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| Australia - 5G Routers |
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Posted by: torch44 - 10 hours ago - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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Hi there,
Just wondering my options for upgrading to 5G modems from previous 4G.
Current setup: Huawei B525 via 2x2 9-11dBi Directional Antenna (698-3800MHz) on Optus 4G.
> Have LOS to tower 5.7km away with no obstructions.
> Current speeds @ 45/5. Have gotten 100/25 with different bands, but it's either more download or upload vis versa.
ISP say it can't be done but I get 5G on my phone even though it uses 4G most times.
5G routers options are:
- Nokia FastMile 5G Gateway
- Huawei 5G CPE Pro 2
- Netgear Nighthawk M6
- Tenda 5G03
Are these any good to this day or is something more superior?
I will mod these routers to accommodate an external antenna don't you worry.
Cheers
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| Zyxel NR5103 - SIM Card Status None |
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Posted by: user556 - 16/09/2024, 06:09 PM - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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reading some posts here I thought I might try buying a UK NR5103 off ebay.co.uk, listing said it was a 2022 model for Three uk. I can test it with a gomo sim and a 48.ie sim, and intend using it with the 48.ie sim long term.
From what I read if it is unlocked it should work with Irish mobile networks.
EDIT: I meant to say this - From what I read if it is 2022 it should be unlocked and work with Irish mobile networks.
tried 3 nano sims with a micro sim adaptor
same result each time:
SIM Card Status none
Tried reset and reboot.
any ideas?
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| How many ads does YouTube serve for 1 hour of video? |
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Posted by: Seán - 15/09/2024, 10:01 PM - Forum: General
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For anyone watching YouTube without an ad blocker or Premium membership, the number of ads it serves has come to the point where it is like American public broadcast TV channels. Up until recently, I was using a loophole where one could sign up to YouTube Premium in a country where it costs under €4 Euro per month through the use of a VPN. However, Google cracked down on it and sure enough they cancelled the subscription on my account saying that they don't believe the country I signed up in to be accurate.
As I mainly watch YouTube on a PC, the next best workaround I found is to use the browser Brave just for YouTube, which has a built-in ad blocker. While I could just install an ad blocker on my main Firefox browser, personally I don't find the ads bothersome on the vast majority of websites, unlike YouTube where they clearly went overkill. Some websites really put up a fuss when they detect an ad blocker, such as CellMapper. I didn't realise just how bad the ads got on YouTube over the past few years until I tried watching a few videos and found myself just wanting to leave the site rather than watch through/skip so many ads!
For curiosity, to find out just how intensive the ads got on YouTube, I opened up the Chrome web browser, started playback of a random video with auto-play enabled and left my PC screen recording for a 2 hour period. When I returned, I went through the recording noting the time stamps of each individual ad and whether it showed the 'Skip' button after 5 seconds into the ad. I put these details into a spreadsheet to get the accumulative number of ads, ad time (5 seconds for skippable ads) and video time:
In the 2 hour recording, YouTube played just over 40 minutes of ads! As most people skip ads that are skippable, the last column shows the accumulate ad time where skippable ads are counted as 5 seconds, which would have reduced the total ad time down to about 4.5 minutes.
If we look at the accumulative video time column, we can see that by the time YouTube played 1 hour of actual video content, it served 23 ads, which consisted of 10 double ads and 3 single ads. Two pairs of doubles were effectively 4 in a row due to a double ad being played at the end of one video followed by a double ad at the start of the next video. 7 of the ads could not be skipped. No wonder so many people are turning to ad blockers and unofficial ad blocking YouTube apps.
I recently started using Spotify to listen to music, so was curious to see how it compares for ads without a subscription. The Spotify Desktop app turned out to be surprisingly tame, playing just 2 ads in the hour I left it playing music while reading a magazine. Just to rule out a fluke, I played it another hour and it did not play a single ad. The Spotify App on my Android based phone however is more ad intensive and played 8 ads during 1 hour of playback, which consisted of 2 double ads and 4 single ads. Unlike YouTube, Spotify's ads cannot be skipped and last about 30 seconds each.
