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terryjett wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:11 am I assume you're talking about sim cards

My bad, did not make that clear. Meant what model modem card(s) have you used with success on AT&T plan.

oh, then in that case I've used the MC7455 and EM7565 with AT&T no issues.

If you are really serious about your network, then I would highly recommend running separate dedicated access point(s) and a dedicated router/4G modem. All modern 802.11 wifi standards have MIMO, and the latest use beamforming. Beamforming is dependent upon the client as well, and most don't support...

SoNic67 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 4:43 pm That's what I thought. So then, Verizon allows Pixel devices to have CA even when they are on a MVNO, but not other devices?

I don't know the exact situation here, but I have a Verizon Samsung S8 and I get 3xCA no problem.

Will do! Thanks again for the help! My last question would be, any recommendations for LMR400 and where to find it? Trusting amazon is iffy, and Id rather buy the bulk cable (50ish feet) with my own connectors so I can make custom length runs if needed. I guess I could just order one 50ft and the c...

CA is entirely controlled by the carrier, but you can limit your modem to only certain bands, but if they aren't available on the tower side theres nothing you can do about that.

Maybe they meant a 100x increase in signal strength? That would be 20dbm, which I think could be possible. Like I said before, forget the signal booster and just setup a connection for your internet, and use wifi calling. The problem with high gain antennas is they are very directional. If you don't...

That's what I figured on the cable - I considered doing everything in one of the roof mounted enclosures like it sounds like you did but honestly got lost on what PCBs and APs and everything needed. Lol just learning one thing at a time right now. My main concern was even outside the signal is weak...

Also worth mentioning, I'm considering doing something like a conventional gigabit router or mesh home network for the wifi, but if I could get a very strong router combo, I'd much rather have just a single device. In this case, would it be better to just use a M.2 to USB 3.0 enclosure vs something...

I'm confused, that looks like 41.6mbps down, and 11.9mbps up?

I'm not sure what you mean by signal booster when talking about the various Sierra modems? I assume you mean for cell service? If so, you can just use wifi calling, once you get a better 4G setup for your internet. If you are going to use AT&T I'd recommend spending the extra 50 bucks and gettin...

terryjett wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:28 pm Wondering what card you are using and firmware version for AT&T plan?

Have you tried any other cards with success?

I assume you're talking about sim cards, but I've used the h20 sim card for AT&T and the latest version of GoldenOrb should work just fine.

terryjett wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:31 pm Any others using the AT&T iPad no contact plan with non-at&t hotspots?

That's what I was using, not sure if I made that clear or not earlier.

I'm in Central MO, so we definitely have snow, sleet, and ice in the winter. I was concerned about weight/wind loading of the parabolics, particularly if I use a tallish mast. When I first started this project, I was under the impression that I'd need all the help I could get. We left ATT service (...

very cool!

Gonna need more info than this to troubleshoot.

Can you post the output of "at!gstatus" when this happens?

Can you ping the mofi from an internal machine when this happens?

Can you ping 8.8.8.8 (Google's DNS serverS) when this happens?

Thanks for the info. I'll go with that enclosure, and that splitter as well. It'll save an adapter/failure point. I still haven't decided on the "Yagi" antennas you mention ($80/pair), or the 15dbi flat panels ($90/pair, I still don't see how an antenna can have more gain, AND be less dir...

That's a good start. I don't see anything obviously wrong or missed. The nema enclosure I got from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0791KB3TK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I would go with the 9-11dbi "Yagi" Antennas on the The Wireless Haven store that are +...

MitchDudley wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:37 pm I guess what I'm looking for is a single SSID internet connection throughout the house (5,000 sq ft)

You can do that without a mesh system.

Unfortunately no. There's a barely serviceable sprint network or verizon. I've switched my cell phone from sprint to verizon and am load balancing between plans. Throttling occurs after a certain amount of data allowance on either plan but both are unlimited. It'll be enough to be able to stream an...

