Hi, My Nighthawk M1 (EE UK, not US) is currently connecting to a mast with 5 bars of signal on 4g, and gets 10mb/s speeds. There is an other local mast with 3 bars of signal on 4g+, and can get up to 130mb/s speeds. Is there any way to force the nighthawk onto the faster mast? Or use the carrier aggregation to connect to both? Thanks in advance.

From what I can figure out the AT command adds to the band region drop down menu. So AT!BAND=03,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000080000 Adds the word lte b20 at drop down position 3 I then made a string for the the other bands AT!BAND=04,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000000004 I had to use a proper code editor as my text editor adding control character. Let me know how you get on. 1) Connect M1 via USB and switch off WiFi in your PC so that there is no IP conflicts 2) Using PUTTY or any Telnet utility, Telnet 192.168.1.1 Port: 5510 3) Issue the following AT commands(you can copy and paste them, one at a time) AT!BAND=03,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000080000 AT!RESET Once the device resumes, go to GUI/App -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Cellular -> in the Band Region drop down you will now have one additional option called "LTE B20 ONLY" Select that option to force to B20 only.

You could try with directional antenna. Inter-site CA is not yet possible.

Is there anyway to select which band to prefer then? Currently I'm on band 3 but band 7 is faster on the other mast. I'm on setting 02 which is LTE only, but I know in previous Air Cards you can adjust through the AT settings to add more choices.

Band locking can be useful in some situations and Netgear knows this. I see UE band locking features as a tool for handling special situations. MR1100 webgui does not have this kind of feature at the moment. Let's hope that developers add this feature to future firmware release. Automatic band selection does not always bring best actual performance and that is a real problem. Anyone who has done a lot of fieldtesting knows about this.

Yeah I wish you were able to do it in the gui. I know you can do it once you have got past the "AT!ENTERCND" menu through telnet port 5510, but without the correct password that is as far as I can get unfortunately.

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23 Replies

TeeJay74
Virtuoso
Jan 24, 2018
You could try with directional antenna. Inter-site CA is not yet possible.
- Srennie837
  Tutor
  Jan 25, 2018
  Is there anyway to select which band to prefer then? Currently I'm on band 3 but band 7 is faster on the other mast. I'm on setting 02 which is LTE only, but I know in previous Air Cards you can adjust through the AT settings to add more choices.
  - TeeJay74
    Virtuoso
    Jan 26, 2018
    Band locking can be useful in some situations and Netgear knows this. I see UE band locking features as a tool for handling special situations. MR1100 webgui does not have this kind of feature at the moment. Let's hope that developers add this feature to future firmware release. Automatic band selection does not always bring best actual performance and that is a real problem. Anyone who has done a lot of fieldtesting knows about this.
Tweakster
Tutor
Aug 16, 2018
Srennie837

I sussed how to do the band steering, did you still need it?
- Srennie837
  Tutor
  Aug 16, 2018
  Yes please. How did you do it?
  - JSchnee21
    Virtuoso
    Aug 22, 2018
    +1
- Joyfuldad
  Aspirant
  Oct 09, 2018
  How did you accomplish the band steering ?
- TCsBack
  Initiate
  Apr 07, 2019
  How did you work out band steering?
  - Tweakster
    Tutor
    Apr 08, 2019
    From what I can figure out the AT command adds to the band region drop down menu.
    
    So AT!BAND=03,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000080000
    
    Adds the word lte b20 at drop down position 3
    
    I then made a string for the the other bands
    
    AT!BAND=04,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000000004
    
    I had to use a proper code editor as my text editor adding control character.
    
    Let me know how you get on.
    
    1) Connect M1 via USB and switch off WiFi in your PC so that there is no IP conflicts
    
    2) Using PUTTY or any Telnet utility, Telnet 192.168.1.1 Port: 5510
    
    3) Issue the following AT commands(you can copy and paste them, one at a time)
    
    AT!BAND=03,"LTE B20 ONLY",0000000000000000,0000000000080000
    
    AT!RESET
    
    Once the device resumes, go to GUI/App -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Cellular -> in the Band Region drop down you will now have one additional option called "LTE B20 ONLY"
    
    Select that option to force to B20 only.

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