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| LHGGR+ Telit LM940 |
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Posted by: arni - 10/09/2024, 03:46 PM - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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Hi, I have planned to replace the Mikrotik R11E-LTE6 cards with a Telit LM940 card for 3 CA aggregation
Tested configurations:
Mikrotik LHGGR-ROS 7.15.3
LM940 card with software 24/01/519
– USB 2.0 configured – AT#USBSWITCH=1 command
- mode configured - 1041 MBIM- AT#USBCFG=2
- FIRMWARE 1 configured – GENERIC AT#FIRMWARE=1
Flags: I - inactive
0 device="3-0" seller="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller"
serial number="d0058000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0003"
speed="5000" ports=1 version-USB="3.00"
1 device="1-0" seller="Linux 5.6.3 ehci_hcd" name="EHCI Host Controller"
serial number="d005e000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0002"
speed="480" ports=1 version-USB="2.00"
2 device="2-0" seller="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller"
serial number="d0058000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0002"
speed="480" ports=1 version-USB="2.00"
3 device="2-1" seller="Telit Wireless Solutions" name="LM940-CP"
serial number="e0a8f96a" vendor-id="0x1bc7" device-id="0x1041" speed="480"
USB-version="2.00"
LTE interface invisible
Mikrotik LHGR- ROS 7.15.3
The LM940 card has firmware 24/01/519
– USB 2.0 configured – AT#USBSWITCH=1 command
- mode configured - 1041 MBIM- AT#USBCFG=2
- FIRMWARE 1 configured – GENERIC AT#FIRMWARE=1
Flags: I - inactive
0 device="3-0" vendor="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller"
serial-number="d0058000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0003"
speed="5000" ports=1 usb-version="3.00"
1 device="1-0" vendor="Linux 5.6.3 ehci_hcd" name="EHCI Host Controller"
serial-number="d005e000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0002"
speed="480" ports=1 usb-version="2.00"
2 device="2-0" vendor="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller"
serial-number="d0058000.usb" vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0002"
speed="480" ports=1 usb-version="2.00"
3 device="2-1" vendor="Telit Wireless Solutions" name="LM940-CP"
serial-number="e0a8f96a" vendor-id="0x1bc7" device-id="0x1041" speed="480"
usb-version="2.00"
LTE interface visible - the card works properly and aggregates 3 CA
RBM33G – ROS 7.15.3
The LM940 card has firmware 24/01/519
– configured for USB 2.0 – command AT#USBSWITCH=1
- mode configured - 1041 MBIM- AT#USBCFG=2
- FIRMWARE 1 configured – GENERIC AT#FIRMWARE=1
LTE interface visible - the card works properly
Flags: I - inactive
0 device="1-0" vendor="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller" serial-number="1e1c0000.xhci"
vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0002" speed="480" ports=2 usb-version="2.00"
1 device="2-0" vendor="Linux 5.6.3 xhci-hcd" name="xHCI Host Controller" serial-number="1e1c0000.xhci"
vendor-id="0x1d6b" device-id="0x0003" speed="5000" ports=1 usb-version="3.00"
2 device="1-2" vendor="Telit Wireless Solutions" name="LM940-CP" serial-number="e0a8f96a" vendor-id="0x1bc7"
device-id="0x1041" speed="480" usb-version="2.00"
LTE interface visible - the card works properly and aggregates 3 CA
The question is what is the reason that the LTE interface is not visible in LHGGR?
reply mikrotik support
Hello,
Not enough host controller resources for new device state.
This means that the modem requires more endpoints than the device has.
LHGGR has 16 endpoints, and 14 are free, it is hardware-related and cannot be changed in any way, the only solution is if you can make the modem require fewer endpoints.
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| Sky Mobile |
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Posted by: Shane - 10/09/2024, 12:57 AM - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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I have noticed that Sky has made the decision to introduce their mobile network in Ireland, offering unlimited calls, texts, and data on the Vodafone network for a monthly fee of €15.
I am curious to see how this development will impact the market, considering the presence of other low-cost options.
