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I find your results of your window of direction to be surprising. Also any weather interference for that matter? The n71 band (600mhz range) has a wavelength of ~1.5 feet or so. I wouldn't think either of those items would have that much affect. I will most definitely have to play with direction mor...

Maximum theoretical speed for N71 with 20x20MHz, 2x2 MIMO, and 256QAM is 226.85Mbps. I assume that theoretical is for single n71 SA connection? With the normal ENDC mode you have to aggregate it all together and include your speeds from your main 4G band along with any spatial streams and extra 4G ...

I agree with cagordon1985. I also have the 4x4 MIMO panel you referenced. Even though it does cover almost every sub 6ghz frequency, it doesn't seem to give as much gain as might be needed in the n71 lower frequency. Depending on the distance to the tower and interference you might be good with the ...

You will find RM500Q-AE antenna port mapping shows lower bands only available on ports 1 and 2. See my first couple posts in this thread for details. Also, see those posts for the possible ENDC combinations. The trick is the primary ports are 1 and 2 and they are also the lower band ports so both th...

Sat Jun 26 17:09:03 2021 kern.warn kernel: [ 291.047958] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:320 dev_watchdog+0x1ac/0x324 Sat Jun 26 17:09:03 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 291.056203] NETDEV WATCHDOG: wwan0 (qmi_wwan): transmit queue 0 timed out Looks like your modem is hanging/freezing. I...

FOXCONN DELL CAT16 Modem - DW5821e Do you already have the modem or planning to buy? If you are new and have not purchased the modem I would look elsewhere, those modems can be a real pain to get working. I've had 2 of them, first finally worked using dell laptop and specific version of firmware us...

Also, using the Network Diagnostics page, ping, traceroute and nslookup all work OK, but I am unable to get internet on my PC. This would confirm that it not on the provider side of things if you can ping/trace/lookup from router to a website such as google or yahoo or similar. Might plug in a diff...

Couldn't be that easy right. Unfortunately the logs don't help much in showing the problem. Possible lack of supply power causing it to randomly drop out? Hopefully someone else will jump in with some additional info to try too.

Dont know much about your specific modem, however, isn't it usually preferred to use 'generic' firmware rather than 'carrier' firmware? I'll let someone else chime in on that but wanted to throw it out there in case it was overlooked. You would think that the carrier firmware would be the way to go ...

Another thing ATT does is they turn off Carrier Aggregation on a single tower per connection that sits there beyond an arbitrary time. Disconnecting and reconnecting allows CA again for a short time. Its a BS thing they do, but it allows them to technically still advertise "X Speeds" on t...

Sure sounds like you have it narrowed down to congestion fore sure. I've used many of the MVNO's along with prepaid and postpaid accounts with the 3 main carriers but never the vzw tablet plan. I do have vzw prepaid line but honestly i've never noticed any throttling on any of them at my location. T...

Those 'NR5G-NSA' values only indicate that the modem is capable of connecting to 5G and from the numbers you can see that it is not connected (max default values such as 32768, 65535). I see this when I lose the 5G connection. As far as I know vzw only has 5G in very select highly populated city are...

If it were me I wouldn't put too much effort into B71 if not going after 5G. Around my area it isn't one of their primary bands for 4G use. 2/12/66 are their main 4G bands in these parts and I would assume its that way in most areas so they can keep 71 open for their 5G customers. In all honesty, I ...

As far as Tmob goes, I think B71 is more geared towards their lower 5G band. Fairly rural area here but looking at cellmapper all of the tmob towers near here like to latch on to 2/12/66 for their 4G signal and i've only seen B71 connect when locking to it and singling it out. Band 12 seems to be fa...

Sounds like you have the connection up and running. As far as the 'iptables' settings you would just need to make sure that the -i (interface) is correct for your setup. In most cases you can go to the /network/interfaces/ tab and look at what device the "WAN1" connection is tied to and th...

The 'buyasession' portal is still used for existing accounts. It is related to att's original older prepaid tablet plans that everyone used to use that got phased out a year or more ago. Now the go to plan for att seems to be their post paid plan which was not advertised last I checked. Just go to l...

When you say 'ipad plan', are you referring to the older att prepaid plans that work through their 'buyasession' portal system? If so, I doubt it is imei related since those plans weren't tied down like others. I would first check and make sure your 'APN' settings are correct, which would use 'broad...

Next week hopefully I get to test on the TMobile Gateway and the RM502Q-AE. Very interested on how this turns out for you. Still no luck here with exact setup and tower at 3miles. Just can't seem to get a good enough signal on bands 66/n71 to get the 5G speeds that are there. Let us know how it tur...

