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Thanks. So did you replace your one band yagi antennas now then? If you have a new set up post I would like to see it. Looked for it didn't see one. I need to update my original post, but haven't yet. I'm using the log periodic radome antennas that The Wireless Haven sells. I'm also using Verizon n...

It looks like you've done a lot of homework on this, which is good. Based on what you share you should easily have a great signal strength with some good antennas. Cell phones (even a newer Samsung S8) have really crappy antennas compared to real external antennas. If you are going to go through all...

very nice improvement! Either of those speeds is excellent.

Based on this photo: [img]http://wirelessjoint.com/download/file.php?id=406&t=1&sid=ed456ca5f8f9689c5d8d186cd4dd4865[/img] In this thread: [url]http://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=123&sid=ed456ca5f8f9689c5d8d186cd4dd4865[/url] I am assuming so. He's using a POE splitter fo...

Hi, Swwifty, The Wilson setup is only one antenna (the one found at this link: https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/wilson-panel-antenna-w-wall-mount-50-ohm-311135/ ). I have the factory antennas on the MoFi... yes. I have tried attaching the outdoor antenna as outlined in the original post. The connec...

Hello swwifty, Believe I just read a post that said you would mostly recommend wide band antennas? Apposed to Yagi Band specific ones? Asking to see if you are still using your Yagi Band 2 antennas as your set up? Very much considering doing the set up like you had from this post. Would you still r...

Sounds like you've made the right choice. I'd order the parts and go. Lots of good guides here to build that out, and folks that can help you if you run into issues.

The discrepancy between RxM and RxD is most likely a bug in the EM7565 firmware. I've seen this before first hand with the EM7565 on Verizon and AT&T connections. You can see this because the other carriers don't have such a big difference. That being said, it could also be a real issue, but I d...

Not that I'm aware of, but a Raspberry PI is the best alternative and much more flexible for future needs as well. It's all I built for LTE modem setups these days.

I would buy LMR400 cable for that long of a run. You'll need one end with a N-Male connector for the Log Periodic Antennas you are looking at from The Wireless Haven (I use the same ones, and they are quite good for the price point). The other end of the LMR400 cable can be SMA Male, and you'll need...

Is your Wilson antenna setup only one antenna, or do you have two of them?

What antennas are on your Mofi? The factory ones? Have you tried connecting the outdoor antennas to the Mofi?

What would be some of the pros and cons over going with Raspberry Pi set up, instead of something like a WE1326? I would likely use the Wi-Fi aspect of the we1326, but I'm not opposed to having a standalone Wi-Fi router. I need to come up with a replacement for my WRT54G, so one way or another arou...

Yes, if you lock to only one band by definition that will disable CA, but in your case it can be a better thing if download is better on Band 2. Most likely though you will sacrifice upload speed as the signal on band 2 will be weaker coming from your modem than band 12. Locking to a band doesn't im...

Yeah I have good Verizon and Sprint coverage in my area. Most Verizon resellers want north of $100/mo which seems absurd to me. There's a few more affordable options for Sprint, but none seem to be monthly. I thought Verizon had an unlimited plan again that was around 70 bucks a month? Maybe I'm dr...

Started using the AT&T iPad plan a while back, works great except that I'm in an AT&T dense user area. Anytime there is an event at the local school, my internet plummets to being borderline unusable. Previously I was using Sprint and never had this issue, but it's tough to find a Sprint su...

Earlier this year, I bought a Mofi4500 to test out. I was maxing out at 87 Mbps down using the "upgraded" on device antennas that look like paddles rather than sticks. I too concluded that the 100 Mbps port on the Mofi was probably part of the problem. A neighbor was having difficulty get...

It’s an actual Verizon modem. Pantech uml 295. I think it is the problem. I Have to reboot multiple times when speeds slow. It’s a usb stick and wasn’t designed for 24/7 use which is what I have been doing for 3 years. Oh, I'd recommend getting a Sierra MC7455 modem then in a USB enclosure that you...

Just found this forum a few days ago. I have a unused raspberry pi 3 lying around. I currently use a cradlepoint mbr95 with USB modem with Verizon unlimited data plan. I have been having poor performance lately and believe it’s the USB modem. I need a new setup and was interested in the pi setup. W...

JimHelms wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:34 pm One of your biggest limitations is that the WE826-T2 LAN/WAN is only 100M...as opposed to 1000m (or GB).

This is your issue. I'm surprised you can even get 92mbps down. I see normally about 86mbps limit on a 100megabit network card.

I found this thread: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?t=46 while looking for more info on splitters. It seems these would work. I tried today plugging in two MC7455 modems. GoldenOrb seems them, but I cannot get either of them to connect. I setup custom connection profiles that matched the Mo...

Wow what a roller coaster of troubleshooting this was. I thought I had the issue resolved, and last night it started resetting on its own again. I'll spare everyone the long troubleshooting story again, but turns out my PoE Splitter for the PI was also toast. The switch ports are acting funny (not g...