The interference would probably be my AT&T Z700A home phone or some of the kids tools. Probably not the neighbors. I'm in the middle of 80 acres and the closest neighbor is 1/2 mile. Using the Ethernet was my plan from the beginning. I've order two 15dbi flat panel antenna's and plan to install...

ok...I think I have the answer. Took the unit outside. I recently built a barn house with all metal. I tested outside about 30 feet from the house. Hit almost 60 mbps with the stock antenna's. at!gstatus? !GSTATUS: Current Time: 1003 Temperature: 46 Reset Counter: 1 Mode: ONLINE System mode: LTE PS...

Another thing that is very important with cable loss to keep in mind is, you lose transmit power as well, not just received signal strength. Let's say you lose 3 db of signal in your cable (keep in mind this is 50%). That works both ways, so you're 23dbm (max transmit power for a LTE modem) just tur...

What antennas are you using? Lots of variables here.

Are you testing over wifi to the WE826? If so, plug in an ethernet cable and try tests again.

Your signal stats don't look too bad. Certainly should be able to get faster than that.

It sounds like you've done your due diligence. Is there service with AT&T or T-Mobile in your area? You might consider trying them if Verizon is overloaded. I used AT&T for about 6 months on a tower 5+ miles away, until Verizon upgraded their tower by adding more bands. That tower is much cl...

great post! Quite good performance for your first try at this! I'm quite impressed.

I'm gonna be trying my hand soon at making some antennas. Just got my amateur radio license, and I'm gonna be building some directional antennas for VHF/UHF and the HF frequency range.

I'll see if I can do a writeup soon. Don't hold me too it super busy right now, but I'll try.

As mush as I love to tinker with things, have no clue why never gotten a PI. Bought one last Christmas for great nephew so guess it time for me to get one. Bet it even runs much cooler than other setups. Thanks for reply! No problem, the PI 3 gets pretty hot so be sure to get some good heatsinks. Y...

Thanks @swwifty! Have looked at the PI and they look firm. Maybe sometime you could create a thread with good description of hardware, bet others would find it useful and informative (like your antenna comparison). Yeah I could do that pretty soon, but its really easy. All you need a raspberry pi 3...

Hello swwifty, Actually today called proxicast tech support. Called them since it is where the lmr 400 was purchased from. Basically he told me there is nothing wrong with putting lighting arrestees at the top of the line at the antenna level. Said they usually advise to put them before they enter ...

I just use a Raspberry PI and a external USB enclosure with a MC7455.

Very simple and gives me full control over the OS, hardware, etc.

Band 13 is probably congested later in the day, cause its around 700mhz and in rural areas is heavily used due to obstructions. What external antennas do you have, and are you using Verizon? It's pretty rare to see a cell that only has B13, but I did have that on a tower from my house for a few year...

I would think if you don't want to add length or buy new cables, just put it at the top of the tower.

Could you maybe just splice your LMR cable to add the grounding? I'm about to have to learn how to do this anyway for running cables without connectors on them.

There's no way unfortunately to force ta band to be secondary and not primary. You can only totally eliminate a band or allow it. If band 2 is much better in your area, you likely need some external antennas or better external antennas. For example, antennas in my house (while talking to a AT&T ...

Quick question: "Location: My home, in the North East GA Mountains For reference, below is a screenshot" Could you share what software / website you used to create the the screenshot that mapped the terrain? Looks very useful... Thanks! I used the Radio Mobile Website to do it: https://ww...

Thanks. I have at least 5 towers 2 to 5 miles away, rural wooded area,. With 2 15dbi flat panels do work well alot of the time but I do get bounced around alot. Ill probably just order one and see. Only way to know for sure is try it. If you have a lot of towers nearby, it might help to have the hi...

Looks like you need clean up your system with a good set of antennas and 50 ohm low loss cables instead of 75 ohm. Good catch on the 75 ohm cable. I'd recommend getting some LMR400. The MIMO proxicast antenna should be decent for a 5 mile shot, it's more than likely you are losing a lot of signal s...

This is all very specific to your location, distance from the tower, weather, etc, etc. A lot of factors.

The only way to know for sure is to try it. I would suggest maybe trying the MIMO antenna first if space/ aesthetics is a concern.

