@@meepmonster750 I'll have videos shortly with performance comparisons for the Insty Connect. Insty Connect uses the same manufactured equipment from the same company as what MoFi uses. It's just a better quality router and modem. Other than the antenna design it's not a new product so it is fair to recommend it over the MoFi. I've also seen results from a working Insty Connect system so this is not guesswork. Once you see the comparison you'll understand why it is a far superior product and why it is a game changer for mobile Internet use.
So does the Insty Connect pretty much replace the need for sperate standalone installation of a cell signal booster, such as a Hiboost or weBoost system? I live in a residential area with lots of trees and such, so my cell signal is pretty weak at times, like 2-3 bars and over -100 dbm. Was thinking of getting a weBoost but might wait for this. I just purchased a mofi 4500 sim 7 model and was having trouble setting it up. Did not match some of the steps in your video.
@@brianv3913 With the Insty Connect or the MoFi it will boost the cell signal that comes in from the antenna but it does not replicate it to other devices in your house. However, you can connect your phone to the WiFi hotspot and make a Internet data call. I do that often when I am in a location that does not have T-Mobile and I call through my AT&T data connection.
@@SeleTraining right. But could you expect to see the same kind of cell booster gain to your Insty router that you would see from a weBoost signal booster? With their antenna design?
Wow this gentleman has an amazing broadcaster voice, also the precise low key and methodical way of teaching is absolutely excellent if you are new to this device.
Thank you so very much. I am embarrassed about how many times I watched and rewatched this video during setup. This video was the only reason I was able to get my mofi connected and running. My only suggestion that I might add is to explain the install of the SIM card in a little more detail only because I had never even seen a SIM before this. But that was on me. I took about 90 minutes to figure out that mine was in backwards but maybe I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. Thank you again and my family is very pleased with this device and if I can get it running, so should most any and all.
i want to thank you for this setup video. It showed me that cell speeds will not likely meet the desired speed i am used to with cable until 5G becomes the norm. again thanks and Have a Happy New Year.
Thank you so much! I was able to use an unused SIM and the IMEI from a nonworking cellphone and added a line to my ATT account. Followed your instructions and I’m connected! My kids have e-learning now and were having a miserable time with our old internet. I’m so thankful I came across your video!! Thank you for sharing!!
Love it! We take it on the road in our RV. Works exactly as Jason said it would. Be sure to order your MoFi through the link he provides, get your sim card (I got mine at my local AT&T = $20/month!), and follow the steps in this video.
A couple more notes on the setup of the MoFi. You can update the firmware under System-Remote Update. The latest version is 3.8.4. The mofinetwork notes also state that if you have Sprint Unlimited or Verizon prepaid to use the 3.7.6Generic firmware. See the notes at mofinetwork.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=21. It is also suggested to set MSS to auto for better performance. Look under Network-General and check the box for "Auto Calc Best MSS".
Sele Training what do I do if I have put my SIM card in modi { Verizon} and Verizon deactivated my data. I put card back in phone and it doesn’t get data? Any help would be great thank you.
I look under the advanced tab on top right corner. Firmware version is MOFI4500-V3-1.0.5-STD KERNEL VERSION IS 3.10.14 Should I keep it here? Still not able to get band scanner available.
Just received info from MoFi and the MoFi5500 will be released in April. I should have one for testing in a couple weeks and will have a video up with a comparison to the Insty Connect.
@@adoezema1 I received a MoFi 5500 a month ago but have been waiting for their firmware update before I can test it. They just let me know I should get the firmware this week. I will have a video out in a few days discussing the various versions of the MoFi 5500, pricing, and availability.
great video! Just got mine today, took the sim out of an extra AT&T phone with unlimited plan i have and worked great! I did set it up with band lock on B2 and have 33down and 12up. I have been using my hotspot on this phone for a few years but the MOFI is much better because i can use my outdoor mimo antennas i have. Tomorrow I plan on turning the antenna to find B1 which is a little faster @ ~50down and 25up. My AT&T plan is the old plan that i have had for several years with no data cap and unlimited, we use about 450mb a month and have seen no throttling what so ever.
Great video! Question: I'm using this router in my van. Since I'm traveling/moving, I'm guessing I would NOT lock it into a band. There is a band 'auto' setting. Is it correct to assume the auto setting will pick and use the strongest band?
There is a band auto setting but I've found that it does not do a good job of switching between bands on its own and I have to run the band scan when I go to a new location anyway. When you run the band scan it releases the bands and then defaults to the best one.
Can you use a sim card from a tablet with no phone call/texting capability. I have one from T Mobile in a older tablet that is still active. OR does it need to be a cell phone sim? Like a new line?
I am using a sim from a T-Mobile iPad and it works. The key is that it can't just be a hotspot only data plan because those do not include streaming data and will throttle at the data limit.
I have a tablet line with unlimited data. Do you have to change settings to meter the data as tethered vs device data? Does tmobile allow this device when they are expecting a tablet?
@@ggr1847 The MoFi defaults to the TTL 65 setting which uses streaming data only and it will work with T-Mobile. The key is that you don't want to use a hotspot only data plan. If your T-Mobile SIM came out of a hotspot device it will only give you hotspot data and will throttle once you hit the limits. If it is a regular line SIM from an iPad or cell phone it should work fine. I'm using T-Mobile and it's working great with the MoFi.
Hello my name is Mr. Kincaid I just wanted to say thank you so much for your Mofi video I have been a subscriber for a little over a year maybe longer I just received my Mofi 4500 Today through Amazon been using it for the past hour I am so glad I got your video I absolutely love it thank you so much for your post and your set up post thanks again Mr. Kincaid
This video has been INCREDIBLY helpful ever since we bought our MoFi 4500 last year. I rewatch it every time I have to reset my modem because you make it very easy to follow along. I am curious what you will have to say about the MoFi 5500 coming out soon and whether it will be better, worse, or comparable to the Insty Connect. Looking forward to that. :) Thanks for sharing your knowledge! -Melissa
Thanks! I should have a video update on the different 5500 models available out in the next 2 days. I have a 5500 for testing but I've been waiting for MoFi to provide the firmware so I can test it and put a video together comparing it to the Insty Connect. I'm supposed to get the firmware this week.
@@SeleTraining Any recommendation on how to locate cell towers when traveling in an RV? Out in the remote high desert? That's where I'm wanting to test it... Thanks!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! After watching your other mofi videos, I bought a 4500 used off of eBay. Works great so far! I'm actually using visible.
@@wareintheworldrv9108 I'm getting thottled but Im still diagnosing the problem. Most people don't have issues. No problem connecting multiple devices though!
If this helps anyone, we have the old unlimited ATT plan from 10+ years ago. We just fired up the Mofi. We had to select for our APN: Att Phone NextGen rather than ATT Broadband. Then it worked for us! Also, the ip address to I.E. is 192.168.10.1. Thanks so much Sele, I think u saved our marriage. My old hacked hotspotable phone was junk.
This is awesome !!! i finally got mine setup, it took hours (tip keep selecting different bands and lock each time) I ended up with 34 down load and 19 upload. The sim card when in the phone was capped at 5 download but not anymore, and i can have multiple devises Yahooo Yes i live rural but i am only 2 miles from the tower
For those of you trying to use Verizon there is a solution that has been confirmed to work by two subscribers. In the MoFi menu go to Network-Mofi Internal Modem and change the ISP TTL setting from "Linux-2 65" to "Linux 64". That has allowed them to go past the throttled data limit with their Verizon sim in the MoFi. For all other carriers the TTL should stay at the default of "Linux-2 65". Please let me know if anyone else has success using this setting for Verizon.
Thank you so much that is the exact question i was going to ask i have Verizon and i was using Linux-2 65 and the internet was real slow thanks i will try this.
I tried to install a SIM I had activated for an iPhone into the MOFI....wouldn't connect and I got a message from Verizon saying the SIM wouldn't work with the MOFI since the SIM had an unlimited plan and the MOFI isn't compatible with an unlimited plan. Which SIM are you using? My Jetpack sim works fine but don't think that will let me access the unlimited work around or will it?
Johnny Rocket I was using my Verizon sim from my MiFi Hotspot. It has “unlimited” data but throttles after 15. Which technically is unlimited it just slows to about .5mbps. I found a service that provides unlimited, un throttled data and works w the MoFi and they use AT&T sim. It works but I’m getting poor signal. Looking at which antenna to get now. It’s expensive but I really have no other choice at this point.
I saw people asking if metro by tmobile (pcs) worked. I could not get it going. I worked with the hotline and metro as well. Swapping an active metro sim would not get internet connection even working with the mofi help line. Even with entering the metro APN manually (Sele said it wasnt in the drop down which is true but there is a spot you can type a custom one in)They advised me I had to contact metro, and with giving metro the IMEI from the router, it just kept saying not a valid imei. I am saying with confidence that metro is a no go. I did get it going with straight talk though, I had the sim active in another device and switched it over, typed in the straight talk custom APN and boom it was going. I do understand going with the prepaid is not ideal, but this was the quick fix for me. I bought a month of $55 unlimited and if this month goes well, I will move everything to another carrier and use the router as an "add a line" Weird find though, I get full bars on metro (tmobile) call quality is good, data slow. I only get 2 bars on straight talk (verizon) calls drop, data faster. Verizon is 3x faster, I did scan on all bands manually, I just cant get anything higher than 1-10mbs down on metro. Straight talk is 7-15mbs and that is enough to do my job via zoom meetings so sticking with that.
Thanks for sharing the info. It helps for people to see which service will work. Did you try fast.metropcs.com for the customer APN for Metro? That's good it works with Straight Talk. Many people have been asking about that carrier. What did you use for the APN? My main concern over prepaid lines is that several people reported they still throttle at the data limit even when they work in the MoFi. It's as if there is no streaming data included with those plans. Also AT&T has shutdown many of the prepaid accounts. If it works for you after a you hit the limit let me know. I believe Metro has a lower tier access to data so you generally are behind all the other data users. That is part of why it is a cheaper plan. Also, if you use the SIM7 model of the MoFi router it has band 71 for T-Mobile and may be faster.
My router finally came in they sent me the SiM8 model. I tried it on boost mobile and it did not work I recently switch to metro PCS I’m still currently trying to set up they router but still no go. What am I doing wrong. Still no internet green light. I followed the instructions
Yes, the APN has to be set correctly for the SIM you are using. That is the primary issue for connectivity. Run a band scan and see if it picks up any available bands. If it does then you should be able to get one to connect to the internet.
Hello and thanks, @3:17 it says to "leave" at Linux-2 65/. I'm guessing that was the default. I just Purchased the 4500 Dec 2020 and the default is on Linux 64 - I'm curious if you recommend leaving at the deafult that i got or - changing to the Linux-2 64?? thanks
Been using at&t for a week now. Is working fine with my mofi. I will stay in touch with this video. My wife and i use about 3.6 gb per day. My card supplier on ebay says that not to use more than 100gb in a week or more than 350gb in a month or you can be cancelled for abuse from at&t. Mine is working fine for now. Setup instructions were a little different with the paper instructions that came with my mofi i bought on amazon. But very similiar. . But do try setting ttl to 65-i did and it works. Hope it keeps working for me. I really enjoy unthrottled. I dont know if its going to cause a problem but i connected the mofi to my weboost rv version with a sma male to male connector. It works. Whats super cool too is that i have a 44 foot rv and the wifi from the mofi is a strong signal everywhere in the rv. From amazon: VCE SMA Male to SMA Male Connectors 3-Pack, RF Coaxial Adapter SMA Male Coupler for Antenna, Radio, WiFi, HT
Great! The only issue with cancellation is if you purchased a prepaid SIM from eBay. I have a postpaid AT&T SIM and have been using it for the last 18 months with no issues. So if you do get canceled then consider getting an AT&T iPad Unlimited data plan SIM from a local store that offers it for $20/month as a new customer. That plan is available if you call around and it won’t get canceled.
