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I have now upgraded to 7.2.1, b. For Band 20 at 10Mhz these are the stats that my device is reporting:

Primary Band B20@10Mhz earfcn: 6400 phy-cellid:26
RSSI -57 dBm (excellent)
RSRP -85 dBm (good)
SINR -7 dB (poor)
RSRQ -10.0dB (excellent)
RI 1

I then manually changed to Band 40 (found setting) These are the stants for Band 40:

RSSI -81 dBm (fair)
RSRP -113 dBm (poor)
SINR 3dB (fair)
RSRQ -12 dB (good)

On paper the fair, poor, fair, good is worse than Band 20, but my internet speed has just jumped to 25mbps! This is a jump from 9mbps. Thanks so much! I owe you a drink.

Just another question if changing from giffgaff to another provider. Is there a way to change the provider without physically having to remove the sim? Its just a pain to get up on the roof to swap a sim card out.
That's good news, O2 own all band 40 2300mhz frequency in the UK, if carrier aggregation kicks in you should see a huge difference in speed.

With a cat12 router here in Rushden, Northamptonshire I could achieve 280mbps on a quiet night.
 
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I have now upgraded to 7.2.1

Just another question if changing from giffgaff to another provider. Is there a way to change the provider without physically having to remove the sim? Its just a pain to get up on the roof to swap a sim card out.
You will have to change the SIM card 😒
 
It'll show up in IP, firewall, mangle rules under webfig.
The firewall now has an entry called Change TTL and if I click on it, I guess it has now applied that. Below is a screenshot. So I guess it is working?
 

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That's good news, O2 own all band 40 2300mhz frequency in the UK, if carrier aggregation kicks in you should see a huge difference in speed.
I thought it was good news and I was even watching 4k video and it even went up to over 30mbps. Its been the best it has ever been here all evening, but for some reason it has now dropped to 2mbps! This is the worst it has ever been. What do you think is going on? Network congestion, throttling? Any settings likely to cause this dramatic fall?
 
I thought it was good news and I was even watching 4k video and it even went up to over 30mbps. Its been the best it has ever been here all evening, but for some reason it has now dropped to 2mbps! This is the worst it has ever been. What do you think is going on? Network congestion, throttling? Any settings likely to cause this dramatic fall?
Smells like throttling to me.
Have you tried rebooting the router?
 
Smells like throttling to me.
Have you tried rebooting the router?
Yes I rebooted the router, but it did not make any difference. The speed was very good earlier today. It was 35mbps earlier, but it's now sitting at about 15mbps.

The question is why would Giffgaff thottle? Its not a fixed contract deal, so if you use all your data in a month you have to buy more. From a business perspective would they not want you to use all your data quickly and then spend more money with them?
 
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Yes I rebooted the router, but it did not make any difference. The speed was very good earlier today. It was 35mbps earlier, but it's now sitting at about 15mbps.

The question is why would Giffgaff thottle? Its not a fixed contract deal, so if you use all your data in a month you have to buy more. From a business perspective would they not want you to use all your data quickly and then spend more money with them?
Giffgaff certainly are known to do that, random Web search result :

Try to get in touch with their support.
 
I thought it was good news and I was even watching 4k video and it even went up to over 30mbps. Its been the best it has ever been here all evening, but for some reason it has now dropped to 2mbps! This is the worst it has ever been. What do you think is going on? Network congestion, throttling? Any settings likely to cause this dramatic fall?
Do you cell lock?
 
Do you cell lock?
From what I gather there is no cell lock menu and this has to be done in the terminal? If I read the below instructions correctly, I would paste the below command into the terminal?

/interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT*Cell=2,3,,39250,420"

These are my parameters
EarFCN = 39250
phy-cellid: 420


One thing is they say to leave the band blank, but manually changing the band to 40 has made such a difference, so I am a bit confused.
 
From what I gather there is no cell lock menu and this has to be done in the terminal? If I read the below instructions correctly, I would paste the below command into the terminal?

/interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT*Cell=2,3,,39250,420"

These are my parameters
EarFCN = 39250
phy-cellid: 420


One thing is they say to leave the band blank, but manually changing the band to 40 has made such a difference, so I am a bit confused.

The R11e-lte6 wants to carrier aggregate, so leaving the band blank will let it choose the best it can find from the following:


Is band 8 available for you?
 
The R11e-lte6 wants to carrier aggregate, so leaving the band blank will let it choose the best it can find from the following:


Is band 8 available for you?

But it did not automatically choose the best band it could before. When I manually changed it to band 40 my internet was so much better.

Not sure if band 8 is available, cellmapper does not say anything. Why band 8?
 
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But it did not automatically choose the best band it could before. When I manually changed it to band 40 my internet was so much better.

Not sure if band 8 is available, cellmapper does not say anything. Why band 8?
I'm just working within the limitations of the modem.

What modem firmware are you running on the r11e-lte6?
 
I'm just working within the limitations of the modem.

What modem firmware are you running on the r11e-lte6?

Wonder what would happen if I went ahead and put the band in that command even though it says to leave blank? I'm kind of apprehensive of messing something up. As for modem firmware it says R11e-LTE6_V033. I think that is the most recent?
 
Wonder what would happen if I went ahead and put the band in that command even though it says to leave blank? I'm kind of apprehensive of messing something up. As for modem firmware it says R11e-LTE6_V033. I think that is the most recent?
Technically carrier aggregation should fail, but as the lte6 supports b40+b40 it should not be a problem.
 
Ofcom's fifth annual report on net neutrality from November 2021 (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/ass...with-the-EU-Open-Internet-Regulation_2021.pdf) seems to make it perfectly plain:

"1.3 The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, with a transition period until 31 December 2020. Following the end of this period, the EU rules on net neutrality became part of domestic UK law."

So, unless UK law has been changed since then, implementation of those Ts&Cs statements is seemingly against the law. That said, I believe the (VM)O2 MNVOs like Tesco are just rewriting (VM)O2's Ts&Cs, as that is what O2's said the last I looked a few months back.

It would be interesting to hear what O2 & O2 MNVOs said if when taking out a sim you said you intend to put said sim in a router and that you will report them to Ofcom if they implement those Ts&Cs. Of course, they may then refuse to sell you that sim contract, and I suppose they don't need to agree to sell you one... and then report them to Ofcom anyway!
 
The R11e-lte6 wants to carrier aggregate, so leaving the band blank will let it choose the best it can find
When I entered the command to cell lock, the terminal gave the following response:

+CGEV: NW PDN DEACT 5

Is that what should happen?
 
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When I entered the command to cell lock, the terminal gave the following response:

+CGEV: NW PDN DEACT 5

Is that what should happen?
That suggests O2 are load balancing, has the internet stopped working, if so you will not be able to cell lock.
 
That suggests O2 are load balancing, has the internet stopped working, if so you will not be able to cell lock.
The internet has not stopped working but sometimes it is extremely slow. It can fall as low as 1mbps then a few hours later can be over 30mbps.

I ran the command again and got the same thing as before. I then put in the CA band parameters and changed it to that. I then tried again with the primary band parameters and got this:

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT*Cell=2,3,,39448,420"
output: +CREG: 6,"87c0","07ff9e89",7
$CREG: 6,"87c0","07ff9e89",7,"1a4"
+CEREG: 1,"87c0","07ff9e89",7


Any idea what is going on?
 
I've got the at command manual to check:

Thank you.

For the last few hours its been pretty good, hovering around 20mpbs. This is 20 times faster than I can get on a landline here! But one thing I don't understand is the inconsistency. I can be at 30mpbs for a few hours and then drop to 2mpbs!
 
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