Enchancing your Globe Wimax antenna gain with an old satellite dish

I have been plagued with a very poor signal strength due to bad location or area from my house. With the standard aerial antenna that comes with my Globe Wimax. I have decided to try using an old satellite tv dish lying around and put it to good use. Everything is in temporary mounting for this little experiment. You will notice rust and dirt on my dish and antenna receiver, as I have mounted this around 7:00 pm with a little rainshower.

Check out more photos after the break.

Globe Wimax doesn't allow port forwarding

This is Teamviewer 6 on a Debian Linux

Have you been a Globe Wimax subscriber and realized, why can't I forward a port? You need to forward your port if you have an IP Camera in your network and wish to view it from the internet, browse and transfer files from your NAS (Networked Attached Storage), or Host your own website from your computer, or you want to host a game server for your friends to logon to.

Have you ever wondered what's the new Globe Wimax BM622i user password is?

BM622i

New BM622i modems being issued and released by Globe has new user passwords. To date, there is no known exploit to hack the admin user for this new set of modems that I am aware of. If your BM622 modem is not a patched firmware, unlocking its admin settings still works as I have posted here before. Now a new generation of modems such as BM622i has new passwords to begin with, the old user-user combo trick doesn't work anymore.

So have you ever wondered what's the password? 


Read more and I'll tell you what.

Why Globe Customer Service Sucks?

First BM622i

The Shaman have been a Globe Wimax subscriber for more than a year. I made several Globe Wimax Experience Reviews a year ago here, here and here. I have two active accounts, mine and my sister's. Three weeks ago, we reported about the drastic slowdown of bandwidth giving us a pathetic 10-100kbps on my sister's account that we are paying for 1 mbps.

From our experience. Subscribers call on the hotline at 211 to report technical and customer service issues. Customer Service Representatives then files a report where a Job Number will be generated and passed on to Sub-Contractor On-Site Technicians that visits your service address to fix whatever there is to fix.

Globe Wimax plus One year of Service equals HP Officejet J3608 All-in-one

Globe Telecoms/Innove with their Globe Wimax offered us a Free HP Printer/Fax (Officejet All-in-one J3608) for being a subscriber for one year. Yes, It's been a year since my Globe Wimax Review here, here and here. They sent it thru courier after receiving a call from them regarding our One/First Year with the internet service.

The catch? Stay with them for a couple of years, two years to be exact. We have nothing against the service tho, except from the annoying customer service representatives. So we decided to stay, what the heck its FREE and we needed a new printer anyway.

The unboxing experience and test print up next.

How to unlock Echolife Bm622 Wimax Modem's Admin Settings

The shaman wants to share a procedure to unlock your Echolife BM622 CPE Wimax modem's Admin Settings. This is for Globe Wimax Modems so you can see additional settings, be advised not to play with your configuration if you don't know what you are doing. It may make things worst, for those of you that doesn't receive your subscribed speed, i.e people who subscribed for the 1 mbps plan and receiving half or around 500kbps, your are bandwidth capped from Globe's datanet server. The modem has nothing to do with it. You will need to call customer service to update your account.

To unlock your Modem, open up a web-browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Oracle, Safari, Iceweasel, etc) and go to url "http://192.168.1.1" and login with this credentials, username: user and password: user.

Globe Wimax Review Final Take

I have been newly subscribed with Globe Wimax, so I can give my take with this 4G infrastructure Globe is boasting about consistent and stable broadband wireless internet. What I notice about this is that, when you first subscribed the installers will bring the blender (Globe Wimax Modem), and an aerial antenna. When you subscribed for 1mbps, you will only get 512 kbps bandwidth. The technician/installers said it will take a few days to get your blender MAC address configured on the datanet server so it will give you your subscribed speed. You can speed it up by making a call to support but one call is not enough, However the representatives is not very helpful and delude you that the problem is with the subscriber setup, like computer hardware, antenna, everything that they can think of to get you to stop whining.

Globe Wimax Review Second Look

I made a review on globe wimax recently, check it here. I was doing my usual task, and decided to test my bandwidth, out of the blue and noticed an improvement.

The thing is, my house is under renovation, that needed me to relocate my stuff. So I setup my globe wimax modem outside the house in our nipa hut at the backyard, grabbed my antenna from the roof and just put the antenna pole on the side of the nipa hut roof with no strings attached. It is a temporary location. I have less signal in this location but higher link quality signal, two bars on the blender (globe wimax modem).
Signal strength at 49%, Link Quality(CINR Reuse1) at 19% and Link Quality(CINR Reuse3) at 29%




Got this bandwidth. Hooray! Finally after three weeks of constant calls to customer support. It finally got what i subscribed for.

Better than having this from my previous speedtest.

Globe wimax speedtest

Here is a video of another speedtest using Globe Wimax using wi-tribe speed test tool and speedtest.net using Globe Mandaluyong server.

Another unhappy day of fast internet by Globe wimax technology.

Globe Wimax Review

Recently subscribed to Globe Wimax to get 4G technology. I have availed the 1 mbps package for 995 pesos.

What I can say is that, the signal is consistent. There are very few bumps I encounter, intermittent disconnection.  My signal strength is around 80-90% seems good so far.
Now with the juicy part of reviews when it comes to internet service providers, the speed test.