Hi @3:06 in your video, I am not sure which I am supposed to choose as a Sprint user. There are 4 choices under Sprint in the drop-down menu. How do I know which to choose?
Choose Sprint Main (R.ispsn). Just be aware a few people have commented lately that they had issues with Sprint after the merger with T-Mobile. Not sure of they changed the APN or some other technical reason. Let me know if that setting works for you.
@@SeleTraining Thank you for your prompt reply. One more question: I had set everything up like the way you showed in your video, and I still didn't have an internet connection. So, I called the MOFO tech support and they said that I can not just use the cell sim card without having an additional hotspot plan to it. Somehow I had the impression that I didn't need to purchase a hotspot plan - that only have a data plan from the sim card would suffice. Would you elaborate on this for me. I don't wish to add hotspot to my cell plan if I don't have to.
MoFi support is wrong. Using a regular cell plan is how this works with the TTL.. what may be the issue is Sprint as I mentioned. Make sure you do a band scan and see if it shows available bands. You may need to reset the Sierra module and reset the phone number. Then try locking to each band to find one that works. If it still isn’t working it probably is Sprint.
Thank you this is extremely helpful and esp the part on what option to choose for it to read that it's streaming through the mofi. What's strange is that initially it gave me 3 bands for Visible a sub of Verizon and then it got stuck so I logged out and back in and redid the scan and it only gave me one band. I would not have been able to set this up with the minimum instructions that the maker gave, thank you again.
Thank you again for all of your help. 1. would you recommend a mesh router or some other router to use with the mofi? 2. for the yagi antennaes, do you need to have 2 or is one enough?
The MoFI has it's own wifi hotspot and the coverage distance is excellent so I would not suggest you need any other device. Using 2 yagi antennas makes sense if you plan to do carrier aggregation which combines the bandwidth from both antennas. That works in the MoFi SIM4 version but not in the SIM7. One Yagi or Proxicast antenna is plenty for normal use. It's only if you have a poor signal to the tower that you really need more antennas.
Love the video sir! Quick Question: I'm getting absolute garbage mbps down and up. Like 3-4. Closest tower is about a mile away on band 66, which is the band I get best consistency with. I'm in a fifth-wheel so I feel like it shouldnt interfere with signal too much, right? I feel like I should be getting decent speeds with how close I am to the tower. I have the new sim-7 on T-Mobile service
Can you check your SIM in a phone and see if you get the same speed? If it is much better with a phone then you'll want to make sure you have the antennas connected correctly on the MoFi. The wide antennas are the cell tower signal and should be on the side labeled 3G/4G LET. That smaller antennas are for your WiFi signal from the MoFi.
@@SeleTraining The antennas are hooked up properly. I'm getting almost 10 up and down today. I have T-mobile for all my phones and i get almost 30 down on my cell. So that's why i think I might have done something wrong on the set up side of it? Idk
I still have the MOFI 4500 sim7 and just ran a firmware update. I wanted to double available bands but the band scanner no longer appears on the menu tabs??
Yesterday I put my working Verizon unlimited cell sim in the MOFI and setup using your plan. There was no internet. Today I got an email from Verizon saying that my sim had been moved from a phone to a MOFI and that the two are not compatible because it is an unlimited plan. I had previously tried a hotspot sim. This did work but was throttled.
You'll want to check the comments and my newer videos. Verizon is the one carrier that is picky about your SIM being used in any other device from your original phone and they may suspend it. Also, the TTL solution to avoid throttling only works on a standard phone plan. It can't be a hotspot data only plan or prepaid plan. Hotspot data plans do not have the streaming data option that comes with a regular phone plan so you will still get throttled at the data limit. An alternative if you want to dedicate a SIM to the MoFi is to get an AT&T iPad Unlimited Data plan. You can find that if you call around to the AT&T stores and ask for it. It's a regular phone plan that works great with the MoFi and is only $20/mo as a new customer but not all stores offer it. You'll also need an iPad to use for activation when you go into the store. This newer video explains some of the updates: ruclips.net/video/JdeoauVIXOE/видео.html
Love your videos and thank you for making them got my mofi yesterday and is working great I had a net gear mr1100 that I’ve been canceled twice for wrong device wanted to see if I could ask a question I have an iPad account it’s grandfathered and it got canceled for wrong device I called att they gave me 7 days to put it in an iPad told me if I put it back in a router my account would get canceled can I use this card is my question it’s kinda useless in an iPad thank you
I am using the AT&T iPad account with my Mofi and swap it to my iPad occasional. No issues. If you have a prepaid account that could be the issue. The postpaid accounts work just fine.
I have a Yagi antenna from surecall. I'm not confident enough about coaxial parts to know which adapter to buy for the mofi. I see one on amazon but it is male to male. I can't find the coax 6 female? to smt male adapter. Thank you.
@@SeleTraining great. Thank you again. If I get this working so that my upload throughput is higher than 2mbps, I'll give you all the details. Tethering my phone using the mofi or just the phone without using my Surecall Fusion4, I can get 40mbps down, but only 1.5mpbs up. The way my property is laid out and the direction of the tower makes it difficult to use the booster due to "feedback".
Any of the Magenta plans work. If you have T-mobile already you can add another line for around $20 per month. Just pick a standard phone plan, not the hotspot only plans and not a prepaid plan.
@@alejandromontalvo2426 Unfortunately for a single line its more expensive. With the latest deals and autopay you may be able to do it for $55. I was able to get an AT&T iPad unlimited plan as a new customer for $20 last year but several subscribers have had trouble finding that plan. I also have not tried the new T-Mobile $15/month plans but I am curious if those will work with the MoFi.
Hi. Thanks for this video. I’m having an insane time trying to make the Mofi work with a Blink internal camera. It’s insane! I even tried it with the firewall turned off. Blink customer service is useless.
Hello Because of your videos we have reliable wifi in our vacation home. One quick question on how do we assign the carrier aggregate? If we have 2 bands that have good and ok signal but the band with a lower signal has better wifi speeds. But I can't figure how to set up the carrier aggregate for the best two bands. Any suggestions would be great.
You can go to the advanced bandlock and select just the bands that you want to use. Don't use all bands. If you get those settings correct it will aggregate the bands. You can check to see if it is aggregating by going to overview and click on Quick Check Signal Strength. It will show if aggregation is enabled. For the best aggregation its good to have two separate directional antennas and you can point them toward the tower/bands you want to use. Also, be aware that the SIM4 model does aggregation but the SIM7 model does not. The SIM8 or any of the newer MoFi 5500 have carrier aggregation as well.
Question for you! It says to connect the computer to the MOFI with a network cable.. I have a newer macbook pro that only has USB-C ports. Would I connect the MOFI to a separate router using a network cable and then connect to the router via wifi to set up the router or would I need a hardwired computer to set it up? And once the unit is set up, would I disconnect the computer and replace it with a router? I'm sorry.. not particular tech savvy but I've lived in a house without internet for 8 years because Comcast wants $8,000 to install it where I live and I just stumbled across this. I"d appreciate the guidance very much!
I am connected to cable internet now, and was hoping to use my MoFi for wifi. I plugged the cable modem into the MoFi WAN slot, the internet worked but was super slow. I'm wondering if I need to configure the MoFi differently to get it to work properly?
It's most likely a routing issue with the settings on the MoFi. It's configured to provide Internet through the cell SIM installed. By changing to the WAN port it may require some updates on the routing and the DHCP setting for DNS and other things. You'll want to contact Mofinetwork.com and ask for assistance.
I wanted to say thank you. I have purchased the antenna and the newer mofi through your Amazon. Can you share what cable you used for the antenna connection and what hardware you used to connect the antenna to the roof of your RV. I am struggling with Verizon SIM card It’s the phone plan I have, so I was hoping it was going to work. Thanks again for all the help much appreciated.
The cable I used is amzn.to/3bm77ze. The ratchet I used is amzn.to/35onwzb. Then I purchased some PVC pipe and connectors from a hardware store to make it the length I needed. Works great but you could also get an extension flag pole and have the antenna on the top of that instead.
Thanks for the VIDEO on the MoFi 4500. I have a combo 4 and I am getting I am getting BANDS 2,4,5,12 on the scan. Is it bad to select all those bands and lock it? Should I lock Band 5 LTE and Band 5 WCDMA if that is the strongest band? Lock Modem to Selected LTE Band(s): None Band 1 Band 2 - (ATT, VZW, TMOBILE)(ROGERS, TELUS, BELL) Band 3 Band 4 - (ATT, VZW, TMOBILE)(ROGERS, TELUS, BELL) Band 5 - (ATT, TELUS) Band 7 - (ROGERS, TELUS, BELL) Band 8 Band 12/17 - (ATT, TMOBILE)(BELL, TELUS) Band 13 - (VZW) Band 20 Band 29 - (BELL) Band 30 - (ATT) Band 25 - (SPRINT) Band 26 - (SPRINT-700MHZ) Band 41 - (SPRINT-HIGHSPEED) All LTE Bands Lock Modem to Selected WCDMA Band(s): None Band 1 (2100) Band 2 (1900) Band 3 (1700) Band 4 (1700) Band 5 (850) Band 8 (900) All WCDMA Bands
The advanced BandLock shows these options and I leave that on All LTE Bands but the regular BandLock menu only let's you lock it to one band. I prefer to manually set it to the bands and lock it on the one with the best speed. That generally works the best.
I just got a at&t $20 post paid iPad plan and put my Sim card in, set everything up like you said. Had internet before I locked bands and then didn't have any connection after I locked into one from the scanner. So I set it back to auto default and I had internet again. What am I doing wrong?
It’s probably defaulting to a different band. Do a band scan and see which bands show available then lock to each one at a time and see which ones work and which one is the fastest. Otherwise leaving on auto will work and may be picking the fastest band anyway.
Thank you in advance . My question is, I have t-mobile for my cell and AT&T for internet and it's very slow. How can I use this to improve my speed to upload videos to YT? How can I fix this problem with Mofi? Agains thanks for this solution to many people's problems.
The speed of the MoFi won’t be any faster than you get with your cell phone using the same SIM. However you could add a Yagi or Proxicast antenna that may boost the signal on the MoFi if you are limited by the range to the tower.
I know you are endorsing the "insty connect explorer 4g12" now, but I am going to try and connect my brother's computer via MOFI 4500 Sim4 that he just got. He is very remote, Poolville, Texas and is currently getting internet through a hotspot via android cell phone. His son recently bought him a Chromebook (UGH), do you know if Chromebooks will work with MOFI 4500? I have checked the nearest towers (with Cellmapper) to get band numbers off of them. I live 50 miles from him so I would like to set it up in 1 trip to his place. Thanks so much for your FANTASTIC video's.
Any device will work with the MoFi since it provides a standard WiFi connection. The initial setup will require an ethernet cable connection to enable the WiFi though.
@@SeleTraining Thank you so much. I have watched your MOFI videos many times, they are concise and clearly stated!!! An ethernet cable came with it. His cell service is ATT so hopefully all will go well. I am going to do speed tests before and after setup. May get the Proxicast antenna you recommended. Again, thanks so much.
