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Good radio, do not forget to get MHF4 connectors for the antenna ports. Though it is mPCIe format it does not use the U.FL MHF1 ports most mPCIe cards use. Make sure your order is the LM960AIW203T0W1000 model available here, this is the A18 and most current model. The LM960AIW201T0W2000 is the first production model, and surprisingly still costs more via semiconductor store. Groovy. Yeah he got more last week and I bought a few of em while he had them. My order from ZBT is taking forever so I jumped on what he had. This is the best place if you have to go outdoors. Too high and you start getting your intra cell interference and like you said good shade. I know a good vendor that makes all these custom cables I order, let me know if you need some. Good prices, free shipping. I just order new cables most of the time but having tools on hand means you can make mods now if you don't have time to wait, but that is if you anticipate needing to do this often.

I just built this PoE and USB 3 upgraded WG3526 with an LM960 in it today I am testing it on the two Kathrein antenna I put on my TrashMonster™ tower. It works great so far. I use 3 foot of LMR400 7/16 DIN male to SMA male. The cards are pretty on par with each other. They both get lots of aggregation combos, the Quectel is Eng samples only and the LM960 is on production revision 2, model A18 now. IMEI manipulation is more for Quectel if you need that for your plan, Telit I haven't figured that part out yet. The 960 is mPCIe so no adapters for most embedded router slots, the EM20 is M.2 so unless you get one of those fancy new routers I mentioned above you need an adapter. What other questions do you have for me?

Lol Welcome to TMobile.

Thanks! I build non carrier compliant but still compliant machines so if you need one before T-Mo builds one I am here.

We also got a new to us Frank Sonata, we on Ver 3. People just love driving into my wife, I am installing an auto turret and some brush guard on this one I swear. So once I get all of these parts centrally located and built into New Frank, I am gonna head out for some more travel and fotos.

I utilized all of the scrap furniture in my lab and amalgamated it onto a frankenpole until I get my fresh new one built. Say hello to the TrashMonster™ 5G Edition. TrashMonster™ works hard, TrashMonster™ plays hard. I am still working with the Quectel RM500Q-GL. I have been on midband(1.7-2.7 antenna for the last few weeks since getting stuff is a pain right now, so no 5G quite yet at the homestead . . hopefully until today I just got my 2kUSD order of 4x MiMo wideband antennas and routers in today! Super pumped to get this going. I have an Fibocom 5G card coming around Wednesday, and a pile of Quectel radios coming in June. So far the only routers capable of taking this thicc 5G form factor modem are the ZBT WG1608 which I will also have a few of in June. It is basically a beefed up WG3526. The H721 m2m v3 that I am working with is good so far, really good for a prototype. I am hoping that one gets into production soon since I like the modular mPCIe slots for adding or removing WIFi, and it also supports dual sim/dual radios. I have yet to explore this but I intend to soon. Waiting for my pile of TelitLM960's to get here. Anyhoo, I have a busy month of building stuffs ahead. I hope everyone here has a great weekend and gets a good laugh out of my developer edition pole. Stay 🇺🇸 free 🇺🇸 out there folks!

I have their home internet LTE router, it is $55/mo before autopay or any line discounts with a minimum price of $50/mo. The service currently comes with an Askey cat 16 router with 2x RJ45 and 1x RJ11 included in the price. It is a glorified Nighthawk MR1100. The service is deprioritized from bit 1. Users of trash application reddit will tell you it is locked to a location but that is simply not the case. I have two that travel all over with me. It has a SIM that is locked to the device but that took me about 4 minutes to break, I put it in a 5G radio build and it works just fine.

HONK HONK 🤡🌎

It is gone from half of the sites in my county. It is only online in rural areas and has been this way since summer of last year.

Telit released new firmware for the LM960 last month, this now includes band locking support for L66 and L71. I was able to update mine no problem on my crappy windows 10 laptop. You will need the Telit windows drivers and the firmware update file. These are available from Telit, download via your vendor, or Techship. If you are unable to find them I can get you a copy.

I forgot to turn off band 5 until I was on the way home so I spent most of my time camped there ;-; I was only able to pass that one tower today. I will have more opportunities tomorrow. I explored the band locking feature. 2020 interjected into my plans, a distracted driver plowed into Frank Sonata so now I don't have wheels. I am going to explore building a capable stand for this router now in the lab since it is stationary until further notice. Silver lining I get to build stuff, schematic time!

Oh great point I completely missed! As expected it got zero hits overnight. She is back in dual RAT before I take her out there innawoods looking for signal soon.

i completed the 5G build. The LTE radio is just killer in this thing. I have tested to make sure we have ENDC going and all signs(at commands) point to yes. I took her for a spin in Frank Sonata today to pick up some carryout and was unable to make a 5G connection on n71 so I will take a trip down to that band 2/5/71 only tower I used to confirm 71 on my LM960. That site is nice and out of range of most other sites so I will be able to park for a few and run some commands. This trip should be much safer then last time lolol. I will roll in NR only mode and see what she picks up.

