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On 4/20/2021 at 8:24 AM, though said:

Just ran a speedtest while connected to my Magic Box Gold. It was substantially higher than any previous time before. For the heck of it, I checked the software version and it's 15.17.50.557

Just wanted to throw that out there.

pushing 103mbps down on the MBG, used to cap out at 90, now i can top 105mbps

What plmn is your mb using?

It is regrettable that that t mobile is doing this, but not unexpected. 

Just signed up for verizon, another regrettable decision.

I noticed this at home, thought it was unusual the signal strength was too low.  Thought it may have been the device. 

I've yet to test my other MBG, which covered an entire 140,000SQ foot building.  I'll find out to see if they actually did cut the transmit power, in the mean time anyone else have issues?

Otherwise still running full speed 100mbit/sec on the MB from the devices.

i certainly hope they do not force the t-mo network as primary for some time...in san diego t-mobile is absolute garbage. 

i'm forced to use a t-mo s20 for work and its useless, easier to tether it to my sprint device.  all over the county, t-mobile sucks.

On 2/12/2020 at 11:34 AM, though said:

So I went on a short vacation and took my Magic Box with me. Now that I am back, the Magic Box (GPS location) is still reporting the City/State of my vacation spot. This is after several days and a few reboots??

Edit: The GPS location corrected on day 3.

How do you check the GPS  location for the magic box? 

2 minutes ago, though said:

That is connected to the MB Gold?

yes.  another test after rebooting router :

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/5640435048

great news... looks like they just enabled ethernet backhaul on the magic box 3 gold in San Diego... using spectrum cable isp for BH

Check out my Speedtest result! How fast is your internet? https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/5640195945

does anyone in the San Diego area with a magic box 3 gold have ethernet or wifi backhaul working yet? 

versions? 

arg, so wired backhaul is working? can't get it to work on my MB3 still.

A real erosion of choice for the American consumer, regardless if you use t-mobile, sprint, or neither.  

looks like a 1x site note for an Airave 4 also applied to the Magic Box Voice Amp, and other Airave 4's.   Is there any way to distinguish between them?

My site note shows on 3 different locations =D

It takes a while for the phone to connect to the A4, both on LTE and 1x.  Make sure your profile, and prl are updated, and reboot the device.  Then try making some calls and see if it connects.  

1 hour ago, Handyman said:

Looks like we may have fallen into the "Have magic box, used to work well when it would get B26 backhaul, but now has intermittent issues as it has been forced to connect to B41 backhaul, and we are now also in the coverage black hole for MB support (where it is 'available for subscribers' via the MB address website)."

We are 2.24 mi from the donor site, and as I understand it, Sprint reduced the radius to within 2 miles of the donor site for elegibility for a MB. Additionally, we do not have complete line of sight to the donor site.

We have NOT received any requests from Sprint asking us to return our MB. We get 30-50Mbit downlink but only maybe 500-1Mb uplink, and SpeedTest will sit there for 10-20 seconds and sometimes error out on the uplink test.

I think almost all the issues we have on our phones at home relate to the uplink issue.  We have to reboot the MB sometimes as well (it is on a UPS, we don't like outages!).

Any chance that we might get a MB Gold, or at least some way of getting the 1xRTT addon for our 3 iPhones?   Or even an internet connection?   We do not have broadband available at our home.

Addendum: I have Calling+ enabled on my S9+. and experience no issues at all while connected to the MB with calls.

 

 

 

Request the magic box gold, and ask for the voice amp add-on.  They are both available, we just ordered and received both for a friend.

any traction on the ethernet backhaul on the Magic Box Gold?  still trying everyday on mine and no luck =(

Signal check doesn't seem to like the new magic box voice amp...

Can't edit the site notes...bad data! 

ohh i stand corrected!  verified again does not work on the voice amp.

Nope that doesn't work on airspan devices. 

Yes confirmed calls work.  Tested two different phones, Moto z2 force and note 9.

Update ..plugging the voice amp directly into my internet connection....it works!

Ouch, cause I have a magic box at work where I dont have a network connection, so the voice amp would help quite a bit along with the existing magic box gold (0.5mbps vs 100mbps with the magic box gold in a 100,000+ SQ ft building  ! (I've been waiting for this lol)

Shows up as "magic box" under my account, but it does not work.  I called into magic box customer support and they said that the tool to enable Ethernet on the magic box gold is temporarily down so I have to call back later.

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?

nice!  nothing working on my unit yet...it's been trying for about 30 mins so far :\