The holiday season is upon us! Whether you’re ready or not, you may want to consider placing your orders sooner than later. Chip shortages continue to plague companies and shipments from overseas are still getting delayed. Currently available stock gradually lowers with each day and in some cases, it’s difficult to determine when more stock […]
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Adding Firewall Rules to Secure Your Peplink
Firewalls establish a security barrier between your devices and the Internet by using rules to allow or deny access in and out of your network. In the case of our Peplink routers, the firewall configuration may differ from other routers, but the result is always the same. You may want your network locked down from […]
5G C-Band Updates: Limiting Service
Continuing reports on the 5G C-Band service from AT&T and Verizon, new information comes about the agreement each made with the FAA. The agreement is to limit transmissions over the spectrum, rather than prolonging the delay of its use altogether. The carriers will also abide by even more limitations near regional airports. This agreement seems […]
An Update on Dish Network’s 5G Rollout
Stepping up to the 5G game is Dish Network, who back in May reported they had plans to make their 5G network the end all, be all, of networks. Later, they also vowed to cover at least 10k sites with their 5G coverage by the end of 2022. Dish’s big play here is to utilize […]
AT&T and Verizon agree to Limit 5G C-Band Spectrum for 6 Months due to FAA Concerns
For the past few weeks, we’ve reported about the delay on Verizon and AT&T’s rollout of 5G service on the C-band spectrum. Originally planned for only 1 month, the delay is due to concerns about interference with aircraft sensors. While the FAA still investigates this, there have yet to be any reports of incidents with […]
Verizon’s CFO Discusses Progress with C-Band & Fixed Wireless
At the beginning of November, we reported about the stop AT&T and Verizon had to put on rolling out their respective 5G C-band services due to FAA regulations. As the FAA continues to work with the FCC on this, Verizon’s CFO Matt Ellis is confident that the delay won’t linger more than 30 days. Ellis, […]
T-Mobile Certifies the Sierra Wireless XR Series Routers on the 5G Network
Sierra Wireless, a world leading IoT solutions provider, announced today that its AirLink® XR Series cellular routers architected for 5G performance, are certified to operate on T-Mobile’s 5G network – the largest, fastest and most reliable in the United States. This includes the models XR80 and XR90. The supercharged AirLink XR90 is purpose-built for public […]
T-Mobile Reaches Goal of 5G Coverage for 200M Americans
T-Mobile has reached one of its goals for the end of this year – to provide its “Ultra Capacity” 5G network to more than 200 million Americans. This is the network they’ve built out on the midband 2.5GHz spectrum – something repurposed from the Sprint network. In comparison to 4G LTE, the bandwidth speeds are […]
5G Stats from RootMetrics Favors T-Mobile
As T-Mobile’s lead in the 5G race soars – both in speeds and reliability – AT&T and Verizon’s positions are too close to call at this time. This is according to newly released data from RootMetrics (refer to the November Scorecard). Tests were completed in about 60 cities, out of a total 125 they will […]
Verizon and Amazon Team Up to Deliver High Speed Data Services to the U.S.
Providing high speed Internet to everyone in the U.S. has seemed to be a nationwide goal for decades. Until recently, that goal hasn’t been anywhere near achieved. Much like the current space race, Amazon is battling Elon Musk’s satellite project with their project Kuiper to make this goal a reality. Project Kuiper is what runs […]