My sim is a Visible sim with the Visible+ plan.
I am using the invisagig paired with the GL-MT3000 router in my RV.
My TTL is set to 88 though I have tried both 64, and 65, but speeds seem to be better on 88.
Things have been great for so long while traveling the road so I’m sure it’s all working correctly, but now that I’m out west I am getting some very slow speeds.
I want to know the best order of things to check when trying to hunt out a stronger signal.
I assume the first place to start is Modem Info… so here’s mine.
I have my Network Mode set to LTE & 5G with both NSA and SA enabled
If I set it to “5g only” then my “modem cannot reach the internet” though I thought if there was a NR5G then it would. I must be mistaken on. that.
When I do a local tower search, this is what I get for LTE..
and this is what I get for 5G…
Lastly here’s my live signal results…
I have played around with disabling bands but I haven’t made any real progress.
Can someone help me understand where the best place to start is?
Thanks all!
Hello!
First thing for sure,:Verizon, though they state they’re rolling it out, they do not support 5G stand-alone, especially on purely data. So NSA LTE plus 5G is going to be the standard for your connection.
You definitely need a stronger signal. I’m not really sure why your speeds would be so low. Even when you’re being throttled due to TTL, it’s usually capping out at around 5 Mbps on visible, so there’s likely something else going on, I would think. Maybe.
You can also try a TTL of 117.
You’re in the right place. Using the tower scan, you can try to individually lock to different LTE bands and keep track of which ones you are locking to and what the results were. I would definitely play with the TTL to see what the best setup is on TTL at that location. As you’ve seen, it does kind of change from site to site or location to location. We’ve seen reports where 88 is good in one location and somewhere else 65 is the new good, even with the same SIM. 117 has been around a long while.
But locking to different cells and band locking, basically like you’re already doing, is the best method to find what’s going to work best for your needs at that location. Of course, once you’ve kind of found one of those towers and bands that works well, your next quest is to get that signal strength as high as possible with what you have.
One other thing to try is to set the MTU on the WAN of your router to 1385 or 1420 or somewhere between.