Glad I found this video, thx. If one is using the device as a 'hotspot' do you still choose AT&T broadband (3min mark) for the APN? (using an AT&T simcard/service).
You'll want to set the APN for the carrier of the SIM card regardless of how you use the MoFi. That instructs the MoFi to use your cell phone SIM for the carrier to get connectivity to the Internet. The wireless "hotspot" in the MoFi makes that Internet connection available to all your wireless connected devices.
@@SeleTraining Thanks, I was referring to the three AT&T choices. Do I choose 'broadband', 'static IP' or NextGenPhone if I am setting up an AT&T hotspot with a WE826-T2 4G LTE WiFi Router? Maybe the choices will be different than on the 4500.
Yes, the SIM card is activated with a phone number. If you don't see it listed in the MoFi then you may need to choose Reset the Phone Number/SIM ID from the menu. If you still don't see your phone number then the MoFi is not detecting your SIM properly and you need to try reinstalling the sim card in the slot on the side of the MoFi or check it in a cell phone to confirm it works before trying the MoFi. Once you see the phone number you know the MoFi detects the SIM properly and you can continue with the Band settings.
I just use the one Proxicast omnidirectional antenna and it works great so I have not bothered with dual antennas for carrier aggregation. I generally get great speeds where I go with the one antenna. If you are in a stationary location then you can use two Yago antennas to get mimo.
This was very helpful and I appreciate it. I connected a DLink to it and am using LAN on a desktop and WAN on a couple of laptops. It has worked great until yesterday. The wireless function is sporadic with or without the DLink in use. All of my wireless settings in the MoFi are as they were from the factory. Do you have any suggestions? Again, even if I remove the DLink and connect directly to the MoFi, LAN works but wireless for the laptops is not reliable. If it were one laptop, I'd think there was an issue with its wireless card, but I have three. Thanks.
The MoFi had some disconnect issues with the factory default. If you update the firmware it will fix that issue. Go to System-Remote Update to load the latest firmware.
@@SeleTraining I went to that menu option and it stated that I already had the latest firmware (I have the SIM 7 router and Verizon). I will contact the manufacturer tomorrow and see if others have complained of this. Thank you for your help earlier and for this video.
The notes for the MoFi 4500 say that you can use any browser other than Google Chrome. Apparently Chrome can corrupt data when writing to the MoFi. So Safari should be OK.
@@SeleTraining Can you elaborate on "can corrupt data"? What data? And to say something "might" happen is to also say that it "might not" a happen. Is there any factual data to prove that Chrome "can" corrupt, or it this statement based on all anecdotal evidence that you have heard from somebody who had an issue setting this up and blamed Chrome? Human intervention leaves room for human error. Can you tell me where that assertion comes from? After years as an IT pro, I learned that "might" is never valid. Either this happens or that happens. There is no "sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't" when dealing with a piece of machinery that has no ability to think and make decisions. I would really like to know more about this from the tech side of it. Before i spent $350 on a piece of hardware I would only use on my 10-12 short trailer trips I make per year I need more solid answers. If the notes in the MoFi say that, is it not possible that they just have a hard on against Google and Chrome? A lot of people hate Microsoft so much that they refuse to use Internet Explorer, somehow thinking that Microsoft cares whether Bob in Wichita likes them or not. PS. The term "unlimited" means "having no limits", so to say that they "may" throttle you if the tower is busy and you are over your limit is 180 degrees opposed to the word "unlimited", as that is indeed a limit. Whether it has happened to you or not is incidental. That's like saying "I eat McDonald's food every meal and I'm not fat so McDonald's food doesn't make you fat." It may not make YOU fat, but it has made others fat, so that absolute statement is not valid. Computers and technology are very black and white. There is no gray area of "might and yet might not".
MoFi states that if you use the wrong browser to write data back to the device when making changes to the settings it can corrupt the data written. I have not had any corruption problems. I am only basing this on what MoFi states on their website. It might not be true but I'll use a different browser to avoid the potential issue. You certainly can do more research if your browser is important to you. For me I follow those warnings unless I hear differently. I use multiple browsers anyway so I just created a shortcut on the old IE and use it to edit my settings on the MoFi. This solution is unlimited. You can use an unlimited amount of data with no throttling. Your analogy is non-sequitur. A more appropriate analogy would be to say that you can eat an unlimited amount of hamburgers at McDonalds despite the fact that it's physically impossible to eat thousands of them every day. If you go over your limit you will get deprioritized if the tower is busy. That's not throttling. You have access to the fastest data possible in line behind other users. Much like slowing down eating your unlimited hamburgers when you are full. The fact that it almost never happens does matter because you can count on it not being a problem.
Do you have a video on how to set up another router connected to the mofi for wireless and not use the mofi as the wireless connection? Reason i want to do this is because the wireless connection on the mofi keeps disconnecting me a few times a day and doesn't seem stable
If you don't want to use the Mofi as your router or as a wireless access point you can configure it for bridged/passthrough mode and connect it to another router/wireless access point using Lan port 1: support.unlimitedville.com/support/solutions/articles/22000234454-mofi-enabling-ip-passthrough-bridge-mode
I just bought a country house and have yet to buy this 4500 or the Sim7 version. I also have yet to buy a phone plan to go with it. I know Verizon (and Visible) have the strongest signal on my land. Which router and plan would be the best combo to purchase?
Here is the latest updates: ruclips.net/video/JdeoauVIXOE/видео.html. You'll want to check through the comments relative to Verizon though. It is only working for about half my viewers.
Did you choose ATT Broadband because you had a ATT Broadband Sim? I’m trying to use the micro from my ATT phone and there are a few ATT choices for the new Mofi 7. What do I choose?
I am having trouble setting up an AT&T unlimited plan. I am getting a “not detected” under the phone number, and no bands available when doing a band search. Any suggestions?
Make sure the SIM is activated with a phone and test it for Internet before you use it in the MoFi. If that works then you have to set the Provider Selector to AT&T and the APN as well. Then do a band scan to see which bands are available. If you still are not seeing any available bands then there must be something wrong in the settings or you have the antennas connected on the wrong side of the MoFi. Wide antennas go to the 3G/4G LTE side.
Thanks for this video. After following the steps, my "internet" light isn't coming on... Verizon SIM card (we tried Page Plus Cellular, but they informed us that as of 12/31/20 their SIM cards won't work with this modem). We hooked onto a band, but no internet. Any suggestions?
Sounds like your SIM may be blocked by Verizon. That can happen with Verizon when you use the SIM in another device other than the original phone. You can call them to unsuspend it. Verizon works for about half of my viewers. The other carriers don’t block accounts like that.
Cricket is listed as one of the carriers for the MoFi so it should work but I have not tested it. Be careful with prepaid plans though. Most of those have not allowed you to go past the data cap. Postpaid plans are working.
Is there a way to plug the phone in to the mofi with out taking the sim card out .I have T mobile & don't really want to buy another phone for just the service .I am paying $55.00 now for service & cost of phone. Looking to use this as Internet as needed for on the road & other use's .
Is there a specific T-Mobile plan you suggest? I don’t want to be throttled and I live outside of the city and the nearest tower is T-Mobile down the street. Thanks
When activating the SIM card, what number do you use? Get a new number? I have an iPad with a number associated with it. Could I use that number?? Thank you!
If you activate the SIM in a phone or iPad then you can move it to the MoFi. Your carrier will assign a phone number to the SIM but the MoFi does not use it. It does not provide phone functionality, only data so any active SIM will work in the MoFi.
@@katieferrari5143 Don't use a prepaid SIM. Most of those get blocked by the carrier when used in another device like the MoFi. The problem with most carriers is that they don't offer unlimited plans currently. So you are limited to 23GB or 50GB with most plans and then you are throttled to very slow speeds that make it useless. The benefit of the MoFi is that you can use any postpaid carrier SIM and set the TTL to Linux 65 in the menu of the MoFi to go past the data cap without throttling. This works with many different carrier SIM's. I normally suggest that you add a line to your existing carrier plan because that is the cheapest but you can get an AT&T iPad data plan for $20/mo as a new customer if you call around to several AT&T stores and ask for it. Otherwise just make sure you use a standard cell phone plan. It should not be a prepaid or hotspot only data plan. Also, be careful with Verizon because they may block your SIM. Other carriers work great!
for the people that using a PagePlus pre paid you have to change the APN to TRACFONE.VZWENTP or TRACFONE.VZWEBT and change the provider selector to Generic it will work
Yes. I usually leave it alone and see if I have connectivity at a new location. If it doesn't work or is too slow I'll scan for a better band. It takes a few minutes since you have to reboot each time.
I have not used that version yet but I do recommend getting it for Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. AT&T is not certified yet but should be fine even if a firmware update is required in the future. However, it does not work with Sprint. I'm going to update the description on the video for this new one.
I have Consumer Cellular as my provider, and they provided the SIM card specific for the Mofi. I went thru all the set up procedures and even attached a Proxicast antenna. Still no internet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks much.
You'll want to configure the MoFi as the main carrier for Consumer Cellular. That should be AT&T or T-Mobile. So set the Provide Selector to one of those and use the APN for AT&T or T-Mobile as well. Make sure you can do a band scan and see available bands. If not then it is a configuration issue. Also the SIM should be activated in a phone before using it in the MoFi.
Going to TMobile today to just get a sim card. So I pop it in and go through set up and all should be good? Is there data caps on TMobile? Roughly how much data is used in a regular month? Just trying to reassure myself that by buying this it isn't for nothing. What is your experience using this? Thanks in advance.
I have T-Mobile with the MoFi and use over 150GB per month. I trade it out with AT&T as I travel based on coverage. You'll need to get a regular T-Mobile line for a phone. That may require buying a cheap or free phone plan like Magenta to get the SIM and then put it in the MoFi. Make sure it is a regular phone plan and not a hotspot data only plan. Also it needs to be postpaid. Many prepaid plans don't go past the data cap. You don't need an HD or high data use plan either. It's just a regular base phone plan. With T-Mobile all plans come with 50GB of streaming data but the MoFi TTL setting will allow it to go past that limit without throttling. You'll still see the data use on your bill but won't get charged for the extra streaming data. You can purchase the MoFi through Amazon using the link I provide in the description of the video. If there is any problem you have 30 days to return it. If you already have a T-Mobile phone I'd suggest testing with that SIM first and then purchase another line if you want to dedicate a SIM for the MoFi. Then you're not committing to a new line until you confirm the MoFi works.
@@SeleTraining thank you. I'm planning on buying the MoFi 7 like you recommended. What wifi router do you recommend for multiple devices? After I get things working I plan on getting two yagi antennas.
I’d suggest the SIM7 as long as you’re not using Sprint. I chose a Proxicast antenna for my RV since it is omnidirectional and you don’t have to adjust it to find the tower. The SIM7 does not do aggregation of multiple antennas so if you want to do that then get the SIM4. None of these handle multiple SIM cards yet so you still have to swap the SIM if you use multiple carriers like I do. The alternate would be to get dual MoFi’s and put a different SIM in each with one failing over to the other.
@@SeleTraining I'll be using this from my house in the country. That's why I was thinking of using two yagis plugged into the Mofi. I was under the impression I needed to plug a seperate wifi router into the mofi. Will the mofi handle multiple devices at one time? Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
So what is the current cheapest unlimited plan from AT&T that will work with the Sim7 version. I sadly have Verizon on my phone and its not working for me, hate to have to send this back to Mofi.
