🔴Setting Up Bridge Mode For T-mobile Home Internet And SNEAK PEEK at BRAND NEW 5G Modem 

Great to hear! Glad to help.

Very good point but you can't leave the page without applying on this firmware. I like your idea of multiple changes and one save.

@@PeterC408 😂 we just can't win. I hate those long restarts.

Thanks Jules!

Does the Yeacomm support VLANs? If it does, maybe you can use that to connect to it when in bridge mode.

That might be one of the primary takeaways from the video, don't tie the two together. Get your best 5G signal and then get the features you want distribute Wi-Fi your way. I guess, I am not a fan of Gateways. It's like trying to find a car manufacturer that makes a good stereo, disassociate the two to get the best of both worlds.

I think the answer is going to be prioritization. As use turns to abuse and we wander from our locations, perhaps they simply bring down the priority to maintain the experience for the greatest number of people but still allow us all to be free and be who and where we want to be. That way if you are uploading at 3am and it has no impact to the network, let it rip!

I am really interested to know if you get this going. Good proof of concept. It should work but it is always good to get actual confirmation from the field when it does.

@@PeterC408 i had to setup a jobsite a few years ago, really needed this feature but ending up using ZeroTier One on a Tmobile home device. currently i dont have a need to do this anytime soon

Gaming is tricky because it is not so much about speed but latency. Many games send small positional packets and require a very responsive network (low PING). Still other games require a constant IP address (PVP) and that can be done with a faster router. PING is the tricky one... While PING is reported by many Internet speed testing programs, it only tests the ping to the speed test server, which is located on every network, including TMobile. Most gaming servers are not located on TMobile and must jump to another service at an IXP (internet exchange point). What is your PING?

It's coming very soon.

@@PeterC408 as in Tmobile is planning to implement it? Thanks for the info brother

Strange. Did you tell the firmware that you have an antenna on the external ports? It has to be set in Firmware

Did you look to see which bands you're locking into? One of the problems is that the hardware locks onto the strongest signal. It doesn't make any accommodations for the fact that it may be locking into a band with lesser bandwidth. Either way 20 megabit is way too low. I freak out if I drop a low 350 Mbps. You want to look at your RSRP, RSRQ and SiNR. Therein lies the real story.

@@PeterC408 The modem was setup for either the internal or an external antenna depending on whether I had the waveform attached. Not sure of exactly which bands. Was on the phone twice with T-Mobile for over 4 hours in total. For the first time however, I did connect to 5G UC which never happened on my Sagemcom modem. T-Mobile said everything was set properly on my end there shouldn't be an issue. I just tried this morning to hook the modem directly to a single computer and it worked fine. Speeds over 400Mb. Ran it back through my router and its down to almost nothing again. Maybe there is some kind of pass through function or something we are missing. Don't know. May just buy a Sagemcom off eBay since it works without issue and mod it to use the external antenna. Save some hassle.

Interesting... what part of San Jose? Maybe I can come over and show you what this antenna can do before you have to invest your money? I can imaging that people might get tired of seeing videos where I am getting 700Mbps, this might make a good video to help others. A before and after of the improvement.

@@PeterC408 I'm about a mile north of the Almaden expressway exit on 85.

@@PaulChambers-GadgetMechanic oh, so your buddied up against the Los Gatos hills. That's okay the tower should be the other direction. It might be interesting to bring my unit out there and see what it's like. That way we could genuinely see if it is making a difference in a challenging area.

@@PeterC408 if cellmapper's coverage maps are accurate, the 'best' cell tower would be the one at Almaden Plaza (the shopping center with Costco). That's south of me, and the other side of 85, which is on an earth embankment for that stretch. So getting some height is probably necessary to get over that (and the buildings in between). It probably isn't surprising that reception isn't great at ground level. The irony is that there are several other cell towers nearby, but cellmapper shows some very directional coverage patterns for them, unfortunately away from me. So yes, I'm guessing that you could make some interesting content, both on the advantages of a good antenna, and the benefits of mounting a good antenna at greater height.

Thanks for the vote of support! 🙂

Yes, this model has a 4x4 MIMO antenna built into it.

I see no reason why not. Gl.inet makes some very good hardware.

I suspect by the end of next week! Fingers crossed!

Yes. Otherwise it's less of an achievement 😉

No, but they just informed me of a new version coming soon. Are you experiencing an issue?

Yes the DDNS tab doesn’t work with no-ip. Maybe you could make a video if you could get it to work?