I ordered another LM960 and a bag o goodies from Quectel. I got an RM510-Q, that mmWave jazz, another 500 and some EM-20's. I still have the first bag of RM500Q. I waited on building this to get a good board and some firmware to try to garner some interest of a complete build. 5G cards are a larger form factor then your usual m.2 sled, router or slot! They have an extra 10mm. I made vidya getting acquainted with the dev board and RM500 but haven't been able to garner interest now that I have a good router and several ancillary parts like WiFi cards and an LTE card for the mPCIe slot. ;-; I will build it today and go Five Gee hunting tonight.

I am always building something capable, let me know if you would like to try out something different until satellites git gud.

I love T-mo business, I have about 10 lines in data machines and I rarely have an issue with speed, service, sims or rolling my own devices. I am putting a couple 5G routers on eSIM as soon as I get them built and T-Mobile will accommodate this because they like taking my money.

If ya'll really want nostalgia here is the Sprint PCS Power Vision era antenna that still adorn my local macro to this day.

Buckle in we got a long way still!

With all the nuts overseas attacking 5G masts and telecom workers I wouldn't say a thing either. We have a habit of importing bad ideas from overseas at our own expense and now we can't have a casual conversation with some doods working.

Which router? I am about to build the RM500Q-GL into a custom router. The T-Mobile home internet box has an SoC cat. 16 radio, it is basically a Nighthawk with an extra RJ45 plus an RJ11 port, minus USB C.

Will put this together tomorrow. Router is a test cut dual SIM, One LTE radio and one New Radio radio, Dual band WiFi, all modular of course. Once assembled I can hunt for signals. I've had an Telit LM960 crushing it on ATT in an CBA850 for a couple weeks. I really like this new A18 model. It gets 4x MiMo on the second carrier and sometimes third, 3x uplink aggregation on a few band combinations and all sorts of sweet band support.

This landed today.

We have seen at least two networks shut down here and there is a plague. Let's enjoy the best moments and frens we have made in all that process. We all know what you mean man. I joined Sprint because they offered unlimited, family plan pricing and nice devices. They were a domestically operated company at the time, wholesome and based in the mid-west. Wimax was rolling out and so were a bunch of us trying to squeeze every bit of data we could out of it, if we were just lucky enough to spot it in the right place at the right time and optimal frame of mind I suppose. That sent a bunch of us off learning and asking, bantzing online, getting cool devices and the want to build cool stuff. I bought a series of cameras to get out, get photos and in turn I was fortunate to meet other Americans that like to build stuff like towers and radios and backhaul, it was all amazing! I brought pizza so it was easy. I am not kidding that gets you into the hut. I let my device spend more time logging or flashing or TTL DUN in this file after entering an unstable baseband FW that turned out to be not at all what I needed After I promptly jacked it up the nice person at the store would explain how not to do what I just did; then repair or replace and charge me a fee for service. Early on they did not mind device ownership and what we really did to them within reasonable noise limits. Conventionally we have done been told and debated and pontificated unlimited and it's meaning. So sidestepping that mess, I always wanted to see if my X handset could compete with my current expensive option. Being more forward thinking with the knowledge I picked up here, I knew we would come to rely on wireless internet for service where we want to live. That became magics unto itself with components like sims, plans and pricing. Tethers, radios and firmware. I could go on for days, I have here and that is great. Tonight I am cleaning up a bunch of project waste in the lab from cool LTE tasks I like to build. Might even add another 14$ lamp so I can take moar better pictures of what part of the house I am running an antenna to this season. I have always been a device value and ownership advocate, I was able to explore that on the Sprint Network. I actually found my old Netgear 6100D(Band 41!). This was my first real LTE routing device and it was surprisingly stable for a Sprint branded product. This was unfortunately not replicated in the femtocells, as demonstrated in the related threads with endless Q's about how to service what Gen of which Rave or Box that worked until a month ago or somehow just showed up at random. Sprint was innovative, but liked to inflict those product ideas on their user base in beta. A LOT. So we learned. Anyway that old thing is going in the bin, unless T-mo will take it for trade in value that may appear in 3 billing cycles. Either way it has to go. I gotta make room. An Official Shiny And New Five(5) Gee(G) Embedded Radio (with New Radio!) got here today from the nice communists over at Quectel on the mainland and once again I am bypassing lame carrier hardware. This time I am just building my own for the network of the future. I may wish I knew as much last time but I am thankful for the experience gained by doing so. I am just an exceptionally common American 🇺🇸 that likes to build things and I appreciate what got me to what I am doing now as an enthusiast and 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝑒𝓇𝑒 shitposter. Thank you for sharing @danlodish345 I remember many fond memories of your exploding Samsung phones and that tower near your home, did they ever upgrade that to triband? Mine is still GMO band 25 in 2020 lol. The local Sprint site is a jalopy still, and the abandoned SprintShak in town has a microcell on top that got turned off with the power so it is kind of lights out around here. It is happening. Fast. I wish I was able to experience Wimax, L41 and other variations of BRS intentions at home, we are still here for the next try. It is also a grinding recession all of sudden where everyone needs to get connected, recently furloughed I find this set of skills useful to have. Imagine what I would have done if I listened to everyone who told me not to get as much as I could out of my Sprint connection? I am glad to have met ya'll and keeping me challenged, I learn so much.

I look forward to getting kicked off the Dish network for pumping a Tb through my embedded 5G radios.