It is not detecting a phone number. I set one of these up for my inlaws and it worked just like you described in your video. I tried to set up another for my sister. There was something incorrect with the data provider and I tried setting up the Mofi before the data plan had been activated. Once it was activated, I tried resetting the Sierra Module. Still not detecting a phone number, but I have Internet. If I am able to connect to the Internet, does the phone number really need to be detected?
The phone number showing up is just an indicator that the sim module is detected and working correctly. I have seen it take some time to show up as well but it may work fine without it displayed.
I have this working with a relatively good signal but the download speed is only about 3Mb. Do you think an antenna would make any dramatic improvement?
Some people have seen a noticeable difference when hardwire connected to a port on the MoFi instead of using Wifi. It's worth testing that to see if it makes a difference. The antenna is primarily going to improve the signal but could also get you access to other bands that may perform better too. One test I use is to see what the speed is when the SIM is used in a phone and if there is a big difference between the phone and MoFi it may be the band in use. You can do a band scan on the MoFi and try each band individually to see which one performs best. Also, be aware that if you have Visible or another third party plan they will sometimes limit your bandwidth to 5Mbps or less even with a good signal.
I have already made the corresponding adjustments to improve the signal, the TTL goes in Windows 128 and the mtu in 1500, the latter must be done both in the internal modem and in the Network. the wifi of the Mofi modem is not very strong so I installed a linkys RE9000 direct to the Lan port number 4 and turn off the wifi of the mofi and I use the linkys router for the wifi of the house and the problem turned out I have almost the same wifi speed as if it were connected to a Lan port
Sele Training which plan that is currently on AT&T would you recommend for me? I want to be able to bypass the data restrictions and I also want the cheapest plan possible
Is it true that there is only 1 available band of 2.4 Ghz as compared to a Nighthawk that has dual bands? Can I connect my existing Asus Lyra mesh network extender?
The MoFi uses multiple frequencies for reception of the cell signal for each band but the WiFi only provides 2.4Ghz for your shared hotspot. It does not have 5Ghz like the Nighthawk. You can disable the wifi on the MoFi and connect your mesh network to provide Wifi at the higher 5Ghz speed to your network. That improves the throughput on the MoFi as well.
I have been using the MoFi for several months now but now resetting to a new SIM card. Your video suggests a default IP of 198.168.1.1; can you tell me what this is? I am seeing this address in my home router now; even though the MoFi is not connected. Why am I’m seeing this? I loved the MoFi and having some issues resetting it but should be able to work it out. Thanks for the video, It is very helpful. Thank you!
Many routers use the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 and use it for the interface to manage the router. When you go to that location in a browser it will bring up the admin screen to manage the router settings.
Thanks for this video. I am in pickle with the MoFi at the moment. I just got an "Unlimited for Tablet" plan with AT&T for $20 a month. I activated the SIM card in my iPad, and now I am trying to set it up in the MoFi SIM 4. I ran through setup exactly how you did but it doesn't work on any of the LTE bands. I can lock it to a LTE band but it shows "no service" when checking signal strength and the internet light on the router goes out. Signal strength is great. It only connects to the internet on band WCDMA 1900 which is basically a 3G band. But it receives 4G in the iPad which is strange, and connection is fast on the iPad. I tried to reset the sierra module and carrier netmask fixup but that does not resolve the issue. My phone number and other SIM information are shown correctly. APN set to AT&T broadband. Any suggestions to resolve this issue would be much appreciated!
Go to the Advanced Bandlock and make sure you have All LTE bands checks and All WCDMA bands checked. That is the bands it will scan. Then run the Band Scan again. It should show available for some of the bands. It should find and set a good band but at that point you can lock it to each available band until you get a good signal. You have to reboot each time and give it a minute after it is done rebooting to check the Internet.
@@SeleTraining Yes that's what I did. And I've tried all the available LTE bands. The signal is great, it just doesn't connect to the internet. (Internet indicator light on MoFi doesn't turn on) And every time do an internet connection test on the MoFi it says "no connection detected". So far I've only seen it work on WCDMA band 2 1900. The internet indicator light on the MoFi comes on with this band. I did an internet connection test with this band and it displays the IP address after the test. Any other suggestions? Thanks for your time.
@@MTBHoltOutdoors That is unusual. You may want to download the latest firmware from mofinetwork.com and install it. Also, reset the router and try the setup again.
@@SeleTraining I figured it out - When I originally signed up for the AT&T plan I gave them the IMEI of my older iPad and activated the SIM in the old iPad. I had to call them and reactivate the SIM in a newer iPad. The issue was probably due to the SIM not being properly provisioned for LTE.
Each cellular carrier has different plan options. Can you please give examples of which plans I need to get? Edit: For example, AT&T has an unlimited plan (up to 100GB before throttle down) and a shared plan (9GB before throttle down). Which one will work and is there a cheaper option? You said in the video that you got it for $20 monthly. Which company and plan is that? Also, can mofi be found cheaper than $150? Is there any other device that works like this?
I have both AT&T and T-Mobile. It also works with Sprint. Some people have had difficulty with Verizon so read the comments before going that direction. You just need a standard cell phone for a regular phone. Don't get a hotspot data only or prepaid plan. The carriers listed for the MoFi include: Sprint AT&T Cricket Verizon T-Mobile Appalachian Wireless Simple Mobile US Cellular Webbing.com iWireless H2O Wireless AML Visible
Any recommendations to help increase speed on on MOFI4500? I have a cradlepoint pushing speeds of 50mbps vs mofi 4500 15-20mps. I love my mofi, just would like to speed it up.
Ethernet is generally faster than the Wifi. I had to play with the Wifi settings to get it to work better but it still does not match an ethernet connection.
@@SeleTraining I am using wifi on the cradlepoint. I was able to get close to the same speeds by matching band and location of mofi. What router with range extender to you recommend?
@@markmooney1558 Some other people have found that using WiFi with another router works better than the WiFi of the MoFi. I haven't used it that way myself so I don't have any specific brand recommendations.
Hey. I was wondering if the Mofi routers will work with USB modems? Will the usb modern act like streaming internet or tethered internet? Also, are the other brand routers that are similar to Mofi that will do basically the same things? Thanks
You'll want to connect to the MoFi through a network cable to do the setup and then it provides WiFi to all your devices. I call it streaming data because it does not have the limitations of the tethered data and streaming data is what the carriers provide for phones to watch Netflix and other apps. The MoFi is special because it has the TTL setting right in the menu. Other routers do not have that option built-in. The TTL is how you get beyond the data limit.
Ok, so to be clear. The only routers that will get beyond data limits are the Mofi? And what about the Mofi that does not accept SIM cards? It’s the cheapest version I believe. Thanks a lot for the help!
Hello, I just bought a new MoFi4500 and the $20 unlimited Tablet plan from AT&T. I set the APN to AT&T Broadband, but I can't get any internet? Any tips or anything else I should do? Thanks
Make sure you can use the SIM in a phone just to confirm it works. The older MoFi also has a setting for the carrier as well as the APN so make sure you click on the second tab in the MoFi Internal Modem menu to set the carrier to AT&T.
If you use a postpaid plan it's not an issue with AT&T. The prepaid plans are the ones getting blocked. I have an AT&T plan that's been working for 18 months with no issues. Over 200GB of data per month.
@@SeleTraining dang okay Im just reading the forums and people have gotten banned ill try it tho with your advice. Thats for writing back it means alot
I am no longer recommending the MoFi router. A far superior product is described in this video: ruclips.net/video/gk-_vM2COIw/видео.html
The Mofi has been out for years. I appreciate it's record more than anything. Is it right to recommend a product that you haven't personally tested?
@@meepmonster750 I'll have videos shortly with performance comparisons for the Insty Connect. Insty Connect uses the same manufactured equipment from the same company as what MoFi uses. It's just a better quality router and modem. Other than the antenna design it's not a new product so it is fair to recommend it over the MoFi. I've also seen results from a working Insty Connect system so this is not guesswork. Once you see the comparison you'll understand why it is a far superior product and why it is a game changer for mobile Internet use.
So does the Insty Connect pretty much replace the need for sperate standalone installation of a cell signal booster, such as a Hiboost or weBoost system? I live in a residential area with lots of trees and such, so my cell signal is pretty weak at times, like 2-3 bars and over -100 dbm. Was thinking of getting a weBoost but might wait for this. I just purchased a mofi 4500 sim 7 model and was having trouble setting it up. Did not match some of the steps in your video.
@@brianv3913 With the Insty Connect or the MoFi it will boost the cell signal that comes in from the antenna but it does not replicate it to other devices in your house. However, you can connect your phone to the WiFi hotspot and make a Internet data call. I do that often when I am in a location that does not have T-Mobile and I call through my AT&T data connection.
@@SeleTraining right. But could you expect to see the same kind of cell booster gain to your Insty router that you would see from a weBoost signal booster? With their antenna design?
Wow this gentleman has an amazing broadcaster voice, also the precise low key and methodical way of teaching is absolutely excellent if you are new to this device.
Wow, thank you!
I was just thinking he could do audio books!
This device has given me reliable internet for over a year in the country where I take care of my mother who is suffering from dementia.
The MoFi has worked well for me for over a year as well.
dementia is no joke my father 91 has it it sucks. god bless ur family
Live Q&A video available for the MoFi: ruclips.net/video/0g5SaYFsPAY/видео.html
Thank you so very much. I am embarrassed about how many times I watched and rewatched this video during setup. This video was the only reason I was able to get my mofi connected and running. My only suggestion that I might add is to explain the install of the SIM card in a little more detail only because I had never even seen a SIM before this. But that was on me. I took about 90 minutes to figure out that mine was in backwards but maybe I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. Thank you again and my family is very pleased with this device and if I can get it running, so should most any and all.
Excellent!
Check the video description for information about the new SIM7 version of the MoFi just released!
yeah released it the day after i ordered the SIM4 ugh
@@SonyaAllstun Dang!
i want to thank you for this setup video.
It showed me that cell speeds will not likely meet the desired speed
i am used to with cable until 5G becomes the norm.
again thanks and Have a Happy New Year.
Lol
Just set up my MoFi- thanks for all your great info. The speed and power is way beyond the old cable. Your reviews are awesome. Thanks
Thank you so much! I was able to use an unused SIM and the IMEI from a nonworking cellphone and added a line to my ATT account. Followed your instructions and I’m connected! My kids have e-learning now and were having a miserable time with our old internet. I’m so thankful I came across your video!! Thank you for sharing!!
Excellent!
@@SeleTraining I tried following your instructions with att prepaid and it didn't work. Any suggestions?
@@SeleTraining Sorry I just fount my answer in other comments. Prepaid doesn't work.
@@calenmeinert2600 Yes, a regular postpaid plan is needed.
Love it! We take it on the road in our RV. Works exactly as Jason said it would. Be sure to order your MoFi through the link he provides, get your sim card (I got mine at my local AT&T = $20/month!), and follow the steps in this video.
Great easy to follow video. Thanks!
A couple more notes on the setup of the MoFi. You can update the firmware under System-Remote Update. The latest version is 3.8.4. The mofinetwork notes also state that if you have Sprint Unlimited or Verizon prepaid to use the 3.7.6Generic firmware. See the notes at mofinetwork.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=21. It is also suggested to set MSS to auto for better performance. Look under Network-General and check the box for "Auto Calc Best MSS".
Sele Training what do I do if I have put my SIM card in modi { Verizon} and Verizon deactivated my data. I put card back in phone and it doesn’t get data? Any help would be great thank you.
I look under the advanced tab on top right corner.
