In reply to a post by wifigeek:

think it would be worthwhile upgrading to a device that can do 4x MIMO? cant tell if the mast supports that or not.

Less likely in rural areas, unfortunately hard to tell about the mast unless you have a rooted qualcomm based android phone (e.g. OnePlus) which you can run Network Signal Guru on.

was looking at one of these for ee - https://ltefix.com/shop/modems/quectel-modems/quecte...

That looks impressive, I assume the module contains a Qualcomm chip. It would need to connet to 4 antennas I presume!

yeah 4 antennas. can get them cheap on aliexpress. qualcomm chip.

In reply to a post by wifigeek:

yeah 4 antennas. can get them cheap on aliexpress. qualcomm chip.

It won't hurt, but may not provide any improvement in speed. Some upgraded masts have 4T4R (4 transmit, 4 receive) and this helps all handsets.

In reply to a post by wifigeek:

after being stuck in a newbuild dead-spot with no hopes of FTTP and a FTTPoD quote of 13k install (ouch) I decided to do some investigation on DIY high-speed-internet.

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Might help someone else get high-speed internet in the sticks. Total cost is < £100/pm including the VPS.

I’ve been reading through your post a couple of times and also looked at the openmptcrouter (OMR) website and can’t quite work out how this is set up. The OMR documentation on the website is very lacking and the only YouTube videos I can find are all in French.

From my interpretation on the OMR website, the devices (PC/Phone etc.) connect to the OMR first (I assume installed on something like a Raspberry Pi), which in turn have the VDSL/4g modems connected to it and the modems then connect to the VPS via ports.

However from your description, it sounds like you have Modems connected to a standard wifi router first and have the OMR software installed on the VPS machine and not on physical hardware (Raspberry Pi?) at your home and presumably connected the modems & OMR via ports?

Which way is correct, assuming my interpretation of both is correct or am I completely getting it wrong?

>I’ve been reading through your post a couple of times and also looked at the openmptcrouter >>(OMR) website and can’t quite work out how this is set up. The OMR documentation on the >website is very lacking and the only YouTube videos I can find are all in French.

it's reasonably complicated. will do my best to answer.

>From my interpretation on the OMR website, the devices (PC/Phone etc.) connect to the OMR >first (I assume installed on something like a Raspberry Pi), which in turn have the VDSL/4g >modems connected to it and the modems then connect to the VPS via ports.

Yes. so the basic setup is something like this -

laptop -> wireless access point -> OMR -> (3 WANs - in this case three routers). OMR uses "shadowsocks" and a tunnel which it creates itself to your VPS - there is a VPS setup script you need to run on the VPS.

once you have a device running OMR, you just configure the wan ports on it to each of your internet connections. it will ask you for the IP of the VPS server, you download a script on the VPS server to install the OMR configuration - it needs to be debian10.

>However from your description, it sounds like you have Modems connected to a standard wifi >router first and have the OMR software installed on the VPS machine and not on physical >hardware (Raspberry Pi?) at your home and presumably connected the modems & OMR via ports?

what I have is quite complicated because I had no spare hardware to run OMR on. OMR can run anywhere, it just needs to be the gateway that all your machines are using. OMR needs to run locally (e.g. on a PI) as well as the OMR script on the VPS. OMR needs to be your pc's default gateway.

i.e. everything => OMR => Internet

>Which way is correct, assuming my interpretation of both is correct or am I completely getting >it wrong?

neither is technically wrong, you can do a 'router-on-a-stick' (which is what im currently doing - my wan devices are all plugged into the same switch with DHCP disabled on them - DHCP is only enabled on OMR) but separating everything out is certainly easier to understand.

the only bit that actually matters if all cabled together via a switch is 1) you only have one dhcp server on your network (which is omr) and 2) your devices using the internet all use omr as their gateway.

e.g. if using 2 random wan devices -

AP -> Switch - (192.168.0.0/24 - bridged to LAN)
OMR -> Switch (192.168.0.1/24 - LAN, 192.168.1.2/24 - WAN1 - Gateway 192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.2/24 - WAN2 - Gateway 192.186.1.1)

WAN1 -> Switch (192.168.1.1/24 - DHCP Disabled or vlan)
WAN2 -> Switch (192.168.2.1/24 - DHCP Disabled or vlan)

OMR will let you create multiple interfaces on the same physical interface to do 'router-on-a-stick'.

Edited by deleted (Tue 09-Jun-20 23:57:58)

Thank you for your reply.

That description does help a lot, it sort of confirms my thoughts of how the physical hardware set up works.

I shall attempt to try and get this to work now I have a basic idea of the setup, although I it could be beyond my knowledge levels but that's part of the fun trying.

half the fun is 'because I can' feel free to pm me or post here if you need help.

Hi
I am looking to move to a rural location with limited adsl/vdsl so am looking at doing something similar.

How are you getting on with this now? Has it been reliable over the last few months and have you made any upgrades?

Thanks

just curious which VPS service are you using?

did you actually have a conversation with the reset of your new build residents to see if there was something to do collectivelty - FOD in a new build estate is the worst answe to the worst question ever