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

Honk Honk 🤡🗺️

35 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

NY lawsuit alleges T-Mobile sold used phones, claiming they were new

The lawsuit alleges that "abusive sales tactics are rampant at Metro stores"..... Yikes!

Sounds like a housecleaning is coming by Corporate. I imagine they don't want anything interfering with this merger.

38 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

T-Mobile workers seek assurances from DT CEO about merger-related concerns

Everybody's on their toes here....

39 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

Slow upload speeds can render a device unusable, whether for web browsing or even sending emails with attachments.

Slow upload speeds are just as bothersome, if not more so than slow download speeds, in my opinion.

54 minutes ago, cyclone said:

I'm curious what the threshold is before throttling kicks in. Just saw the vague line about heavy data users could experience decreased speeds. This would be awesome for family in East Texas that currently use ATT service. Is it really just $30 per line for those that don't already have a service through them?

https://alticemobile.com/legal/terms-and-policies/mobile-broadband-disclosure
 

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Altice Mobile does not offer 3G or data plans other than 4G LTE and Altice WiFi.

Performance with Altice’s “Unlimited” plan. The "Unlimited" data option provides unlimited data usage at a regular monthly rate per line (promotional rates may vary). Speeds for video streaming over LTE and hotspot tethering will be reduced to 2G (e.g., 128 Kbps) after 50 gigabytes (GB) of data usage in a month for the remainder of the billing period after the allotment is exceeded. Subject to this allotment policy, use of your device as a WiFi hotspot will be unlimited at 600 Kbps speeds, and streaming video will be at DVD quality (480p).

Picked up an edge router finally. Gonna go for the Tri-WAN balancing.

2 minutes ago, jthawks said:

So here is this site now with it's base station now. Not live yet. It does have the typical GPS antenna that t mobile uses. I'm wondering if this is a new dish site? Also they're three t mobile sites not far from this site.

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What does it say on the power meter?

1 minute ago, RedSpark said:

Lol!

Have a link to the B-Roll?

That first link you posted, go almost all the way to the bottom at 'for journalists' click and it will give you a splash page to download.

41 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

If the merger goes forward, we’ll get a nice new 5G device lab out of it!: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/5g-device-lab

Additional Background: https://www.fiercewireless.com/operators/t-mobile-launches-5g-lab-to-test-device-performance-across-technologies

Given the dual networks, what will the device testing protocol/timeline be for the merged company?

I watched the B roll. The facility looks super nice!

I bet we won't see any Huawei engineers there! Poor tappy.

17 hours ago, Brad The Beast said:

I don't think there are any devices that can do more than 5 CA DL just yet anyway. 

Hey Brad, I just meant with any of those, but all together would be a great second step. I have a few embedded radios and available band combinations in generic firmware tend to be broad. Unfortunately Band 41 has limited FDD aggregation band support. Band 25/26 is available so Ideally 2 and 5 fall in there like dood mentions below.

15 hours ago, Tengen31 said:

Since 26+41 is already they could do MFBI and broadcast that B5 as 26 and do 26+41

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Great solution! Super nice. My guess is development will gear more towards n41 but in the meantime this would be fantastic. I wonder if we will see a solution that allows us to aggregate channels from differing eNodeB or sectors. This would help in the transitional period of the merger. 

I also wonder if this is possible with that fancy virtualized dual action but one end point core all the software magicians speak of. I believe the canadien carriers have an example of what I am referring to.

What is the likelihood of current handsets and modems gaining the support to aggregate bands 2/66/71/12/5 with band 41?

Since band 25 is capable it seems possible on the network side of course.

Unfortunately I am unable to find an example of these combinations and what kind of process it would take to make this happen for users.

PSA: Telits mailer is compromised. If you received an invoice from them it is full of spam, do not open.

40 minutes ago, ingenium said:

You need root and need to use a Magisk module to enable the Diag port https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to/guide-qxdm-port-activation-pixel-2-xl-t3884967

I don't believe you need the custom Magisk binary, just the module. It will allow band locking with the free version of Network Signal Guru.

