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T-Mobile post pay phone sim works great.
Hear at&t post pay tablet plan works.
Hear prepay Verizon phone sim works.
If you don't t mind high ping visible works.
Why pay over $100 per month to these resellers?

Great work. Another option if you don't want to be dependent on external DNS to keep the firmware from being updated is to add an entry for devcom.up.netgear.com to /etc/hosts. I confirmed that gives me back a "Service unreachable" when I attempt to update.

echo "127.0.0.1 devcom.up.netgear.com ...

Excellent point, I modified my original post.

Let us continue directly with me. It would be more correct I think? ;-)

Just found this forum and this thread after reading @hazarjast e-mail re: LTEHACK forum. Thanks for him for his good words.

Thank you @shinesmart as well for your attempts of testing. Let us a bit clarify.

First, ssh access ...

Hmm, wouldn't that command be the one for factory reset of NRAM (counterproductive to what we are trying to accomplish)? I am working off the below for reference since "QPRTPARA" is not documented externally:

https://forums.quectel.com/t/bg96-difference-between-at-qprtpara-3-and-at-qcfg ...

Here you go. Doesn't have all the AT commands but i believe There's a command in there that will show you all available commands.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPl ... p=drivesdk

yes !!!!!! thank you soooooo much : ) ...... i had been working soooo hard at trying to fix this you have no idea i was literally up until midnight the other night trying i even wrote down my username as my email lol this was so exhausting but thank you so much for the step by step guide this is ...

I just installed Voxel and it is working great except for dnscrypt, which only works over wifi after the LBR is fully booted and I restart the dnscrypt service. It seems dnscrypt may be starting too early in the boot process (before all of the interfaces are up).

Has anyone else encountered this ...

Here is a roundup of the providers/data plans I’ve tested on the LBR20 during the past 3 months:

By Price:
1. $15 Verizon Tablet Plan: Magic & TTL
2. $15 MetroByTMobile Tablet Plan: Magic & TTL
3. $20 AT&T Tablet Plan: Magic only
4. $25 Visible Plan: Magic & TTL

By Performance (Upload:Download):
1 ...

You could go back to page 1 and read everything up to this point (many many times as I did lol ) :D :D :D
Please don't take this the wrong way. Not meaning it to be an A**hole or anything but that's what the I think the majority of us has probably done lol! I've read over the whole thread no less ...

root@LBR20:~# cat /mnt/circle/overlay/opt/scripts/firewall*
# IPv4 TTL mod
iptables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64 > /dev/null 2>&1 || \ip tables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING 1 -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64

ip6tables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j HL --hl-set 64 > /dev ...

VOXEL FIRMWARE
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Is there any sort of cron with voxel? (NM - found cron - will see if I can get it to stick)
Will it try and auto-update the firmware if I don't use any sort of DNS block?

One thing I thought would be neat - though outside of my ability - would be being able to send ...

I forked a keep-alive script for the Orbi and added it to my cron. Working good so far.
(sorry took this post down ealier cause i ran into some issues)

Will reboot router on failure.

https://github.com/HiDef888/openwrt-lte-keep-alive

Easy to install, just run script in /mnt/circle/overlay/opt ...

I’ve put together this guide to help anyone wishing to Cell Lock to a specific cell. Please use at your own risk and know the pros and cons of cell locking before jumping in. 🤓

Netgear Orbi LBR20 Cell Locking
Author: shinesmart

Login using PuTTy:
192.168.1.1
UN: root
PW: your admin password

To ...

Here are some additional useful commands:

To disable Cell Lock:
echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

To query Cell Lock status:
echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\"\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

You can also lock multiple cells using the ...

Nice……It’s great that everyone keeps adding more cool stuff to do with the LBR20.

FYI: Added the code boxes…..good point!

@hazarjast tagging works now too.

Thanks I should be able to get it installed with your instructions. Thanks again!

Noticed that when you changed the LAN interface IP in LuCi you waited the full 90 seconds for it to timeout and then apply unchecked. Instead of doing this, the drop-down box next to the Save and Apply button has an Apply Unchecked button .

If you are more of a visual learner, a fellow LBR20 user has created a very nice overview video covering most of what is included in this guide (I would still recommend reading through this guide in its entirety for completeness and understanding):
https://youtu.be/Mnmby6HLViA




Updated with ...

If any one is interested, I recorded myself going through the 4 antenna mod. Now Ironically I stepped back a little because the cheapo antennas were not better than what came from the factory (shocking, I know). But I think it would be well paired with some quality antennas.

https://www.youtube ...

Just wanted to give a shout out and huge thanks to @hazarjast and @Voxel. Finally got cell locking down good instead of band locking and fixed the circle mod. I appreciate what you guys do

Thanks again

I am trying to follow the post below to set up a cron job to reboot the router twice a week.

An alternative to using the cron might be to call a script from /mnt/circle/overlay/etc/rc.local
that does something like sleep for 3 days, then reboot.
Similar to what I did a few posts above to update ...

Today I found a command to display information about primary and secondary serving cells. I think this gives current information about carrier aggregation.

echo -ne "AT+QNETINFO=\"servingcell\"\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

Command is described on p. 82 of the manual.

im trying to figure out how to band lock my lbr20 to BAND 2 can anyone help me figure out what i need to do to be able to do so?


