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Comcast shouldn't be blocking it. From the way you described it, it sounds like possibly the UDP NAT connection timeout could be too low on your router, resulting in the VPN tunnel being dropped. That, or it's a defective device. Timeout settings are an advanced setting in routers, and I don't think most make it accessible. The defaults for most routers should be fine though, unless you're doing lots of torrents or P2P that utilizes lots of connections (which would cause the lookup table to get full and drop the VPN connection)Quick question, does anybody use comcast as their ISP? Could they be blocking ports that need to be open?
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It should, LTE should be seamless handoffs.How about LTE? Does that side handoff (thinking Calling Plus here...)
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As long as it's still cycling on it's own, it's almost certainly still doing updates.The problem is that it's already been a day, and still no sign of improvement. I'll give it more time and see I guess.
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Just leave it overnight. It does multiple resets and firmware upgrades when you first set it up. It takes about a day to start functioning reliably.So I'm having major issues with my airave 3 lte that came yesterday. At first it wouldn't get connected to either CDMA or lte. I setup the port forwards suggested in the quick start guide. I did multiple resets on both sides (the pin resets) to no avail. Got a hold of sprint, and figured out that a line hadn't been connected to it yet. Once that got sorted out, it now will connect, but only briefly. Essentially it just keeps cycling on both sides over and over again. I've tried multiple resets again, but I'm not getting anywhere with it.
Anybody have any advice on getting this thing up and running? I dread calling sprint and waiting on hold for hours on end. Thanks.
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Does anyone know if the Airave 3 copes with Double NAT situations OK? My mom's house is in a bit of a coverage black hole for Sprint, about equidistant from 3 macro sites and in a bit of a hollow, so the Airave 3 would make sense there. But her broadband connection & cable is provided by the neighborhood association and there's at least two layers of NAT involved - her cable modem gets a single 10.x.y.z address on the WAN port and then of course within the house there's a router with a more typical 192.168.y.z setup on the LAN side. I assume there's no more translation on the way up based on traceroute, but who knows?
Any experience with the Airave in this situation? She's currently not using a smartphone so the Magic Box wouldn't help her yet - it'd help me when I visit though, and I might eventually get her onto a smartphone at some point. But for now the Airave 3 seems to be the way to go if it'll work.
It SHOULD work as long as both NATs handle UDP connections correctly. The Airave sets up 2 outgoing IPSec VPN tunnels using the standard ports, one for CDMA and one for LTE. UDP NAT timeouts tend to be lower than TCP, but as long as the airave sends or receives a packet every minute or so it should be fine. I think UDP NAT entries tend to be cleared after 1-5 minutes of no activity. I imagine this is already done to prevent NAT from clearing the connection thinking it's finished.
A second NAT shouldn't be any more problematic than single NAT in this regard, so you should be fine.
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Any B25 carrier that isn't in the G block is technically B2. B25 is a superset of B2. Sprint has many second B25 carriers throughout the country (Columbus, Cleveland, and San Francisco for sure). I didn't realize they were also broadcasting it as B2... likely it's for roaming compatibility with other providers whose phones may only support B2 but not B25.Just noticed this morning that my Pixel 2 XL was connected to LTE Band 2 and Signal Check stated it was Sprint LTE. I did a quick google search and found on Reddit that Sprint has some chunks of B2. Is this correct?
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Do these auto-update overnight? Mine is still on an older version.
Yes, though with as low of a signal as you have, it may be taking longer to receive it. I think it's more likely to be delivered if you have a good connection on a non-loaded site. The MB likely waits until the site appears to be at low usage before downloading the update.
I'm not sure when I received the update, but when I checked yesterday or the day before it was there.
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And that's the point you're missing, there isn't competition for most ISPs. It's a monopolistic environment. It's akin to saying to switch electric or gas companies, it's not possible. That's why it needs to be regulated just like other utilities.The first company that does this will hemerage customers like crazy. Competition means you cant do something that would so obviously piss off your consumers. And any move to package the internet that increases the end user cost isnt going to happen. Let these mega corps fight out who gets what profits, it make no never mind to me or you.
Honestly, I'd take it a step further and prefer the government to own the infrastructure (fiber to the home), and then lease it to companies at a reasonable cost and contract out maintenance. That's how you ensure actual competition.
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Netflix is just an example here. Netflix may be able to afford it, but not a new entrant to the market. Look at YouTube when they first started. It prevents new players from entering the market in the future, not even necessarily in video, but anything bandwidth heavy. The logistics of paying extra to every ISP as a startup is absurd and logically insurmountable. You basically lock in the current players as the content providers going forward.If netflix doesnt want to pay? That is who they are tryinf to charge. Look, these companies are more than able of figuring out the costs and pricing for the delievery of content. The government should just let them. I dont see why the government would be better able to fihure out the proper pricing of content delivery.
As a customer, you pay for the bandwidth, the ISP shouldn't care what it's being used for. Charge the customer what you need to to handle the costs for the level of bandwidth they subscribe to, don't try to double dip and charge the other end as well.
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ISPs do currently restrict torrenting because they can be held libel for their users actions. if that was gone, they wouldnt care.
Actually that's not true, that's a benefit of being a common carrier is that they aren't liable unless they are alerted to that particular instance. Once they start monitoring it and restricting it on their own, then they are responsible for policing it. As it stands, they just have to alert the responsible parties of the copyright infringement.
Also, not all torrents are piracy. Some games use torrents to distribute updates for example.
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Or if the ISP decides they don't want to pay more for Netflix and pull access to it, like cable and satellite providers do all the time when they have a contract/price dispute with a channel.You are mixing up different things into the net neutrality basket. ISP were messing and are messing with torrent sites because content providers were threatening them with law suits. The part about netflix is true but why do you carw who gets what profits?