Firmware version is MOFI4500-V3-1.0.5-STD
KERNEL VERSION IS 3.10.14
Should I keep it here? Still not able to get band scanner available.
@@susanbaker2155 The latest version is 4.3.4 so I'd make sure to update it.
@@SeleTraining ok I'll try that tomorrow. Thank you for responding to all my questions. I'm determined to get this up and running.
Excellent explanation, thank you sir!
Just received info from MoFi and the MoFi5500 will be released in April. I should have one for testing in a couple weeks and will have a video up with a comparison to the Insty Connect.
Any update on this?
@@adoezema1 I received a MoFi 5500 a month ago but have been waiting for their firmware update before I can test it. They just let me know I should get the firmware this week. I will have a video out in a few days discussing the various versions of the MoFi 5500, pricing, and availability.
@@SeleTraining Great! looking forward to what you have to say.
Thank you for this video!! I also like the TTL reference without saying it😁
great video! Just got mine today, took the sim out of an extra AT&T phone with unlimited plan i have and worked great! I did set it up with band lock on B2 and have 33down and 12up. I have been using my hotspot on this phone for a few years but the MOFI is much better because i can use my outdoor mimo antennas i have. Tomorrow I plan on turning the antenna to find B1 which is a little faster @ ~50down and 25up. My AT&T plan is the old plan that i have had for several years with no data cap and unlimited, we use about 450mb a month and have seen no throttling what so ever.
Excellent!
Great video! Question: I'm using this router in my van. Since I'm traveling/moving, I'm guessing I would NOT lock it into a band. There is a band 'auto' setting. Is it correct to assume the auto setting will pick and use the strongest band?
There is a band auto setting but I've found that it does not do a good job of switching between bands on its own and I have to run the band scan when I go to a new location anyway. When you run the band scan it releases the bands and then defaults to the best one.
@@SeleTraining Thank you for the reply/help!
Super helpful video! I bought the Mofi 4500 Sim 7 version and am happy so far.
Great to hear!
Curious to know is M7 working with AT&T sim card. Worried about validation.
Can you use a sim card from a tablet with no phone call/texting capability. I have one from T Mobile in a older tablet that is still active. OR does it need to be a cell phone sim? Like a new line?
I am using a sim from a T-Mobile iPad and it works. The key is that it can't just be a hotspot only data plan because those do not include streaming data and will throttle at the data limit.
I have a tablet line with unlimited data. Do you have to change settings to meter the data as tethered vs device data? Does tmobile allow this device when they are expecting a tablet?
@@ggr1847 The MoFi defaults to the TTL 65 setting which uses streaming data only and it will work with T-Mobile. The key is that you don't want to use a hotspot only data plan. If your T-Mobile SIM came out of a hotspot device it will only give you hotspot data and will throttle once you hit the limits. If it is a regular line SIM from an iPad or cell phone it should work fine. I'm using T-Mobile and it's working great with the MoFi.
Hello my name is Mr. Kincaid I just wanted to say thank you so much for your Mofi video I have been a subscriber for a little over a year maybe longer I just received my
Mofi 4500 Today through Amazon been using it for the past hour I am so glad I got your video I absolutely love it thank you so much for your post and your set up post thanks again Mr. Kincaid
Thanks. Glad it works well for you!
Straight talk uses At&t towers!!
Could I use a Straight talk SIM card with this router?
Thanks
I have not tried it. You’ll want to give mofinetwork.com a call and ask.
I had Straight Talk at one time. It is actually advertised as being part of the Verizon network.
Larry Webb I have straight talk that uses AT&T. I’ve been wondering the same question as you.
This video has been INCREDIBLY helpful ever since we bought our MoFi 4500 last year. I rewatch it every time I have to reset my modem because you make it very easy to follow along. I am curious what you will have to say about the MoFi 5500 coming out soon and whether it will be better, worse, or comparable to the Insty Connect. Looking forward to that. :) Thanks for sharing your knowledge! -Melissa
Thanks! I should have a video update on the different 5500 models available out in the next 2 days. I have a 5500 for testing but I've been waiting for MoFi to provide the firmware so I can test it and put a video together comparing it to the Insty Connect. I'm supposed to get the firmware this week.
@@SeleTraining Awesome! 👌 Looking forward to it! Thanks again.
Thank you!
Just bought mine and set it up and it works GREAT! Thank you so much! Running off T-Mobile. Now, to go remote camping and test it!
Great to hear!
@@SeleTraining Any recommendation on how to locate cell towers when traveling in an RV? Out in the remote high desert? That's where I'm wanting to test it... Thanks!
The opensignal app can show you towers in the area. I prefer to use Campendium to locate camping areas and they have cell service data as well.
@@SeleTraining I got the opensignal app as well and will use that. Thanks!
Good Evening. What band are u using for T-mobile?
Thanks. Great teaching voice and great info!
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You are a gift to my work sele training, thank you very very much. Your videos are a tremendous help.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! After watching your other mofi videos, I bought a 4500 used off of eBay. Works great so far! I'm actually using visible.
Excellent!
Any throttling or are you still getting phone speeds?
@@wareintheworldrv9108 I'm getting thottled but Im still diagnosing the problem. Most people don't have issues. No problem connecting multiple devices though!
If this helps anyone, we have the old unlimited ATT plan from 10+ years ago. We just fired up the Mofi. We had to select for our APN: Att Phone NextGen rather than ATT Broadband. Then it worked for us! Also, the ip address to I.E. is 192.168.10.1. Thanks so much Sele, I think u saved our marriage. My old hacked hotspotable phone was junk.
Excellent!
This is awesome !!! i finally got mine setup, it took hours (tip keep selecting different bands and lock each time) I ended up with 34 down load and 19 upload. The sim card when in the phone was capped at 5 download but not anymore, and i can have multiple devises Yahooo Yes i live rural but i am only 2 miles from the tower
Excellent!
For those of you trying to use Verizon there is a solution that has been confirmed to work by two subscribers. In the MoFi menu go to Network-Mofi Internal Modem and change the ISP TTL setting from "Linux-2 65" to "Linux 64". That has allowed them to go past the throttled data limit with their Verizon sim in the MoFi. For all other carriers the TTL should stay at the default of "Linux-2 65". Please let me know if anyone else has success using this setting for Verizon.
Thank you so much that is the exact question i was going to ask i have Verizon and i was using Linux-2 65 and the internet was real slow thanks i will try this.
David Bravo did it work? How many gb have you used w the router? I receive mine today and am looking forward for great internet.
@@Shawn-rq4py also just got mine just recently and had my 15 gb and was able to use it with no problem.
I tried to install a SIM I had activated for an iPhone into the MOFI....wouldn't connect and I got a message from Verizon saying the SIM wouldn't work with the MOFI since the SIM had an unlimited plan and the MOFI isn't compatible with an unlimited plan. Which SIM are you using? My Jetpack sim works fine but don't think that will let me access the unlimited work around or will it?
Johnny Rocket I was using my Verizon sim from my MiFi Hotspot. It has “unlimited” data but throttles after 15. Which technically is unlimited it just slows to about .5mbps.
I found a service that provides unlimited, un throttled data and works w the MoFi and they use AT&T sim. It works but I’m getting poor signal. Looking at which antenna to get now. It’s expensive but I really have no other choice at this point.
I saw people asking if metro by tmobile (pcs) worked. I could not get it going. I worked with the hotline and metro as well. Swapping an active metro sim would not get internet connection even working with the mofi help line. Even with entering the metro APN manually (Sele said it wasnt in the drop down which is true but there is a spot you can type a custom one in)They advised me I had to contact metro, and with giving metro the IMEI from the router, it just kept saying not a valid imei. I am saying with confidence that metro is a no go.
I did get it going with straight talk though, I had the sim active in another device and switched it over, typed in the straight talk custom APN and boom it was going.
I do understand going with the prepaid is not ideal, but this was the quick fix for me. I bought a month of $55 unlimited and if this month goes well, I will move everything to another carrier and use the router as an "add a line"
Weird find though, I get full bars on metro (tmobile) call quality is good, data slow.
I only get 2 bars on straight talk (verizon) calls drop, data faster.
Verizon is 3x faster, I did scan on all bands manually, I just cant get anything higher than 1-10mbs down on metro. Straight talk is 7-15mbs and that is enough to do my job via zoom meetings so sticking with that.
Thanks for sharing the info. It helps for people to see which service will work. Did you try fast.metropcs.com for the customer APN for Metro? That's good it works with Straight Talk. Many people have been asking about that carrier. What did you use for the APN?
My main concern over prepaid lines is that several people reported they still throttle at the data limit even when they work in the MoFi. It's as if there is no streaming data included with those plans. Also AT&T has shutdown many of the prepaid accounts. If it works for you after a you hit the limit let me know.
I believe Metro has a lower tier access to data so you generally are behind all the other data users. That is part of why it is a cheaper plan. Also, if you use the SIM7 model of the MoFi router it has band 71 for T-Mobile and may be faster.
My router finally came in they sent me the SiM8 model. I tried it on boost mobile and it did not work I recently switch to metro PCS I’m still currently trying to set up they router but still no go. What am I doing wrong. Still no internet green light. I followed the instructions
Or do I do custom APN but looks like the SiM8 models has a preset with the APN already so idk what else to do.
Yes, the APN has to be set correctly for the SIM you are using. That is the primary issue for connectivity. Run a band scan and see if it picks up any available bands. If it does then you should be able to get one to connect to the internet.
Hello and thanks, @3:17 it says to "leave" at Linux-2 65/. I'm guessing that was the default. I just Purchased the 4500 Dec 2020 and the default is on Linux 64 - I'm curious if you recommend leaving at the deafult that i got or - changing to the Linux-2 64?? thanks
Yes they changed the default to 64 so you do need to change it to 65 to avoid throttling.
Been using at&t for a week now. Is working fine with my mofi. I will stay in touch with this video. My wife and i use about 3.6 gb per day. My card supplier on ebay says that not to use more than 100gb in a week or more than 350gb in a month or you can be cancelled for abuse from at&t. Mine is working fine for now. Setup instructions were a little different with the paper instructions that came with my mofi i bought on amazon. But very similiar. . But do try setting ttl to 65-i did and it works. Hope it keeps working for me. I really enjoy unthrottled. I dont know if its going to cause a problem but i connected the mofi to my weboost rv version with a sma male to male connector. It works. Whats super cool too is that i have a 44 foot rv and the wifi from the mofi is a strong signal everywhere in the rv.
From amazon:
VCE SMA Male to SMA Male Connectors 3-Pack, RF Coaxial Adapter SMA Male Coupler for Antenna, Radio, WiFi, HT
Great! The only issue with cancellation is if you purchased a prepaid SIM from eBay. I have a postpaid AT&T SIM and have been using it for the last 18 months with no issues. So if you do get canceled then consider getting an AT&T iPad Unlimited data plan SIM from a local store that offers it for $20/month as a new customer. That plan is available if you call around and it won’t get canceled.
Hi @3:06 in your video, I am not sure which I am supposed to choose as a Sprint user. There are 4 choices under Sprint in the drop-down menu. How do I know which to choose?
Choose Sprint Main (R.ispsn). Just be aware a few people have commented lately that they had issues with Sprint after the merger with T-Mobile. Not sure of they changed the APN or some other technical reason. Let me know if that setting works for you.
