Wireless Joint

In fact I tried to email you through this place before posting this.
OK I'll wait for the countdown to reach zero...

Thanks Didney.

OK, recovered thanks to the chinese bootloader that appears at port 80 when you power up with reset button pressed.
Phew.

So I got my WG1608 with a Quectel RM-500Q and flashed it with Goldenorb WG1608-GO2020-06-14.
The modem is correctly recognized, with IMEI and all, and so the SIM card, however the modem wouldn't connect and/or display any information about provider (Provider entry was just saying "Connecting..." . I ...

Just a follow up to my original question.
I confirm this modem requires that PCIE_DIS signal is connected to 1.8v and also the VBUS_SENSE needs to be high,
or it will not work in USB mode.

OTOH my unit has an outdated firmware and Sierra refuses to give me a more recent one. I am willing to pay a ...

Ok, so I got this EM9190 modem from aliexpress only to discover it defaults to PCIe mode and in order to have it switch to USB3 mode, a specific pin on the M.2 connector needs to be tied to a 1.8 volt signal.

What options do I have to make this modem visible by either ROOter or my windows machine ...

I posted there already, I guess the guy you're talking about it's me :-)
I really would need someone with vendor access to the sierra wireless source site.
Or, patiently wait for them to post a firmware there which may mean one year waiting or so.
I have this gem of a modem and can't use it. I guess ...

I shared above. You need to feed 1.8v to PCIE_DIS to enable USB, and 3v to VBUS_SENSE. If you don't it will be PCIE only.
This is clearly stated in the documentation. I did not do the modification myself because to solder such tiny terminals special equipment and skills are required, so I had a ...

I am happy to tell you that, although not documented, the EM160 supports EM20 way of locking PCC to a cell id (and therefore a tower) using at+qnwlock=\"common/4g\",1,EARFCN,CELLID

I found a way to make it behave properly . Need to lock the explicit bands with AT+QNWPREFCFG="lte_band",1:3:7 then it will do 3CA or 4CA. If you leave it "free" it will stick to 2CA... buggy firmware, as usual from Quectel