Wireless Joint

Generally the SIMCOM modems haven't gained traction here, but I'd have to guess as to why. Likely lack of support. Give it a go, let us all know your journey with one.

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/sys/class/net/wwan0/cdc_ncm/tx_timer_usecs -->edit--> change from 400 to 0 when in MBIM mode will drop ping to less than half.
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But if you open /usr/lib/rooter/connect/create_connect.sh and navigate to about line 770 you'll see a line:

# MBIM connect script
About 15 lines ...

@dairyman

I got 2.4GHz and 5GHz working on the WG1608/WG3526 running the OpenWRT 19.07 Snapshot with the help of LGA1150 on the OpenWRT forum. I installed the snapshot over the top of the WG1608-GO2020-06-14 firmware, but that wiped out the Modem section in the GUI. What was needed was to use the ...

1. Purpose for tethering a phone to a router via USB or WiFi

The purpose for tethering a phone to a router via USB or WiFi, is to be able to use the phone's unlimited mobile data just like having an external cable/DSL/LTE modem connected to a router, with data speeds equal to the phone's mobile ...

The fact that it shows in debug tells me the router just isn't giving it the ports needed to act appropriately. I have noticed on the whirlpool forums that the rooter firmware base has had a history of recognition issues with the EP/EM06 modems. All fixed with port setup commands.

I was able to ...

The write up has some pics of the gear.

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spac ... tic-router

The one pic of the speed test showed 174 down and 33 Mbps UP!
I am amazed that they can get so much upload performance.
Also curious about how snow and rain will sit inside the sat dish.

what was your original bandwidth vs with the VPN on?


I just tried speedtest.net several times with and without the VPN and it's hard to notice any difference. I said 75% above but it's better than that. I usually get between 20 and 40 Mbps. I'm in Houston using T-Mobile with a Magenta Unlimited ...

Solution include the use of VPN's or just a secure DNS (DNSSEC) such as DNSCrypt (https://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/)


Dnscrypt might have solved my problems. Been having to reboot multiple times per day for the last couple of weeks, but after installing this in rooter last ...

As some of you may know, or have recently found out, the newest Quectel modems (EM160, EM120, RM500, RM510, RM502) do NOT use all of the same AT commands as the predecessor modems.

Here are a list of a few new commands and what they should do, and a list of commands that I've found not working ...

It's a Christmas miracle, thank you Bill!!!

The RM500Q-AE is what you want for 5G imo. Its the NSA version I've recently been told by user BillA. I would wait for the Quectel EM160. Its cat 16 4G with 4x4 MIMO.


If you just want a cheap LTE modem that does the job, then look at teh Quectel EP06, or some SIMCOM equivilents.

uhmm i had cricket and their apn is ndo not broadband hence why u got band

You could set the TTL for the USB via the router. I believe this is how its done to avoid the hotspot usage via tether. Mr BillA is the expert there I believe.

There is a command in there that allows you to define your top 3 bands you prefer. I've not seen how well it works though. I'd have to dig. Its under the QENG command set I think, but it may be under NWPREFCFG commands.

All, just in case anyone has same question, I recieved some help from BillA on this forum and he advised to do the following:

On the router go to Network > Interfaces > LAN > EDIT > Common Configuration > General Setup > IPv6 assignment length > select "disabled", then click Apply & Save. Restart ...

The only way to get it to stop doing the IPV6 version is to leave the Modem Connection Profile APN setting blank. Then set the APN manually with AT+CGDCONT command. It should persist once set. Keep the MBNCONFIG AutoSel turned off.

TTL is set in the firewall rules, this is mine for ATT:


# A ...

So you have an LB1120 modem connected directly to TP-Link router, with nothing else in between or after?
Which firmware are you running on the TP-Link (GoldenOrb or OpenWRT)?


Yes the Netgear LBll20 is a LTE only modem no WiFi. Very simple Category 4 modem. Added a apn to it to to be just IPV4 ...

Pretty much got my issue solved. I always run he latest firmware for router and modem.

