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Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I am quite experienced with most networking stuff but GoldenOrb is a bit new to me. I would try the following. 1. Reflash the router with the latest GoldenOrb firmware in bootloader mode. https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=6007#p6007 Latest WG160...

Ring devices do not connect. Google Home does not connect. Unable connect to OpenVPN server. Before anything, I would test the sim card in a phone and find the APN the phone's using under Connections/Mobile/Wireless > Mobile Network >APN. The "APN Type" in the phone is usually set to &quo...

root@LBR20:~# cat /mnt/circle/overlay/opt/scripts/firewall* # IPv4 TTL mod iptables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64 > /dev/null 2>&1 || \ip tables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING 1 -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64 ip6tables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j HL --hl-set 64 > /dev/n...

Hello, I am completely new to building and configuring cellular modems in routers. I purchased the WG1608D-M and Quectel EM160R-GL. I installed the Quec and connected the antennas labeled 5G to M and D/G and the antennas labeled 4g/5g to M1 and M2. I inserted the Calyx sim using the adapter. The lo...

I am sure I will. I think it will be delivered in time for the weekend. Is this hard to setup on a Linux computer or should I use my Windows laptop? The router setup is done via a web interface, therefore you may use any web browser and OS of your choice. However, Google Chrome seems to work the be...

Hey, I’m planning on giving my current modem EM7565 to a family member and looking to upgrade to 4x4 Mimo. Looking for suggestions and experience with Verizon iPad sim on the following modems. LM960A18 EM160R-GL There are some other 5g modems available, but doubt we get 5g service here anytime soon...

So far, I have hit throttling on Page Plus once over 60Gb for the month on a phone(took me 22 days to get over 60Gb), it is now consistently 5mbps up and down. No where near the 200Gb hard limit. Won't be renewing this next month, may try Verizon Prepaid unlimited next. After 60gb it is no differen...

I’m using a $50/m Autopay AT&T plan on a x750 spitz running GoldenOrb. Signal strength is around 40% and stays on B4 most of the day and does CA with B66 or B12 when I’m assuming the tower is congested. I’ll get disconnected normally once a day or less per my connection log and I have connectio...

Yes, I've got a bit more testing, once I'm happy with it and know it's works well I'll write it up Another solution is OpenMPTCProuter which lets you tunnel through a carrier's private IP's, and also do true carrier aggregation using multiple internet sources combining the speeds together (not just...

You may try to block the sides and back of the 4x4 MIMO antenna with some kind of grounded metal shielding. The other cell towers could be causing your issues, called cross-talk. When there are multiple cell towers nearby with the same bands on them overlapping their broadcasting it creates confusi...

Ethernet to PC...the Modem at first would not connect..I changed the interface to Static IP and the modem connected via Hostless with 192.168.0.1 The router didn't like it so I had to set the EM160R to MBIM mode with the AT+QCFG="usbnet",2 command. The router came up immediately after cha...

And it works with ps4? My only problem is connect to PlayStation network. Most mobile carriers provide a "private IP" address instead of a public one which is required for some gaming consoles. Check out the posts below for some possible solutions: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hard...

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 t...

mtl26637 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:15 am Surprised it doesn't happen more often. You know that got me thinkin, I think this may be the only forum I've ever visited in the past 20 years that doesn't have or need moderators. Just goes to show you what type of crowd we all are .

Mostly mature, educated, decent folks.

I am noticing the lack of antennas, I had a separate post asking that exact question since I did not see any in the store. I think I might be overcomplicating the design with mmWave support. I feel like the SIM8202G-M2 will meet 5G national requirements for ATT/VZW/Tmobile. Going to order a sample ...

There seems to be some funky stuff going on with the Tmobile network lately. For about a month now I've been noticing some random disconnects on both routers and phones (regardless if tethered or not). I've talked to several users around the country, and looks like it's happening just about everywhe...

