belusnecropolis

On 10/12/2019 at 6:41 PM, belusnecropolis said:

Just ordered (aliexpress keep your adblock up)this guy because why not have 3 4x4 radios. FCC manual

OH IT ONLY WORKS WITH MODEM MANAGER OUT OF THE BOX!

We trying to crack it open now over on LTEhacks and the GoldenOrb crew is looking into it.

2 hours ago, afazel said:

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Please don't take what I comment with any sincerity. I am entertaining absurdly because this entire process has achieved the absolute heights of absurdity. If I didn't convey with 5G emissions the ridiculousness one would expect this merger to be framed in then I should have supplied an irony outro.

The people's break away democratic republic states of California and New York are just going to sue them over 5G emissions anyway. Why settle?

8 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

I have heard TMobile could get more to drop out with the 5G promise like they did with Mississippi and Texas. They will not you any luck with California and NY. If it comes down to, only two states left blocking and the rest support is that enough?

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I remember drawing huge purple anatomical parts on the back 9 at pine lakes golf course in Myrtle Beach. Rip sensorly.

Just ordered (aliexpress keep your adblock up)this guy because why not have 3 4x4 radios. FCC manual

On 10/6/2019 at 2:30 PM, belusnecropolis said:

I will drop the LM960 on the ar750s and use that to find some band 30/14 in town.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Both of these things worked out really good.

Lol this is the best joke anyone has ever played on some one else. 100 billion dollars . . . Unbelievable.

1 hour ago, BlueAngel said:

Umm why am I connected to B66?

https://i.postimg.cc/pLJLF7Py/Screenshot-20191008-142724-IOTHidden-Menu.jpg

If you have Sprint it is most likely T-Mobile roam like home, they also roam on AT&T LTE now, but it can be throttled pretty slow.

I ditched all my chinese supplied amazon quality coax finally. Enter shiny new LMR400 jumpers from times microwave, 2x 3 foot, 2x 5 foot. I am able to negotiate IPv6 on T-Mobile with no throttle, throughput is now steady at 65, I am coming up on 100 off peak and it is still, sadly, in my lab. Spending the extra 15 bucks a cable is worth it, plus the connectors don't come stripped out! 

I used their coax previously for my 25-30' runs to the roof and they worked great. I've just been blowing my spend on new radios and routers so this finally made the list. I picked up an gl dot inet ar750s and Dairyman over at Rooter is getting a build for that ready. Still working on getting support for Telit modems in Rooter's mountain of scripts.

My pile of EM7565's are always requiring dark magics to reanimate so I don't spend money with Sierra Wireless anymore, it is all so tiresome with them. I will pick up the new model LM960 in Q120 after they get a new firmware batched. The current 2nd model now has US certs and now does 4x4 MiMo on 2 contiguous carriers instead of just one. That is kind of nice.

After those good folks get all the software wizardy handled I will drop the LM960 on the ar750s and use that to find some band 30/14 in town.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

EM20 on the test pole. Added that WiFi card too.

1 hour ago, ingenium said:

How are you orienting the antennas? And which antennas are you using?

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2x 1.7-2.7 panels dual port, 1x1.7-2.7(5') dual port, 2x 700-2.3 LPDA directionals. Aimed at the tower naturally, 3 in the lab, 2 lpda on roof. We are building one that hunts 4 and 5ca for a week or two, then they will settle in at home. 

EM20(m.2) does great with ATT, will test with T-Mobile in h721 deck later, I've worn in the lm960 on TMo in that thing, so that will be the traveller and I will swap carriers as new ones come online. This frees up an mPCIe slot for another WiFi, Zigbee, or Bluetooth radio maybe. Who knows?

All part of the plan to put stuff on the roof.

Currently working with two 4x4 cards, life is getting spicy fellas.

On 9/26/2019 at 11:36 PM, 645824 said:

 

I cut the cable after service, customer and network was just not worth the price. We have a wire, it is just terrible. They coiled 40 ft of RG-8 in my lawn next to my house. The run to the cable plant is about 15 feet. The router was 10 bucks a month and reset often, did not have WiFi. Customer service was incorrigible. 

After trying out my options I am able to carry a couple data plans and maintain a spend on endless cellular gear every month at the same cost as one CableCo subscription, and I have a fun hobby I get to post about. Whenever that fiber gets here I should have my sept-WAN setup mastered fren.