Once I replaced my power supply with a good 5 amp switching version, the issue seemed to disappear. While I was at it, drove a 12 ft grounding rod just outside and grounded all equipment to it. Have updated ...

Should be the same cables.





To rant a little (A lot) about the cables you refer to. They do in fact take from away The Wireless Haven and all US based small, and even large, businesses.

Here is how: In many cases, including with Antrader, these are the Chinese manufacturers direct way to sell ...

I doubt these were made for $0.10 even if in China. Besides that, the most frustrating thing about buying from an independent website is shipping. So many of these smaller websites think that it is now acceptable to ship something 2-3 days after the order took place. There was a time when they ...

Honestly right now not sure if it is ipv6 issue or just a rooter/openwrt issue?
If it makes it thru the work and school day tomorrow will set ipv6 back on this simple setup. Then if it still works than might be a rooter/openwrt issue.
Just monitoring it to figure it out. There is another line of ...

Obviously there are some hardware/software differences between those routers, but you should be able to tweak it to make it work. If you're using any kind of router behind a mobile router, you would want to set the mobile router into bypass mode so it doesn't do any routing/firewall functions, and ...

Ideally you would want to keep the mobile router in full router/DHCP mode with WiFi turned off in order to handle various routing and carrier bypass functions properly. The second router should only act as a dummy access point with routing/DHCP functions turned off and possibly in DMZ mode.
It may ...

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As far as cost goes, plenty of folks have spent more than $538 for their LTE rigs in remote areas that require antennae on top of whatever modem and other equipment they are using. I've spent almost $1000 over the last 4 years jacking with LTE internet. I think Starlink may be a bargain for ...

I'm posting my ROOTer firmware with a working 2.4g & 5g WIFI. I went outside my house about 100ft from the room the router was located and was able to connect to the 5G WIFI. MWAN3 needs to be configured to show information on the overview webpage. I did not test to see if the MWAN works. I did test ...

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While I haven't tried setting the modem into ECM mode, it might be worth a try.
ECM mode is supposed to auto-reconnect whenever the link goes down, just be ready to reflash the modem in case you lose complete control.

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I usually have had success going in via putty and running AT ...

You may try to block the sides and back of the 4x4 MIMO antenna with some kind of grounded metal shielding. The other cell towers could be causing your issues, called cross-talk. When there are multiple cell towers nearby with the same bands on them overlapping their broadcasting it creates ...

Place this text in the Custom Rules tab of the Network->Firewall menu screen.


# This file is interpreted as shell script.
# Put your custom iptables rules here, they will
# be executed with each firewall (re-)start.

# Internal uci firewall chains are flushed and recreated on reload, so
# put ...

Bandlocking is done via AT commands:

I copied this from a previous past and stored it as I use it on my EP06-A but I believe the commands are the same for all quectel based modems:

Enter the following AT commands, and write down your original band values before changing anything.

AT+QNWINFO ...

The latest builds of rooter and WiFiX have Wireguard built into the firmware.

I will have to test the WireGuard built into the latest GoldenOrb, however that still doesn't solve the lack of your WiFi 5G. And the GL-AR750S will probably give you a little better performance too.


True although I changed my mind several times and finally decided to go with the WG3526-P and ...

It makes me wonder if these devices are creating some sort of tunnel or using unknown custom DNS settings.


I too believe it may be DNS related. All of my amazon devices 'phone home' in some way, shape or form and use their own DNS settings. This can be quite the pain so I wouldn't be surprised ...

I updated the builds to the latest OpenWRT release candidate with some additional packages like modemmanager and USB/filesystem support needed for mounting external storage(required for modem firmware updates since modem firmware is too big to fit into ram/flash).

ModemManager's OpenWRT integration ...

If you haven't seen it yet, AgentTekk released a new InvisaGig update video.
Great work as usual! Make sure to give him a follow and like!

For those who only needs sierrakeygen.py to generate unlock code for your Netgear devices, here is light version of sierrakeygen.py, renamed as sierrakeygen-mobile.py, which you just need Python installed on your platform and run this Python script directly. No more installation/setup is required ...

