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by jrychter
Mon May 27, 2024 2:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

Re: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?

Ok, so I tried to verify with my iPhone. I can't get the phone to connect to the same cell tower in the location where the antenna is. There is another tower in the opposite direction (which I can't use for the LHG LTE6 kit antenna) and the phone really wants to switch to that one. But what I did wa...
by jrychter
Sat May 25, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

Re: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?

Thanks, @Larsa — that would indicate the numbers do indeed seem off. I'll verify the cell id with the phone.
by jrychter
Wed May 22, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

Re: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?

I am sure I am aiming at the right tower, I verified the enb-id with a cell tower map. Unfortunately, comparing things with a phone won't help, as phones have become so dumbed down. My iphone won't tell me anything. But my questions were more about how reasonable those signal quality numbers are: I ...
by jrychter
Tue May 21, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

As it turned out, the reason why I couldn't connect to the device over my VLAN was because the VLAN wasn't added to the "LAN" interface group. As a result, the firewall did not permit connections to the management interface. So, my fault! I hope this helps someone. If you want to connect t...
by jrychter
Tue May 21, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?
Replies: 7
Views: 1305

LHG LTE6 kit: is this performance normal?

I've been using two LHG LTE6 kit devices. One of them is in a remote rural location, over 4km to the cell tower, with dense forest. I don't expect miracles there, but it works just fine. But the other one is in a city, where the cell tower is 520m away, no buildings in the way, just low bushes and s...
by jrychter
Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

The only thing on that cable between me and LHG LTE6 is the PoE injector. After thinking about this, I see two possibilities: 1) I did something stupid in the past, so this is a misconfiguration (but I seem to remember I was able to connect!) 2) LTE passthrough is interfering I guess ladder is The W...
by jrychter
Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

Unlikely to be a power issue, because other than the problem with admin connection, the router works fine.

So once I do climb the ladder, what next? Is a full reset using the button my only option?
by jrychter
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

It's unlikely to be the Windows laptop, because before trying it, I did everything on my Mac, which I normally use. No Winbox, but I tried all the VLAN and IP configurations and connecting with ssh. The results were exactly the same: I can ping the router interface on 192.168.89.1/24 VLAN 1001, but ...
by jrychter
Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

Oh, it's being rebooted regularly. And I tried power cycling it to see if it would start responding at least temporarily, for example before LTE passthrough gets fully established (before the client device gets an address through DHCP). None of it helps. I have an LTE6 that works and performs LTE pa...
by jrychter
Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

Re: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

Thanks. I did try that, connecting with the MAC address did not work either. Not on VLAN 1001, and not on VLAN 1.

I'm puzzled, because the device *is* pingable on that VLAN 1001 using the management address from my notes (192.168.89.1/24). But it won't accept connections.
by jrychter
Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect
Replies: 11
Views: 1641

LHG LTE6 pingable, but can't connect

I have an LHG LTE6 that I had set up 2.5 years ago and last accessed (I think) about a year ago. Not easily accessible physically. I set it up with LTE passthrough, with an additional management interface on 192.168.89.1/24 VLAN 1001. I tried accessing it recently to check/update RouterOS and modem ...
by jrychter
Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:42 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?
Replies: 16
Views: 5646

Re: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?

I am seeing this limitation in two locations, one with Orange Polska (this is where I am 300m from the tower, all the numbers in this post are from this location), and another with Plus.pl (this is a remote location, so I wasn't sure if the limitation isn't due to weak signal). In both cases there i...
by jrychter
Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:31 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?
Replies: 16
Views: 5646

Re: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?

Ok, so I finally found some time to test this. First, I don't seem to be able to turn off CA completely — even after locking the modem to a specific EARFCN/cell-id pair, the ca-band appears in "interface lte info lte1", at least initially. It does seem to disappear after a minute or so, no...
by jrychter
Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:49 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?
Replies: 16
Views: 5646

Re: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?

Hmm, interesting suggestions — I thought CA was an obvious "keep always on, because it is always better" setting. For those asking about bands used, RSRQ, SINR, etc — all those are in my post (just scroll the "code" section down so that it shows the entire info output). As for fi...
by jrychter
Sat Jan 22, 2022 3:12 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?
Replies: 16
Views: 5646

LHG LTE6 kit limited to 30Mbps up/down?

I have two LHG LTE6 devices and both never exceed about 30Mbps, both for up and down connectivity. It almost seems like there is a hard limit somewhere. When I noticed this in one location, I thought it was because of the poor LTE signal (it's a remote location). But then I installed another device ...