✅ New Tools For Locating Your Tower and Signal Line of Sight - External Antenna Aiming
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2022
- Here's how to pinpoint your local towers and determine if they are line of sight (visual and RF) as well as see the fresnel zone and local terrain. This applies to T-Mobile, Verizon, At&T and other carriers. Cell towers emit signal in most directions and there is a fresnel zone that must be considered as part of the determination of "line of sight". I go thru how to determine that and some simple website tools to use to show if you have line of sight. Popular external antennas for fixed wireless home internet are Waveform's 4G 5G panel antenna, log periodic direction antenna (LPDA) and the Griddy grid periodic directional antenna (GPDA).
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Dude, take the sub! This was massively helpful! Just got T-Mobile Home Internet and I was sure it was going to be a bust. Couldn't get decent speeds anywhere in the house, I'm talking 2 Mbps MAX. Watched this vid, located the tower I was looking for, pointed it in the right direction and I am getting 10 times that now. It may not sound like much, but this is a massive improvement! I haven't even connected the 4x4 antenna yet. Thanks!
Another great video Nate! Thanks
You're welcome!
Dr. Nate did it again with this one more video. Ways to go. And nice BIGG office. Congrats. Looks neat.
Thanks Rajeev!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video! Thank you for the info!
You're welcome
This is very helpful!
Milford Michigan! How cool. I just realized you were a fellow Michigander. Im north of Grand Rapids; Greenville. We are in a weird situation with internet provider and are forced to use t-mobile. I appreciate the videos. Its defiantly helped get us "pointed in the right direction" Thanks!
Glad the videos help!
DUDE!!! I grew up in White Lake, on Oxbow Lake. I graduated from Lakeland High School in 1988.
I know parents that have kids that go to Lakeland now.
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Nate first off, thank you I've been watching your videos for a while now, I also have a waveform log antenna and have tried many different way to connect routers to T-Mobile Nokia. Your videos have help me tremendously. I just wanted to say thank you and keep up the good work. I'm in a rural area in Ohio. Your videos have helped me to go from 10-25 Mbps down stock to what I get now which isnt by any means perfected yet but I'm getting there. Now I'm anywhere from 60-125 Mbps. My biggest hurdle I face is trying to configure a second router (Belkin ac/ax) with TMobile via Ethernet cable. And now trying to connect Netgear r6260 ac wirelessly with Belkin to play PS4 on my garage but am losing lots of speed. Could you go in more depth on how to configure routers. Thank you. I look forward to seeing more of your videos
You're welcome. Connecting two brands of routers together wirelessly is typically plagued with issues. If you can't get an ethernet backhaul (or ethernet over powerline or MoCA) and you have to go wireless from one router to the next I'd recommend a dedicated mesh system designed to work like that. Here's my Asus setup: ruclips.net/video/hIKZzCkbXDY/видео.html
@@NaterTater Thank you I appreciate the help. I will check out the video and let you know how it goes.
Hi Nate. Been watching your channel for awhile. Just got my TMHI and I'm getting ping 179ms, down 12Mbps up 3Mbps. I looked at The "map" and found the tower that I pass everyday to work and when I click on it, it says 0.00AGL. It's also on CellMapper as a TM tower and on Google maps. I know I'm going to hack the Nokia Gateway (scary) But I think I can do it. I don't have a router yet. Thank you for any possible help. Keep up the good work. Will be watching more.
Thought I'd share my less than typical internet connection. Take a slow zippy dsl connection, add a t-mobile hm internet, toss in a multi-wan router for connection bonding top off with a cell phone booster. This collection took my single dsl speed from 15 mbps to 50 mbps with fail over .
thanks but UISP was different than your video? it said lidar data not available in this area? whatever that is? could not get the blimp look? LOL had a dropdown and wanted product types? couldnt put it frequency's correctly or not sure? my tower was hard to find. i used the cordinates from towermaps to mark it on UISP. so that was cool. i am blue. 3.6 miles away with a -7.28 tilt. i havent used external attenas yet. have had t-mobile now for about 6 months. was getting 200-250 mbps with the OEM trash can tower upstairs on the loft. but lately im down to 125-150 mbps. still happy as F&$k to get it since sattalite was only 2-3 mbps LOL. dependig on the product the tower has a ( PowerBeam 5AC? ) i can hopefully get 597 mbps with external antenna?
thanks for the vid!
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Nate! You must be in South Bend?
Nope, I live in SE Michigan.
I bought an old Japanese house in the countryside and there isn't any internet service out here, apart from my phone's cell signal. My service provider, Docomo, sent me a free signal booster/repeater and external antenna, which did help but still sucks. Today I raised the antenna up to about 16 feet, but I'm not exactly sure which way it should be pointed or how high would be best. The booster reads 4/5 bars and my phone says it has "4G+," but the actual performance comes and goes and I never, ever have the 5G I'm paying for
Waveform’s Griddy should work well with the T-Mobile 5g box, right? I just got one yesterday, and I’m struggling to get it to work well. I’m pretty sure I have line of sight to the tower, but I’m having trouble finding a signal.
