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I also purchased a 5G tablet from AT&T yesterday so that my unlimited tablet line will pick up "5G". Also debating on switching from Visible to US Mobile to pick up Verizon 5G and lower latency. Havent tested AT&T yet but will update this thread once I get the new sim card install...

I would be interested in learning from you a different usecase I have in mind - instead of aggregating 5-6 LTE connections, I want to efficiently broadcast them over different APs from the same router: On hosting multiple modems via USB3 adapters, I was wondering if it could be possible to have ded...

If Network Engineers are designing their infrastructure on less than 35GB per day, or 1TB a month then that is a failure on their end, and they are overselling "unlimited data". Here are some simple figures below....my PC has a 2k screen, and so does my oldest sons. So if we both watch a ...

All cellular modems set behind CGNAT (carrier grade NAT). No access from the outside unless on specific plans through the carrier. Reverse ssh tunnel is typical solution for most I think. Might explain your issues?

The RM502Q-AE should be just as capable I would assume. Did you try a visit to the tower to run the numbers? About the only difference I can think of is the antenna setups, which a trip to the tower would rule out. Last I looked I wasn't impressed with the numbers on your antennas so I wouldn't be s...

Back few years ago, the only option that was available to me was vdsl2. About 10 years ago local telco ran a fiber trunk line through the county and looped connecting a few towns. One of their dslam's is located about 3/4 mi. down the road. I had them come back out and find out why my dl/ul speeds w...

I would be careful with those units. I have a couple but remember when I purchased them there were several people that stated the voltage regulator is extremely underpowered. I also seem to recall finding the datasheet and confirming this and ordered and replaced them. Something to keep in mind anyw...

Both. Wireless has a long way to go to reach 5G full potential and on the other hand laying fiber for local telco companies seems as common as running copper was 30-50 years ago. It's amazing what my local telco provider has accomplished with expanding their footprint in the past 5 years, well, exce...

His signal was shown in the 'servingcell' AT command response. Visible AT+QENG="servingcell" +QENG: "servingcell","NOCONN","LTE","FDD",311,480,2173102,406,5230,13,3,3,8906,-79,-12,-50,11,0,-160,- ^^^ RSRP:-79, RSRQ: -12, RSSI: -50, SINR: 11 AT&T ...

Signals look okay but was hoping it would show the CQI values but I forgot you have to run an AT command to first enable that. On another note, if you won't be using any 5G connections, I would switch the modem to run in 4G mode so its not searching for any 5G bands on any of the multiple antenna po...

Are your 'per connection' results from a direct connection to the modems or are the results based on what you are seeing through speedify? If you know how to send AT commands, can you post your results of AT+QENG="servingcell" ? First thing I would do if not done already is eliminate the a...

I never actually used the phone for services or VoIP. I only used it for latency& speed tests. Right, however, the phone still may have the ability to prioritize certain packets differently than a data only modem/router setup. I'm not saying this is what is happening, just offering that it may ...

[*] Should I reset the modem after changing the heading (AT+CFUN=1,1) or will the modem settle on a new better cell eventually by itself? I want to avoid having the modem stuck to an inferior but useable cell because then I won't have accurate metrics for that heading. [*] Will 4x4 MIMO only kick i...

I've had a few plans across pretty much all of the providers typically used and usually see anywhere from 25ms to 100ms latency. 25ms is about the best I've seen in a few years. If using an MVNO provider they are even higher latency due to additional routing on their end of things through different ...

I dont think there is anything to 'fix'. What you are seeing is what would be expected from connecting an external antenna to only certain ports. B12 is a low frequency band, therefore, you will hardly ever see a secondary connection to the 5G band n71 since it is also a low frequency band. In my ne...

Sounds like you are having the same issues as I have been fighting for months. For starters, cellmapper doesn't have 5G info available as far as I know so that would explain why you can't find matching PCI. Tmo service works in ENDC mode which uses a combination of 4G and 5G signals, 4G being the pr...

Does it make a difference? I was reading that the modem chooses which antennas to use on which band and can switch between all 4 any time it wants.. in other words, doesn't matter which ports you connect to.. Any antenna can be used for any band.. I do not know much about your particular modem, how...

Just remoted into my rbm33g at home and the file I was thinking of is 'atlog' but it looks like it only stores recent history. Maybe you would need to enable logging to catch all commands from startup but not sure. Also, on the debug page, might scroll down below the debug output and compare device/...