Your strongest signal band will not always be your fastest band. On Verizon band 13 will more than likely be the the strongest and the slowest. That's right, while band 13 usually has the strongest signal, it's also designated as the default Verizon band with a fairly low bandwidth and it's very co...

Hi again Didney! Well, your commands were close to totally succesfull in my case and now I have internet using both lan and wifi, to be honest through wifi I am seen the 5Ghz net but I am not been able to see the 2.4Ghz (how could I solve this?). So tyvm! WG1608 routers are quite finicky with WiFi,...

Hello. Is there any way to do so, with a wired or wireless hotspot? Basically, my verizon unlimited plan does not include any hotspot data. Do I need to just stop being cheap and pay $10 more a month, or is there a way to bypass without verizon knowing? Thanks in advance! As far as I know GoldenOrb...

Your router is likely leaking hotspot data through IPv6. Try replacing the existing TTL rules under Network > Firewall > Custom rules > copy and paste this over the entire existing page: iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o radio usb0 -j TTL --ttl-set 65 iptables -t mangle -I PREROUTING -i usb0 -j T...

After all of this, it is still using the Hotspot Data on my plan for anything that is going through the router. Is there something I'm missing or that I have not done quite right? Any help would be appreciated. You should be able to bypass the hotspot limit using the proper TTL settings, however yo...

Does usb tethering an iPhone to a GL-AR750 router use cell data or Hotspot data, My cell plan has 100gb data with 30gb of that being Hotspot So once the phone is usb tethered what data will be used ? You should be able to bypass the 30GB/month hotspot limit using the proper TTL settings, however yo...

Just wanted to post an update for those who were helpful. I ended up bricking the Linksys router, so I started the process again with my WE826. I got to the same roadblock but then decided to try using my Galaxy S10 as the source. Suddenly it was working. When I hooked up the S7 again, it worked, t...

Sweet, I know the command to find neighbors but you have to run it a bunch of times manually to get an idea of what the router is seeing. CA depends on both the modem's make/model and the CA combinations allowed by the carrier (each one is different and also varies by location). You can force any C...

Anybody have the newer Sim7 model of the Mofi 4500? I can't figure out how to run AT commands. I'm unsure if my second antenna is actually being used. The signal status page does not show a separate reading for the diversity antenna. Simply flash either of these firmwares: Here's the latest WiFix f...

Apologies if this is somewhere else in the forum, but I just can't find it... I'm looking to flash GoldenOrb firmware onto my Mofi 4500 Sim7 V3 with (I believe) WE826 (not sure which version) and EC25-AF. Primarily, I'm just trying to make it easier to send AT commands as I've done something to my ...

thank you for your reply -- can you recommend an unlocked phone that isn't expensive? thank you Well, you could buy a cheap unlocked phone on Ebay or Amazon, or save some money by calling your carrier and request a free unlock for your own phone (as long as you've been a customer for at least 6 mon...

Greetings, I had this setup working previously, but lately I can't get connected to cricket, and after reading above posts, I re-checked my EC25AF and now cricket says is not compatible?? How I can tell if the issue is cricket, or some software or hardware problem on my end? The usb enclosure and m...

Thanks Bill. I appreciate your efforts with all this info. This is the key thing I'm missing. I didn't realize that I could create new profile and set the APN. I thought that when tethering is used, the tablet somehow ignores APN settings and gets a APN from the SIM that can't be changed by any use...

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying that. Sorry to add confusion. I think some of the phone spec websites do not give accurate info on the cellular band capabilities of the device. No problem, here's are a couple of sites which seems to have pretty accurate specs on all phones. SM-A516U https://www.ph...

Thanks, I'll certainly give it yet another go. I successfully use a TTL setting of 65 when I use the same hardware to tether a phone on Visible. That lets me use native tethering without EasyTether to avoid the 5 Mbps hotspot speed limit. I've had no luck doing the same with AT&T. Pretty much e...