Be aware that on the Pixel 3, several of us have had USB connectivity start getting flakey over a few months and eventually stop working all together until the module was disabled. No idea why it gradually happens. But you can disable the module and reboot to get USB data connectivity back.

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Super nice. Thank you for all of this. 

Is the Pixel 3A capable of band locking?

I haven't been to google since I had a nexus 5. I am a dialer code kind of person so if it can how do I get there simply? Do I need root and other dark sorcery?

Thank you.

2 hours ago, dkyeager said:

Where Sprint improves, the duo will quickly put money in and hammer them down.  I see this happen often enough to say it happens within 6 months.  Sprint has not even publicized at that point.  The Duo watch speed test results.

The Denver Example.

35 minutes ago, RedSpark said:

How do you do fellow kids?

Maybe it’s just me, but this isn’t how a CEO should appear going into an employee town hall meeting on the heel of 175,000 net losses.

Honk Honk, welcome to clown world.

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Went all in on this new dual sim router built for failover. I am having quite the time getting all these radios to behave! Nice to be able to install an mPCIe WiFi card since all mediatek embedded radios are trash. Even this repurposed laptop WiFi card I installed does better.

Currently hosting an LM960 and an EM7565. The custom port I needed to make in goldenorb for the LM960 do not play nice with the EM7565. I am going to get some Telit support baked in and then I should be good to go. The Telit card is still on version 1 firmware and no connection issues. The EM7565 . . . I have to perform reanimation on every time it needs an update. Telit card is just shooting 3's from half court now.

The router has a small physical switch to manipulate which sim you want. I am going to put this in a box on the roof, I wonder how I could automate that switch? It would probably be better to just enjoy the stability this build offers with one radio and a 5GHz wifi card for outdoors, but I probably can't just do that.

 

Get a room you two!

25 minutes ago, DurhamHusker said:

I have had issues with US Cellular roaming in the past that was remedied by initiating a "hands free activation" on my handset

I love when those tricks work.

1 hour ago, Tengen31 said:

So TMobile will be using it then?

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I think it will be the last holdout for CDMA 1xA. I don't see them taking the bandwidth offline and no sense buying n26 radios if it goes for sale. I think the two year is a safety valve in case too many folks still have CDMA phones/IoT devices.

No, it is New Tmo's for 3 years; after which dish will pay about $3.6B to buy with the option for Tmo to lease back for 2 more years.

15 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Mini macros for L2500?

First round was, but the 8t8r installed last year also only broadcast two channels until recently. Third channel seems to be for magic boxes.

160MHz available so who knows.

Pretty low density here, one channel in band 25, and two in 2500 when you get close.

2 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

There's plenty of CA where I'm at. L2500+L2500+L2500 as well as L1900+L2500+L2500. No 1900 intraband CA because we have a single 15x15 carrier, but I'm definitely not complaining about that. 

The one place I don't experience carrier aggregation is the Sprint network.

10 minutes ago, ingenium said:

Yeah this makes sense. I believe that band access is on a per site basis. So for example, on sites that are very congested on band 12, T-Mobile may not broadcast the Clear PLMN. But on a nearby site with light B12 usage, they do. There are some sites that allow Sprint roaming on all bands, and others that only allow maybe band 2 and/or 4/66. It varies.

The one thing Sprint roaming does not allow for at the moment is carrier aggregation. You will always be on just a single carrier while roaming (domestic and international).

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No. I roam on all bands on every site here. Also, here is 3x aggregation roaming with a Sprint sim in my LM960 from April 18. I also have a Potato X2 that aggregates roaming, same sim card.

7 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

What phone are you using?

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Telit LM960/H721 dual SIM router for this experiment specifically.

I rolled my own phone to save cost, it does not have band 71 yet. Those radios are pricey so I put the one we have in our internet box.

Horry CO, SC has L850 and GSM. T-Mobile's only Cellular band license.

11 minutes ago, Tengen31 said:

You have seen B5?

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