- in the RBM33G, i place the modem in the left-most slot, furthest from the USB port. I'm aware of the jumper to disable USB2.0 in favor of the middle pcie slot, but i'm not using either of those. - I would think USB2's max speed of 480Mbps would not be a bottleneck at the speeds I'm seeing (under ...

How is it connected to the RBM33G? Did you install in one of the internal slots or did you connect via usb port? I think I ended up running mine in the pcie slot closest to the outer edge of the board. If you want usb3 speeds you will have to run it via usb port as the pcie ports are usb2 at best. M...

Having said that, you do need to be careful with cellular connections that you're not trying to combine two identical devices from the same carrier. Two identical modems on the same data plan, hitting the same tower, will aggregate poorly -- and likely will be no faster than they would be individua...

T-Mobile ( postpay, One Plus International ). I have a 5G provisioned SIM for the ATT $20 postpay tablet plan on the way to try soon. Let us know if you actually end up getting a 5G signal or connection with your new sim. As far as I know there are only a few of ATT's plans that are 5G enabled and ...

Surprisingly, this doesn't get mentioned much but the TTL modifications need to have the correct interface or its really not doing much of anything. In your case the device talking to the internet is the MR1100. The MR1100 is connected to the routers WAN port (eth0.2). Since you are using it in this...

So as it is that firm ware will not let me save changes to WAN1 or WAN2, this even with the right AT Commands as soon as I reboot or it loses power it reverts to the settings it came with go those to things, being programed back by the router. I tried to delete the Interfaces, they came back, I tri...

Yes seen where they changed things on the Verizon plans. Now been talking to the chat people and from what I understand is that it isn't a hard throttle after your 50 or 75 GB. But a possibility of being de-prioritized. Said some people wouldn't be slowed at all depending on your location. I'll be ...

3 unlimited lines here. I don't 'tether' but i'm sure it would work the same as tethering a true 'tmob' or 'vzw' line. I have two vzw and one tmob. They pulled a huge dik move a month or so back and took there 'unlimited' vzw plan and made it limited so now the vzw unlimited chops off at 75GB and th...

Not RSSI, but RSRP. It shows the power of the reference signals within and across the band it is connected to. CA is different than MIMO. CA uses different frequency bands (for the most part and for general understanding purposes) such as 700Mhz and 850Mhz connections from the tower and MIMO is just...

I don't think you will have much luck with typical "IT" PC store. They may know of the networking side of things but i'm sure at this point you would know more about the "LTE" side of it unless they have experience already. At this point it could be several things such as comms (...

If I remember correctly, the apn for prepaid phone plan is 'nxtgenphone' and not 'broadband'. I think broadband apn is for hotplot/tablet type devices. Might try changing apn and see what happens? Also might try to ping another device from the router to verify it is using correct TTL.

Running things through the VPN would add at a minimum 1 additional hop so I guess makes sense that when you add one or more to your TTL it works. It kinda sux that if you want the additional speeds you will have to use VPN but once you get it all set up its not really all that bad and is transparent...

I was not implying to not change the TTL at all, I was implying there isn't a reason to use a "new" number such as 88 when what has been used in the past whether it be 64, 65, 66 etc. should work. Maybe, maybe not, if anything bumping the TTL up by one should do the trick I would think sin...

I do not have visible but would bet all of this would be eliminated by routing through a VPN. Wouldn't think the additional TTL changes were necessary, probably just the VPN. It sure seems they've stepped up their game to kick people using workarounds. They are probably just blocking http ports is r...

For 2x2 MIMO and "X" phase I don't think it would make much difference since the signals are out of phase, however, if working with 4x4 then yes, spread them apart. It wouldn't hurt to spread the 2x2 setup apart either since there could potentially be some interference I suppose. While mou...

I do not use the trash can setup, however, I'm working with the same Tmo 5G bands. You are correct about the bands, on my setup the go to bands are 4G B66 primary and 5G n71 and when things are working perfectly it will pick up an extra band of 4G B71 for CA. If I was to guess it seems you need bett...

You have a pretty decent modem there with the EM7565. I too have one operating on ATT. First thing is ATT likes to drop CA after a bit of 'idle' time which could be part of the issue. If you reset the modem/connection to the tower it usually comes back. IMO, I would work on improving your signal if ...

Was just joking around really, I seen you kinda organize your 'projects' by folder. ST Micro made security MCU that were used in smartcards for TV and such for years such as the st19na18 (24x). As much as you know about dumping etc., I wouldn't have been surprised if you had a work folder for it on ...

