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Ozark wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:28 pm Would there be any harm in trying to flash WIFIX NEXQ6GO or OpenWRT instead?

Yes, I flashed WE826 v2 with vanilla OpenWRT and ROOter without any problems. Always wanted to try WiFiX but it seems this firmware should not be installed on a non The Wireless Haven hardware due to legal reasons.

Hello,
This is the website to check available band combinations for aggregation for your modem:

https://cacombos.com

Search for your device, choose the primary band and examine what bands are (must supported by the tower) available for aggregation, lock to those bands.

Hello,

I dont know if it still matters but both interfaces use devices with the same MAC address - I believe this is wrong since MAC addresses for all devices must be unique.

Or may be even more - ping uses ICMP packets, described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)

first of all, lets talk about IPv4 part:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md-Nazmul-Islam-2/publication/316727741/figure/fig5/AS:614213521268736@1523451323001/ICMP-packet ...

Hello,

Yeah I can, My LAN sits behind a PFSense router. You have a WG1608 + RM502Q-AE?
The devices behind PFSense can even ping out, but PFSense itself cannot when on "LTE/NR EN-DC". When forced into LTE-FDD everything works just fine.
I'm using GoldenOrb_20201-09-13 and the RM502Q-AE is on ...

Hello,

I used QFlash v.5.1 , drivers Quectel_LTE&5G_Windows_USB_Driver_V2.1 and the firmware EM160RGLAUR02A08M4G.zip(firmware files from the dir. firehose) and my EM160R has been successfully upgraded.
It's a pity that qfirehose could not upgrade the firmware to the latest version in place (on ...

Hello,

I found some free time and built QFirehose on WG1608 (after installing extroot since this device does not have enough memory to install all necessary tools) - upgrade of EM160 firmware installed in the router actually works (should work for other Quectel modems too).

But there is a problem ...

32-35Dn 2-4Up.

I see, this is well within capabilities of WE826. Actually, I have seen the same situation (30-40 Mbps down/ 3-15 Mbps up) when I tried my new WG1608 + EM160R and compared it with WE826 using MC7455 / EM12G. To me it meant that all modems connected to the same bands and ...

Hello,

dbshelton wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 2:40 pm but same speeds as EM7455 I was using.

I am just curios how fast was EM7455?

Hi,

I wonder if FOTA is supported by EM160R. The pdf file with AT commands does not mention AT+QFOTADL command, but when I run AT+QFOTADL=? I am getting OK which is, I think, is a good sigh.

I found some useful, FOTA related info for Quectel_RG5xx&RM5xx modems, search for DFOTA word:
https ...

https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/mini-pcie-m2-adapters/modem-enclosure/usb3-0-to-ngff-m-2-key-b-4g-5g-modem-adapter-enclosure-with-sim-card-slot-new-style/

That would be my choice as well. Your modem requires more power comparing to the older CAT4 - CAT6 modems and having a separate power ...

Thats wierd how it works though. I have pulled about 380Mbps down on a WG1608 with an RM502 modem, and cennected to ethernet. Sprint 5G SIM.

The capability of the site is bery subjective, making general hardware recommendations hard to make.

Actually our numbers are not very different 300 vs ...

And one more thing: whether or not one should upgrade the firmware of his EM160R. I checked the release notes available here:

https://forums.quectel.com/uploads/short-url/nUZ5LPsSkNG5SjgaX4zdcwjBPSv.pdf

for ver. 05 they say the following:
ver5.jpg

I wish it could be true because somehow I ...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it :) Can you please elaborate more on the virtual machine method? Am I understanding correctly that with that method I could upgrade my Quectel modem firmware without having to use an M.2 to usb adapter? Thank you!

I was speaking about VMware, I have 2 versions (15 ...

What modem firmware are you using again?

I've heard the earlier versions don't work with this command, but I tried with A05 and it isnt working. I wonder if it is dependent on certain parameters. hmmmm...... <squirrelWheels>

I think I figured out what is the problem (I use EM160RGLAUR02A05M4G ...

Thanks. That worked. I just made a backup and edited my existing file. Streaming is fast now regardless of stream saver. :)

Great. I think this is actually a bug in ROOter/OpenWRT because when one creates a connection profile in the ROOter/OpenWRT GUI he can specify the required protocol. The ...

Looks like someone has done something like that

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/quectel-ec25-e-firmware-upgrade-on-mifi/16491/7

That is interesting, thanks.
I looked at it a couple of days ago and indeed extroot is needed because ROOter (I installed the "full" image with load balancing on board ...

