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You have done some great trouble shooting. Replacing coax, checking antennas and connectors was great start. If you have not yet done so, may I recommend replacing your power supply? I say this simply because you had a power surge and never said you have done so.

That is a great question! Been wondering the same thing myself, kinda. On the road as we speak(not driving, passenger :) ) and my test Sprint phone is hitting TMO towers like greased lightning. Do not have a Sprint hotspot, so was sitting here thinking the same thing... How is this working out for u...

Dr-BroadBand wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:11 pm For a modem see https://www.netgear.com/Orbi/LBR20.aspx

For data see https://www.nolimitdata.net

Curiosity has gotten the best of me. What is your relationship with NoLimitData?

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from that thread. I asked because I already did quite a bit of searching here and elsewhere and couldn't find anything useful. My bad, sorry not helpful for you. The info worked for me in my tests last night, thought it might be useful. Sure you will find someo...

gscheb wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:49 am Do you have a fried or family with similar set up? Test your router modem unit at their house see how it does there.

Very good idea and point.

Yeah I work on multi-million dollar digital offset presses for a living, troubleshooting is half of my day. :D I'm not an RF expert by any means, but it seems odd that I can get -75dbm with the meter, but the modem continues to see -90 to -110, and horrible RSRQ and SINR now. Here's a crude drawing...

Take a look at this: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=6596#p6596

There are some other threads here but you may have to do some digging by using the search box.

I keep telling myself need to try load balancing, but seems there are never enough hours in a day

"I'm not sure how it could be the router, since the antennas go directly to the modem" Only throwing the router in there because it controls the modem and provides an interface to it. Far shot but not unheard of is bad power supply. They can get "noisy" after power surges. Have n...

Yes, it can be very frustrating. Been there a few times. The SureCall unit is cool, got to try one out last month. Keep in mind they test 728- 746 MHz / 746-757 MHz / 869-894 MHz / 1930-1990 MHz / 2110-2155 MHz, Covers Band 5, 4 and 2 for sure. Does not test band 30 which covers 2350 – 2360 (DL). Ba...

I might have made a mistake by assuming you are on a different tower with a quick scan of your image: B4OlUqr[1].png But, your signal is on verge of being unusable. You can experiment with band locking. If/when you do, see how much the RSSI. RSRP and RSRQ changes. Try locking on band 5 and view your...

The signal from tower has has changed for sure. Your RSRQ is really bad and so is your RSRP. lte-singal.png You are also on a different tower compared to first screenshot / old 7565 modem. This may actually be the major differences. You said you replaced the coax. If you are confident that the conne...

Netgear Nighthawk M1 MR1100 Modem Router Modification 4x4 MIMO Antenna See YouTube https://youtu.be/oMa0cd87r6Y Cool video! No offense but that kit is pricey. But, might be better for those without soldering and construction skills. About $12 in sma connectors, round file (dremel w/round sander att...

All around great and affordable router is right here:) https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/routers/lte-routers/we826-go-4g-lte-wifi-router/ You get a product that is supported by not only the thewirelesshaven.com folks, there are many here who also use the WE826. Have a couple of them and they run wit...

NO disrespect to anyone on this board, I'm trying to glean a fix for my long ongoing problem of using hotspot data. So in trying to figure it out. I did not intentionally chose this TTL settings without giving proper credit to who ever originally posted it. Wow, sorry. Did not mean anything, just a...

I have a couple of Visible test accounts. Noticed one of the them would hit 20-30mbps and then drop right down to 5mbps. Got on Visible chat and explained that I could hit 20-30 but was automatically throttled back to 5. After about 10 minutes, a restart and was back to getting full speed. Seems the...

When I go to my (custom rules) tab, this what I see. Do I need to paste in the last TTL settings in your post, and get rid of all the other (stuff) in mine? I have not learned the AT commands, so bear with me, I wanted to just paste in what you posted, but did not know if I needed any of that other...

Worked with data without even being activated yet. No phone number appeared in my settings and I got these results.... https://i.ibb.co/DWZMnHT/Screenshot-20200916-164955-2.jpg I'll be placing it in a Netgear LB1120 that a relative of mine has for their small business. They have a tower basically r...

If your friend is that close to t-mobile tower and tower is not congested, simplemobile could be a very good choice. Have tried simplemobile and not bad at all, but my area the tower is so congested, never got over 1mbps down in prime time. Know simplemobile works great in other areas, have tested i...