Does the simplemobile carrier you posted earlier have the same latency issues as visible does using Verizon? SimpleMobile uses Tmobile towers with truly unlimited data for only $50/month. I've been using around 500gigs/months for the past 5 years, and seen others go over 1,000gigs (that's 1 TeraByt...

I don't think the Samsung A51 or the A71 pick up low band 5G. I was thinking about doing the same thing, but will probably look to a phone that picks up both the low and mid band. Just something to consider for people who are more rural, like myself. As I mentioned previously, there are two version...

You're misunderstanding what problem I'm solving with EasyTether. It's not general speed, video throttling or otherwise. I'm tethering to a tablet using USB on the AT&T $20 tablet plan. That plan has a hard throttle on all hotspot traffic to 128 kbps after 10 GB. It didn't do this until a coupl...

That's basically what I'm doing with a Raspberry Pi ( https://databurst.medium.com/running-easytether-and-wireguard-on-a-raspberry-pi-4-3804a2bc9447 ). That worked well for me with an Android phone on AT&T. I'm not running EasyTether my laptop or other LAN devices. That link gives instructions ...

@BillA Sorry old post, but any cost effective Android phone/router combo you recommend? Currently only have iPhones in my household, along with a nighthawk M1 Pretty much any Android will work fine, as long as it has USB Tether option in settings. I use a Samsung S9 with great results of around 200...

Thanks a ton for your reply. Do you know if there are any recommended builds or build guides for someone that uses a Mobile Citizen reseller hotspot right now? A late reply, but I would recommend the thewirelesshaven.com shop. They got a good selection of routers and modems at reasonable prices, wi...

Hello BillA, this is very useful to know. In a few months I'll be in the USA for a few months, and I'll need LTE service. Same as you, given all the hacks, I don't want to give carriers my personal information. It is my primary concern and I only want to use carriers that will allow me to stay anon...

With conventional hotspot devices like a mifi 8800L and Netgear LB1120 will stay connected with no disconnects at all. The issues seem to be something to do with rooter somehow. When it does disconnect got to manually power cycle the thing to reconnect to my understanding. This isn't working for us...

Thanks Bill, I am going to switch to the SIM8200EA-M2 going forward; I just ordered a couple of test units, I would like full band support. I feel like the one vendor pushed me to the other model due to inventory issues. The data-only SIM from Fi is locked to T-mobile, it did connect without issue ...

So I think i got it, I ran AT+QNWLOCK: "common/4g",1,800,412 AT+QNWLOCK="common/4g",1,800,412 Then if you run you see its locked AT+QNWLOCK="common/4g" +QNWLOCK: "common/4g",1, **800,412** After you restart the modem, does it stick to the specified cellID ord...

Bill - Where did you find the specs showing which frequencies have NSA support? I looked at the manufacturer spec sheet and was not able to find it: The SIM8202G-M2 bands/SA/NSA specs are right on the main product info page. https://www.simcom.com/product/SIM8202GM2.html However I don't think that'...

I have currently, and successfully, setup a mofi4500-Sim7 v3 at my parents house and at my sisters house. I have no idea what actual modem is inside it though; so no idea if this is helpful or not. The biggest issue I have had with visible is not activating the stupid sim card / account correctly 1...

I received my sim8202g-m2, I am not able to get it to connect though: I saw a SIM CARD error, I reseated the card but did not see any difference. It does seem like it is reading the card: According to the specs, the SIM8202G-M2 supports band n41 in NSA mode and band n71 in SA mode only, therefore y...

Hi BillA - Brand new to LTE. Moved out the country here in central California. Can you point me in the direction of the hardware you're using currently to obtain these speeds? I know you listed the modem models but can you give a newb like me a breakdown of your setup from top to bottom? I purchase...

