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Is it contig? In SF some higher usage sites got a third, non-contig carrier to presumably help with load.I'm in total shock! My home site just got 3rd carrier!!!! This is a huge deal! No site north of 169th street in the Bronx had gotten a third carrier, even as far up north as West Nyack.
Am super happy about this. It's a huge deal!
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I would be really curious to see your packet captures. 68.28.x.x is CDMA on my Airave 3 and 4, and 68.31.x.x is LTE (and wifi calling). It seems like yours doesn't fit that in CDMA nor LTE. Definitely report back the IPs that you discover.So I put in the filter and unfortunately, it did not stop it from connecting up to LTE on reboot. Just for kicks, I did try blocking 68.31.0.* and 68.31.*.*, but that only stopped the CDMA side from establishing a connection :/. Guess I am going to have to do a packet capture and see where the heck it is getting its info on boot.
Or maybe better yet, see if I can get Sprint to send me an MB Gold with the 1xRTT boost module... I am getting 60mbit/5mbit consistently now on my MB3.
You can also let it power on and dump the state table on your firewall. Look for the two connections on UDP port 4500. That's a quick and easy way to grab the IPs.
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Does the A4 support HD Voice for Sprint to Sprint calls?
I don't believe so. None of the Airaves have. I also heard that 1x HD Voice does not work on any device which supports VoLTE (including devices which support it but don't have it enabled yet, such as the S9). It has something to do with the way calls are routed in the backend, VoLTE capable devices are routed differently than non-VoLTE ones.
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For mine it took about 1-2 days before phones would even see it in neighbors. Then they started connecting to it about a day later. Basically, I think there's some sort of automatic integration that has to go occur at the network level. I say this because when it was finished, my MB had changed PCIs. I think anytime a device like this comes online, all the others like it in an area change PCIs. Small cells behave the same way.So my family members receive their A4 and I set it up this morning. A few notes and observations:
-The reason they ordered the A4 is because in some areas of their residence, they get 2 bars and in other areas, they get no service.
-After about 45 minutes, all 6 lights were on solid green. During the boot up process, the GPS light was flashing red for a very long time and I was a bit worried that that part would fail, but it all worked out in the end.
-The A4 is located in a room that gets 2 bars from the macro site, but it happens to be where internet router is located.
-After the set up was complete, my phone stayed connected to the macro site, even after several airplane mode toggles and restarts to my phone, My phone only connected to the A4 after I moved to an area of the residence that gets no service from the macro site. So, right now, when I walk around the residence, my phone switches back and forth between the macro site and the A4 (at least not while on a call). Has anyone else experienced this? Shouldn't the phone connect to the A4 when it is right in front of it? Will connection to the A4 while in the residence improve over time?
-Also, even though all lights including the LTE light are solid green, I wasn't able to get working LTE on my phone. I thought a solid green light means that it is good to go? Could it be that even thought it is solid green, something is blocking data from flowing? Could this work itself out over time?
Thanks for any insight!
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Did you notice the TAC change?
It’s live in El Paso as well
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I think dd-wrt may actually be one of the firmwares that does restrict it, or at least has an option to. I haven't used dd-wrt in 10+ years though so I'm not sure where it would be in the settings.I was thinking about this, and the router is a Buffalo router running DD-WRT, as I recall. Is there any way to tell for certain if DD-WRT is the issue, and if it is, any way to change DD-WRT's behavior?
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If your mom has Chrome, you can use Chrome remote desktop to remotely connect to her computer and browse through the router settings yourself.
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You shouldn't need to change anything on your router. It's just saying that those ports shouldn't be blocked. The Airave uses UDP encapsulated IPsec, so it should just work out of the box for most people.Thank you for the replies!
The router is: D-Link DIR-868L with Optimum branding. The router settings are accessed via the Optimum portal and no settings have ever been changed. I presume that Optimum may block access to some settings.
Also, the modem is Arris TM1602, also with Optimum branding.
I didn't realized that the A4 also provides WiFi. As a side note, I seem to vaguely remember when the original Airave first came out (years ago!), I read that they instructed the user to plug it directly into a modem and not into a router?
The Airave 4 to does not provide wifi. The 3 did.
