belusnecropolis

28 minutes ago, RAvirani said:

Currently 13. Since I control the code though, I can add more if/when needed. 

I need to rebuild a couple maps. I just usually take pictures and poast those. I am busy and unorganized so I could care less to sort a bunch of site data from the master map and copy paste again, or match GPS to a site and harvest from there. Have you guys found a way to automate something like SCP log sorting, what would be required to do this when starting fresh?  

On 10/30/2019 at 5:39 PM, belusnecropolis said:

SoftBank is the techworld equivalent of a lotto winner, plowing through new access to Saudi Petro dollars on hookers and blow.

and dog walking apps. Selling stake and dropping from the board of *squints* . . . Wag. Ok.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/softbank-sells-stake-back-to-wag.html

Telit model FN980 Five Gee m.2 card marketing materials.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRDUAftby4IPLNMKeN7l9C9BnC9s5Wig/view?usp=sharing

Advanced LTE/5G LTE Data Card
Enabling a new generation of 5G state of the art data cards
featuring both Sub-6 and mmWave technologies with LTE,
WCDMA and GNSS support.
Industrial-grade M.2 form factor suitable - among others
- for the following applications: High Power Fixed Wireless
access, enterprise routers and gateways, indoor/outdoor
CPE, video broadcasting and surveillance. Support of
Qualcomm QTM525 and QTM527 mmWave antennas

Key Benefits
• Standard M.2 (NGFF) Data-card form factor
• Support of 5G Sub-6 FDD and TDD and mmWave
• Support of SA & NSA operations, 5G core network Opt.
3a/3x and Option 2
• 4G/5G Rel. 15
• 4G Cat. 20 up to 7CAs
• 3G HSPA+ Rel 18
• State of the art GNSS receiver

Connecting the world
from the inside out 1
AVAILABLE FOR
NA
EMEA
APAC

5G / LTE Data Card M.2
FN980m 50 mm

30 mm 3.5 mm

Product Features
• 5G Sub-6 and mm Wave FDD and TDD,
SA & NSA operations
• 5G core network Opt. 3a/3x and Opt. 2
• 4G: 7CA, up to 20 layers DL / 3CA UL,
256 QAM DL/UL
• 3G: HSPA+ Rel. 8 (DL/UL 42/11 Mbps)
• GNSS: gpsOne Gen9 L1 band on dedicated
RF connector, L5 shared with cellular
• Voice support: VoLTE, VoNR (under
evaluation), PCM audio over USB
• 4 antenna connectors for LTE/Sub-6
• 4 mmWave antennas supported
• 5G FR1 Bands: n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n12, n14,
n20, n28, n30, n41, n66, n71, n77, n78, n79
• 5G FR2 Bands: n257, n258, n260, 261
• LTE Bands: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18
19, 20, 26, 28, 71, 25, 66, 39, 29 (DL), 30, 32, 7,
38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46 (LAA), 48(CBRS), 34, 27
• WCDMA Bands: 5, 8, 3, 4, 2, 1, 9, 19
• 5G 4x4 MIMO support on bands n1, n2, n7,
n66, n3, n77, n78, n79, n41 and n30
• 4G 4x4 MIMO support on bands 32, 4, 66, 3, 2,
25, 1, 30, 40, 41, 7, 43, 42, 46, 48
• Antenna types: 4x LTE/Sub-6 + 4x
QTM525/527
• FOTA Support
• Dimensions: 30 x 50 x 3.5mm

Data Throughput
• 5G up to 5.5 DL/2.7 UL Gbps
• 4G up to 2.4 Gbps DL/211 Mbps UL
• 3G up to 42 DL/11 UL Mbps
Environmental
• Operating temperature range:
-40°C to +85°C
Interfaces
• 1.8/3 V SIM Interface
• USB 3.1 gen2 and 2.0
• PCIe gen3
• Drivers support: Windows 10, Linux

Approvals
• RED (planned)
• GCF (planned)
• Others (under evaluation)
Electrical & Sensitivity
• LTE/5G sub 6 Output power
- 23 dBm (power class 3)
• Supply voltage
- Nominal: 3.3 VDC

I bet this one is going to be expensive.