My advice to anyone looking to try out a new carrier, is to borrow a phone (something fairly modern like a Samsung-S8/iPhone-8 or newer) from friends, family, or neighbors on that particular carrier, and run some speeds tests in and around the home. Tests should be run during the peak-hours of 9am-9...

swwifty, thanks for taking your time and money for these write ups. Question regarding PFSense implementation. Where it nat happening? Are you somehow bridging over Goldenorb to PFSense? I've not been able to get that configuration working correctly yet. Or are you natting on both devices? Ideally ...

the hardware design pdf on this page is very useful https://www.4gltemall.com/simcom-sim8300-m2.html I don't know if you can actually get mmwave antennas easily? The pdf above mentions you have to get a QTM525/527 (page 9-10) to get n260/261, but those are meant for phones? If you scroll down to pa...

Are you referring to the iPad prepaid plans being blocked by ATT, or the postpaid (or both)? The ATT $35 prepaid iPad plan is no longer available for new users. The postpaid iPad plan should work in a router, however some have received a warning email about excessive usage (over 200gigs/month), and...

First off thank you BillA for all the knowledge you provide to this Forum, Secondly, The same thing can be said about any of the cellular carriers, Everything is not equal, the $50 dollars you spend for service gets you anywhere from 100Mbps to 1,000Mbps, but the $50 I spend gets me 50Mbps to 0.2Mb...

Even if you didn't have the right TTL should still get the 5 down cap. Getting .75 is some other issue would think. 0.75Mbps sounds like a throttled speed, which could be due to several reasons. 1. Lack of signal (simple as that) 2. Wrong TTL which used up all the high speed hotspot data, and now r...

Unfortunately it doesn't work. I tried several settings including 66. I know my TTL setting works because I use it on Visible. I'm pretty sure it's seeing the "hotspot" APN which I can't change. I bought the iPad especially for this a couple of weeks ago just when the change happened :( b...

2nd that hobby sentiment!! I signed up for a pre-order, even if it's just to get in the queue. My load-balanced dual-LTE Visible ($25*2/month) has been pretty stable the last 2-3 months since I started it, but on the weekend it's abysmal (as expected - tourists come in to town and flood the towers)...

Down and 2mbps up. Right now im getting .2 and .1. That is with the ookla speed test on my iphone So here is my new device. They took my old one in on trade in and charged me $100 for this one. We are getting better speeds. But watching Netflix last night, and it started buffering and lagging. With...

I think this may be the case, I contacted dairyman on the whirlpool forums and we discovered my router did not have the necessary packages included in the firmware image to USB tether to an Ipad/Iphone. Once I got that sorted out I was finally able to USB tether. After not being able to configure t...

I have tried all the steps provided for Visible. But I keep getting very low speedtest results (like 0.75 MB down). I have the following rules set and can verify they are in use by looking at the firewall status. Using GL-X750 stock firmware 3.104. EC25-AF. Visible SIM directly in the router using ...

I have not flashed the firmware of the modem yet. I have to do that with a USB adapter, right? I bought one but haven't done it yet. It's running in MBIM mode, even though it can't run the "deactivate" command. Honestly, it's running great right now. It has not had a single hiccup in the ...

Is your phone that you used an android phone? Rich, I think he meant that initially he was using an Android phone via usb tethering which worked fine using regular phone data (used over 150GB), but when he tried tethering an iPad with WiFi (since it has no usb tethering option), that's using hotspo...

I'm wondering if you can just bypass the whole soldering directly to the interior gateway connectors and just use a cell booster and shoot the signal at the gateway itself. Should result in some improvement.. at least seems like it would. While cell boosters do in fact boost the signal's dB levels ...

I have zbt-we826 with ep06 running goldenorb_2020-03-01. Because of the external antenna setup, the we826 is not in a good wifi location, so I'm using an asus router for wifi. I have the wifi disabled on the we826, and ethernet is connecting the we826 lan to the asus wan, so the asus router is just...

Result: AT OK AT+QMBNCFG ERROR You definitely have an older firmware, if it still doesn't work after flashing it with the latest firmware, you might have an engineering sample which I'm afraid cannot be converted to a production model. Just noticed that I mistyped one of the AT-command, please re-r...