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CDMA likely needs GPS to come online. Are there any obstructions outside the window that might block the signal? If so, she might want to try a different window. I'd also have her unplug it and plug it back in to make sure it's in securely. When I plugged my antenna in, it got a GPS lock within a minute.My parents just got an Airave 4 and while I've not been there to tinker with it, my mom informs me that she has green lights except for GPS and CDMA which are red. I had her plug in the separate GPS antenna and place it near the window (and I had her flip it over since I think she had it upside down to start) and then pull the power/plug it back in, but that doesn't seem to have helped. Any ideas for other things she might try?- Trip
Worst case, have her power cycle it and let it sit overnight. New satellites will pass overhead that it might have better luck locking onto. Once it gets a lock, I don't think it needs to get it again until it's power cycled.
Edit: is LTE up? If so, there's also a possibility that your router is only allowing each MAC address to have a single IP. I think I've seen a few routers configured that way before
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5G shows as 2.5 LTE.
I thought I had the basics in there to at least show it as 5G up top.. hopefully I'm close!
I'm guessing that it's using 5G as a secondary/tertiary carrier, and that LTE is PCC (so it can use it for upload).
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It is. Macro 1x is garbage in most areas and has been for years. They've cut CDMA carriers so much that they're too overloaded. As a result, quality is dropped to support more calls rather than dropping them or having them fail. The more calls there are on a macro, the worse it gets. I switched to Google Voice when possible for calls about 4-5 years ago because the robo garble and poor quality made it unusable. 1x800 seems to be worse than 1x1900.I feel like Airave 4's CDMA voice quality is much better than when my phone is parked on Macro Cell
That's the only reason I have an Airave actually. Pixels (before the 3) didn't support wifi calling, and even though my macro 1x signal is -75, I needed an Airave to use 1x for calls. The difference is night and day.
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It does work with VoLTE actually, but it's likely not on the whitelist yet, so it needs to be forced. Unlike the Airave 3, it actually works. The 3 would work for a bit, then break all calls and SMS. I'm guessing Sprint won't "allow" it (by whitelisting it on phones) until they launch it network wide, but it does work.Got my Airave 4 today. It took probably 3 hours to fully kick in. LTE flashed red while the rest of the lights were solid green for quite a long time. I also noticed it does not support VoLTE right now. I hoped it would, as it is a device released during Sprint's VoLTE roll out, and VoLTE is active in the Tampa Bay area.
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I can confirm that you can't edit the site notes for it in the most recent beta. I receive the same error.Signal check doesn't seem to like the new magic box voice amp...
Can't edit the site notes...bad data!
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Yes, no one needs that speed on their phone. But I see it as a proxy for how much capacity is available, since the network is currently unloaded. So in that sense, 800+ Mbps means that a site can handle a lot of traffic without getting congested, vs 400 Mbps means it can absorb about half as much traffic before becoming congested.300-400 on a cell phone it's way more then enough for me
.. Don't see the need of those speeds on a cell phone...
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Got my Airave 4 and have it setup. It uses the same earfcn as my Magic Box, 39874. CDMA 1x uses channel 1125, which is right in the middle of the 15x15 B25 carrier, so I'm guessing it's misconfigured.
I ran a packet capture on it during setup. It requests 2 IP addresses, one for the CDMA side and one for LTE. This is in contrast to the Airave 3 which used a single IP. So the internals are very much completely separated on the 4, much more so than on the 3. Both IPs are for the same MAC address (ie, the Airave 4 ethernet port has a single MAC, but 2 IPs assigned).
At startup, the CDMA side does an NTP query to the hardcoded, private address 10.1.2.40 for some reason, before falling back to querying the NTP pool. The LTE side also queries the pool, but does not try the hardcoded address first.
The CDMA side then looks up SEGW-Airspan-Combo-3G-GLOBAL.SPCSDNS.NET and opens an IPsec tunnel to it. It then looks up segw06.femto.sprint.net and establishes an IPsec tunnel to that address. This is the same domain range as the Airave 3. Valid options seem to be segw01.femto.sprint.net through segw10.femto.sprint.net. This tunnel is what is used for CDMA, so I'm guessing the first tunnel was used for configuration?
The LTE side looks up SEGW-Airspan-Combo-GLOBAL.SPCSDNS.NET and establishes an IPsec tunnel to it. It then looks up SEGWAKR-PUBL.sc.spcsdns.net and establishes an IPsec tunnel to that address. I believe the latter is the tunnel for LTE, and the first is the configuration tunnel.