Sierrakeygen HOW-TO on Windows
1. Original information from https://github.com/bkerler/edl
2. Install git from https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.37.1.windows.1/Git-2.37.1-64-bit.exe
3. Install Python from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.5/python-3.10.5-amd64.exe ...

Good advice BillA . I've not flashed the em12 before since it's been problem free. I will see if I can do it with qfirehose and/or try to find m2 sled I bought years back.

Unfortunately I don't have any other router besides the 1608 nor do I have another module. Looks like most options of buying ...

In case anyone else ends up at this thread, I was facing what I think is the same issue. I was trying to get expresspvn working in client mode on:

Hostname WiFiX
Model WE1326v5
Architecture MediaTek MT7621 ver:1 eco:3
Firmware Version GoldenOrb_2019-04-09
Kernel Version 4.14.63

I was able to use ...

I know this is an older thread but I'm having similar issues with 520n-gl +wg1608 wifi disabled, Ethernet to Asus RT-AX88U Merlin ATT post paid. I'm not convinced it's an issue exclusive to T-Mobile.

If I do a persistent ping test, (I think it was on ping-test.net) network test with GeForce NOW ...

Ah, that did it! Thanks for that.

And a big thank you to HKM2030.

Understood. You want to self build, support, and warrant. Pretty much what the cost of the InvisaGig is.

They have rj45 modem sleds on alibaba that you drop your own 5G modem into, or buy theirs, and use AT commands or opensource code to give it a web interface for sending at commands.

https://youtu.be/PGs0w5MoIDs?si=JmU1C80-R5urFiZ3
Accordingly software offfloading will increase throughput significantly. Bonus is hardware offloading is also supported by wg1608 with the mt7621 hardware.

From the experiment he is limited to 250Mbps without software offloading.

Im using openwrt ...

BillA wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 1:11 am Great news!! GoldenOrb firmware is now available for the WG1608
https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/upload/

There's a newer version with improved Fibocom FM150 support available for testing:

http://ofmodemsandmen.com/upload/WG1608-GO2020-06-10.zip

Hello I'm new here. I recently switched to t-mobile and now I have 2 extra unlimited data sim cards because of the plan I got. So I got the bright idea to put one in a hotspot, so I bought a netgear m6 pro mr6550-pas. After the fact I learned I either need a hotspot data sim OR from what I've read ...

well i found what i was looking for - but i sitll want to know about the firmware.
you can turn off 5g on these using DX - works immideately - set to 0 to turn it back on

dx -c wwan.5gDisableMode 1

DISABLE FIRMWARE OTA UPDATES:
Run the following commands in a telnet session 192.168.1.1 port 23 one by one:

dx -c fota.WUAutoCheck 0

dx -c fota.WUAutoDownload 0

dx -c fota.WUAutoUpdate 0

Update: Seems like the issue is resolved. Here is what I did:
1) Asked on quectel forums for the latest firmware and got a circa 2023 one EM12GPAR01A21M4G_01.203.01.203.zip (newer than the ones on that github page I think)
2) used QFirehose to flash the em12 while it was installed in my wg1608. I ...

If I may ask, where did you get the QFirehose flasher for the EM12G?

Yessir it comes already bundled/installed with rooter and I used the fw that quectel emailed me. I then I used this method with a usb drive and putty to execute QFirehose command on my 1608 16mb variant.

modemsandmen .pdf ...

https://speedtest.net is the old goto for general speeds

https://fast.com to check streaming tv/video throttling

FCC's on phone app for throttle checks as well (only on phones)

Others:
https://speed.cloudflare.com/

https://www.bing.com/widget/t/speedtest

https://testmy.net/

https ...

Yeah, the EM919X modems can be a little finicky at times.

I would just use putty (without using the script) to access the modem and run the following commands:

AT!ENTERCND="A710";!IMAGE=0,0;!IMAGE=0,1;!IMAGE=0;!NVRESTORE=0

then, using the command below, substituting the 12,34,..... with your ...