6 minutes ago, 645824 said:

I would love to, but I've hit my s4gru image limit.  It says that I only have 0.02MB of image space remaining.  Here in the 21st century, I can't take a 20kB photo   🙂

Scott

 

imgur.com is a file sharing site that allows you to upload and share via a direct link.

On 11/29/2019 at 9:22 PM, 645824 said:

 

Scott

 

Would you please post pictures of your setup when you are finished with them?

Anyone else have the Home Internet Box?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WrkZbZm8ThDKk8246

I forgot to poast this. Here is the speed tests we did while driving around with this thing day 1. It really does not care what tower it is on. It hands off well.

We put 50 miles on it that day, probably covered about 12 different cells. 

I am going to try the hirose adapters I have left over from the 2k17 Nighthawk 4x4 experiment. I'll clamp em to the board and then run some antennae in and see what pops up.

15 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

I'm still not excited about prices inevitably increasing to finance the buildout though. 

I'm hoping the few millions of new customers they can grab offering service in new areas offsets this some.

Plus the FCC loves giving away money lately for rural build outs.

2 minutes ago, red_dog007 said:

I think they could rock 1x800 for a long time.

I wonder if the spectrum will be cleared for border usage by the time Dish gets this band.

19 minutes ago, Bill E said:

SardisTel / Fuzion WARNING

I am a customer of one year because, so far, I have not found other viable rural Internet options.  Sardistel (now Fuzion) knows this to be the case for most of their customers.  They are rude, infuriating, incompetent, and demeaning.  Doubt me?  Call (256) 400-0011 and press '1' '3' for residential internet technical support and sit through their scolding.

I am their best-case customer -- a technical professional who requires zero hand holding -- just take my money and provide service as promised.  But I have *monthly* complete service outages on the 23rd.  They bill me with automated precision on the 15th but always fail to complete the loop with Verizon (or maybe pay the Verizon bill?) to authorize my re-sold Verizon service to continue to operate for the next paid-for month.  Usually I get cut off on Friday nights at midnight and SardisTel business hours are M-F.  It is *mandated* that service problems be filed using their online ticketing system (how does one DO that exactly if you've got a complete service outage?) but no one responds to these tickets in a timely manner regardless of the urgency marked for the ticket.  Best you can do is hope to get their after-hours answering service.

The owner's name is Warren Sandusky, an Auburn Alum who apparently resides near Guntersville, but I have yet to find a means of contact to address my issues.  This is the WORST business I have ever dealt with.

If you doubt any of these claims please sign up as a customer and experience first hand for yourself.

William D. Ezell,
dissatisfied customer (until other options are found)

BTW -- I work from home and need the unlimited data plan which is not currently offered directly by Verizon, else I would not deal with these yahoos.

We build our own around these parts fren.

Made sure to test connection with case removed first. This confirms antenna are built into the top half. Trying the u.fl connectors on both antenna sets was disappointing. No connection. 

The sim was not friendly in my other devices, like I figured. It is IMEI locked to the Askey device.

Guess this means solder if we want to mod this thing gang.

Preparing T-Mobile Home Internet Askey router for modifications.

Remove the 4 soft pads, and the small Phillips screws located underneath.

Bottom comes right off. This really way to easy. I earned this after trashing so many other ones. Remove the board by pressing on the two white tabs at the length ends holding the PCB. Angle front end up and remove switch side.

Boop.

That took about 3 minutes. I feel so lazy now. Anyway I will get to poking at these u.fl ports. Like @645824 said, the small path ports are not MHF4 on this router either. They are probably named in the testing documents somewhere so I will dig there later. Looks like the auxiliary antenna are accessible though  

I could always just solder up those ends to something as well.

Lots to do. Lots to plan. I also have a sim to test out in other devices.

Have a great night everyone.

If your WiFi signal goes down as you unplug them, that would also be a good indicator.