The Yeacomm would be good for an RV because it is Omni-directional (meaning that you don't have to point it). For home use, I prefer a directional antenna because I know where my tower is and can get better gain but for an RV or Boat, this would be great. I know RV'ing is a big market and I am looking for an Influencer in that space to try some things with. Let me know if you know of any YT influencers in the RV world that might be up for such things.

@@GeorgeArchibald T-Mobile is always giving me IPv4. The only problem with it is it keeps changing. That is Carrier Grade NAT, In that caused quite an issue until I was able to control it using DDNS and bridge mode. Which router do you have? I did a video exclusively for the Yeecom NR610 and the crazy way they use bridge mode.

Hey George - I am reading this again and wanted to make sure of something. It is the Gateway that you want to be in Bridge Mode, not the access point (but that shouldn't give you this error). Bridge Mode on the Modem side is a way to get the ISP to give your router their IP address instead of their own unit. This is only because their gateway lacks many desirable features. This not only works, it works so well that I am no longer surprised when it works. I was just in Carmel for the week (going to the ocean to beat the valley heat) and I was able to watch videos from my server on the Big Screen over PLEX. I wanted to tell my kids how impossible this was before, but they are tired of hearing it.

They legitimately allow BYOD on the business side so I don't see any reason why they wouldn't open that up. They don't want to have to pay for your gateway it's a $400 device. And it's not meeting the needs of all of their customers. I can make better use of their network than they can. I solve problems that they said we're unsolvable. They should actually start shipping this unit. Oh and the mystery unit does have a GPS module in it

It's back! Thanks for the heads up. I contacted them and asked them to put it back for a week or so. Regarding the other version, NR610-Q X62, it has a different modem chip in it. It is not as fast. I would stay with the NR610

What kind of IP address does it get? 192.168.x.x? Simply put the NR610 in bridge mode (this should stop it from doing NAT/DHCP) and the router should get the WAN IP. Then the AP can create local IPs that are only single NAT. Don't forget to turn on DDNS (with something like No-IP) and it will serve and tunnel out.

@@PeterC408 Mobile data WAN IP, IP DNS, IPv6, and IPv6 DNS all have a -- next to them. But getting a great 5G T-Mobile signal. The 5G RSRP is getting -73 dBm. I guess it needs some other setting in Bridge Mode. I don't want to set it to factory defaults because lose T-Mobile settings to connect to it.

Also on the home screen network status it will have a x between the 5G T-Mobile and my device when in bridge mode.

@@PeterC408 All so I have DHCP turn off on the ODU NR6 because it's on in my Nest WiFi Pro. Do I have to have the DHCP server on for it to get a WAN IP? It just don't do it. I did this 2 times in bridge mode waiting and it don't get a WAN IP.

I am curious, what letter of the alphabet do you think the company name begins with?

@@PeterC408 The company name starts with a "W" and their product name starts with a capital "i" with a built-in 4x4 antenna.

​@@PeterC408When will we know about the new 5g modem? 😮

@@ericm3729 soon.

​@@trustyscout2818I think I know who it is too!

I've been running an extra phone line for about 2 years now, always worked better than the TMO home Internet.

When the SIM card of a T-Mobile voice line is installed in a device that’s not a phone, data speeds are throttled to approximately 600Kbp/s, making performance unusable. You can use any line that’s called a “T-Mobile Mobile Internet” line in devices like hotspots and cellular Internet gateways, but you cannot use any line specifically called a “tablet” line in a cellular Internet gateway as it will be speed-throttled as well. You can use mobile Internet lines in tablets, however.

@@llukem I mean you believe what you need to believe, but my internet would disagree with you.

There's a different network (APN) and they've whitelisted your SIM and IMEI to allow entrance. Simply pluging another SIM would mean the numbers wouldn't match and it wouldn't let you on the network.

@@PeterC408 APNs orchestrate the connection between a cellular connection and access to the Internet. As for network access itself, T-Mobile allows what’s called “hot swapping” of SIMs between devices, meaning they update the IMEI for a line in their system to whichever device is using the associated SIM card to connect to the network. In other words, no, T-Mobile will not deny network access to a line if the device’s IMEI doesn’t match the IMEI on file for that the respective SIM card number (called the ICCID). T-Mobile’s system will just update it. What I said earlier still applies, though. If you use a SIM that’s on a voice plan inside a non-phone device, speed will be severely throttled. SIM card hot-swapping is allowed on all major networks in the US and there’s virtually no carriers left that disallow it. One of the very few exceptions I can think of is Metro by T-Mobile, who still locks ICCIDs to IMEIs and you must contact them to update your IMEI before they allow network access. The practice is very uncommon and has been phased out now, so virtually no notable carrier apart from Metro does it.