On the cellmapper site, do the public roads show any "signal reference dots" on the map when you zoom in to a closer scale? If so, are they located on all sides of the towers approximate location? If not, you can load up the cellmapper app on your phone and do some lte tower wardriving to ...

Cellmapper is only as good as the amount of information its users have uploaded. It works by triangulation of uploaded signals from various users over time. When I began using it, it wasn't very accurate, however, after logging each provider and using several different phones/devices and driving aro...

Just as an fyi, here are the EN-DC band combinations available for the t-mob 5G service. There are a few more available above "2 CA" but to start this is what we are looking for: Intra-band non-contiguous: DC_71A_n71A 71 n71 Inter-band EN-DC within FR1 (two bands) DC_2A_n71A 2 n71 DC_2A_n7...

I've ask similar question but never received response. Do you currently have the 5G harware and if so what type of speeds are you seeing? Unfortunately, I don't think this is going to work out as planned but would love to hear insight on any successful setups. I'm right at 3 miles away from tower wi...

There are so many variables at play that it can seem like voodoo or sure. First thing I would try is finding every tower that is available within 5-10 miles by loading up cellmapper on your phone and doing some country cruising. Take a look on google maps and/or street view and visually locate any t...

I'm not familiar with your router side of the setup which uses different software than what most use here at this site. Maybe someone that is familiar with "Modemmanager" will chime in. May have to wait till you get your The Wireless Haven router and see what results you get. I'm very surp...

I too have an EM7565 and I don't recall changing the firmware to specific provider. I've had several setups and I've never had to use 'carrier' firmware. I would first try going to the generic firmware. Second thing is your APN. Find out what the exact APN is for that plan and use it with the generi...

Hey docderwood, just out of curiosity, what are you using to run your 'OMR' setup? I originally was using an rpi4 but didn't like the thought if all comms in and out running through a single ethernet port so I moved to a netgear wrt32x router running OMR. Had many issues for 6-9 month with that to c...

I have a feeling you are going to go round and round until you swap over to an imei that is a supported device. I have never heard of anyone being able to actually activate the quectel imei and be good to go. Even though they (att rep) did it and say its okay, I would put money on the problem still ...

Agreed, I would also guess it is a provisioning issue, more than likely the modem not actually being a supported "tablet" device or something along those lines. Worst case scenario, you may have to find you a '4G' tablet and give them that imei rather than the modem's imei and work from th...

Are you still using this setup? I'm looking at doing a similar setup, but with PoE. I just ordered a PoE splitter, but it looks like I need a PoE injector as well?🤦‍♂️ Honestly, I think would be much better off grabbing a setup off of the website here rather than modifying the MR1100. Been there, d...

Ive been making sure to stick with the same server while speedtesting and have been trying to do my testing in a short period of time to keep some consistency. Also here is a band scan I just did in case there are any suggestions in that department.... Band: B2 (Bandwidth 15 MHz Down | 15 MHz Up) S...

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Okay, so I've been working on a 5G setup for some time and thought I would put together what information I have obtained on the topic along with some questions. Here is my latest setup: Modem: RM500Q-AE Antenna: 700-3800MHz Cellular 8dBi Directional 4×4 MIMO Antenna (The Wireless Haven: AD4M 1DP738X...

It does get annoying if you log in to the router a bunch. Fyi, you can disable the forced https redirection if you so desire. Log in via ssh and modify the following near the top of the file in '/etc/config/uhttpd': # Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS if possible option redirect_https 0 ; <<-- "0...

Heck a PtP prob wouldn't lose anything even further than that, with a decent system. I love those things, I just wish I had more use case for them in my situation. :) Fun to play with. I couldn't have said it better myself. I've spent sooooo much time playing/building PTP and multipoint setups back...

I believe gscheb is only posting what tablets will work with ATT's unlimited tablet plan. I would assume that almost any tablet that is capable of "4G/LTE" would work but its good to know model numbers of verified devices. I would hope that the 'main purposes' of buying an LTE router would...

What APN? The ATT phone sim's should be 'nxtgenphone' and not the 'broadband' APN.

The prepaid ipad plans have been getting axed on all devices that dont match the imei to the registered imei on the account. AKA if it isn't an ipad or tablet imei, its likely getting axed. The Post Paid plans do not seem to have this problem. I think the initial 'flag' is the data usage, then when...

If you possibly have power at the end of your driveway I would mount the modem and device in an enclosure at the end of the drive. Then a wireless point-to-point setup to get back to your main router at the house. Best if you could stay ethernet/wired but I don't think you would lose much if any wit...