The griddy is VERY sensitive to aiming. You also need atleast 2 to leverage the 2x2 mimo that the gateway is expecting. A friend has a few, I might should do a video on it sometime.
@@NaterTater Thanks for the reply. Yeah I’ve noticed it’s very sensitive to where you aim it. So, since I only have one (not allowing for mimo) I won’t be able to use it? Maybe I didn’t do enough research… 🤔
Edit: Also, I’m sorry that I’m asking you all of these questions, but for some reason waveform customer service hasn’t gotten back to me in a week. I’m not sure what’s going on.
@@NoahZimmerman i would email them again or just call them during business hours 1-800-761-3041
@@NaterTater Alright. Thank you.
I like this, the T-mobile cell finder in the app just does not show a thing for me thanks! Tater~tot
You're welcome Charlie!
Hey nate could you do a video talking about the t mobile gateway home internet and the Nat type 3 issues and maybe how to fix them. T mobile says they know about it but I can't get anywhere with them please help 🙏. Thank you .
Its an issue on their end. You as a user cant fix it other than going to a different ISP. That said not all people on TMHI have that issue. Seems to be area/tower/band specific.
A VPN help fix my issue but its has some draw backs. Fixed my nat on my switch and xbox. The most infuriating part is when i first got TMHI i had no nat issues. After a few months there was a change and now playing games (90% of what i do with my internet) is a challenge
@@NaterTater thank you nate for reaching back out I appreciate it .
@@GamersHuntingLive yeah this is the second time it happened to me the first time I did a reset and it switched back over to nat type 2 then now and it won't go back. The weird thing is is started this second the day I got a Playstation plus subscription cut the day before I did a test and it was nat type 2 .
@@matthewholt9501 I'm here for the same thing. I can get games on steam to work as long as I reset the router EVERY SINGLE TIME I COME HOME. But for the ps4 I'm just shit out of luck. I talked to tmobile about it and they told me to buy a separate router
So I was getting on the n41 band for the past couple weeks, and now no matter where i set it, it puts me on the n71 which is dramatically slower, is there anyway to force the n41 band? Could it be that trees are getting fuller and maybe they are blocking the signal to get on n41?
Not likely to be leafs causing the issue. Either tower is being upgraded and modernizing n41 or firmware update changing band priority is the culprit. An externa antenna aimed correctly may resolve if its firmware/signal related.
Can you get past the band prioritization with a antenna? Or reverse the firmware update to the previous version with the silver bullet?
Edit: sorry, I see you've answered this in the comments
Have you heard any news or solution on a remedy for the router strictly being set to Nat 3? Without that changing I literally cannot play any of my PS4 games online
Other than that I love the speed, but it literally hinders 50% of the reason I have home internet which is gaming with my friends
@@VibeASMR i hear ya
You're not far from my old house at 9 and middlebelt that's funny.
However moving out to Webberville riding the struggle bus out here for internet.
Is there a way to tell what tower was just updated?
T-Mobile when they sold me the trash can said a tower would be updated February 5th and I still haven't noticed an increase in speed so I'm thinking I've got my antenna aimed in the wrong direction
Other than using a phone an a app like cell mapper that shows you what tower you are on and something like you all of a sudden start to see n41 band can you tell if a tower got upgraded. Tech support can also tell you what tower got upgraded by you.
@@NaterTater Thanks for the fast reply. Turns out we are 15+ miles away from 4 different towers.
However I'm seeing 2 towers closer on cell mapper vs the link website why would that be?
@@shifty198885 the link website doesnt show t-mobile towers. You have to know where the t-mobile towers are and put them on the link map.
@@NaterTater Ok and I'm sure it is in one of your videos but do the T mobile home internet modems need to use T mobile only towers?
@@shifty198885 yes (and Sprint since they merged)
Hi so if your from Michigan I’m from hartland Michigan do you have any waveform antennas you would wanna sell?
Hi. No unfortunately I keep them all for future testing.
@@NaterTater just ordered one will be here tomorrow bought a 4x4 going to use it with the trash can can’t wait
@@scooby2352 sweet!
My T router keeps going off it only shows the t and then go's off any ideas
Broken
@@NaterTater kinda thought so
@@300_united8 only other thing is to double check it has AC power. Could be a dead battery and no AC power.
Can't see your replies, lets see if this post will then show replies.... ha
Lieutenant Dan????
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Link.ui just says mobile devices are not covered …. Does not let you in
Odd, are you on Apple iOS? Works on my android phone but I always use a computer since its hard to use on a small screen.