That is a lot of data and using 2-3 providers in load balance setup "might" get you through. The days of using phone plans as home internet is slowing closing down. T-Mobile is on a witch hunt and taking action: https://nwida.org/t-mobile-removes-rural-dealers-over-excessive-usage AT&T...

Thanks for the advice! If you want to link to an ebay auction I can message you on there? Sorry for delay in response. Just not enough hours in the day lately. Setting up a small community WISP out in East Texas and it has consumed my mind, body and time, lol. BTW, great idea on how to contact:) In...

Sounds like you have a plan :) Way back in the days, lived in one of those little campers for two years. That was during the big us cellular expansion days, bout 1996 (or best I can recall - the road burnt me up). There are so many ways you can use antennas. Really hard to say if yagi is better than...

Hi Terry, Do I understand correctly that I can use this system to connect to a wifi network far away. The receiver that gets the external signal also creates a local wifi network and then connects (wired) to another wifi access point. Do you still have this for sale? If so, please contact me. Thank...

And of course you could hang this great Andy Warhol painting on the wall, right behind the router. :lol: Gotta love the artistic side of the mobile router industry. he-he https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YJY6uAsdL._AC_SL1100_.jpg What you talkin bout willis? Now you making fun of ...

I bought some connectors to do this but looked to hard to Solder them on. This is what I did do which helped getting better connection on the two normal ports. Only issue is solder is very weak if you put pressure on it. So over time they start to get loose. Don't know if I would recommend doing th...

Hi all -- newbie here so apologies if this is well-trodden territory but -- I realize now that I don't need the wifi on the MOFI4500, and could probably use another pair of antennas out in my neck of the woods. Is it possible to disable the wifi, replace the 2 front ports with SMA, and rewire to ge...

prideauxx wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:17 pm Thank you all. Sorry for being dense.

No problem at all! I have been in your shoes at one time or another

Pretty simple.

Click the attachments tab. Add your file(s).

Place cursor on line you wish photo appear and click the "Place inline" button beside photo name:

The Wireless Haven-mimo.png

Your photo is now where your cursor was.

On TMobile yes. On ATT it works, for now, but they are backporting what they learn from Cricket DPI into ATT. I am expecting to see some public announcement soon and will point to our group here to that but VPN/P2P data is currently already backported and will be tagged as "hotspot" data....

Hello Terry and thank You again for your kind help ! I will try to look at Linux this weekend. But have to say I never thought getting LTE to work on an SBC would be this complicated or riddled with unknowns. Still dont understand why its so hard to get it working under Win 10 No worries, hope you ...

I already tried generic drivers etc no luck. Ok so lets say i dont use win10 for this EM7455 which is now flashed with latest generic firmware (after You helped me with the script) What OS then can i make it work and get celullar connection ? Is it working with Ubuntu 20.04 for example ? and if so ...

Unfortunately trying to make a living has gotten into the way of side projects in my life. I have not had a chance to spend any time on this project. Hope to get back to projects like this in the near future.

Sorry it's the habit of doing it. I have deleted the link. Whenever I copy the links it self-affiliate Thanks anyway for the information I think it is perfectly fine to use affiliate links long as not over done. I have seen quite a few affiliate links over the years, but did not recognize that one:...

I had them activate two of them. I have it in an EM20 and am getting the best internet I have seen with just the stock wg3526 antennas. Only 100mbps so far but everything I do works and feels faster. That is great! Couple of stores in my area and they are not near as friendly when not having device...

Just remembered...

Also got working with usb adapter and old ASUS RT-N56U. There are many routers out there that can take a USB modem

Something to keep in mind as backup plan...

I already tried generic drivers etc no luck. Ok so lets say i dont use win10 for this EM7455 which is now flashed with latest generic firmware (after You helped me with the script) What OS then can i make it work and get celullar connection ? Is it working with Ubuntu 20.04 for example ? and if so ...

I went today and it was easy as can be, they would've given me as many as I wanted with no IMEI necessary. I do have a business account there so maybe that helps but it didn't seem like it. Have not had anyone at my local store be so generous. They frowned upon not having my device in hand. Gave me...

Thank You Terryjet !!!! This worked and the EM7455 is now flashed to generic firmware Back in WIndows 10 its now listed as Generic EM7455 under Network cards and has 2 COM ports as SNapdragon under Com ports (in Device Manager) However when i look under network connections it does identify my Carri...