My lab is a nightmare but I have said it before and I will say it again, I can have x hundred/thousand dollar network jalopy going in the garage as long as everything streams in HD in the home. Now that you have that hub keep your eye out for 5G massive MiMo setup on your tower.

1 minute ago, 645824 said:

Yes. 

Cable isn't available here.  DSL out here is only 3Mbps.  Verizon and T-mobile don't have the data package that I need.  Been waiting forever for a "real" Verizon fixed-wireless plan.  AT&T doesn't have a signal here. 

And Sprint's Band41 has the speed that I would like as a streamer. 

My Sprint HTC 5G hub arrived yesterday.  It seems more stable than my existing 4 Sprint MiFi8000 units so I am connecting that to my Peplink Max-OTG ethernet WAN port (the 4 USB ports are used by the 4 MiFi8000 units).

Thanks,

Scott

I am referencing your 5 top end broadband devices whenever some one here claims Sprint has a low ROI for rural build outs. Glad the 5G hub is working better for you Scott. If you want to venture into other carriers let me know, I would be glad to help you out. 

Question, do you use Sprint's public IP service? I know they offer one for, I believe, a 3$ add on if you require one. 

That is the only benefit I have found from them personally, but I use a VPN for my static IP needs on other carriers.

Have a great weekend!

Shooting for

band 25/66/71 or 5 on T-Mobile

Band 25/66a/66b/30/14 or 12 on AT&T

Need to get a Kickstart plan from Sprint for 41/41/41/25, but because Sprint is Sprint you have to lease a device, call in, do a credit check, get a magic box, yeah...

Anyone have a VZW UDP I could borrow for a few?

 

I get to pitch a cat 20 against a cat 18 against a cat 12 Thursday night; all embedded in their own gigabit capable port.  

I don't know about you guys but if you are in the neighborhood BYO sims and beer and I'll throw on some steaks and taters, or veggie burgers for our California frens. Pretty excited. Watch out for the wires running everywhere  trip on one and I bet the whole lab goes down!

I am going to take the cat 20 to town in a portable build so I can maxxx out the carrier aggregation combos, then settle it in at home. Great times ahead!

50 minutes ago, jtrotter54 said:

I'm being told that if I'm not in a Magicbox area (which I'm not), the Airave 4 will not work. The new A4 configuration requires the same setup as the Magicbox. Even though the Airave availability site says it should work, they're telling me it's for prior versions. Frustrating, I'll be returning it, thank you all for your help!

Have you tried a different carrier?

Should have my Tri-WAN system up to test by next week! Finally made a schematic for an outdoor mount, have a cat 20 radio coming and getting lots of throughput on my dual setup now.

Getting close to 75 peak at the homestead and everything is still ground mounted or on a pole in the lab.

I'm saving the flagpole for Five Gee and a few other projects so this was a nice compromise.

LMAO that is pretty awesome 😂

8 hours ago, 645824 said:

 

 

 

 

Is Sprint your only option?

46 minutes ago, 645824 said:

Nope, didn't try Calyx.  I'm burned out by all of the multi-step hoop jumping that I've gone through over the past several years.

I don't want to open the door to Calyx + Magic Box + Mobile Citizen + ...      At this point, I have a solution and it seems to be working.  It is horribly expensive but it is fast and reliable (and those are taking priority for my household right now).  A happy wife and happy children supersedes other issues.

Thanks for the pointers,

Scott

I have a 800 dollar jalopy spread all over my radio room. No complaints about how it looks as long as Netflix streams crisp and clear. 

I identify with your statement.

On 8/28/2019 at 9:15 PM, ingenium said:

Yup. They also work fine when forced (with a Magisk module to basically ignore the VoLTE enabled flag). Same for Airave 4.

The issue is that the relay connection from the MB to the donor is a single EUTRA session, with no way to prioritize VoLTE calls. If the donor is congested, then VoLTE call quality goes to crap and no one can understand each other (I know from experience). That's why it's behind held up I assume.

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The things Sprint literally inflicts on customers with low signal.

Ya'll premiere guys need to check out the update, donate so Mr. Tim stays handy and get this place ready for any merger updates.
 

12 hours ago, belusnecropolis said:

I have an AT&T UDP, a couple Tmo UDP's and had a Sprint UDP before I woke up. This seems really expansive for one carrier. I hope you get what you need.