Looking for the correct command to disable LTE for troubleshooting. Thanxs


if it has a qualcomm cpu (I think it does x55) just use offline-D mode
you can get to it by sending the dm command 290100
you may need to send the spc first if it does not respond send the spc like this 41 30 30 30 30 30 ...

wow I really mis cdmaws, I used it more than any other tool, my background is in cdma.
im going to send you a pm about something.

BillA wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:59 pm
Do you need to send the authorization before those commands, or this will only restore the original imei?

The authorization is included the first AT command. It joins 5 different AT commands into one.

How exactly do you have it installed? If its anywhere close to a wall (behind it) and if there is limited clearing in front, this may be your issue. Also, if you are running the cables, and installing the antenna itself, anywhere near A/C electrical wires of any time or near a transformer, air fan ...

I was just referencing that 4PDA post, showing both the hardware mod and AT commands.
Maybe newer firmware versions need the hardware mod, but I haven't tested it myself.


I'm just adding to the post since I've done the mod :) I've tested it on both the 1.0.0.X fw. You really only need it if pin ...

Reading the translated 4PDA thread, not sure if this is the right method... correct me if I'm wrong.
https://4pda-to.translate.goog/forum/index.php?showtopic=994474&st=47960&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&#entry129097775


That's right, on the front side of the module there are odd pins from right to ...

Hey hazarjast. Any chance you can email me too? Maybe a PM? I am in through com part (putty) and need the same kind of help. Persistent flash keeps on restoring custom data. Was able to change basic variables (said and wifi password) but cannot change the root pass. If you can help please kindly ...

So many people talking about VPNs these days but they are so easy to detect by websites and services. Thats why I wanted to talk about mobile proxies.

What is a VPN?
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) are like online disguises. They hide your location (IP address) and keep your internet stuff secret ...

Best explanation I've seen: https://www.maroonmed.com/ttl-modificat ... firewall4/

Updates will be made on this gist: https://gist.github.com/carlosalaniz/a0324c615a104c5d3016d5bbf78141c8

M6 6500 / M6 6550 (US)
The goal of this document is to make it easy for everyone to unlock their M6 Hotspot routers. I purchased a refurbished M6 router with a version that did not allow to ...

telnet is already enabled on this model and this platform with no need to do anything to enable it
Port 5510 is open on it, whatever you used to scan ports was wrong and misread the ports, there are several other ports
open on this device and firmware then what you listed, perhaps its time for you ...

*** TFTP flashing ***
worked
thanks for the guide

any recommanded of compatible uart jtag tool
from aliexpress exemple...


It's not just the JTAG interface that's needed, but the proper loaders specific to each device.
Simply having a hammer, you can built a house without all the constructions materials. heh


I'm not too knowledgeable ...

It may just be a janky SIM card. I know you got it working in other devices, but it might just be a tad off. Order a new SIM for that line and try again.

Shoot us a screenshot of the error you are seeing, as well.

Since we are still working on the 5Ghz wireless support for the new MT7633-based chipset, I am uploading the latest factory firmware for their WG1608 "True 5G" wifi Gigabit router.

It was last updated in late June, and is the currently shipping firmware in the routers direct from Shenzhen Zhibotong ...

I usually revert to using the usb ttyl / UART serial pins to see what's happening in the bootup phase. You will want to use the 16M firmware images, very unlikely you have a 32M version, and even then the 16M version will work.

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@ BillA
1000, That's good speed right there, yes its tmobile in the vid, these FG's are horribly throttled even when unlocked, by that I mean speeds like 50mb down.
so seeing them now after de-throttle at 600 or so is good, my iphone gets about 650 here on tmobile which is pretty good because I am ...

Attached is the latest firmware for the RM502QA from Quectel. To use it with Orbi, you'll need SSH access and the WinSCP tool.

From my experience, the Quectel firmware offers better 5G stability compared to the OEM firmware it shipped with. However, performance may vary based on your environment ...

I've never seen this. Either the card already has an inherent issue, or you are issuing a command to reboot it? OR your router has a watchdog feature that is rebooting the modem in an attempt to get online. You'll need to disable that annoying bit of software.