My set up is just having the Visible SIM card placed directly into the GL-X750 which is serving as a modem/router. So no router or phone is plugged in. I've redacted MAC and IP addresses from the Network Interfaces capture, I hope that isn't an issue. If there is a specific screen within that menu ...

Honestly never used that before. Been pretty much always following this set up here: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=334&sid=afd0bcc5e838dfe7edc6e347dcb1c78e Now that I think about it, my WG3526 with an EM20 also drops out once or twice a day. I can tell because I stream ATTt...

I ran this again to get internet: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IPV4V6","ims";+CFUN=0;+CFUN=1 OK There seems to be something wrong with your modem (error on AT+QMBNCFG?) Please run these commands to get the hardware info, then copy and paste the output here. The first "AT" by itself i...

Tried this today. Deactivate still times out. Try these commands, I just tested it on an EM12. They are combined, copy and paste them exactly like this: AT+CGDCONT=1;+CGDCONT=2;+CGDCONT=3;+CGDCONT=4;+CGDCONT=5 AT+QMBNCFG="AutoSel",0;+QMBNCFG="Deactivate";+QMBNCFG="Select&qu...

I have the NEXQ60, Quectel EM12 modem, the upgraded power adapter, using a 2X MIMO Panel antenna. Verizon post paid iPad plan. The issue I am having is a loss of internet, but only when I'm on a zoom session. (laptop connected via wifi). It will run for weeks with no problem, multiple devices, stre...

floflow wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:50 pm Was thinking about switching from Pageplus to Visible due to the 200GB cap. Can anyone tell me if Visible has any similar cap?

Visible caps you data with lower overall speeds, where you simply can't use too much... just another way to skin a cat. lol

You could try locking it by Cell-ID's, to have full control over which bands to be the primary/secondary in a CA session. However, the tower may still decide the priority depending on the carrier and equipment used. The commands below will work on the newer Quectel EM16/EM20/R500Q models, but will l...

Yes the Netgear LBll20 is a LTE only modem no WiFi. Very simple Category 4 modem. Added a apn to it to to be just IPV4 no IPV6. That LTE modem is fed into the Wan port of a TP-LINK AC1900. This TP-LINK AC1900 has no openwrt, rooter, wifix etc. Using the OEM firmware of the TP-LINK AC1900. Also disa...

Update: Now has been 24 hours with no disconnect issues. This is the current record with this. Don't know if it is because of the IPV4 only setting now have or if it just because not openwrt based. Real test will be during the week to see if it handles all the meetings and stuff for college and wor...

Hello BillA, Was wondering if you might have time to show me what is highlighted in red ? Regarding to what is highlighted in blue above. Does this need to be done on my house router too? The (access point) that is plugged into the router? My set up has the WiFi Disabled and another router for acce...

Gotta add the APN manually via AT commands, they should persist after power cycles and reboots: The custom AT-command itself does persist on restarts, but the firmware's internal script keeps interfering with the IP version. I've seen it work with some, but not all carriers for some reason. I'm sti...

As far as antenna amplifiers/boosters, while they do in fact boost dB signal levels ("bars"), they also introduce "RF noise" which interferes with high speed data along with higher latency (ping times). Usually low end/cheap boosters (<$200) will have higher SNR (Signal to Noise ...

Hello, Been using this for a few days now. Have now disabled IPV6 and it has gotten better with disconnects. Still doing it like once per day. Seems to always happen during meetings. Like a company teams meeting or a college class type meeting, Literally every time it fails it is during some type o...

Hello, I am using merlinwrt on an asus router with a phone tethered for internet. On Verizon I spoofed all ttl to 65 and I was able to bypass hotspot throttling fine. However, on AT&T even with the ttl at 65 it is still showing as hotspot usage under my at&t app. I tried using the built in ...

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