This is only a temp fix I made on a forked version and it worked for me. Made a change to bash script recommended by another user. It will only work for current firmware release 02.33.03.00_Generic_002.072_000. Just a temp fix until Mr Woods can update his: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qik...

gscheb wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:29 pm I got two of these used if someone wanted to buy one.

You should list them on the market place https://wirelessjoint.com/viewforum.php?f=38 and even on the Facebook Group

Yeah I’m hoping they’re in stock again soon. In the meantime, I want to try out the flat panel type - while definitely better than the two small yagi’s I had, the parabolic grid and/or log periodic directionals are not quite as strong/consistent as I need - and see if that works better in my situat...

Ok, I am all good on the two EM7455's. I sat down and ran through both modems using my ole standby method which Jim wrote up some time back in a Google doc. Thanks to all who gave me tips.

If you muster up some courage, you many want to try these methods to convert to generic Sierra model. https://github.com/danielewood/sierra-wireless-modems#change-modem-identity-sierra-wireless--lenovo--dell OR https://zukota.com/sierra-wireless-em7455-how-to-make-it-work-with-an-older-lenovo-lapto...

Terry, I believe the Dell branded EM7455s just need to be reassigned to the current firmware version. For some reason it goes into low power and mismatched firmware. It sometimes borks it Ive heard, but usually putting it in a sled and sending a few commands like IMPREF= ..... then AT+CFUN=1,1 will...

BillA wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:37 pm Interesting info professor Terryjett, I will cuddle up with it tonight in bed and dive in.

More like Mr MaGoo but thanks for the boost in confidence

Love Reddit but it can be a rumor mill. Have not heard that about AT&T. Nevertheless I want to subscribe to this thread and see what others have to say

Could be true...

@Viper67857 is giving you great advice. That is what we do when providing professional installations.

The mount we use is this one https://amzn.to/3i8spkC

Has everything needed to install (except the manual labor and tools).

Thanks, I had seen that post and have to agree with the poster. Just seems dumb that there is no USB, or Ethernet method to update the firmware, ONLY through the GUI? Poor Design. So if you have one in the closet, what are you using now? Very poor design but like a fox. In other words they can sell...

Pretty small connectors. They must be tight and no, I would not recommend gluing them. Soldering might well damaging beyond repair (heck, glue might do the same). Totally bad idea. But I have been frustrated too :) My eyes suck. I have to use a high powered lighted desk magnifier (exact model https:...

Welcome to the forum! Have one myself sitting on closet shelf. Figured would hold on to it until found way to upgrade the firmware. Not looking good. Maybe someone will see this post and provide good news :) Here is some info you may have already seen: https://forums.att.com/conversations/other-phon...

I blindly jumped in not thinking that I have EM7455's based off the Dell versions. When I did the AT!RMARESET=1 it wrecked the modem. Even worse my dumb arse did it to two of the modems, lol. Late night mistake, should have been in bed. So if you are not using the MC/EM7455 directly branded by Sierr...

This may be my issue: at!IMPREF? !IMPREF: preferred fw version: 02.08.02.00 preferred carrier name: GENERIC preferred config name: GENERIC_002.007_000 current fw version: 02.30.01.01 current carrier name: GENERIC current config name: GENERIC_002.007_000 fw version mismatch I could have sworn had 02....

According to this post need mbim. Which I know you seen this too. https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=653&p=4057&hilit=Visible#p4057 Wonder if you need LTE only set? Since visible only uses LTE data. Good points, thanks! Going to reset modem again and just start with the basi...

I have been trying to get Visible working in a WiFiX-NEXQ6GO (new version of WE826)with EM7455. Followed Mr Bill's steps and looks like it is going to connect, but never quite makes it. Looking at debug output I think it is going to connect, then it stalls with: Thu Jun 25 15:11:03 2020 : /dev/ttyUS...

No problem! Look forward to seeing the error logs, when get a chance. In the meantime - 1. I did not realize you have two L850. Are both of them identical to the picture above? The reason I ask is that the picture shows a "Rev 4". If both of yours have that, it might explain why yours are...

I have tried a few USB adapters which draws power from USB port and a enclosure like this https://amzn.to/2Nn7mgc but you may have good point about power. My Fibocom is exactly like this one (ordered a second one to compare): L850.jpg What has taken so long for me to reply is looking for error logs ...

Hi @terryjett, I have a Fibocom L860-GL which I would like to use for WWAN, preferably in am M-2 to USB enclosure attached thru router. Found this thread. Could you please post an update on your work in the last couple of months, if you could get your Fibocom L860-GL to work under Windows,Linux, Op...