Hello,

My preferred way to get rid of IPv6 without changes in interfaces / start up connection scripts:

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2600#p2600

Hello guys,

just some info for people who might need the SIM card try for WG1608 - looks like this is Molex 91236-0001

Hello,

Does anybody have some experience with QFirehose running on Rooter and used for uploading firmware into Quectel modems without removing ones from the router (i.e. firmware upgrade does not require moving the modem into separate a USB2/USB3 adapter)?

I see the make and gcc are available in ...

New "BETA" firmware on the EM160 seems to have mostly fixed random disconnect issues on the EM160. There are even newer firmware versions of the WG1608 that work with the V1.

New "BETA" firmware on the EM160 seems to have mostly fixed random disconnect issues on the EM160. There are even ...

Working version of GO for me (18.0x): http://www.aturnofthenut.com/upload/WG1608-GO2021-03-23.zip

I know this is a long shot but do you happen to have this file (WG1608-GO2021-03-23.zip)?
I am in the same boat, wg1608 (v1) + em160r and after testing several different versions of the firmware ...

ok do you have ipv6 set to on and do you have it set to dual stack? When im hooked up via lan I get great speeds but when I do wifi through the mofi it barley gets 5mbs

Sorry for the late reply, was out of the office for a vvvery long time. No, I specifically disable IPv6 on all my devices. I ...

Didneywhorl wrote: Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:58 pm No clue honestly. I may have some laying around though. email thewirelesshaven and I'll get one sent to you.

Thanks, I will try to find one here first and if nothing really works will ask you for help later.

You can build a similar setup on the haven, yep. Check here for the bundles: https://thewirelesshaven.com/product-category/router-bundles/

The cost will be close.

You can build them pretty easy really. Just takes some confidence and asking all of us here when you run into issues. We all help as ...

Yes, according to Quectel this is where a radiator goes:

em12_colling.jpg

I got for myself a new toy - Quectel EM12G to replace SW MC7455 in WE826-T2 (just out of curiosity). All went well, but I have a question about cooling the modem (under the load (3CA, 80 down/30 up) it runs about 60 degrees Celsius).
To install EM12 into WE826-T2 I used a proper adapter and the ...

Hello,

I have been using GLAR750S for 8 months and really like it (I actually bought 2 and use them both despite the fact that I also have several 300$+ wifi routers) . But I would suggest you have a look at the newest model (GLAR750S on steroids) -> GL-MT1300 / Beryl. It is already available for ...

I was comparing my cellphone with the modem, and as you stated before, both hardware are completely different and my cellphone is amp to catch signal in a very weak environment also it's not intended to use external antenna, where the

This is true. Some time ago when I bought my first LTE modem ...

no problem, I'm also learning...

like I said before, the only way I can get my router to show carrier aggregation working is with a extremely good signal, here a screen shot:

I am sorry but could you please be more specific since it sounds a bit ambiguous to me. So it can be either a or b (or ...

Sure no problem at all...

Thanks! The script is great but I am not sure about DNS check though.
The following post can be of interest to someone curious about the difference between ping vs DNS check.

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1403&p=13297&hilit=MOFI+DNS+check#p13297

The ...

Thanks for the answers :-) Actually I came to the same conclusion, the tower simply does not support B2,B4 aggregation although it has no problem with using them individually.
At some point I noticed that when the band lock is not set then my MC7455 can have CA enabled for B7 (20Mhz)+B7(20Mhz)(this ...

Hello,
all necessary info is here:

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=16 ... xcel#p2034

Are you testing over wifi or LAN?

In this case - LAN

The gear your using is maxxing out I think.

I also think so but that is not what I am curious about. I think that I have programmed the modem correctly but I did not notice that CA was working. And I wonder if the reason can be that I ...

So, I finally scheduled a script via cron on the router using WGET to Cloudflare DNS on port 80 every minute and if it failed just power toggle the modem and not bounce the box.

This is very clever idea, this is how the connection monitor is implemented in MOFI, you have a choice of pinging or ...

Hello,

I have a question about carrier aggregation for MC7455, may be someone more experienced will shed some light on the following situation:

a)I have the latest GodenOrb + MC7455 in a we826 router;

b) AT!ltecat confirms that MC7455 supports "B2+B4" type of carrier aggregation;

c) I created a ...

I had a mofi setup as well but found building my own gave me more flexibility. Specifically I wanted ca AND band 66 for example. Mofi does not have such a configuration. Sim4 doesn't have band 66 sim7 doesn't have ca. Just something to think about when you look at things. If you need/want band 71 ...

If your still looking for solutions the WG3526 has the same basic hardware but 6 antenna spaces, 4 for wifi, 2 for lte. Mine even came with the pigtails, some are also available with a modem as a package deal. openwrt compatable as well..

