Hope the mods do not remove this post as this would surely solve your issues.
1) you can buy a MOFI router + Pantech 295 combo for $149.99 on Amazon and if you have prime, get free 2 days shipping.
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3) after that is done, log into router and set the Pantech 295 to LTE only mode. You will see a gui for the Pantech 295 as it will auto detect that stick and provide the option to set to LTE only.
With this mode, it would never drop to 3G and since your signal is good, there is no reason to do it as it will never go away
Note that with the stick alone, the option to set to LTE only is not available so this features is right now exclusive only to the MOFI router.
4) log into router and active the bandwidth monitoring.
This is located in parental control then bandwidth monitoring.
Check to active and set a reset date were your billing date reset so you can monitor exactly all your usage.
With this bandwidth monitoring, it will track and show the usage of all pc, tablets, phones or anything connect to the router so you will see exactly where the data is going to.
If you see a pc using up too much data, then you probably should check it for spyware or virus.
With this set up, first, you will not drop to 3G anymore.
second, you will be able to see all usage as this features is really nice for anyone who is worried about spyware.
I got on a few months ago and was able to find out that one of my kids Android was using over 20GB a day so we clean it and solved the issue.
Without this features, it is very hard to track where the data is coming from.
Since this is from Amazon, if you do not like it, you can return it very easy.
The Pantech 295 uses a micro sim.
If for some reason you have a regular sim, it is very easy to cut it to make it a micro to fit.
Let us know how this goes.