20 minutes ago, 645824 said:

Scott

1. Neat! Nice work.

2 & 3
The LTE antennas will usually be in the path of the antenna on the PCB. I assume all antenna are part of the case now so if the antenna feed from the board where they make that connection with the antenna in the case, those are your LTE antenna. It is easier if you are able to identify the LTE and WIFI radios from any FCC docs, and just follow the paths coming from those LTE radio====MHF4 port=====gold contacts at PCB edge.

You should try hooking up an antenna to those at least and see what happens. Who knows?

On 11/20/2019 at 9:57 AM, 645824 said:

Thanks,

Scott

Should be able to draw some good interest once we get these torn down and figured out. Expect lots of proprietary protocol so finding a comm port on the modem will be tricky if that is your thing. Getting an antenna design going is what I am excited for most. All I can do with the software is try to break it hard enough in the most blatant manner possible. 

I have to be nice to this case though, I shredded a MR100 Nighthawk and a couple of magic boxes no problem, I'm trying to keep this thing at least a few more months, so I am excited to see what I can come up with. If you manage to teardown Sprint's premiere 5G home router and set up some externals that would be really neat to see.  

Jim @LTEfix is great. We boomer chat on facebook and get confused by all the software, bitmaps and such. He really has a great domestic business going sourcing all this stuff. Thanks to his services I have an elaborate junkyard going and now 3 year Ever Improving LTE Internet Project. 

Well I found where to start taking this thing apart. I'll break it down tonight. Gotta step up the antenna game on this official Home Internet Box.

This thing is a school bus next to the CBA850

23 hours ago, belusnecropolis said:

Keeps leftovers warm.

I forgot to check mileage yesterday but we put 51 miles on this thing and it worked and handled handoffs just fine.

37 minutes ago, 645824 said:

 

Does anybody know what those connectors are called?  If they are tiny coax then I would just need a pigtail to get from that to TS9 or SMA.

Thanks,

Scott

Most likely MHF4, or possibly u.fl size ports. I found what look to be u.fl on the T-Mobile Askey board and I am tearing it down after a late snack to find out the same thing. I have a ton of these handy in my lab but you can get MHF4 here and u.fl here with 2 day shipping. It's where I get all of mine and they work great. Just select what type of SMA jack you want on the opposing end in the dropdown.

Keeps leftovers warm.

So about a day into having this T-mo home internet running. I wanted to give it time to acclimate a connection in the incorrect zip code and allow any network controls to kick in. Since no one listened the first time when I mentioned these have no active GPS track I'll just put the results below from a zip code in the beautiful southeast, when it should be operating in the frozen tundra'd expanse far north of here. Just waiting for an irritable text from T-Mobile saying to place it near a window so it can connect to the correct cell 750 miles away . . .

 

Here is a speedtest connected to the old home site, the UI does not give much for radio information.

Here is an obligatory test from my champion tier build on the same site.



So far so good. I will tear it apart, swap sims, hang this thing on some better antenna and poast results as time allows and the week's progress concludes.

Have a great Sunday everyone and stay free out there! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

19 hours ago, 645824 said:

 

 

So I removed the SIM drawer, then pried off the back cover. 

Step one on an amazing journey. This is the content we come here for.

Also, you can use any image hosting site to share. When making a high quality poast just share the direct link to the image and it will auto fill. They come from elaborate to simple. I use magaimg.net since it is an easy fileshare, more normie friendly sites like the imgur app or http://imgs.fyi/ work just as well.

1 hour ago, ingenium said:

Ahh I didn't know there were any T-Mobile plans/lines that worked for these modems. Was it a hotspot plan or just a regular line that you put in the modem?

Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk
 

Yeah, you just kind of have to make them work. Phone line, tablet lines work too.



 

On 11/10/2019 at 5:04 PM, ingenium said:

How did you get the invite?

Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk
 

The line selected was not my main line, but a stationary WE826/MC7455. Definitely not near my billing address and the unit has no GPS so this tells us it was selected by the time of use on a tower that has capacity. The line averages 100Gb of usage a month.

I will do a teardown.

1 minute ago, danlodish345 said:

???

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This was me professing my love for all posts danlodish