@@SeleTraining Thank you for your prompt reply. One more question: I had set everything up like the way you showed in your video, and I still didn't have an internet connection. So, I called the MOFO tech support and they said that I can not just use the cell sim card without having an additional hotspot plan to it. Somehow I had the impression that I didn't need to purchase a hotspot plan - that only have a data plan from the sim card would suffice. Would you elaborate on this for me. I don't wish to add hotspot to my cell plan if I don't have to.
MoFi support is wrong. Using a regular cell plan is how this works with the TTL.. what may be the issue is Sprint as I mentioned. Make sure you do a band scan and see if it shows available bands. You may need to reset the Sierra module and reset the phone number. Then try locking to each band to find one that works. If it still isn’t working it probably is Sprint.
Thank you. Can't wait to see what kind of speed I can get!
It should be close to what you get with a cell phone using the same SIM.
Man I was able to get 65 mbps I am extremely happy with it definitely a good investment
Thank you this is extremely helpful and esp the part on what option to choose for it to read that it's streaming through the mofi. What's strange is that initially it gave me 3 bands for Visible a sub of Verizon and then it got stuck so I logged out and back in and redid the scan and it only gave me one band. I would not have been able to set this up with the minimum instructions that the maker gave, thank you again.
Sometimes the scan is not very good. I've found that I can manually set it to bands that are not even listed as available on occasion.
my sim7 does not have the provider selector option at the 2:24 mark of the video that i could find to select AT&T but i still got things going
For the SIM7 they set the provider automatically so you only need to set the APN.
Can you share how to create a 2.4ghz and 5ghz wifi option using the MOFI 4500 after you've setup the router?
Thank you again for all of your help. 1. would you recommend a mesh router or some other router to use with the mofi? 2. for the yagi antennaes, do you need to have 2 or is one enough?
The MoFI has it's own wifi hotspot and the coverage distance is excellent so I would not suggest you need any other device. Using 2 yagi antennas makes sense if you plan to do carrier aggregation which combines the bandwidth from both antennas. That works in the MoFi SIM4 version but not in the SIM7. One Yagi or Proxicast antenna is plenty for normal use. It's only if you have a poor signal to the tower that you really need more antennas.
Love the video sir! Quick Question: I'm getting absolute garbage mbps down and up. Like 3-4. Closest tower is about a mile away on band 66, which is the band I get best consistency with. I'm in a fifth-wheel so I feel like it shouldnt interfere with signal too much, right? I feel like I should be getting decent speeds with how close I am to the tower. I have the new sim-7 on T-Mobile service
Can you check your SIM in a phone and see if you get the same speed? If it is much better with a phone then you'll want to make sure you have the antennas connected correctly on the MoFi. The wide antennas are the cell tower signal and should be on the side labeled 3G/4G LET. That smaller antennas are for your WiFi signal from the MoFi.
@@SeleTraining The antennas are hooked up properly. I'm getting almost 10 up and down today. I have T-mobile for all my phones and i get almost 30 down on my cell. So that's why i think I might have done something wrong on the set up side of it? Idk
I still have the MOFI 4500 sim7 and just ran a firmware update. I wanted to double available bands but the band scanner no longer appears on the menu tabs??
Great!!!
Very well explained...
Glad you liked it
Yesterday I put my working Verizon unlimited cell sim in the MOFI and setup using your plan. There was no internet. Today I got an email from Verizon saying that my sim had been moved from a phone to a MOFI and that the two are not compatible because it is an unlimited plan. I had previously tried a hotspot sim. This did work but was throttled.
You'll want to check the comments and my newer videos. Verizon is the one carrier that is picky about your SIM being used in any other device from your original phone and they may suspend it. Also, the TTL solution to avoid throttling only works on a standard phone plan. It can't be a hotspot data only plan or prepaid plan. Hotspot data plans do not have the streaming data option that comes with a regular phone plan so you will still get throttled at the data limit. An alternative if you want to dedicate a SIM to the MoFi is to get an AT&T iPad Unlimited Data plan. You can find that if you call around to the AT&T stores and ask for it. It's a regular phone plan that works great with the MoFi and is only $20/mo as a new customer but not all stores offer it. You'll also need an iPad to use for activation when you go into the store.
This newer video explains some of the updates: ruclips.net/video/JdeoauVIXOE/видео.html
Are those unlimited plans that people are selling (dealer plans) red, blue ,pink with like 800gb a month for $190.00 month a scam ?
Love your videos and thank you for making them got my mofi yesterday and is working great I had a net gear mr1100 that I’ve been canceled twice for wrong device wanted to see if I could ask a question I have an iPad account it’s grandfathered and it got canceled for wrong device I called att they gave me 7 days to put it in an iPad told me if I put it back in a router my account would get canceled can I use this card is my question it’s kinda useless in an iPad thank you
I am using the AT&T iPad account with my Mofi and swap it to my iPad occasional. No issues. If you have a prepaid account that could be the issue. The postpaid accounts work just fine.
I have a Yagi antenna from surecall. I'm not confident enough about coaxial parts to know which adapter to buy for the mofi. I see one on amazon but it is male to male. I can't find the coax 6 female? to smt male adapter. Thank you.
It's tricky. It all depends on the type of cables you have. You may be best off getting a kit with multiple connectors. Like this one: amzn.to/3miWDDx
@@SeleTraining great. Thank you again. If I get this working so that my upload throughput is higher than 2mbps, I'll give you all the details. Tethering my phone using the mofi or just the phone without using my Surecall Fusion4, I can get 40mbps down, but only 1.5mpbs up. The way my property is laid out and the direction of the tower makes it difficult to use the booster due to "feedback".
Do you have a link for the T-Mobile plan that you are using? I’m looking for a cheap T-Mobile plan since I’m sure that T-Mobile works well in my area
Any of the Magenta plans work. If you have T-mobile already you can add another line for around $20 per month. Just pick a standard phone plan, not the hotspot only plans and not a prepaid plan.
The thing is I don’t have an existing t mobile plan😕. Do you know any good T-Mobile single device plans?
The thing is I don’t have an existing t mobile plan😕. Do you know any good T-Mobile single device plans?
By the way thx for fast response.
@@alejandromontalvo2426 Unfortunately for a single line its more expensive. With the latest deals and autopay you may be able to do it for $55. I was able to get an AT&T iPad unlimited plan as a new customer for $20 last year but several subscribers have had trouble finding that plan. I also have not tried the new T-Mobile $15/month plans but I am curious if those will work with the MoFi.
Hi. Thanks for this video. I’m having an insane time trying to make the Mofi work with a Blink internal camera. It’s insane! I even tried it with the firewall turned off. Blink customer service is useless.
The trick is to set the MTU on the MoFi to 1500. I have Blink too and it took me days to figure that one out.
Very helpful video thank you so much and I can't wait to get my mofi soon
Congrats!
Hello
Because of your videos we have reliable wifi in our vacation home. One quick question on how do we assign the carrier aggregate? If we have 2 bands that have good and ok signal but the band with a lower signal has better wifi speeds. But I can't figure how to set up the carrier aggregate for the best two bands. Any suggestions would be great.
You can go to the advanced bandlock and select just the bands that you want to use. Don't use all bands. If you get those settings correct it will aggregate the bands. You can check to see if it is aggregating by going to overview and click on Quick Check Signal Strength. It will show if aggregation is enabled. For the best aggregation its good to have two separate directional antennas and you can point them toward the tower/bands you want to use. Also, be aware that the SIM4 model does aggregation but the SIM7 model does not. The SIM8 or any of the newer MoFi 5500 have carrier aggregation as well.
Question for you! It says to connect the computer to the MOFI with a network cable.. I have a newer macbook pro that only has USB-C ports. Would I connect the MOFI to a separate router using a network cable and then connect to the router via wifi to set up the router or would I need a hardwired computer to set it up? And once the unit is set up, would I disconnect the computer and replace it with a router? I'm sorry.. not particular tech savvy but I've lived in a house without internet for 8 years because Comcast wants $8,000 to install it where I live and I just stumbled across this. I"d appreciate the guidance very much!
You can get a USB-C hub that provides an ethernet connection. Like this: amzn.to/3lK1koJ
Hi I see you like the insty router better now. Can the insty use the same sim "type" as the mofi?
Yes
I am connected to cable internet now, and was hoping to use my MoFi for wifi. I plugged the cable modem into the MoFi WAN slot, the internet worked but was super slow. I'm wondering if I need to configure the MoFi differently to get it to work properly?
It's most likely a routing issue with the settings on the MoFi. It's configured to provide Internet through the cell SIM installed. By changing to the WAN port it may require some updates on the routing and the DHCP setting for DNS and other things. You'll want to contact Mofinetwork.com and ask for assistance.
I wanted to say thank you. I have purchased the antenna and the newer mofi through your Amazon. Can you share what cable you used for the antenna connection and what hardware you used to connect the antenna to the roof of your RV. I am struggling with Verizon SIM card It’s the phone plan I have, so I was hoping it was going to work. Thanks again for all the help much appreciated.
The cable I used is amzn.to/3bm77ze. The ratchet I used is amzn.to/35onwzb. Then I purchased some PVC pipe and connectors from a hardware store to make it the length I needed. Works great but you could also get an extension flag pole and have the antenna on the top of that instead.
Thanks for the VIDEO on the MoFi 4500. I have a combo 4 and I am getting
I am getting BANDS 2,4,5,12 on the scan. Is it bad to select all those bands and lock it? Should I lock Band 5 LTE and Band 5 WCDMA if that is the strongest band?
Lock Modem to Selected LTE Band(s): None
Band 1
Band 2 - (ATT, VZW, TMOBILE)(ROGERS, TELUS, BELL)
Band 3
Band 4 - (ATT, VZW, TMOBILE)(ROGERS, TELUS, BELL)
Band 5 - (ATT, TELUS)
Band 7 - (ROGERS, TELUS, BELL)
Band 8
Band 12/17 - (ATT, TMOBILE)(BELL, TELUS)
Band 13 - (VZW)
Band 20
Band 29 - (BELL)
Band 30 - (ATT)
Band 25 - (SPRINT)
Band 26 - (SPRINT-700MHZ)
Band 41 - (SPRINT-HIGHSPEED)
All LTE Bands
Lock Modem to Selected WCDMA Band(s): None
Band 1 (2100)
Band 2 (1900)
Band 3 (1700)
Band 4 (1700)
Band 5 (850)
Band 8 (900)
All WCDMA Bands
The advanced BandLock shows these options and I leave that on All LTE Bands but the regular BandLock menu only let's you lock it to one band. I prefer to manually set it to the bands and lock it on the one with the best speed. That generally works the best.
Thank you so much!! You are a life saver.
I just got a at&t $20 post paid iPad plan and put my Sim card in, set everything up like you said. Had internet before I locked bands and then didn't have any connection after I locked into one from the scanner. So I set it back to auto default and I had internet again. What am I doing wrong?
It’s probably defaulting to a different band. Do a band scan and see which bands show available then lock to each one at a time and see which ones work and which one is the fastest. Otherwise leaving on auto will work and may be picking the fastest band anyway.
Thank you in advance . My question is, I have t-mobile for my cell and AT&T for internet and it's very slow. How can I use this to improve my speed to upload videos to YT? How can I fix this problem with Mofi? Agains thanks for this solution to many people's problems.
The speed of the MoFi won’t be any faster than you get with your cell phone using the same SIM. However you could add a Yagi or Proxicast antenna that may boost the signal on the MoFi if you are limited by the range to the tower.
Sele Training okay, thanks a lot!
