(Part 3) Top products from r/ATT

weBoost Connect 4G (470103) Indoor Cell Phone Signal Booster for Home and Office - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint - Supports 5,000 Square Foot Area https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RHMFQTO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Zj5BDbXM5CX29

I know it's expensive but that may be your best bet. I have a Cel-Fi and honestly I don't see a difference but likewise it only supports 4 bands. It is an older unit. The unit says it's working but when I check my signal strength with it on or off the numbers don't change on any of my AT&T devices. I did buy it used tho so maybe it's defective. But the Weboost seems to get a lot of good reviews and supports all carriers so that may be your best bet. It is expensive too tho but if you plan on staying there awhile you can think of it as a long term investment

Yeah, the cheapest way used to be to pick up the kit at Walmart or Best Buy or wherever, but most places seem to have stopped carrying SIM cards and prepaid phones. Because of that, you'll probably need to go to a corporate store, order online, or through Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Prepaid-Complete-SIM-Kit/dp/B00LPPHHFK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487802178&sr=8-1&keywords=t-mobile+starter+kit)

Once you do that, you can pre-pay (using credit/debit or a prepaid card, which are still available just about anywhere) for service. Personally, I've encouraged those who want to test to get the $30 plan (100 minutes, 5GB data, unlimited texts) as it has all the other benefits like BingeOn and Music Freedom (unofficially) and will really let you test out capabilities. Keep in mind that that plan can only be picked when you set up your account and if you transfer away, you'll lose it. You can actually order that from here: https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans

You'd need to pay for a month of service on that plan, but it's about the lowest full-featured one out there.

You could get a SIM and activate the $3/month voice/text option: https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go This will still show you signal strength and you can buy a data pass for a day ($5) or week ($10), so that might get you all the information you'd need.

I did some network testing myself and went with one of the other plans initially on a starter kit that came with about $30, called and had them switch a few days into testing, am now on the $3 plan, and then just added some data here and there if I need to test. Otherwise, it's basically a $3/month dumbphone line that will work until the funds deplete sometime later in the year.

Best deal is here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E45043A/

Highly rated phone, bought several for family members and they have been happy with it. Plus at that price, it is great. Just buy it, and pop in your Sim Card and you're good to go. If you want an upgrade to that phone, then I'd suggest:

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LBFFSNM/

That adds a quad core processor, a larger screen, and a few other things.

The exact adapters I have don’t appear to be for sale anyone but there are plenty of similar adapters available. It’s a TS9 to SMA Female adapter. Here is one example https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HG7HBDY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Fp-SAbC06B2HA

The cables I used were MPD Digital LMR400 cables with an SMA Male connector on the modem end and an N-Male connector on the Antenna side. Where you intend to setup your modem and antennas will dictate how long of a cable you will need. I would tend to recommend ordering a length beyond what you think you will need. For reference my cables are 35ft long.

I would recommend trying to find the best Multiband yagis you can get with N-Female plug. These Proxicast yagis work well but their false advertising on their brackets left a bad taste in my mouth.

The simplest way to use the Nighthawk is too let it be the router and hook up a Access Point to it for WiFi, such as this one from Netgear, which is the one I currently have. You would set up the Nighthawk then run a cable to the AP and thats it. The AP has 5 ports on the back, so with one connected to the Nighthawk you'd have 4 left over to hardwire some devices like game consoles, TV, PC, etc. and use WiFi for everything else. You could always connect another switch to the network if you wanted more devices to be hardwired.

This is actually the route I would take to ease the headache of trying to get ip passthrough to work. The main reason people wanted ip passthrough is 'cause there was a limit to the number of devices that the Nighthawk would allow to be connected, however there was a recent update for the Nighthawk that allows up to 79 devices to be connected to it via DHCP, instead of the old 20 device max, so that isn't a concern anymore.

1. There were only ever 2 models of MicroCell. Many customers prefer the older white and orange model to the smaller black model. Both work exactly the same. If you have one, it should be fine. My white and orange MicroCell is still active to this day.
   
2. You can try forwarding calls to any third party VoIP calling app, and unforward them when you're out of the basement.
   
3. Your best option is going to be to sell that phone on Swappa, Glyde, or eBay. Then, use the money to purchase a proper AT&T model phone that supports WiFi Calling.
   
4. The only other option is a signal booster. Cheaper ones are not super reliable, but might work for you. The highest rated type is called Cel-Fi and is ~3x as expensive as a used MicroCell.