Not much information in the logs posted pertaining to what actually happened. Tue Apr 6 03:42:13 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan1 (3423): udhcpc: lease of 48.85.81.232 obtained, lease time 7200 Tue Apr 6 03:57:10 2021 kern.info kernel: [153981.340559] usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 11 It is...

I'm sure if you had specific questions about anything in the logs someone would jump in and help or try to explain. Just watching and reading the logs with various different setups and systems is a good way to learn what is happening. Just remove your IMEI/ICCID personal info and you should be okay ...

I agree with Dr-Broadband. I would avoid cable altogether and put the router/modem setup in an outdoor enclosure near where the external antenna will mount. Who knows, a year from now you may have 3 or 4 or 5 setups all with 4x4 MIMO if you get sucked in to the LTE game. That would be ALOT of cable....

Even though it seems simple enough, you might verify that the sim card is inserted properly into the sim card slot. I've had various routers and adapters and i've seen where the sim card needs to be inserted upside down / backwards and such. I personally don't have the wg1608 so not sure if it is on...

From past experiences with ATT setups here are the following APN that have worked: ATT old "ipad/tablet" plan 35/mo. through their "buyasession" system = "broadband" ATT current "tablet" plan 20/mo. = "broadband" ATT 65/mo. prepaid phone plan = "...

I used to run an 826 but always disabled wifi as I seem to recall reading the speeds were extremely slow and never worked like it was supposed to. I think it was advised to used a normal router in AP MODE for wifi purposes but thats not to say the 826's wifi doesnt work at all. Another thing right o...

I agree that running through a VPN sucks and is a last resort for most, however, I was only suggesting to try using a VPN to rule out if the carrier is blocking ports. I have a feeling this happens a lot and most don't realize it. Depending on which test, the diagnostics only shows a partial picture...

If you are able to ping sites and the connection monitor is staying 'up' then you still have an LTE connection to the tower it seems. Certain providers with certain modems/hardware like to block ports for whatever reasons. I bet if you were to try to connect through a VPN connection that you would f...

It seems some firmware files do not play nice with the device. I have ran into the 'slow' GUI on a few different devices and versions of firmware. I would probably go back to the version of firmware that seemed snappy. Who knows what is slowing the device down in the background and could be affectin...

Your logs show that it is in fact disappearing completely for a short time. I've seen EM20's do this a lot. Not something I've seen in the EM12. Not trying to derail but curious as mine does this too. Do you have any more information as to why or how to resolve phantom EM20's from disappearing? If ...

Or is it? I have the old tablet plan and I can't pull up any page on 'data usage' through my online account that looks like what was posted. That page doesn't look like its from att's 'buyasession' system? It looks more like att's postpaid webpage system. I have both old and new tablet plans and as ...

It would be really hard to tell if one of the legit hotspot devices aren't also dropping out and reconnecting except it sounds like they are actually 'reconnecting' if they did drop. About the only way to tell for sure on one of the hotspots would be to start a ping loop and check back in say a day ...

TTL 64 was the magic number for my vzw setup if I remember correctly. As far as 64 working in the router and 65 working while tethering is because by tethering you are adding 1 hop to the destination traverse I would assume.

Does any of the devices automatically reconnect after they lose connection? 30 hours without a dropout on a "wireless" connection in general is pretty good in the big picture of things imo. There are all kinds of factors that are completely uncontrollable when it comes to wireless and inte...

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Not sure on TTL. Connecting phone to router via USB and enable 'USB Tethering' should work.

I think the size of the cable is due to cable length rather than power. Running RF cables at lengths of 200-300 feet your gonna need some extremely low loss cabling. Look at the size of regular cable tv coax compared to LMR400 or even LMR600 RF cable. Its crazy the difference between diameter and ho...

Additionally, our phone testing is with Visible which should be the same as the VZW modems, but throwing that our there for full transparency. Not quite sure if your testing setup (phone setup) contains the visible sim or if the new equipment but either way SIM provisioning (provider) will matter. ...

It's been an interesting morning; currently, the M1 is getting data from a tower that's 170 degrees from where I'm pointing the antennas. There's a couple of small forested hills (50 feet high, about a quarter mile away)on the other side of where the tower is, but I wouldn't think they would bounce...

As far as overall bandwidth, will I still see an improvement after bonding even with such relatively high latency? I saw another writeup that mentioned needing 20 ms max for an OpenMPTC instance to work well: https://milankragujevic.com/openmptcprouter-true-bonding-of-2-wan-connections-for-cheap Th...