I know you are endorsing the "insty connect explorer 4g12" now, but I am going to try and connect my brother's computer via MOFI 4500 Sim4 that he just got. He is very remote, Poolville, Texas and is currently getting internet through a hotspot via android cell phone. His son recently bought him a Chromebook (UGH), do you know if Chromebooks will work with MOFI 4500? I have checked the nearest towers (with Cellmapper) to get band numbers off of them. I live 50 miles from him so I would like to set it up in 1 trip to his place. Thanks so much for your FANTASTIC video's.
Any device will work with the MoFi since it provides a standard WiFi connection. The initial setup will require an ethernet cable connection to enable the WiFi though.
@@SeleTraining Thank you so much. I have watched your MOFI videos many times, they are concise and clearly stated!!! An ethernet cable came with it. His cell service is ATT so hopefully all will go well. I am going to do speed tests before and after setup. May get the Proxicast antenna you recommended. Again, thanks so much.
Glad I found this video, thx. If one is using the device as a 'hotspot' do you still choose AT&T broadband (3min mark) for the APN? (using an AT&T simcard/service).
You'll want to set the APN for the carrier of the SIM card regardless of how you use the MoFi. That instructs the MoFi to use your cell phone SIM for the carrier to get connectivity to the Internet. The wireless "hotspot" in the MoFi makes that Internet connection available to all your wireless connected devices.
@@SeleTraining Thanks, I was referring to the three AT&T choices. Do I choose 'broadband', 'static IP' or NextGenPhone if I am setting up an AT&T hotspot with a WE826-T2 4G LTE WiFi Router? Maybe the choices will be different than on the 4500.
Choose Broadband.
At the 2:50min mark, you mention 'you should see your phone number'. Is that the registered phone # you gave when you activated the Sim card?
Yes, the SIM card is activated with a phone number. If you don't see it listed in the MoFi then you may need to choose Reset the Phone Number/SIM ID from the menu. If you still don't see your phone number then the MoFi is not detecting your SIM properly and you need to try reinstalling the sim card in the slot on the side of the MoFi or check it in a cell phone to confirm it works before trying the MoFi. Once you see the phone number you know the MoFi detects the SIM properly and you can continue with the Band settings.
Do you a mimo antenna with this in your RV if so what do you recommend for an indoor one? and an external option. Thanks
I just use the one Proxicast omnidirectional antenna and it works great so I have not bothered with dual antennas for carrier aggregation. I generally get great speeds where I go with the one antenna. If you are in a stationary location then you can use two Yago antennas to get mimo.
This was very helpful and I appreciate it. I connected a DLink to it and am using LAN on a desktop and WAN on a couple of laptops. It has worked great until yesterday. The wireless function is sporadic with or without the DLink in use. All of my wireless settings in the MoFi are as they were from the factory. Do you have any suggestions? Again, even if I remove the DLink and connect directly to the MoFi, LAN works but wireless for the laptops is not reliable. If it were one laptop, I'd think there was an issue with its wireless card, but I have three. Thanks.
The MoFi had some disconnect issues with the factory default. If you update the firmware it will fix that issue. Go to System-Remote Update to load the latest firmware.
@@SeleTraining thank you for the quick response! I will do that now.
@@SeleTraining I went to that menu option and it stated that I already had the latest firmware (I have the SIM 7 router and Verizon). I will contact the manufacturer tomorrow and see if others have complained of this. Thank you for your help earlier and for this video.
Hello, can I use safari from my mac pro to set it up? Please let me know thanks
The notes for the MoFi 4500 say that you can use any browser other than Google Chrome. Apparently Chrome can corrupt data when writing to the MoFi. So Safari should be OK.
@@SeleTraining Can you elaborate on "can corrupt data"? What data? And to say something "might" happen is to also say that it "might not" a happen. Is there any factual data to prove that Chrome "can" corrupt, or it this statement based on all anecdotal evidence that you have heard from somebody who had an issue setting this up and blamed Chrome? Human intervention leaves room for human error. Can you tell me where that assertion comes from? After years as an IT pro, I learned that "might" is never valid. Either this happens or that happens. There is no "sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't" when dealing with a piece of machinery that has no ability to think and make decisions. I would really like to know more about this from the tech side of it. Before i spent $350 on a piece of hardware I would only use on my 10-12 short trailer trips I make per year I need more solid answers. If the notes in the MoFi say that, is it not possible that they just have a hard on against Google and Chrome? A lot of people hate Microsoft so much that they refuse to use Internet Explorer, somehow thinking that Microsoft cares whether Bob in Wichita likes them or not.
PS. The term "unlimited" means "having no limits", so to say that they "may" throttle you if the tower is busy and you are over your limit is 180 degrees opposed to the word "unlimited", as that is indeed a limit. Whether it has happened to you or not is incidental. That's like saying "I eat McDonald's food every meal and I'm not fat so McDonald's food doesn't make you fat." It may not make YOU fat, but it has made others fat, so that absolute statement is not valid. Computers and technology are very black and white. There is no gray area of "might and yet might not".
MoFi states that if you use the wrong browser to write data back to the device when making changes to the settings it can corrupt the data written. I have not had any corruption problems. I am only basing this on what MoFi states on their website. It might not be true but I'll use a different browser to avoid the potential issue. You certainly can do more research if your browser is important to you. For me I follow those warnings unless I hear differently. I use multiple browsers anyway so I just created a shortcut on the old IE and use it to edit my settings on the MoFi.
This solution is unlimited. You can use an unlimited amount of data with no throttling. Your analogy is non-sequitur. A more appropriate analogy would be to say that you can eat an unlimited amount of hamburgers at McDonalds despite the fact that it's physically impossible to eat thousands of them every day. If you go over your limit you will get deprioritized if the tower is busy. That's not throttling. You have access to the fastest data possible in line behind other users. Much like slowing down eating your unlimited hamburgers when you are full. The fact that it almost never happens does matter because you can count on it not being a problem.
Do you have a video on how to set up another router connected to the mofi for wireless and not use the mofi as the wireless connection? Reason i want to do this is because the wireless connection on the mofi keeps disconnecting me a few times a day and doesn't seem stable
If you don't want to use the Mofi as your router or as a wireless access point you can configure it for bridged/passthrough mode and connect it to another router/wireless access point using Lan port 1: support.unlimitedville.com/support/solutions/articles/22000234454-mofi-enabling-ip-passthrough-bridge-mode
I just bought a country house and have yet to buy this 4500 or the Sim7 version. I also have yet to buy a phone plan to go with it. I know Verizon (and Visible) have the strongest signal on my land. Which router and plan would be the best combo to purchase?
Here is the latest updates: ruclips.net/video/JdeoauVIXOE/видео.html. You'll want to check through the comments relative to Verizon though. It is only working for about half my viewers.
Did you choose ATT Broadband because you had a ATT Broadband Sim? I’m trying to use the micro from my ATT phone and there are a few ATT choices for the new Mofi 7. What do I choose?
AT&T broadband should be the correct one.
I am having trouble setting up an AT&T unlimited plan. I am getting a “not detected” under the phone number, and no bands available when doing a band search. Any suggestions?
Make sure the SIM is activated with a phone and test it for Internet before you use it in the MoFi. If that works then you have to set the Provider Selector to AT&T and the APN as well. Then do a band scan to see which bands are available. If you still are not seeing any available bands then there must be something wrong in the settings or you have the antennas connected on the wrong side of the MoFi. Wide antennas go to the 3G/4G LTE side.
Use "Att Phone NxtGen" instead of "Att Broadband".
What kind internet browser should I use to set up my mofi 4500 sim 7? Since internet explorer is replaced by the edge browser.
I’ve used the Edge browser and did not have any problems.
Thanks for this video. After following the steps, my "internet" light isn't coming on... Verizon SIM card (we tried Page Plus Cellular, but they informed us that as of 12/31/20 their SIM cards won't work with this modem). We hooked onto a band, but no internet. Any suggestions?
Sounds like your SIM may be blocked by Verizon. That can happen with Verizon when you use the SIM in another device other than the original phone. You can call them to unsuspend it. Verizon works for about half of my viewers. The other carriers don’t block accounts like that.
Hi, thank you for the information sir. Will this work with Cricket services? I believe its considered a prepaid or no-contract plan.
Cricket is listed as one of the carriers for the MoFi so it should work but I have not tested it. Be careful with prepaid plans though. Most of those have not allowed you to go past the data cap. Postpaid plans are working.
Were does it display what firm wear is installed ?
Under system there is a remote update and it will show the current version as well as any new one to install.
Great Informational Video. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Is there a way to plug the phone in to the mofi with out taking the sim card out .I have T mobile & don't really want to buy another phone for just the service .I am paying $55.00 now for service & cost of phone. Looking to use this as Internet as needed for on the road & other use's .
No. It requires the SIM to be installed in the MoFi. You could swap them as needed.
Great tutorial Bro.
Glad you liked it
gonna set one up this week.. Is Internet Explorer still a thing? I heard Mister Softy was shutting it down.
Still available
Hi. I was wondering how did you connect the Omni antenna which has one connection out to the Mofi that has two 4g lte antennas. Thank you!
Connect it to the Primary 3G/4G antenna in place of the existing antenna.
Question, my Verizon ISP TTL is different then the one you use in the video, will that make a difference, or is it carrier specific? Thank you.
Some people have had to use TTL 64 for Verizon.
Is there a specific T-Mobile plan you suggest? I don’t want to be throttled and I live outside of the city and the nearest tower is T-Mobile down the street. Thanks
It needs to be a regular cell phone plan. Don't get a hotspot or prepaid plan. Any of the T-Mobile standard plans will work.
Sele Training thanks for the reply
When activating the SIM card, what number do you use? Get a new number? I have an iPad with a number associated with it. Could I use that number?? Thank you!
If you activate the SIM in a phone or iPad then you can move it to the MoFi. Your carrier will assign a phone number to the SIM but the MoFi does not use it. It does not provide phone functionality, only data so any active SIM will work in the MoFi.
@@SeleTraining what is the best SIM to get? Prepaid? Is there really an unlimited SIM that isn’t capped or throttled? Thank you!!
@@katieferrari5143 Don't use a prepaid SIM. Most of those get blocked by the carrier when used in another device like the MoFi. The problem with most carriers is that they don't offer unlimited plans currently. So you are limited to 23GB or 50GB with most plans and then you are throttled to very slow speeds that make it useless. The benefit of the MoFi is that you can use any postpaid carrier SIM and set the TTL to Linux 65 in the menu of the MoFi to go past the data cap without throttling. This works with many different carrier SIM's. I normally suggest that you add a line to your existing carrier plan because that is the cheapest but you can get an AT&T iPad data plan for $20/mo as a new customer if you call around to several AT&T stores and ask for it. Otherwise just make sure you use a standard cell phone plan. It should not be a prepaid or hotspot only data plan. Also, be careful with Verizon because they may block your SIM. Other carriers work great!
Do you know if you can now able to select "Visible" in the Mofi setup? Or would you select Verizon since Visible is their sister company?
Yes Visible is an option and appears to be working for a few people in the comments.
for the people that using a PagePlus pre paid you have to change the APN to TRACFONE.VZWENTP or TRACFONE.VZWEBT and change the provider selector to Generic it will work
Good info. Thanks!
So for an RV where your locale is always changing, do you have to keep "band surfing"?
Yes. I usually leave it alone and see if I have connectivity at a new location. If it doesn't work or is too slow I'll scan for a better band. It takes a few minutes since you have to reboot each time.
I just saw at Amazon a sim7 version that supports bands 66 and 71 on tmobile. Have you seen it or tried it?