Been there, done that along with probably 100+ hours of troubleshooting at this point. You are correct though, antenna no longer the problem, using 4 of those particular yagi's and signals are as good as they can get minus using dish/grid, but I think these yagi's even out perform those too. Pretty ...

I can't seem to get the speeds I 'should' have out of my setup so I'm not a good source for speedtests with my Tmo setup, however, I can say I have test many antennas and these are the best I have found for that lower 600mhz band. My system is down at the moment so I can't test but if I remember cor...

Hey Rich, if we were able to scroll a little left in that Win Explorer window shot there we wouldn't happen to find an 'ST Micro' folder would we? lol

Have a couple of these also. These are good for Tmob's lower 600mhz band. Quality is good and they are actually bigger than I had expected compared to similar 'LTE' yagi's. I would say if you are looking to get more out of specifically Tmob's lower band 5G signal then yes they do a great job.

Honestly, I try to avoid any providers that route their traffic through different/additional portals than the main providers APN. This is why visible ping times suck. Granted i've not tried them to see if you can avoid their APN or not, but initially liked the idea of a carrier (US Mobile) having an...

As far as us mobile goes it recently changed. Now has a hard throttle on their service. See video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9uqNuIXhjk Well that didn't flippn last long. Sigh, literally the only reason I switched all my phones to them and now they back out. Was too good to be true I su...

It makes me wonder if these devices are creating some sort of tunnel or using unknown custom DNS settings. I too believe it may be DNS related. All of my amazon devices 'phone home' in some way, shape or form and use their own DNS settings. This can be quite the pain so I wouldn't be surprised if i...

It is very easy to go unnoticed, OMR seems to double xmit almost all traffic on both ends locally by default. What exactly are you seeing here? If it is happening to that extreme, yes it has been unnoticed. Now on the other hand it seems in the beginning when I started messing with OMR I was seeing...

I tried those changes to the LAN interface and now the modem is able to connect and get an IP address but it does not allow me to browse any websites. I keep getting a DNS probe error. Any suggestions? I tried it in QMI, MBIM, and ECM mode. If it is showing 'connected' to LTE but you can't load web...

Is "magic" legal in the United States? Having hard time finding straight forward yes or no for this. Reminds me of back when it was possible to clone the DirecTV sat. 'HU' cards. You could take a legit subscribed card and 'clone' it and have as many you wanted of sat. boxes with the exact...

Sorry, wish I'd have seen this post earlier. Yes all providers block incoming traffic. Your on the right track though, I have a pi3 setup with reverse tunnel to get in from the outside. I have mine setup to forward to a vultr server as my middle man. Might check out ngrok.com, seen a post here about...

Did some digging in the AT commands manual and found some interesting information on "CSI" (Channel Status Information). The modem uses the following signal status indicators that are reported back to the tower to establish the modulation for each TTI (transmission time index - 1ms). MCS: ...

Agreed and a trip to the tower confirmed that I do have access to the extra speeds, however, you got me on the notes. I should've taken much better notes at the time as all I have as of now is the fact that I did get better speeds. I might have to climb the home tower and unhook everything and go on...

My bad. Looking again at the numbers "3" would indicate a bandwidth of 20Mhz in 'ENDC' mode and not 10mhz like it indicates with 'LTE' stats using the "servingcell" AT command. At a minimum I'm connected with 10Mhz on band 66 and 20Mhz on band n71. From what I can tell 100mbps wi...

In reference to my speed issues with my Tmob/RM500Q-AE setup, I'm trying to get a better idea of speed vs. signal numbers such as what levels of RSRP/RSRQ/SINR are needed for speeds say over 100mbps? As of now I'm using 2 of the TVWS yagi's and 2 additional LTE yagi's that are for the mid bands. My ...

Are you using OMR on the PI4? I have one I'm willing to test but it would need about 700mbps throughput capability. Or should I just breakdown and get a wrt32x for the OMR primary? Neither :(. I used the pi4 for about 6-9 months and had various issues with speed/throughput. Could never get over ~20...

I also need to pick your brain about OpenMPTCProuter. Your screenshots got me jelly. :oops: :o OMR works great when you want to combine these LTE connections. It's only weakness is you have to bypass OMR for a select few sites such as netflix/prime since your external IP is typically blocked due to...

NICE! So I will say I have spent about $2800 testing LOL. I can't take someone's word fully. A problem of mine for sure. I feel your pain. Wrap everything up from the past couple years and I'm probably around 3-5k I'd guess. I like where your results are heading. Those TVWS Yagi's are limited in th...