The LTE side is similar to what is seen on the MB Gold. The Gold first establishes an IPsec tunnel to SEGW-AIRSPAN-IFUR-GLOBAL.SPCSDNS.NET, and then a tunnel to SEGWSKT-PUBL.sc.spcsdns.net. Note the similarities in the addresses.
It's also interesting that the Airave 4 uses hardcoded DNS servers, querying 3 of them at the same time for the final IPsec tunnel.
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Nothing besides doing an airplane toggleAnyone found any fixes for the 'stuck on 3G issue'?
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Either there was a super low signal, or B41 LTE was very congested. While 5G was empty. Not really impressed with the 5G speed seeing as no one else was on it. Maybe the site doesn't have enough backhaul?Yes. Agreed. This speed test shows the stark difference between LTE and 5G:
And that definitely looks like B41 LTE for upload on 5G.
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What shows up on your account? Does it work?so...i called and placed an "order" for an airave 4...and got a magic box voice amp!!! WOOO!!! anyone else have this happen? lol. i do have a magic box also. win win?
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They don't even provision the backhaul at many sites to fully utilize the B41 on air. There's no point in putting even more on air if they don't give it enough backhaul.I hope not. IMO, the Magicbox has been the product of Sprint further wasting spectrum. They should have deployed all of it by now.
T-Mobile should just move forward with their Cellspot option on B4.
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My S10's CDMA radio is off.
Now that's interesting, and could be the issue. On Verizon my Pixel 3 will turn off CDMA, but on Sprint with VoLTE it keeps CDMA on and maintains SRLTE. So if I start to roam, presumably it will quickly drop to CDMA. For some reason it sounds like that isn't happening on your Samsung phone. I'm surprised it turns off CDMA actually.
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In that case I'm not sure. I won't have mine until the end of the week, so I can't do a packet capture to analyze. I'd say just leave it overnight and see if it's working in the morning.But CDMA side works fine. And I don't have problem with Airave 3
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Same MAC address, but it uses 2 IPsec tunnels. It's possible that the LTE one is getting blocked. On the 3 it always initiates the CDMA side first, so if your network only allows 1 IPsec connection per device for some reason, it would explain why the CDMA side works.My Airave 4 is up and running with CDMA only. LTE is always blinking red. Not sure why. Does it has a separate MAC address for LTE side? My cooperate network requires MAC address whitelisting. I whitelisted the MAC address on the label. The CDMA voice works fine. LTE don't. I don't needed LTE anyway. [emoji4] The building has good T-mobile B66.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't need ipsec passthrough help, since it defaults to ipsec over UDP, but I could be mistaken on that.
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That's connected to the Airave? That looks like a macro earfcn, 41374. The last Airave always used the first carrier earfcn, but it appeared that this one would use the MB earfcn. Now that seems less certain. What are the macro B41 earfcns in your area?Well if anyone interested in the debug screenshots https://imgur.com/a/EdrPKwt
It also looks like the CDMA side supports 1xAdvanced (and presumably HD voice).
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you are actively using LTE on it, then it will reduce the speed available to other devices. Just like if you were on wifi and using data. For example, if your home internet is 100 Mbps, and you're doing a speed test or something else that is consuming 40 Mbps via the Airave, then there is 60 Mbps left for other devices on wifi. But if there is no active data transfer occurring via the Airave (ie your phone is idle), then it won't be using your internet.My airave 4 is coming today! Those who have it already, is there a decrease in internet speed with other devices on wifi?
It's basically the same as if your phone was on wifi.
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With wifi preferred it should always use wifi calling. At least mine does. The only time when it didn't seem to use it was when I connected to WiFi that was using an LTE modem connected to a magic box. For some reason it didn't really like that combo.Even with WiFi preferred, even when signal check pro showing WiFi calling, even when LTE/1x signal at -115db and WiFi of 70db, my Pixel 3 XL won't pick WI-FI for calls.
It used to work about 4 months ago, but no more.
It stopped working around the time when the phone started holding onto 3G instead of going to LTE.
If it's not working, then my guess is that something is blocking or interfering with the ipsec tunnel on your wifi. Or the wifi signal is too low or there are other problems with it. It's possible it won't use it if it determines that the connection isn't stable/good enough.
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