This is the tool I'm talking about: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html

You should be able to install it, then just run "screen /dev/YOURMODEMDEVICEHERE"

terryjett wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:31 pm Excellent information! Been playing with few home brew antennas trying to find best AT&T band for my area (lots of trees and tower about 4 miles away). Your info helps a lot, thank you.

you're welcome, glad it was useful to you!

That is a bit odd. I had this issue with Band 4 and Band 66 (used by Verizon) having the same bitmask when I created the special band lock, so it thought it was the same.

Are you sure you created band lock that allows both, or is possible it sees band 2 and 4 as the same band so it won't do CA?

I would recommend trying some external antennas and see what happens if you are serious about getting a better connection at your cabin. Those little omni antennas are nearly worthless to be honest.

This is gonna be a tough one to troubleshoot, but I have a few questions first to clarify. If I understand correctly, why do you want a connection uphill from your cabin at your car? Did you mean to say things the other way around? I would think you' want the connection that seems to be working at t...

Hello, No the tower itself is not grounded to a ground rod. The tower is in the ground though. Think you are saying that isn't enough? Think you are telling me to put in a ground rod and ground the antenna tower to that ground rod? Then once that is done can ground the lightening arresters right to...

Hello have another question about grounding. Have a old school tower antenna tower. It is in a concrete footer over 3 feet in the ground. Does this mean that the lightening arresters could be grounded right to the antenna tower? Or do I need to put in a new ground rod for this? Is the tower itself ...

Hello again. I looked into this. And yes says online says use arresters right before you go into the house. But I have 50 foot cables lmr 400 that go from antennas straight to router. So the only connection spot I have to add them is at the antenna connection. At the very top of the run. Is that ok...

ok...here's what I have so far. WE826-T2 4G LTE WiFi Router 12V 2.5A 30W Power Adapter (2.1mm Tip) Sierra Wireless EM7565 CAT-12 LTE-A Pro Modem USB3.0 to NGFF M.2 Key B Adapter Enclosure with SIM Card Slot MHF4 Pigtail Jumper Cables I will probably mount a external antenna's...Still trying to figu...

My closet tower just has band 12 :( i hope they come soon to upgrade it. strange, the tower that Verizon is on near my house only had band 13 (the 700mhz frequency) which is very similar to band 12. They finally upgraded it about 3 months ago, it was so congested with only band 13 it was nearly wor...

Be aware that the z700a only has band 12 so theres no CA with it. If you can figure out what bands are at that att site you can get a modem to suit your needs and hopes of a better speed. AT&T pretty much has band 12, band 2, and band 30 deployed on nearly every tower then own. I would get a EM...

Also here is a antenna review I did a while ago, but is still very relevant. viewtopic.php?f=24&t=251

Can you recommend an external antenna? It really depends on your circumstances for space and location you have, but i'm currently running these and they work pretty well: https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/yagi/698-2700mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi-11dbi-4g-lte-directional-antenna/ Y...

What gscheb said is exactly what I'd recommend. If you put outdoor antennas up, you'll get band 2 much stronger, and then likely get the speeds you want to achieve. It's also likely that band 2 is much less congested than band 12, so once you have outdoor external antennas you'll see much better per...

Sorry to hijack but I think this is the route I'm going to go as well vs. the MoFi 4500. I already have an existing home network connected to a Nighthawk M1 but the flexibility just isn't there with the M1. What USB Enclosure is everyone using? I'm leaning towards the EM7565 since it seems to have ...

Sorry, Confused on this one. Maybe I wasn't clear. I have two antennas on a antenna tower with LMR 400 running into the house and into the Router. Then an Ethernet wire from router to a computer. If I lost my antennas or my router could deal with it but very concerned about my sons computer getting...

You most definitely don't want to skimp on cheap cable. Especially if you are going through all the effort of running it to the roof. I did some quick calculations and on Band 41 (2500mhz) LMR 400 only loses about 2db of signal for 25ft. That 5D-FB (which i've never heard of) best I can find loses a...

External antennas almost always help (especially if this device has integrated internal antennas) but there's no way to no for sure without actually testing. Every situation is different, even day to day. Only thing to do is try some external antennas on the outside of the modem, and or preferably o...

Very important. You need to properly ground everything. Proper grounding won't save you from a direct lightening strike (nothing will) but its static electricity build up, and nearby lightening strikes that you need to worry about. Use shielded ethernet cable to help protect from EMI and static elec...