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| APN Settings |
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Posted by: Shane - 08/09/2024, 02:29 AM - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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Hey guys,
Just wondering is there any APN that is better than live.vodafone.com that doesn't have a slowdown or proxy on it, to get lower pings or possibly higher speeds?
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| MikroTik LTE signal meter bar graph script for Quectel modems |
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Posted by: Seán - 01/09/2024, 08:26 PM - Forum: Mobile Broadband
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While MikroTik provides live signal strength, SINR, etc. in its LTE status screen, I have run into several issues at least in my particular situation, especially with fine tuning an antenna's direction / height. The readings update every 3 seconds, which makes it tedious when fine tuning and constantly having to wait for the signals to refresh. The readings only show the primary carrier and it's difficult seeing the thin bar lines on the phone screen particularly in bright sunlight.
My script has the following features: - Shows an RSRP bar line from -130 to -80dB in single dB increments.
- SINR covers from -20dB to 30dB in single dB increments.
- The Margin line is the RSRP difference between the current cell and the strongest neighbour cell on the same EARFCN.
- Bar lines update twice per second.
- Each Bar individually turns red to indicate weak or blue to indicate strong reading.
- Shows the current eNB ID, which one can look up on a cell tower map such as CellMapper.
- Shows the currently active aggregated EARFCNs.
- EARFCN / PCI selection. Press the corresponding number on the keyboard to select which carrier to show readings for.
The longer the bar lines, the better the signal strength / quality / neighbour cell margin. 
The script has some limitations:- On a mobile, set the font size to 34 or smaller to show the bars properly - Touch the cog wheel as shown in the screenshot below, enter 34 and touch OK.
- This script only works on 4G carriers as no mobile network operates 5G in my area (Kilcar, Co. Donegal) and the nearest 5G I can pick up requires a 20 minute drive. If 5G reaches my area on any network before fibre does, I will update the script for 5G. If the script does not work properly, try disabling 5G temporarily.
- When selecting an aggregated carrier, the carrier must be active to show readings. If an aggregated carrier does not appear or no bars appear when selected, try running a speed test to activate the aggregated carriers. Alternatively start a large file download or use cell / band lock to have it has the primary band temporarily.
Screenshots from mobile (Chateau 5G on Vodafone) / desktop (Chateau LTE12 on Three):
Code: # Select lte interface
set $lte lte1
# Print meter line
local meterline do={
/terminal el; put "";
/terminal style varname-local
/terminal el; put $1
set $output ""
if ($2>0) do={ for i from=1 to=$2 do={ set $output "$output#" } }
/terminal style syntax-old
if ($2<22) do={ /terminal style error }
if ($2>38) do={ /terminal style ambiguous }
/terminal el; put [pick $output 0 50]
/terminal style none
}
# Reset counters
set $count 0
set $pcount 0
set $cacell [ toarray "" ]
set $caband [ toarray "" ]
set $line 0
# Loop until a keystroke
do {
# Reset previous line readings
set $mrsrp -140
set $msinr -20
set $mmargin -20
set $mpci ""
set $carriers "None"
set $enb "Disconnected"
# Reset cursor position and note previous line count
for n from=1 to=$count step=1 do={/terminal cuu}
set $pcount $count
set $count 0
# Select EARFCN from #1 to #9 keypress
if ($key>16 and $key<26) do={
set $i 0
foreach k,v in=$cacell do={
if ($i=($key-17)) do={set $line $k}
set $i ($i+1)
}
}
# Get the list of carrier aggregation cells from using the modem at-chat commands
set $cells [/interface lte at-chat $lte input="at+qnetinfo=\"servingcell\"" as-value ]