Band locking method is in this tutorial that your posting in: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=12676#p12676

The modem is a Quectel EG18, and uses the same ...

I found a solution - the problem was edited command in Mac OS X notes/ replaced with " BusyBox v1.24.1 (2023-04-10 13:40:57 UTC) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands ...

Firmware recovery isn’t possible over SSH to my knowledge. Others have used the TFTP instructions successfully, if they are not working I would recommend going through the steps again carefully to ensure nothing was missed and/or trying a 30-30-30 reset (details on netgear support site and ...

I found a solution to the problem where the wifi doesn't go down on boot. It appears that the sleep command executes first and delays the wifi module from being started until after the sleep command has been executed. I found that by forking the wifi down script into the background solves this ...

For those who want to enable 5G SA with n41 enabled on boot, here is a method I found that worked.
Create a script file at: /opt/scripts/enable_5g_sa.sh and insert the following into it:


#!/bin/sh

echo -ne "at+qnwprefcfg=\"nr5g_disable_mode\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2
echo -ne ...

Has anyone been able to figure out how to run the wifi down script at launch? I have created the script with the right permissions and have it called to run from the rc.local file. I have tried calling it with the full path to the executable (/sbin/wifi) and without the full path. I know rc ...

@ jericsmith
I will answer your dm here, thanks for the info, I do not need anything else from it, it's not my kind of device I won't be getting one to fool with.
I did have a look at the firmware it has a Qualcomm,cpr3-ipq807x CPU, and the image is a double stacked ubi based on openwrt, not my kind ...

Just a heads up that after upgrading to newest Quectel firmware and disabling NSA (forcing SA) I'm getting 360+Mbps down, so doing better than my other WG1608/Quectel RM500Q-AE based routers at the moment. Thanks again to hazarjast for the compilation of info.

CA reporting:
+QCAINFO: "PCC",501390 ...

What processor/cpu is inside this model?
Specs on the web for are only showing clock speed but no specific cpu label


root@NBR750:/proc# cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 48.84
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt ...

Thank you gilbreen

my firmware version is RM502QAEAAR11A02M4G_01.003.01.003

is there a way to downgrade the modem version? I have seen in the web control access of the router a place to update it manually but I don't have the source file to do it


I don't believe there is a way to downgrade ...

Yes, folks have done this. It's officially supported and tested by Voxel in his firmware. If you are looking for support for a specific issue I would suggest posting over at the SnB forums: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-orbi-lbr20-v-9-2-5-2-37sf-hw-v-9-2-5-2-37 ...

FYI, some Ebay seller has 700+ of these brand-new for $190 on eBay right now. I just received mine today and it's brand new, shipped in a brown Netgear logo box with logo tape that's never been open. I suspect these are covid work from over overstock, and now they're at a great price!

Hope it helps ...

FYI, the flash has plenty of space so I upgraded modem firmware by sending the most recent file from Quectel over to /tmp via SCP and running QFirehose -f /tmp/firmwaredirectoryname

And yes, after you update the modem firmware to the most recent Quectel branch you will get notices from ...

Thank you for the detailed post.

For clarity, "The first I would suggest would be to set the IPPT MAC address of the PFSense WAN port manually" I assume means copy the IPPT MAC from the IG ui, then paste it into the "MAC Address" setting of the pfSense WAN interface configuration? (The subtext of ...

I've been having ongoing issues with my network, which seems to be related to the invisagig or the cell network. If you scroll to the last few posts in the following forum thread it appears that the modem is handing out DHCP leases when the modem loses it signal causing my LAN devices to lose ...

For the WAN interface the IG is connected to, you may also need to uncheck the option for blocking private networks since the 192.168.225.1 is in the RFC 1918 space.



Your post prompted me to read the RFC 1918/Private Network Addressing Wiki, which made me realize that the private address ...

Just letting you know that so far my network has been stable. Thank you for the help!

Sure. I'm going to give it a few days, at least through the weekend. Previously I've thought I'd solved it only to have the issue start back up a few days later. This time though, I'm a lot more optimistic.

IG gateway has been using 8.8.8.8 as monitoring IP. I have tried other DNS (like, 1.1.1.1 & 9.9.9.9) & disabled montoring also, but I honestly can't remember if that was before or after making the other changes you suggested. I just disabled monitoring & we'll see what happens.... crossing fingers.

OK. I haven't had any issues since disabling monitoring on the IG gateway but not ready to declare success just yet. Over on the netgate forums, they are thinking it may be a sporadic hardware failure in my router. Yesterday I left it running memtest for several hours, no errors. If it fails again ...

Side idea if general local to internet connectivity monitoring is wanted, you could setup a service like "Uptime KUMA" and make it monitor out to a website doing an https check with keyword lookup so that you aren't using icmp protocols, but are using a bit more involved/advanced check metric. and ...

As you suggested around Feb 28, I manually configured the IPPT that day. And, later, I did try changing the monitoring IP to ping the IG ip address. Just for clarity, I changed that IP from 192.168.225.1 to 192.168.5.1. I don't know if it matters, but when I set-up a static route or VIP, I am able ...

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 ...

An update: I had to go out of town, so I wrote a sh script in pfSense router to ping LAN IPs of several devices that should be online. If no response, reboot. If OK, then ping internet servers. If no reponse, cycle the WAN gateway on/off. The evening before I was leaving, the network went down, the ...

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 ...