Yes. Depending on where you live, you can do just about anything. Technically there is no issue, but short sighted bureaucrats and lawmakers make is challenging to do what you want to do in certain locations around the world.

Yikes. Band locking is in order. Not all bands have balance up and down speeds. You might want to give a little to get a little. Going outside for the signal could be your saving grace.

Here it is... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UJHy8wbKBW8.html It is fast!

Give it a shot and let us know. I got my TabloTv (orig) to forward out but my cameras are web based.

@@PeterC408 So you are unable to access your cameras from outside your network. Is that what you're saying here?

Until I can share the price point and where to buy it, I don't want to mention the name. The scores are just so candy, that I had to share it. This is a new level of UP!

Irish Healthcare System?

Ah but I did. Using Bridge Mode, you pull the modem out of the picture and give full control to your Access Point. Now you can use the rich set of mature features provided by your access point. For me, it is netgear and they have a really nice feature set. My goal is not to show everyone one how to use every access point but now your AP has the real IP from your ISP. They key is to use No-IP and DDNS to keep track of changes. So far so good.

That program wants to be updated all the time. I've seen bills of Kodi that update less often. And it's always for something esoteric like now supports the Turkish language. Not that that's not important but I don't speak Turkish. I've always been of the mind if it works don't fix it

Where to start? StarLink is amazing if you happen to be in the middle of nowhere. I was shocked to be in the middle of a 1,000,000 acre burn site and still had decent internet. It was 25Mbps down and 5Mbps up, not amazing but good enough. Now, while a life saver, those scores suck!! 5Mbps is on the edge of acceptability for a single Zoom call (in my video you just saw me get 140Mbps UP), we are talking about one working from home (and ever glitch reminds people that you are not in the office). Now, let's get to the price. It's very expensive. $120/mo!!! and it is not unlimited. While StarLink does not have a "data cap", Starlink plans limit the amount of high-speed data you receive. While generous, sources I have found list up to 2TB a month, they will push you down if you go over that. StarLink does not avoid headaches, you just trade one headache for another. How much aspirin could you buy for $120/mo

@@PeterC408 This is all false. I've had Starlink for over 2 years so I know all the ins and outs. I also had 3-4 years of ATT business class unlimited hotspot with all the additional antennas etc. they you are currently doing now. Point is, I have experience in all scenarios. ATT was good when it was good, but when it was bad, it was very bad. I got 100 mbps + at times with ATT but at night 5 mbps and under if I was lucky. This is even with the highest priority data as I have a business. Now flipside Starlink. When I 1st got it, I was averaging 500- 600 mbps. That lasted about 6 months as I was 1 of the 1st to get it. Then it went down to 100 mbps- 300 mbps, 50 mbps on the absolute worse day. That was the last year or so. Now, they have increased speeds again. I'm seeing 300 mbps + and absolute worse is around 100 mbps. I am also on a very crowded satellite as lots of people in my area have it so this is worse case scenario. I've been hearing people getting 500 mbps again. Never ever have my speeds been 5mpbs, that's ludicrous for Starlink. To tackle your second point, I use 5 TB per month + so the information you are getting is incorrect. Never throttled! If you have an rv plan, ofcourse you will be throttled because that's the point. If you have standard service, you won't be throttled as far as I have seen. Is it in the language of the tos? Yes, it is but I've personally never seen it. Now, to tackle a very solid point that you didn't cover. Latency/ ping/ jitter- this is far worse on mobile than it is on Starlink. You would think that it would be opposite but it's not. Satellite in leo has come a long way. My worse ping is around 60ms and I'm getting as low as 28ms. Mobile can get that too but it's not stable. Playing games was almost impossible on ATT hotspot. All this being said, you should really give Starlink another shot as you either didn't have the dish set right, had too many trees, or it was bad timing in a period when Starlink wasn't as good as it is now. To better prove my point, Tmobile is partnering with Starlink because they need their service and not the other way around which should tell you all you need to know as far as what technology is improving the fastest.

No one deleted you comments but nothing I have ever said has been false, just ask my wife. 😜Wow! you wrote lots of words. My neighbor has AT&T Fiber and gets gigabit speeds and super low latency, but... it is $100/mo. I don't like the new style of asking questions by acting like an a-hole. That's not a thing.

Even Elon mask himself said starlink is not as good as 5g, and it is aimed for rural areas

@@mataralmuhairi2402 That was years ago when it was in beta. FYI... they are beginning to launch satellites as we speak that are just aimed at telecommunication and Tmobile as well will be using Starlink later this year for voice and text as well.