I have not used that version yet but I do recommend getting it for Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. AT&T is not certified yet but should be fine even if a firmware update is required in the future. However, it does not work with Sprint. I'm going to update the description on the video for this new one.
I have Consumer Cellular as my provider, and they provided the SIM card specific for the Mofi. I went thru all the set up procedures and even attached a Proxicast antenna. Still no internet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks much.
You'll want to configure the MoFi as the main carrier for Consumer Cellular. That should be AT&T or T-Mobile. So set the Provide Selector to one of those and use the APN for AT&T or T-Mobile as well. Make sure you can do a band scan and see available bands. If not then it is a configuration issue. Also the SIM should be activated in a phone before using it in the MoFi.
Going to TMobile today to just get a sim card. So I pop it in and go through set up and all should be good? Is there data caps on TMobile? Roughly how much data is used in a regular month? Just trying to reassure myself that by buying this it isn't for nothing. What is your experience using this? Thanks in advance.
I have T-Mobile with the MoFi and use over 150GB per month. I trade it out with AT&T as I travel based on coverage. You'll need to get a regular T-Mobile line for a phone. That may require buying a cheap or free phone plan like Magenta to get the SIM and then put it in the MoFi. Make sure it is a regular phone plan and not a hotspot data only plan. Also it needs to be postpaid. Many prepaid plans don't go past the data cap. You don't need an HD or high data use plan either. It's just a regular base phone plan. With T-Mobile all plans come with 50GB of streaming data but the MoFi TTL setting will allow it to go past that limit without throttling. You'll still see the data use on your bill but won't get charged for the extra streaming data. You can purchase the MoFi through Amazon using the link I provide in the description of the video. If there is any problem you have 30 days to return it. If you already have a T-Mobile phone I'd suggest testing with that SIM first and then purchase another line if you want to dedicate a SIM for the MoFi. Then you're not committing to a new line until you confirm the MoFi works.
I'm stuck with edge and chrome. what should I do? I have the option of using opera from another program would that work?
Even though mofinetwork.com does not recommend using some browsers I have not heard of any issues. You are probably safe with the latest Edge browser.
@@SeleTraining thank you. I'm planning on buying the MoFi 7 like you recommended. What wifi router do you recommend for multiple devices? After I get things working I plan on getting two yagi antennas.
I’d suggest the SIM7 as long as you’re not using Sprint. I chose a Proxicast antenna for my RV since it is omnidirectional and you don’t have to adjust it to find the tower. The SIM7 does not do aggregation of multiple antennas so if you want to do that then get the SIM4. None of these handle multiple SIM cards yet so you still have to swap the SIM if you use multiple carriers like I do. The alternate would be to get dual MoFi’s and put a different SIM in each with one failing over to the other.
@@SeleTraining I'll be using this from my house in the country. That's why I was thinking of using two yagis plugged into the Mofi. I was under the impression I needed to plug a seperate wifi router into the mofi. Will the mofi handle multiple devices at one time? Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
I ordered the SIM7. From the MoFi site.
So what is the current cheapest unlimited plan from AT&T that will work with the Sim7 version. I sadly have Verizon on my phone and its not working for me, hate to have to send this back to Mofi.
Yes, the basic plan from AT&T will work. Also the iPad unlimited data plan will work.
It is not detecting a phone number. I set one of these up for my inlaws and it worked just like you described in your video. I tried to set up another for my sister. There was something incorrect with the data provider and I tried setting up the Mofi before the data plan had been activated. Once it was activated, I tried resetting the Sierra Module. Still not detecting a phone number, but I have Internet. If I am able to connect to the Internet, does the phone number really need to be detected?
The phone number showing up is just an indicator that the sim module is detected and working correctly. I have seen it take some time to show up as well but it may work fine without it displayed.
I have this working with a relatively good signal but the download speed is only about 3Mb. Do you think an antenna would make any dramatic improvement?
Some people have seen a noticeable difference when hardwire connected to a port on the MoFi instead of using Wifi. It's worth testing that to see if it makes a difference. The antenna is primarily going to improve the signal but could also get you access to other bands that may perform better too. One test I use is to see what the speed is when the SIM is used in a phone and if there is a big difference between the phone and MoFi it may be the band in use. You can do a band scan on the MoFi and try each band individually to see which one performs best. Also, be aware that if you have Visible or another third party plan they will sometimes limit your bandwidth to 5Mbps or less even with a good signal.
I have some questions, will you know what these settings are in the Internal modem? They are the following ISP TTL (Time to live) and Service Mode.
You can leave the service mode default and the TRL should be set to Linux-65
@@SeleTraining my data plan is unlimited in linux-65 will it work fine?
@@ivanrivera577 If it is truly unlimited the TTL setting won't matter.
the problem I have is that in the configurations that it brings, it does not want me to enter some web pages I get something about the firewall.
I have already made the corresponding adjustments to improve the signal, the TTL goes in Windows 128 and the mtu in 1500, the latter must be done both in the internal modem and in the Network. the wifi of the Mofi modem is not very strong so I installed a linkys RE9000 direct to the Lan port number 4 and turn off the wifi of the mofi and I use the linkys router for the wifi of the house and the problem turned out I have almost the same wifi speed as if it were connected to a Lan port
Sele Training which plan that is currently on AT&T would you recommend for me? I want to be able to bypass the data restrictions and I also want the cheapest plan possible
Just get the basic starter cell phone plan or an iPad plan. Make sure they are postpaid and not hotspot data only plans and you should be good to go.
@@SeleTraining what specific plan is the cheapest that will work to bypass the data use limits?
Is it true that there is only 1 available band of 2.4 Ghz as compared to a Nighthawk that has dual bands? Can I connect my existing Asus Lyra mesh network extender?
The MoFi uses multiple frequencies for reception of the cell signal for each band but the WiFi only provides 2.4Ghz for your shared hotspot. It does not have 5Ghz like the Nighthawk. You can disable the wifi on the MoFi and connect your mesh network to provide Wifi at the higher 5Ghz speed to your network. That improves the throughput on the MoFi as well.
@@SeleTraining Thanks. Now I've got to see if I can get AT&T cell service. Their coverage map says probably
I have been using the MoFi for several months now but now resetting to a new SIM card. Your video suggests a default IP of 198.168.1.1; can you tell me what this is? I am seeing this address in my home router now; even though the MoFi is not connected. Why am I’m seeing this? I loved the MoFi and having some issues resetting it but should be able to work it out. Thanks for the video, It is very helpful. Thank you!
Many routers use the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 and use it for the interface to manage the router. When you go to that location in a browser it will bring up the admin screen to manage the router settings.
Thank you so much! SO INFORMATIVE!!!!!!!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this video. I am in pickle with the MoFi at the moment. I just got an "Unlimited for Tablet" plan with AT&T for $20 a month. I activated the SIM card in my iPad, and now I am trying to set it up in the MoFi SIM 4.
I ran through setup exactly how you did but it doesn't work on any of the LTE bands. I can lock it to a LTE band but it shows "no service" when checking signal strength and the internet light on the router goes out. Signal strength is great.
It only connects to the internet on band WCDMA 1900 which is basically a 3G band. But it receives 4G in the iPad which is strange, and connection is fast on the iPad.
I tried to reset the sierra module and carrier netmask fixup but that does not resolve the issue. My phone number and other SIM information are shown correctly. APN set to AT&T broadband.
Any suggestions to resolve this issue would be much appreciated!
Same!!! Please help! I need to get internet at my rural home so I can go to school online
Go to the Advanced Bandlock and make sure you have All LTE bands checks and All WCDMA bands checked. That is the bands it will scan. Then run the Band Scan again. It should show available for some of the bands. It should find and set a good band but at that point you can lock it to each available band until you get a good signal. You have to reboot each time and give it a minute after it is done rebooting to check the Internet.
@@SeleTraining Yes that's what I did. And I've tried all the available LTE bands. The signal is great, it just doesn't connect to the internet. (Internet indicator light on MoFi doesn't turn on) And every time do an internet connection test on the MoFi it says "no connection detected".
So far I've only seen it work on WCDMA band 2 1900. The internet indicator light on the MoFi comes on with this band. I did an internet connection test with this band and it displays the IP address after the test.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for your time.
@@MTBHoltOutdoors That is unusual. You may want to download the latest firmware from mofinetwork.com and install it. Also, reset the router and try the setup again.
@@SeleTraining I figured it out - When I originally signed up for the AT&T plan I gave them the IMEI of my older iPad and activated the SIM in the old iPad. I had to call them and reactivate the SIM in a newer iPad.
The issue was probably due to the SIM not being properly provisioned for LTE.
Each cellular carrier has different plan options. Can you please give examples of which plans I need to get?
Edit: For example, AT&T has an unlimited plan (up to 100GB before throttle down) and a shared plan (9GB before throttle down). Which one will work and is there a cheaper option? You said in the video that you got it for $20 monthly. Which company and plan is that?
Also, can mofi be found cheaper than $150? Is there any other device that works like this?
I have both AT&T and T-Mobile. It also works with Sprint. Some people have had difficulty with Verizon so read the comments before going that direction. You just need a standard cell phone for a regular phone. Don't get a hotspot data only or prepaid plan. The carriers listed for the MoFi include:
Sprint
AT&T
Cricket
Verizon
T-Mobile
Appalachian Wireless
Simple Mobile
US Cellular
Webbing.com
iWireless
H2O Wireless
AML
Visible
Any recommendations to help increase speed on on MOFI4500? I have a cradlepoint pushing speeds of 50mbps vs mofi 4500 15-20mps. I love my mofi, just would like to speed it up.
Ethernet is generally faster than the Wifi. I had to play with the Wifi settings to get it to work better but it still does not match an ethernet connection.
@@SeleTraining I am using wifi on the cradlepoint. I was able to get close to the same speeds by matching band and location of mofi. What router with range extender to you recommend?
@@markmooney1558 Some other people have found that using WiFi with another router works better than the WiFi of the MoFi. I haven't used it that way myself so I don't have any specific brand recommendations.
Hey. I was wondering if the Mofi routers will work with USB modems? Will the usb modern act like streaming internet or tethered internet? Also, are the other brand routers that are similar to Mofi that will do basically the same things? Thanks
You'll want to connect to the MoFi through a network cable to do the setup and then it provides WiFi to all your devices. I call it streaming data because it does not have the limitations of the tethered data and streaming data is what the carriers provide for phones to watch Netflix and other apps. The MoFi is special because it has the TTL setting right in the menu. Other routers do not have that option built-in. The TTL is how you get beyond the data limit.
Ok, so to be clear. The only routers that will get beyond data limits are the Mofi? And what about the Mofi that does not accept SIM cards? It’s the cheapest version I believe. Thanks a lot for the help!
Hello, I just bought a new MoFi4500 and the $20 unlimited Tablet plan from AT&T. I set the APN to AT&T Broadband, but I can't get any internet? Any tips or anything else I should do? Thanks
Make sure you can use the SIM in a phone just to confirm it works. The older MoFi also has a setting for the carrier as well as the APN so make sure you click on the second tab in the MoFi Internal Modem menu to set the carrier to AT&T.
Any tips on how to spoof the IMEI for mofi4500? At&T will detect this as a router instead of a ipad and cancel your plan.
If you use a postpaid plan it's not an issue with AT&T. The prepaid plans are the ones getting blocked. I have an AT&T plan that's been working for 18 months with no issues. Over 200GB of data per month.
@@SeleTraining dang okay Im just reading the forums and people have gotten banned ill try it tho with your advice. Thats for writing back it means alot