hooked dir...

Ok just an update, apparently they have cut some trees between me and my tower or something as the quality of the signal is MUCH better now. On 66 the ecio is now single didgits alsmost all the time with it even occasionally getting down to -7. But here are my results: On my tower only bands 4/66 ha...

well you have to remember at least in my specific case and many others I see like me getting 30 meg down on a really good day is the norm. In those cases does cat# really matter so long as you have the correct band support?

thewirelesshaven.com of course

Thats why i have been recommending ep06-a

no pigtail change needed and a really buget friendly choice.

Just my 2 cents

it shows 6 antennas but 4 of them are used for wifi. Only 2 actually have to do with the cell signal. Also I wouldnt assume anything about your signal. Most people walk around with a cell phone and look at the signal strength and where it is strongest before even ordering equipement as how good or b...

I only glimpsed through this thead but with a signal that strong could you be over driving the signal? If your using any kind of antennas other then just the generic whip style, as a test only, I would try running with just 2 or 4 whip antennas (didnt see if you were 2x2 or 4x4. This will obviously ...

lol ..... @Didneywhorl fake imei test?

if it aint broke dont fix it

What you really need to ask yourself is
do I really want to mount and AIM 4 seperate antennas?
or
get a single device that needs aiming?

get a good quectel and put it into that wg3526. A combination that is well supported, good thermals, and very popular.

Since your on goldenorb you can do to modem/network status and get a temp reading there

hey now my setup resembles that remark. (in the mountains and heavy trees), mostly just screwed

I always recommend the wg3526 its more money but also a better unit

Try not locking bands at all just to see if it will connect and what band it connects on given no restrictions

I havent read through all the posts here but have you tried locking to just one band? If it is a congestion issue some bands get more congested then others.

The -P supports power over ethernet

You might be right, I thought they used to do this. I would send them an email and ask if you bought a router and a modem and all if they could configure it all for you.

Actually decided to start with the opposite. Locked to 13 only. I dont really like this option much as there is no ca with this method but it has by far the strongest signal, rssi -65, rscp -94 and ecio (RSRQ) is -14 to -15. This is where my question about the 2 charts comes in. One chart says an ec...

crazysteve wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 8:45 pm Yes. That’s basically what I want to do. What do you mean have The Wireless Haven set it up for me?

thewirelesshaven sells preconfigured routers, all hardware installed and all software loaded. You just need to decide what you want and then buy it direct from them

Agree with gscheb, fresh start all the way
the mofi hardware really isnt that great anyway much better to build your own or have letfix build it up for you

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