I mean if you want the best and fastest, this one supports up to 10 gb

Just a cheap panel antenna from Amazon. I'm currently going through chemo right now so not much climbing on the roof and such is allowed. It didn't do much to increase signal but signal is more consistent. I actually band lock mine to HSPA band 5 because the LTE band 12 is pretty crappy. Waiting for firstnet upgrades to be done and then will look at other options for modem. I know sierra and telit both have new modems that sort band 14 and better CA than what is in the Mofi now.

TECHTOO 3G 4G LTE Antenna Indoor Outdoor 10dBi Directional Wide Band WiFi MIMO Antenna 698-2690MHz Panel Antenna Wall Mounting Kit for Cellphone Signal Amplifier/MiFi Jetpack/Mobile Hotspot Device https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ODY8PME/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_p-nIDbE6VN1H7

If you are under 2300 sq feet this should work just fine:

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Dual-Band-AiMesh-Router-AC1900/dp/B00FB45SI4

Make sure you turn off the wifi on the pace 5268ac and put it in bridge mode.

Also make sure your problem is with the Wifi not the internet connection by connecting your computer to the ethernet port on your pace 5268ac and testing (make sure you turn of the wifi on the computer when you do this).

Do they really need a home phone? Do they call international?

If not, then I would cancel that and just have the cell phones as their primary number. The other option is to port that home number to Google Voice and get a OBi200. The OBi200 lets you use your Google Voice number on a home cordless phone setup through VoIP. Google Voice has no monthly fee and you get free unlimited calling within US and super cheap per minute calls internationally.

You could also just get them the Google Voice app and have the home number calls forwarded to one of their cell numbers.

I went with https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00RHMFQZI/ref=ya_st_dp_summary found a good price from Amazon warehouse for 150

/u/jhulc is absolutely correct. Had 4 different U-verse customers have issues with the residential gateway. Each replaced multiple times. Finally, one tech came by and recommended a device called the APC Back-UPS Connect and it's solved the issues at all of the locations.

It's currently $25 on Amazon: https://amzn.com/B00NTQYUA8

This is a good modem that supports up to Gigabit speed on Comcast.

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This Asus AC3200 Gigabit wifi router would pair with the modem above really well.

I recommend buying from Amazon for the 30 day return option. I'd try that first before moving to AT&T. Like I said though, I'd move to AT&T fiber in a heartbeat if I could, but this is something you can try for yourself first. Worse case scenario, you can return the Motorola Modem and keep the Asus WiFi router since you can use it with AT&T still.

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EDIT for grammar and spelling. Whoops!

Moshi case? https://www.amazon.com/Moshi-Overture-iPhone-Plus-Wallet/dp/B00NG5JYNK

This is the first that I am hearing of the G800A, and I can not seem to find it for sale anywhere.

This is the phone that I bought. The title says international 4G LTE. Can you elaborate as to why this would not work with AT&T 4G LTE or at tell me what the US bands are?

so this is the type of cable you have right?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H9II93Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2KWLT0Z61PMSN&psc=1

it's a NOKIA 301.2.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DRQ9500/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have one proxicast yagi antenna and 25 foot lmr400 cables and I can not find a signal above -114 RSRP and -19 RSRQ. I tried aiming it where the tower is and tried microcorrecting for atleast a good 6+ hours and I have not found a single spot where it would get any better. I tried mounting the antenna to a 16 foot pole and moved it around various locations and had it hooked to the Nighthawk and that didn't help either. Using my Netgear Aircard mimo works better mounted to a window with aluminum foil which doesn't make sense. I can get -108 RSRP and -14 RSRQ - It's rare to see that but it can. Usually I get -113 RSRP and -17 RSRQ as of late. I see average speeds of 3mbps Down and 0.03mbps Up with the Netgear Aircard and with the Proxicast I get 2mbps Down and the Upload usually won't even finish in speed tests. 2 Times however using the Proxicast I seen 10mbps down and 50 Up which never happened again - I wish I could see this happen again - I left it exactly the same and no results after waiting for hours and resetting and calling At&t and unplugging it and moving the antenna again and rechecking the cables and factory resetting. I'm probably just going to send the stuff back It's so frustrating spending hours upon hours and not seeing any real results. PS. I live in a very poor signal area and seeing 2 bars is really rare in the window - throughout the house and even outside I can't seem to find a signal. I have turned off stream saver. Antenna
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A big problem I have is the latency is so bad when it hops to a lower RSRP and RSRQ - which it will go from -110 to -116 pretty commonly so 60ms turns into 700ms or even higher : (