I have a gl.inet AR150 running Rooter with an EM7455 in the USB3 enclosure (way better than the cheap USB2 enclosures BTW). I'd like to switch to modemmanager. Is it possible to start with "base" OpenWRT and then install the qmi & modemmanager packages on the router, directly? I'd rat...

That is good news. I suspect there are a lot of random connection issues that could be resolved with replacing/updating the power supply. Probably. It's so strange that it worked most of the time, except when the modem was trying to transmit at nearly full power. I also noticed it didn't happen whe...

Finally found the issue, that was quite the ordeal troubleshooting. I started with swapping the USB cable between the PI and the USB enclosure for the modem. Same issue. I swapped the modem entirely with another MC7455 (luckily i have a spare) same issue. I tried swapping the PoE splitter, but ran i...

OK, so I think its a power issue. I logged into GoldenOrb and noticed now that it was connected to B4 as primary and B5 like normal (while in MBIM mode). I mentioned earlier this AM it was connected to band 13 as primary and band 4 after switching from QMI to MBIM. After I switched it, I ran a speed...

JimHelms wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 2:05 pm Do you have a different PoE injector you can try first?

I do have one, but currently this is running directly of a switch that is PoE capable.

for what it's worth, I haven't had any disconnects since this AM when I switched the modem from QMI to MBIM mode.

JimHelms wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:58 am Inadequate power is one of the major culprits for disconnection issues. And, one of the easiest to troubleshoot (i.e., swap-em-out). It is certainly worth trying since it was once connected without issue.

what do you recommend swapping out? the USB cable?

An update on what I've tried. I rebooted my entire setup last night to make sure it wasn't something else going on, but I still had 2-3 disconnects over night. I don't think it's a power issue as i'm using about 5w on regular via PoE and can go up to 15w if I need to. I did change the modem to MBIM ...

In the last week or so, I've suddenly been having 3 to 4 disconnects or more per day from Verizon. I'm normally connected for weeks at a time without issue. At first, I thought it was my connection monitor resetting the modem when it couldn't ping a few IP addresses. I disabled that, and have found ...

B2(15mhz) with b66(10mhz)on 2nd and 3rd CA is what gives me the really high speed. Seems it only gives me this cell in mid afternoon or early morning when the network is not congested. When it switches cells on me it's just b66 alone. Speeds average 70/25 on just b66. I might play around with the b...

Need4Speed wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:42 am . Now I have to upgrade my 2nd old asus n router to a gigabit router. It caps out around 95 over ethernet

That sounds like a good problem to have, I have the same issue on my PFsense netgate hardware

that's an interesting grounding setup. My gas lightening protectors have N-connectors on them.

Very nice setup! Thanks for sharing.

Just lock the modem to the bands you need. You can create a custom band index on the modem to lock to the various bands you want.

xdavidx wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:10 pm Good old quality control! Was that on Verizon where the band names were messed up, or AT&T?

I saw it on both unfortunately.

Does it say it is specific to B66 somewhere? It also says SCC1. It doesn't show SCC2 as being a problem in the notes? Well, either way, I guess it would be a good idea to upgrade the firmware you are on, @Need4Speed, to take that variable out of the equation. Yeah it doesn't, I recall seeing it on ...

Wow, that's a crazy, specific bug. Do you have a link to a source on this bug from the Sierra website, or was it in some release notes? It's on their site with the firmware release notes (you have to have a login to see this information). I took a screenshot of the bug info see below: Screen Shot 2...

Thanks. I'm getting very consistent speeds with the current setup. I'll average 50-60dl/25-30up during congestion times and when it's not congested it'll give me the faster band 2 that pulls 100-130dl/35-40up. It's operating in QMI since that's how it came. You think switching to MBIM would help an...

Thanks! I'm 100% positive about my connections being tight. Gonna crack open the router today and just double check that they're fully clipped on the modem pins. I do recall reading that some had issues with them popping off. I'm pretty sure this isn't the case here but opening up the router just t...

FYI the EM7565 has a firmware bug that shows the main signal stats on B66 to be weaker than they really are. I noticed that in a couple of your screenshots. It's not an actual problem.

I imagine you'll have to use some software to send AT commands to the modem if you are just using plain old openwrt.

Maybe try the tool 'screen' ?

I don't think there is a guide anywhere, but I can help answer questions as I have this setup at home and for multiple customers. It's fairly easy to do. It's as simple as burning the Rooter image onto a microsd card and powering up the PI. Only configuration that really needs to be done is set the ...

swwifty - i'm not sure if this thread is still active/monitored but i've sure learned a heap about cellular data configurations, which is a problem i'm plagued with. A question i keep having come up in my mind when i read through this forum and many others, is that i always see antennas oriented at...

I think two of these would work to split the signal from each antenna into two different modems: https://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=rfps-2c-43f Also found openwrt supports this: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/multiwan/mwan3 which is "Load balancing" in the Luci web UI...

I think mostly everyone here knows my setup, but I have an extensive outdoor setup that I've used for almost a year now. I have a AT&T sim and Verizon sim that both work. My outdoor antennas are aimed in a direction that picks up Verizon and AT&T just fine (they are on separate towers, but i...

https://remote.it/ is a good option if that OS on your router is supported.