set $cells [toarray [pick $cells 0]]
set $ncells [/interface lte at-chat $lte input="at+qeng=\"NEIGHBOURCELL\"" as-value ]
set $ncells [toarray [pick $ncells 0]]
set $CA "PCC"
# Loop through each LTE carrier
set $i ([find $cells "PCC"] + 1)
while ($i>1) do={
# Get the PCI, EARFCN RSRP, RSRQ and SINR readings
set $pci [pick $cells ($i + 1)]
set $earfcn [pick $cells ($i + 2)]
set $band [pick $cells ($i + 3)]
set $rsrp [pick $cells ($i + 4)]
set $sinr [pick $cells ($i + 7)]
# Take note of any active EARFCN and PCI combination
set ($cacell->$earfcn) $pci
set ($caband->$earfcn) $band
if ($line=0) do={ set $line $earfcn }
if ($carriers="None") do={
set $carriers $earfcn
set $enb (tonum ("0x" . [pick $cells $i]) / 256)
} else={ set $carriers "$carriers + $earfcn" }
# Check RSRP reading against neighbour cell RSRP readings
set $nrsrp -140
set $margin 30
set $npci "None"
set $j [find $ncells "LTE"]
while ($j>0) do={
set $crsrp [pick $ncells ($j+4)]
if ([pick $ncells ($j+1)] = $earfcn and \
([pick $ncells ($j+2)] != $pci) and \
($crsrp > $nrsrp) and \
($crsrp < 0)) do={
set $nrsrp [pick $ncells ($j+4)]
set $npci [pick $ncells ($j+2)]
}
set $j [find $ncells "LTE" $j]
}
# Calculate the RSRP margin
if ($nrsrp > -140) do={set $margin [($rsrp - $nrsrp)]}
if ($line=$earfcn) do={
set $mrsrp $rsrp
set $msinr $sinr
set $mmargin $margin
set $mpci $npci
}
# Check and loop for any aggregated carriers
set $i [find $cells "SCC" $i]
set $CA "SCC"
}
# Print available EARFCN / PCI combinations
/terminal el
/terminal style syntax-noterm
put "Press # to select EARFCN - PCI:"
/terminal style none
set $i 0
foreach k,v in=$cacell do={
set $i ($i+1)
/terminal el
if ($k=$line) do={ /terminal style escaped }
put ("$i: B" . $caband->$k . "\t$k\t$v")
/terminal style none
set $count ($count+1)
}
# Print the meter lines
$meterline "RSRP -120 -110 -100 -90 -80" (mrsrp+130)
$meterline "SINR -10 0 10 20 30" (msinr+20)
$meterline "MARGIN -10 0 10 20 30" (mmargin+20)
# Print the connected carriers
/terminal el; put ""
/terminal el; put "eNB ID: $enb";
/terminal el; put "EARFCNs active: $carriers"
/terminal el
if ($mpci="") do={ put "EARFCN $line offline" } else={ put "Top nearby cell: $mpci" }
/terminal el; put "";
set $count ($count+15)
# Clear any extra lines from the previous run
/terminal el
for n from=($count+1) to=$pcount step=1 do={put ""; /terminal el}
for n from=($count+1) to=$pcount step=1 do={/terminal cuu}
# Check for any keystroke, then wait a split second
/terminal el; put "-- [# line | Q quit | P pause]"
set $key ([/terminal inkey timeout=0.5] & 223)
set $time [/system clock get time]
/terminal cuu;
# Keystroke P (80) = Pause, Q (81) = Quit
if ($key=80) do={/terminal el; put "-- Paused" ; /terminal inkey; /terminal cuu; }
} while (key!=81)
/terminal el
Usage:
If you are new to using scripts, see this thread on how to add / run a script.
The script starts by showing the readings for the primary carrier. To select another carrier, press the number corresponding to the carrier in the list. The selected carrier turns blue. To reset the list such as after aiming to another tower, stop and restart the script.
When fine tuning the antenna, first try getting the RSRP signal as high as possible, then fine tune the antenna by getting the SINR line as high as possible.
The Margin line shows how the signal strength of the selected carrier compares with the strongest neighbour. If the SINR is fluctuating all over the place, try getting the Margin as high as possible. It may not be possible to improve the margin much if the neighbour cell is another sector on the same mast / tower, such as being directly in-between two sectors.
If the script crashes out or does not operate properly, try disabling 3G and 5G (if present) in the LTE configuration.
This script has been tested and debugged on the following routers with RouterOS 7.16:- Chateau LTE12 (EG12-EA)
- Chateau LTE12 with Quectel EG18-EA m.2 modem on USB port
- Chateau 5G (RG502Q-EA)
- LHG with Quectel EP06 PCIe modem
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