I thought about WG3526 but I travel a lot and want to ...

Thank you very much for the provided info, the router with 2 extra antennas looks great.
As far as I am concerned it seems I have chosen a different path since I was not sure if WE1326 was a right choice.

Not sure what is wrong with my question but it is really surprising that nobody responded so far. Am I going to be the first person who plans to buy WE1326?

Hello,

I would appreciate some advice. I am thinking about getting WE1326 (I am in Europe now using my MOFI4500, extremely pleased with it but going to leave it here not to carry back and forth - so I need a different LTE router in similar to MOFI size and performance, plus I want it to run ...

Interesting indeed.
a) open source - if one wants he can audit the code;
b) after installing Wincap driver it is possible to load balance two interfaces in the very simply way;
c) just look how easy is to manage different routes using the wizard - knowing how to manage the routes from command line I ...

I have a one month old WE826-GO that seems to reboot itself randomly. I use LTE for internet, via MC7455, and it is not that the internet disconnects, but the router reboots. The WiFix network is not visible from PC for about two minutes and then when the WE826-GO boots back up it reconnects ...

Hello,

I have a question about 3G / HSPA+ network.
Does it make sense / Will it do any good/ Can it work in principle for MC7455 to install two (most likely flat panel or parabolic grid ) antennas and point them out to 2 different towers? I am speaking (theoretically, cannot check anything ...

In that case, I even see MOFI sacrificing these home internet users from who they get a few hundred dollars for their lifetime so that they can build good relationships with the cellular providers which enables them to win millions of dollars of contracts a year from these fleet companies.

This ...

I might be wrong here but I think there is another way - to enable passthrough mode (I dont use it myself since I dont need it), the link contains the necessary info.

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1457#p9652

I would suggest TheRealYayo must start from making a backup of his config ...

heartbeating and am really glad I did not get the MOFI.
For one, if MOFI continues to do this, segregating MOFI traffic by an ISP will be trivial.
It seems extremely short sighted on their part at best and planned obsolescence at worst.

Let me respectfully disagree with you. Have you seen what ...

Why does my cell phone significantly outperform my MOFI (speed wise):
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1457&p=9973#p9681

Why does my cell phone can download stuff just fine and my MOFI is extremely slow, - is the wireless network provider treating it differently?
https ...

Please, I would appreciate some more information on this as this detail will affect the modems I purchase.

Hello,
Please don't get me wrong, I am not an expert on mobile communication nor I work for one of those companies. Just general information, partially collected from the open sources ...

I thing there is a simpler approach how to troubleshoot the problem since other users also had similar issues (impossible to connect to the Honeywell external server) -in the past. Check the following link to see if it helps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/d93e9z/honeywell_thermostat ...

For users having more than 1 internet connection and wanted to run a primitive load balancing - there is an open source GUI utility called Network Monitor.

[url]http://www.sortbyte.com/software-programs/networking/network-manager[/url]

I played with it for a week and I am quite impressed. I used a ...

Hello,

This is interesting.

How comfortable are you around computers? I am asking because If I were you then I would install Wireshark and check all traffic coming from/to the thermostat. I would try to sniff the traffic between WE1326 and WRT3200ACM and on the WAN interface of WE1326 and most ...

Okay. Here's another question for ya. On my phone connected to my pc I get a average pung of 60-70. On my mofi I get a ping of 100-300 and it's all over the place. No idea what's happening. I get better signal and everything. Even tried the same bands and towers. I have two towers less than 2 ...

Pretty sure the ip passthrough is actually the cause.

when ip passthrough is ON then the external IP is passed to the device connected the _specific LAN port:

https://support.unlimitedville.com/support/solutions/articles/22000234454-mofi-enabling-ip-passthrough-bridge-mode

if you know how ...

Anyways, back on topic. I'm using PureVPN. I turn it on a bam, mofi 4500 shuts off my wifi.

Could you please define "shuts off"?

I was thinking maybe it's something with their ip passthrough but it doesn't make sense to me why that would be the case. LAN works fine. The vpn works but I don't ...

Guys, the problem is that you were advised to follow a certain troubleshooting procedure but nobody provided any substantial feedback allowing to come to any meaningful conclusions.

All what I see is just "it does not work for me as well" and it does not help.

All that is not a rocket science ...

Just one persons opinion though!
Fear the Mofi :twisted:

Also decided to share my personal option about MOFI. Yes, I also have bad experience with getting answers to technical questions - asked twice or 3 times, no response. But when I was buying the MOFI and was communicating with sales dep ...