Do you have another power cord you could try, or a different outlet?

99% of the time these are power issues, so it's worth it to troubleshoot if you can.

Find no match for 'log' on the page https://thewirelesshaven.com/?catid=&s=radome&post_type=product Here they are: https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/antennas/4g-lte-antennas/yagi/698-2700mhz-yagi-radome-9dbi-11dbi-4g-lte-directional-antenna/ They are called yagi's on the page, but they are ...

LateParrot wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:08 pm Ah so you're just setting up QOS on the one AP right? That's pretty clever as long as they don't know there are other SSID's.

Correct, well it doesn't matter if the other SSIDs are visible or not if they don't have the password

It's much easier to do it further inside your home network. I actually do this on my guest wifi network at the wireless network level on the AP. It's easily done with a Ubiquiti AP, the user just has to connect to that SSID only. It's much more difficult otherwise, as you have to have some static wa...

I'm not sure I follow exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but ideally what ever device and modem you are using for service should have both antennas outside. There is LTE antennas you can get that have two antennas in one enclosure. This is typically called a MIMO antenna in advertising. In m...

It's interesting that you say that as both the AT&T device and, of course, the MoFi have multiple antenna ports on them. I am currently getting closer to 13Mbps on the MoFi after disconnecting the z-boost and connecting the coax cable that was feeding it directly into the MoFi (I had to get an ...

On average 15 up and down. I've seen a few spikes with the download in the 30's. Compared to where I was, it's night and day mainly because I was lucky to ever see 1mb upload (most the time 1-300k) and my latency / packet loss issues are gone. Prior I had steady packet loss and latency was always 1...

Great to hear that! I don't see anything obviously wrong now.

What kind of speeds are you getting now?

It looks like you need a more up to date kernel.

What does the output of `uname -r` show?

Good catch.

If the problem followed it's most likely the cable.

Is it possible you have water damage in that one?

Your signal strengths indicate something is wrong. It appears like your main connection isn't even connected at all with that -140dbm RSRP values. Are you positive your cables are probably connected to the main antenna port on the modem? it appears your secondary one is connected just fine. With tha...

xdavidx wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:55 pm Thanks. Is there any particular distro I need or utilities I need to include to make it see the modem when plugged into the mini-PCIe slot of the laptop?

an ubuntu live cd should work just fine

I would do just that. Mount the PI on the antenna mast in a nema enclosure, if there is no eave or wall to mount the nema enclosure on the outside of the house. Then like you said the ethernet cable is all that is required to go inside. Heat will probably be an issue, but you can put some fans on th...

I would live boot Linux off a USB stick. It'll be much easier in Linux to see if the modem is bad or not. You can easily send AT commands to it with basic Linux tools to see if the modem is still good or not.

Fair enough, then. I'd hoped to avoid having another device, and the potential failure of a USB-C connection. However, I know little/nothing about a Pi. I'll take your word on this one. Thanks! Which PI are you going to use? The PI3 is regular USB. The power port is micro USB. I think only the PI4 ...

Thanks for catching that. Looks like I need a Poe Hat for splitter-less POE. I think I'd rather do that, vs the splitter. Smaller footprint, less wiring, etc. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-power-over-ethernet-poe-hat/ The POE hat is notorious for having all kinds of issues. I'd reall...

If you suspect the signal is coming from behind, why don't you just re-aim the antenna? Sometimes the tower your modem is connecting to, isn't always the one you think it is coming from. I had an incident like that this weekend with a customer of mine. They had clear LOS to two towers, thought they ...

Looks like I linked the wrong product... here's the one I actually have: https://www.ubifi.net/product/wilson-outdoor-directional-panel-antenna/ . Will it have the same problem? I'm hitting close to 20Mbps on my old AT&T router hooked up to this thing. When I had it directly connected to the Mo...

gscheb wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:09 pm Ok thanks will look at those antennas. Is there currently some where you can get Verizon unlimited hotspot plan? Don't use Verizon cause don't know of such product.

some what exactly? You'd have to chose a plan that Verizon has and use that. That's what I did.

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