Glad you got the disconnects solved. Surprised that the until was faulty since very well made but it can happen to any equipment.

With the high frequency of band 41 not unusual for signals to vary. I am one mile from tower with some trees in between and my signal varies with time of day.

The carrier maps are useless as you well know. They are trying out do each other by simply changing phone to show 5G

About he best online resource I have found is https://www.speedtest.net/ookla-5g-map

Here is a paper about the "Fresnel Zone and Cellular" I wrote up some time ago and just found it. Did a little refresh on it today. Originally compiled for a lecture I gave few years back. Maybe folks here will find the information useful. Keep in mind that I am a country hick, so grammar ...

1337Jess wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:04 pm I am completely satisfied with 96Mbps DOWN \ 27Mbps UP. I think I may just look at moving the router by a windows on that side of the house.

Thank goodness for The Wireless Haven / Wireless Joint! Nice to come to a place where you can get help...

1337Jess wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:58 am I dont think direction is an option for me...

thewirelesshaven offers surveys to help you locate carrier towers https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/tower-survey/ce ... y-reports/

Could be an option if you cannot locate towers on your own.

"Anybody know whats going on. Im feeling like its sthe twilight zone with this whole thing."

I am afraid you will have to be the one to answer your own question

Maybe SIM card was not set right or they took their sweet time activating. Could be number of things.

I have never used a ipad (seriously - never used one). But they are popular in the education world. Heard a lot of people saying they cannot stay connected to the thing via wifi hotspot though. Good luck, hope you get it working,

If you want something cheap that will work out of box and supports lots of open source code, try the GL.iNET GL-MT300N-V2 Wireless Mini Portable Travel Router https://amzn.to/2Bs9Erw I love these little fellows and have passed many on to teachers needing a quick fix. Right out of box you can tether ...

This is the thing they sent with this router thats supposed to be plugged in with it. It has two removable antennae also but they dont stay in and they are very clunky https://i.ibb.co/yyZgSz9/thumbnail-IMG-3015ed.jpg Oh wow. That is a piece of work there. I would say those were surplus (bought che...

thank you so much for all of the insight. I will probably have alot of lame newbie questions. I hope you all dont mind. I do not mind at all. We all started out by learning. Burn some solder and build something :) There are a lot of good and knowledgeable people here, so rest of you ole pros jump i...

No need to thank, just help someone else when you can. To answer your question, the thumbs up button gives thanks. You do not place a # in front if you wish the line to be active. Mine below is not set to 117, but as example mine is like: #start naive newb fw iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING -o wwa...

You are missing the adapter, modem and jumpers: Adapter: (for EM series modems): https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/pcie-m-2/m-2-ngff/mini-pci-e-to-m-2-ngff-key-b-adapter-with-bottom-sim-card-slot/ There is also adapter for MC series modems but do not see in store. Jumpers Pigtails (for EM series mod...

Thank you all so much for the insights & tips. As I was searching for the above mentioned routers, I saw this: https://www.ebay.com/i/133052218750?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=133052218750&targetid=886857339101&device=c&mktype=...

Looks like you are missing the jumper to modem. Chances are the modem is not installed either. Follow the links in this thread to see whats inside https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=74

fux0r360 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:00 pm the exact model on sticker says Model: WE826

Maybe a picture of the unit and one of bottom where model sticker is. Without that info really hard to give you advice.

Ok, for an update... I have enabled telnet on the AirMaster and will be checking the dmesg output after any outages. If you have one of these, enable telnet through the web config (management), enable local access, and log in to its IP (same as used for the web config, 192.168.0.1 in my case) with ...

1. I live in a larger city with great signal, and download 5-10GB files regularly but never see a pause. Never had the luxury of great signal I guess. But then again have not lived in a large city in past 25 years. My life evolves around RSA (rural service area). Even with 80% signal, great stats c...

Also my router says the ethernet link went down... which would in fact suggest that it could be the POE injector messing up. I'm not sure if it functions as a bridge/switch or what, but the physical link is, I'm pretty sure, negotiated by the POE device. Hopefully the new injector will get here soo...

I would expect this to happen with a 100GB file. Mobile networks are not designed to maintain steady connections and never were meant to download large files.. I experience the same thing even with 100MB files. You may hear of others in larger cities not having the issue, but I personally have never...

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