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The MB can't connect to B41 if it's not there... it broadcasts B41 only, but it will connect to a macro on B25 or B41. The only qualifications are 1. that the macro's signal is strong enough to use, and 2. Sprint has the B41 spectrum required for the MB in that locationIs it true that what determines if a MagicBox will connect to a site is Carrier Aggregation or something else?
I know that even if a site isn't B41 equipped - as stated above - it will connect to B41. But do we know what the qualifications are?
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The MB uses B25 for its relay connection. It prefers B41, but it will happily use B25 if that's all that's available. It rebroadcasts that as B41. So when you see B41 around you're house, that means you're on the MB, which is then connecting to the macro via B25. When you get out of range of it, you go back onto the macro on B25. Both are using the same signal from the macro, but the MB has high gain antennas and will generally be faster and more stable as a result.Thanks for that information. Just makes it confusing as once I leave the house all I get is B25 which is the nearest macro site.
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The B41 PCI is the MB, their PCIs are around 500. So whatever B25 macro you connect to with your phone is the same one that the MB is using.MB Shows B25 and ID 269. SCP is showing B25 PCI:269 and other times B41 PCI: 497
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Tap the relay icon, and it'll show the frequency it's using, the band, and the PCI. Use SCP or market maps to match up the PCI to sites in your area. The MB unfortunately doesn't show the GCI, so this is the only way to figure it out.I've had my MB at the house for month now. It would never connect to the tower. After many tries I gave up and just let it sit in the corner plugged in. Just yesterday I came home and have a very strong B41 signal. It's from the MB. It connected.
What's weird is the nearest tower is only B25. Two other towers in the next town has B41 which is almost 7 or 8 miles away.
How can I check to see which tower it's locked on?
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Google Pixel 2 XL always has SRLTE engaged. It uses ISIMv2. SMS seems to always go over CDMA rather than over LTE via IMS.
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The Pixel 2 XL also does SRLTE all the time. The big downside seems to be that SMS always uses CDMA again instead of using IMS. So long messages will be split, incoming ones are out of order (and delayed a minute or 2 sometimes), and sending takes a while. Otherwise, I suspect incoming calls will be more reliable.I'm really liking this phone so far. Normally I'd be unhappy about the non-removable battery, but considering the $120 price at Best Buy, I can just replace the whole phone instead when the time comes. (And I never replaced the battery in my G5 despite spending much more on it.)
One question though. Ever since I got SCP installed, it's been in SRLTE. My G5 would only do SRLTE in very weak signal areas, but it seems like the G6 has been in constant SRLTE. Does this match the experience of others? (I'm not complaining, just curious.) I'm also seeing B41 more frequently at home than I used to. I'll have to see how it is out and about at some point. I'm assuming that's HPUE allowing it to maintain a B41 connection lower before the lack of uplink forces it to Band 25 or 26.
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It's been this way for a couple years for me, but getting worse. It can't really get worse than it is now unless Sprint adds more customers, since they've already thinned CDMA down to the minimum. The addition of calling plus and VoLTE will take load off of CDMA, so it should start to improve actually.
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My guess would be the loss of the extra 1x carriers that are now used for the second B25 carrier. The remaining 1x carrier is likely overloaded, resulting in dropped calls or failed calls. 1x800 in some markets (Pittsburgh, SF) is so overloaded that calls are compressed to the point of being unintelligible at times. 1x1900 fairs better, but still shows signs of being overloaded at times.
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I found that the airave wifi crawls for a bit shortly after it's booted (likely it's still booting internally for a while after first broadcasting a signal) and when using a lot of LTE data. Basically, I think it gets CPU limited and wifi or general routing is the first thing to get cut (lower CPU scheduling priority perhaps).
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Yes, that's what the Essential engineering screen looks like. The Kyocera Hydro Icon I have on FreedomPop for logging has the same style. It's actually kind of nice, since it stays up as an overlay and makes screenshots more informative (such as NSG or SCP running, or a speed test).
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I think it's only single carrier B25. I have logs from a couple months ago that covers there. The service is pretty bad, but Verizon roaming was also failing, and AT&T was no service indoors, so it could just be a bad area for all providers.Hows the network in Lake Ariel PA? I see that Scranton is decently covered with B41 but as you move outside the city it is only Standard LTE. And it seems like its also GMO sites that recently went live so its only B25. Is B25 only 5x5 here? Or is there a second B25 Carrier or hopefully its 10 x 10.
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Sure it is. The eNB completely controls it. With proper VoLTE I imagine it will take being on a call into consideration for band selection.My call quality has been hit and miss especially on fragile B41. Anything around RSRP -110 or worse, people on the other-side cannot hear me. Sprint will really need to work on handing this off to B25/B26. Is this even possible for it to switch bands when signal is weak on B41?
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Weird. I luckily haven't had any problems since Tapatalk integration was added back. I wonder if it's something in our configuration or user accounts that's triggering it?
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I've noticed my Pixel 2 XL has a lower rsrp for B41 (by about 5-10 dbm) than the original Pixel XL, but will hold onto it longer in the same location. 5 ghz wifi is also consistently 10 dbm weaker, but it seems to hold it and work fine at the weaker signal level. B25 and B26 are exactly the same on both devices, but it seems the 2 XL may hold LTE a bit longer before dropping to 3G
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Sprint Home Wifi Router [Wi-Fi Connect][Asus AC66u]
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My guess is Sprint is done with it. They have the magic box + calling plus, and the new Airave provides wifi as well as CDMA and LTE. No sense in giving out the router anymore when they can just give out the Airave 3 instead. I think the router was a stop gap for not having an eCSFB capable Airave.
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