.6mbps <=> My iPhone will pull 10mbps.

several things to note:

a) Generally speaking the LTE modem in you iPhone(assuming that we are talking about reasonably new version) is light years ahead of the modem installed in MOFI. But at such speed (10 mbps) it is hardly matters, MOFI modem is CAT ...

Hello,

first of all, please start from making a backup of your device. If something goes wrong then you can restore (most of the time with small exceptions) the configuration of your MOFI in 37 seconds.

*** EVERYTHING SHOULD START FROM MAKING A BACKUP **********

Another user has reported ...

Hello,

Sorry, did not see your question:
>What does that tell us?

It tells us that your computers ask for the domain name resolution (google) and gets the correct IP address. When you try to ping netflix it also asks for the domain name resolution (netflix ) and gets none. Why? Because most ...

Hello jmatthew,

Thanks for the logs, all looks good. But one thing confuses me - you ran ping from MOFI. We already know that is guarantied to work.

Let's begin at the beginning:

You said:

>>"Even though Internet appeared to drop on all of our devices, I was able to successfully ping google.com ...

hello,

Just a quick note - to see if Carrier Aggregation works you need to download something substantial or run a speedtest

https://speedof.me/
http://speedtest.att.com/speedtest/
https://www.speedtest.net/

it will test the download speed don't be surprised if it consumes between 100-800 MB (it ...

When I log in to the Mofi control panel once things have gone down, and try to do the "Internet connection test" from the main screen it does indeed fail. However, when I go to System>>Diagnostics, and do things like run a ping test to openwrt.org or do a traceroute, they work and return live ...

Hi,

Another owner of MOFI4500 4GXeLTE SIM4COMBO is here.

The fact that you cannot get access to a webserver using HTTP _but at the same time you can use previously initialized TCP/IP connection tells us that most likely there is a problem with DNS (domain name resolution). This is when you can ...

2W WiFi is not unusual made by Chinese companies for domestic use only which sometimes find their way across the world.

This's interesting. Are there 2W-3W 2.4GHz receiver/transmitter/bridge/extender/booster/etc on the market? Of course, they are (and probably even more powerful) used for drones ...

Hi,

not sure if this is the best place for this topic but anyway. Some people were talking on the forum about mighty powerful WiFi - here it goes.

I was looking for a USB WiFi adapter working with older Linux kernels and those using Ralink chipset seem to fit the bill.

Checked Amazon, found ...

I should respectfully disagree about VPN in general - it was used in the past, is being used now, will be used in future.

Nowadays virtually all sites are using https connection, and by using a VPN you're just double encrypting the connection, which is an overkill in my opinion (both in terms of ...

It was great before "https", but I just don't see it that useful anymore... just my 2cents.

I use it when I travel abroad.
One reason is to use VPN while is in a different country is to access my local network (documents, the printer, the camera to check the cat etc) in simple and secure way ...

One way to set up a custom DDNS would be to use cron. MOFI makes it very easy - go Advanced/System/Scheduled Tasks and add the following line

*/5 * * * * /usr/sbin/xxxx.sh

which means - run the script xxxx.sh located in /usr/sbin every 5 minutes. Don't forget - after you copied to MOFI (you can ...

Over last few days I was playing with setting up OpenVPN on different devices. I am not using a commercial VPN provider (in my view it has very limited usage and people normally greatly overestimate the benefits of using a third part VPN provider but this is a different story).
For tests I used a ...

So you're absolutely right, OMR is not built for the masses. But for those comfortable setting up and using an open source router OS like ROOter -- or building a cellular router solution using individual components such as those available through The Wireless Haven, I don't think it would be much ...

I connected both We and GL to my FIOS 150 up /120 down line, set both 2.4 GHz radios to the same channel and began running speed tests and simply using them (but not simultaneously) in real life from different client. We (MOFI in my case) slightly wins because ( I think) GL uses 2 built in antennas ...

Inspired by the topic "WE826-T2 out performed by mini $12 router?".

I must admit recently I also bought a GL router (decided to get the best one) since I wanted to see how the latest OpenWrt 19.X works on a 600 MHz device prior I start make drastic changes to my dear MOFI (read WE826) router.

I ...

MOFI4500 has an interesting option "USB Tethering for phone SIMs"
I am not sure how and/or how well it works, but the predefined config contains 7 APN names plus "Auto", "Select Default Profile". The documentation says nothing about this option but if one wants/needs to add his APN which is not on ...

blee0518 wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:19 pm None of what you said makes sense.... A public static ip is not a security issue.

Excuse my french but where did I say or imply that "A public static ip is a security issue" ????

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