On 9/7/2019 at 11:14 PM, 645824 said:

Ingenium pointed me to this thread.  I just finished configuring my 4-headed system for the Sprint network using the new Sprint Inseego/Novatel MiFi8000.  Attached is a photo showing the configuration.

 

Router:  qty=1:  Pepwave MAX-OTG-U4 (Max On-The-Go with FOUR active USB ports).  Note that the "MAX-OTG" and "MAX-OTG-U1" just have 1 active port.  The MAX-OTG-U4 Supports 4 USB WAN ports, 1 ethernet LAN port, 1 ethernet WAN port, and WiFi connections.  Bought from 5Gstore.com

Modem:  qty=4: Sprint Inseego/Novatel MiFi8000 (a sister unit of the Verizon MiFi8800L).  The MiFi8000 supports Sprint's bands (e.g.  Band 41, etc.). Sprint has a sale right now.  $2.50 per month for 24 months (i.e.  $60).  Bought directly from Sprint. Arrived with everything configured -- plug and play.  No dinking around with SIM cards that don't fit,  aren't the right format, or aren't recognized.

Antennas: qty=4: Netgear AirCard MIMO Antenna. Bought from Amazon (B00DN3J03O). Quite frankly, the only reason why I got this was because it had the dual TS9 connectors and the cable is 50cm long.  I previously tried some TS9 to SMA adapters, but wasn't happy with how that worked.

 

Since I was paying $240/month for Sprint's old 120GB per month grandfathered plan, the plan for these 400GB is 4*$65 = $260/month.  Yes, it is horribly expensive, but I live out in the country and have had continual problems since Sprint bought Clear and disassembled WiMax.  Waiting for Verizon, waiting for SpaceX's satellite cluster. waiting for the continuous promises of fixed wireless, etc.  and I'm tired of continually jumping through hoops.  These companies could make a killing here in the country if they would just try...  And I'm not in the "country"; I'm 2 miles outside of city limits.  Even the pizza delivery people come out to me.  But no cable, and DSL tops out at 3Mbps here.  So I'm stuck with wireless.

 

Pros:

• The Pepwave MAX-OTG-U4 works fine with the MiFi8000.  Even though the MiFi8000 isn't in Pepwave's compatibility list, it was just plug-and-go for me.
• Speeds for a single MiFi8000 are 20 Mbps using a modest flat panel antenna.  I'm not getting dramatically more signal-strength bars than without, but it does allow me to stuff the units in a drawer and stack the units up willy-nilly.  The antennas will mount on a wall with a picture in front of them.
• The USB cable from the MAX-OTG-U4 powers the MiFi8000 units.  It doesn't have any problems driving all 4 of them.
• The MiFi8000 has TS9 connectors.  I would have preferred SMA, but the TS9's seem to work OK with this flat panel.

 

Cons:

• The battery has to stay in even though the MiFi8000 is on the USB cable.  If I take the battery out, it complains then shuts down.  Since it is going to be powered 24.7, this is probably going to eat the batteries and these unused batteries will need to be replaced periodically...

Thanks,

Scott

 

I mean, do you do one channel per or just suction per plan via load balance? You could fake poor and get PC's for people at 10 bucks a month. Buy a Calyx sim, get an connected car ATT plan, a Verizon pUDP/FUDP, a 15/ month Kickstart plan, or any T-Mo UDP and adjust your TTL settings and achieve what you want. The hoops you mention are not that tough and no one has suffered an extreme loss that I know of and I was the first to call and say hey, xfer my calyx from this crappy battery hotspot to my netgear 6100D at the time, AND IT WORKED.

Listen, the rules do not apply. You can get guilt tripped all day about being a data abuser, you still need internet. Many are city dwellers that like to shit on anyone that doesn't subscribe to the idea of paying 150 a month for a cable drop. They literally hate people that don't live like they do, see any post about expanding rural coverage and you will be met with but we are the money. I appreciate your need and expound the great agility you took with no strings attached but you are going to eat it in fees and modem/battery replacement. 5G store sells stuff at a MAXXX premium. 

You are a smart guy, I hated the hassle too so I said adios Sprint. I can contribute and still know they are a garbage choice in my area.  

This is an awesome set of hardware. You have made a great setup that is futureproof and will handle other, more accommodating plans.