Also the decent results for T-Mobile have been on a RM502Q-AE AT&T best results have been with EM160R-GL. I will get to test a RM500Q-AE this week in a WG3526-P, without the 50' coax runs. Been waiting forever for CATV enclosures, cable glands and other stuff from China. (I hope the WG3526 MPCI...

After posting I dug around the net a bit and all of the logs I could find showed the same result. Seems when you are in 5G mode you will not see readings on the last 2. Switching to 4G mode and all show as normal. Not sure if this is a firmware/modem issue or if it is just the fact that these modems...

Did you hit the lottery, LOL? I will be interested in all of your testing. I'm still working on my RM500Q-AE setup, no matter what I have tried (and that is ALOT) I can't seem to get anything above 100mbps. Have 3 new antennas to try on Monday so fingers crossed. Exploration at the tower shows I'm l...

Much cleaner logs for sure. Looks like you had around 5-10 reconnects within about a days time, most of them occurred right after the connection monitor ping test. Unfortunately the logs do not show specifics of why the connection fails. Maybe tweak some of the settings in connection monitor or disa...

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At quick glance it looks like in about a day and a half of logs that you had about 6 LTE reconnects and around 375 reconnects of dhcp clients on your lan. It sure looks like your router is keeping busy trying to keep up with your wireless network thats for sure. I'd guess about 99% of that log is al...

In your screenshot is shows "Registered to Network=yes". That is pretty much a confirmation that all of the hardware seems to be working properly and you actually have an 'LTE' connection to the tower. It looks like you are being blocked from internet access only (anything past the tower)....

When running the command "AT+QRSRP" I have always received the following response when in 5G ENDC mode: AT+QRSRP +QRSRP: -94,-88,-44,-44,NR5G OK As you can see the first 2 levels of power are showing correctly, but I have always received the default "-44" for the 2nd two outputs....

Sometimes an alternative to modifying the imei is to use a VPN. It all depends on status of the connection to the tower. It might not be the answer for the average user, but it can be an option sometimes. I've seen it with both ATT and VZW where they block certain traffic rather than disconnecting t...

Was this the setup at like 7 miles and using the RM500Q-AE?

LOL, I know exactly what you mean, it took me forever to give in and remove my nice new shiny netgear router as my main router and replace it with what was a raspberry pi 4 at the time. Now that I have, i'd never go back! Kind of unrelated but just as an fyi to anyone wanting to test OMR, that netge...

I just took another look at my OMR-bypass settings since it had been awhile. It looks like I mainly avoided using bypass settings via individual IP as that is where you can run into issues. Most of my 'bypass' settings are via 'Domain' such as amazon domain. Out of a year or more of using OMR I only...

Initially I had a double NAT situation where OMR was behind mwan3 router but that was a headache to say the least. Ultimately I caved and made the OMR device the main router and pushed all devices through it. To bypass say a netflix tv, I set the netflix tvs ip in OMR-bypass and left the interface s...

I did have similar setup before but had OMR separate from mwan3 rather than both integrated together. Had some devices connected to mwan3 router and some connected to OMR router but this was tricky if any of them need to talk to each other on the separate networks. Fyi, not sure about the load balan...

Currently I have 1 ATT prepaid, 2 ATT postpaid, 1 vzw prepaid, and 3 US mobile prepaid. All unlimited and was in the process of letting the ATT pospaid and vzw expire and switching to US mobile. I just checked and i'm only at like 10GB on the US mobile accounts so I guess I need to get some testing ...

Last week I moved from my trusty EdgeRouter X over to a mini PC (celeron + 6gb ram) running OpenWRT. Initially I found Mwan3, replicated my load balanced setup with edgeos and everything was running great. My aim was to run MPTCP, but only for one or two devices. Confused on exactly what software a...

I don't think it is necessarily provider related. I agree it doesn't look thermal upon 2nd glance. It looks like it may be interference related? It seems the modem is hanging on transmit but hard to tell details. Google your error "wwan0 (qmi_wwan): transmit queue 0 timed out". I ran acros...

I hate to suggest as I know the folks here run a store. However a quick google of Rfwel Whitespace will land you in the direction of what I am using. Understood, and honestly 99% of everything I have comes from the store here. Great equipment and good pricing and most importantly you know what your...

Hello all, Anyone working primarily on B71 and N71 won't lose as much signal strength with wire runs. Lower frequencies don't loose as much. Can verify this on the data loss calculator. Maybe not lose as much in 'db' but def. lose '$' from the pocket, lol. Also need to see how bad two T-Mobile setu...

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 ...

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