Yes just typical prepaid phone unlimited plan. Doesn't look like they are offering the discounts at the moment though. Seems like I remember VZW being picky on the modems but don't remember the details right off hand. Thats the only obstacle I can remember when setting it up.

The only reports of getting shut down that I've seen are from the 'old' $35/mo ATT ipad-tablet plan. The newer $20/mo. tablet plan seems to be just fine. Not saying it won't happen in the future but for now it seems fine. If one is looking for something with absolutely no worries then it would be be...

You could always go with unlimited VZW prepaid too. Yes it is a bit more $ but you don't get throttled like all of these MVNO like to do. I've tried several over the years (even though most are all tracfone) and speeds weren't anything close to the real deal in my area. I think it started out as $65...

Thanks mtl26637! I thought about going direct from the streaming device to OMR. Being that the OMR device has only 4 ports (1 LAN, 3 WAN). "bandwidth greed" set in and I didn't want to sacrifice a port and hoped for another simple solution. Actually it may be as simple as you had hoped. Y...

I had pretty much this exact issue and spent way to much time on trying to set it up through the double NAT. In the end I finally gave in and set my main netgear router as an access point and let the OMR device hand out all ip's via DHCP. Now that I have it switched over and working there is no way ...

Do you have to call AT&T to find this unlimited iPad plan? Does it have to be an iPad, or can you use an Android tablet? I have heard many people talk about these AT&T tablet plans, but have yet to find any reference to them on an AT&T website. I also don't have an iPad... https://wirel...

I take it back. I can't leave it at that as I think I see the issue. Putting everything aside and looking at your screenshot, first thing I seen was your signal strength. I know you said your signal strength was better at some point but 29% is pretty low. It's possible for whatever reason, the new s...

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings by "LOL"ing that an ATT rep. told you that. It wasn't even directed 'at' you but at what they told you. As far as fact, I wasn't aware that I would be put in a position to have to give facts or proof, it was just what I thought would be useful information ...

Not sure why the attitude. Definately wasn't expecting that. I'll 'prove it' if I get spare time. In the meantime i'm sure others will chime in as im sure there are plenty here using the $20 postpaid with full LTE speeds. And no your wrong, its not fail-over nor is it load balancing. It's OMR (openm...

I have 2 ATT and 1 VZW. First ATT is old ipad plan, 2nd is the newer ATT post paid plan and 3rd is prepaid VZW unlimited. Had the typical issues with ATT disconnect on both but I think I have it mostly resolved using connection monitoring/VPN. I have all 3 piped to a Linksys WRT32X running OMR and a...

An AT&T rep. told you the post paid tablet plan is only for HSPA+? LOL, i'm not surprised I suppose. I don't think I have ever talked to anyone through tech support of phone/tv providers that had any clue about what they are doing other than the very basics like 'are you sure it is plugged into ...

I finally got to checking back on my setup. I moved the modem to the on board slot and all seems to be in working order. As far as how to initially flash the RBM33G, check out this link. Seems I recall additional information in some of bnhf's posts so you might scroll on down and check out the rest ...

Not positive but I do believe I was having trouble with the onboard slots. I know it has to be inserted into one or the other and jumpers set correctly etc. I'd say if you got to the point you had that firmware installed and running on the board then there is a good chance things would work correctl...

I have the RBM33G that I purchase several months ago. It was a little tricky getting the Rooter firmware on the device but after that its just like any other router device, except it has dual sim, muliple gigabit LAN, wide range of DC input for power including poe, usb 3.0 and dual onboard pcie slot...

I kinda see both sides of this. I feel pretty much the same when people use this option to save a few bux a month and use terabits of bandwidth on the cell towers when they do have access to fiber or cable. Hopefully for most who are here, this is their only option to get a true broadband connection...

I wouldn't underestimate what the pi is capable of, especially the pi4. The pi4 has gigabit lan and usb 3.0 and there is firmware for all versions of the pi floating around. It was even powerful enough to run OMR which I had used to bond 4 separate providers and use as my main home router. Only down...

Took a quick glance at those locations just out of curiousity. Let me know if you figure anything out or are able to get anymore info. I can't believe a phone would even bounce in between those 2 towers as the distance between them is something like 20+ miles no? Furthest I've really seen an LTE con...

If the tower hasn't been 'logged' from many users from "all" directions then the location of the tower can be fairly inaccurate on cellmapper. First thing I would do is download cellmapper on your phone and go find the exact location of that tower and drive around it in all directions and ...

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