It setups a reverse tunnel, so you don't have to worry about ports being blocked inbound.

Any idea of how to get a signal with a 1700-2700MHz WiFi 4G LTE 15dBi Directional MIMO Antenna if I don't know exactly where the tower is? I have a good idea but have yet to get signal with the external antenna that I can connect with. I get ok signal with the stock antenna except for when it rains...

The new EM7455 came in, repeated everything exactly as before but was successful and QMI is running beautifully. I wonder if the previous modem was damaged/corrupted in some way? Well it's been sent back. I wonder if this has to do something with the new firmware which is on revision 26,as when I w...

The MF279 has a very Simple web interface, I don't know how to give an AT command to it., if you are familiar with it and can share I'll give it a try. There is only one field on the about page that shows signal strength it does not indicate if it is RSSI or RSRP. Thanks Unfortunately I don't, mayb...

jose.herrera wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:17 pm I used the command for EM/MC7455 which is at!usbcomp=1,1,10d and had the exact issue you did, but my modem is a EM7455 Not a EM7565.

I realized that difference after I posted about it.

So you were able to fix it?

Nope, doesn't work that way. You'd need one for each antenna. Yeah, was just thinking out loud here, but most spatial multiplexing processing is done digitally. That being said orthogonal signal polarizations (Vertical and Horizontal, or +/- 45 degrees) probably help reduce the digital processing w...

Can you provide some signal status? Run the at command at!gstatus? and provide the output here.

can you share you output of the at command at!gstatus?

That will help troubleshoot.

Also, is your -83dbm the RSSI or RSRP?

Thread here: http://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=450&sid=e370a379743d0fb0564136c290c4dc2c

Well unfortunately that did not fix it. The reset put it back into a oem state which was for a dell laptop and I was unable to get a connection. Reran Daniel's script. Connected fine on MBIM, tried to switch to QMI and no luck, it isn't connecting. Any ideas anyone? Can you share what commands you ...

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? :lol: 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 th...

tgoodwin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:42 am The spec sheet says it is bi-directional

huh, I wonder if that just takes cable losses into effect and transmits at the max 23dbm.

do these amplifiers work in both directions or just in receive ? I can't imagine they would amplify on transmit as UE limits in LTE are already +23dbm which the UE can easily do.

jose.herrera wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:15 am I found a solution if anyone ever gets stuck in my position. I ran these commands.
And it defaulted to MBIM,but running the commands for qmi again were successful after the reset.

Nice detective work, and thanks for sharing!

xdavidx wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:53 pm Yep. $250 for the one that @tgoodwin is using with his grid antenna.

ouch

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 the mind to play games vs the other providers, going off what others have posted and needing to use TTL tricks, etc. Add an amp to your primary antenna ...

xdavidx wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:14 pm Ah, so the office antenna is the first antenna after the fiber comes into the picture?

Yeah, the fiber is connected to the central office, which will have multiple backhaul antennas to multiple different towers on it.

xdavidx wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:56 pm Those are some night owls if they were clogging it at 3 am.

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?

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 are aimed at each other? I'd be communicating in real time with the guys on the tower. I'd be on ...

Yeah, I agree. You would think, without any congestion, and with great signal strength and SINR and equivalent modulation, and with primary and secondary carriers being the same width, that upload would be 1/4 of download. And in your case, with the first CID, you have 10 MHz as primary and 20 MHz ...

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 before they come back down? with the PTMP sector antennas they will just set them at a azimuth and a down tilt. The backhau...

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 test that by disconnecting the secondary antenna and seeing if the rate goes down s...

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. Can you check the SINR during a speed test and without a speed test to see if that's the case? I was able to get over 100 Mbps when close to an AT&a...

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 towers? Do you do that, or do the tower owners require that their people do that? You'd be surprised, I bet you could find some ...

Forgot to add I scheduled a cronjob at 3am to run a speed test with the speedtest-cli tool, just to rule out any possible congested. This is the results: Wed 17 Jul 03:00:01 EDT 2019 Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from Verizon Wireless (174.218.132.14)... Retrieving speedtest.net ...

How are your speeds with that SIM and plan? I've currently got a supposed "grandfathered unlimited" SIM that I picked up on eBay. I haven't noticed any throttling or deprioritization in the several months I've had it. I'm paying $65 a month which is not bad, but $20 would be even better! ...

You've got quite the smorgasbord to play with there. :D Interesting that they took away one band. Maybe just timing? When they take mine away, it comes and goes, with it being gone more during the day and present more at night. Maybe the better signal strength did it too -- they figured you had all...

Are you saying you'll have higher gain on the receiving end (customer end), so it can reach out to hear the sector antennas, and the non-customer neighbor's won't hear the signal, since you aren't blasting as much from the sector antenna side of the links? I never thought about doing that. Makes se...

OK, so I got around to finally doing some more testing with the EM7565 and Verizon. The results are quite interesting. Below are the results, but I've been able to determine for sure what bands are on the tower now. Please use below as the reference throughput this post. Band 13 (750mhz / 10mhz wide...

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 Mbps in one direction when not sending in the other direction at the same time? Distance was too gr...

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