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Is there a way to implement the new splash page/stats page into my current build which is Wifix branded:
GoldenOrb_2020-05-16
Anything newer just doesnt seem to work as well for me.

The version I uploaded today should work on a 2020 build.

Unfortunately this did ...

SPLASH PAGE UPDATED.

Is there a way to implement the new splash page/stats page into my current build which is Wifix branded:
GoldenOrb_2020-05-16
Anything newer just doesnt seem to work as well for me.

The version I uploaded today should work on a 2020 build.

Where can I download it ...

JimHelms wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:07 am SPLASH PAGE UPDATED.

Is there a way to implement the new splash page/stats page into my current build which is Wifix branded:
GoldenOrb_2020-05-16
Anything newer just doesnt seem to work as well for me.

First thing to try is connecting to the router via ethernet cable and see if you can browse the internet that way

Yeah only way to be sure your truly "clean" is a bootloaer load.

As far as wifi it has always all worked just at a subpar level. Even the cheap archer i use was a drastic improvement in both performance and signal strength.

I do really like the openwrt I just cant make the newer versions work ...

Ok here are my thoughts on all the above....

First its a known issue that the built in wifi of the wg3526 if lets say non optimal. Almost everyone in here myself included uses a seperate device for wifi. Personally I bought a used archer c8 for about $35. I assigned it a static ip address in the ...

The best way to make sure EVERYTHING is cleared is to do a bootloader flash. I call it the chinese screen flash though apparently wifix models dont have chinese menus.

Basically you pull the power cord, hold the reset button, plug power back in while still holding the reset button. Wait 5 seconds ...

I do but it doesnt work. AKA never shows any messages present and when I try and send a message it just times out. Think I found a workaround by using verizons web interface to the phone # my router uses.

Ok FINALLY got it all working.... well mostly.....
The main issue was my own fault... back when I loaded the old build I believe custom ttl was on and set to 65 by default. In this new build it was off by default. For some odd reason enabling it under firewall settings like I am used to didnt work ...

Since your all setup with a build enviroment and such would you be able to sync sources to 18.06 or 18.07 whatever the latest 18.x is and make an updated build for me to test?

I will likely contunue to test the newest 22.x as well, the problem is I am SOO in the boonies that this router is the sole ...

There are a few issues with "cooking my own"

First I have ATTEMPTED to build android in the past and it is FAR from easy

Second I have already outlined that current versions dont seem to work for me, so cooking my own version of a 22.x version would not help the issue, while cooking an 18.6 ...

I loaded it and loved the new interface on the login page. Also really loved the quick ability to change a dhcp address to static as well as the included SINR stat on the modem stats page.

Unfortunately just like the 9/11 version when loaded, everything on the internet is sluggish with many ...

I am on a discontinued 55+ loyalty plan. Wouldn't be good for you anyway as it throttles at will. I am just so remote that I very rarely get throttled.

I am also on verizon in a very fringe area. No chance for coverage from anyone BUT verizon actually. The deprioritization issue is on the verizon side and I know no way around it other then getting a different plan with more "high speed" data.

Now as far as the basics on what to do....

In my ...

Well I woudnt hold on breath on starlink either being available or being reliable, I have read many horror stories on it as at one time I was also looking into that.

So

Best short term solution would likely be goldenorb as most of the people in here are much more familiar with it and its really a ...

Didneywhorl

@Didneywhorl not sure if you saw my other post about this new version as no one has replied but was curious if there was a way to import that status page menu or some way to directly display SINR on the old 5-18-2020 version. The menu visuals of the new version looked close enough ...

Like the topic says I am running a verizon sim in a wg3526. Running an older version of wifix firmware (5-16-2020). I want to be able to somehow send and receive text messages using the sim inside the router.The router is not esasily accessible, physically, so anything involving accessing the actual ...

I use three of those wilson antennas (2 for data in mimo and one for phone on a booster system). I have them all connected with lmr400 wilson cable. I really dont think you could do better and saving a few pennies on cabling just isnt worth it. With cheaper cabling even at 25' you could lose almost ...

Well i have not seen any in here that have successfully setup a load balanced failover setup between 2 carriers. I am sure its possible but it is at least way above my pay grade.

Most in here need help with carrier related issues, aiming antennas, configuring the basic router for a single carrier ...

May not help at all but my initial thoughts on reading this was change your DNS on the main router and usually there is a setting to force all devices use that DNS.

I would test with 1.1.1.1
or
8.8.8.8

Hopefully its that simple.

Not sure you will find any ONE specific person here to just do it all for you or mentor you step by step per say. What you will find here is people who are very willing to help with SPECIFIC questions. There are MANY different moving parts in what you describe and a few missing parts as well ...

I can remember back when I was testing antenna location putting the antenna on top of a pole on top of a bucket on top of a ladder and moving the router to areas that made no sense at all but the idea is test with what you got in anyway you can and IF you determine that the new setup REALLY is ...

If it aint broke dont fix it

going from memory i think i used the router reboot option, may have been modem reset, try modem reset first as it takes less time for the router to recover.

I used the google DNS server as the tracking ip
8.8.8.8

I would set ping count to 3 or change interface down to 1

and i think i set ping ...

Well here is the basics of it:
https://ofmodemsandmen.com/modemconfig2.html

but you really need to talk to someone smarter then me to enable and configure it as when I changed carriers to verizon years ago I no longer needed to use it.
*knock on wood*

This may sound stupid, but if you need to move the antennas 10 feet farther away from the router is it possible to relocate the router 10 feet closer to the new antenna placement? Maybe put it in an attic? Move the router to an externally closer spot?

I had an issue like yours and ended up cheating ...

Guess I am missing something.... what does the router rebooter do that connection monitor, a built in part of the goldenorb, doesnt?

There used to be something called connection monitor in the routers firmware. It would poll the internet connection every x number of minutes and if it didnt get a reply would reset the connection. Not sure if this is still in newer versions but on mine its under connection profile and on a tab ...

ep06-a the connectors are larger and you wont need a pcie adaptor.

+1 as well for quectel being easier to work with

Looks almost the same

ati
Quectel
EP06
Revision: EP06ALAR02A08M4G

AT+QGMR
EP06ALAR02A08M4G

was just curious so ran both

looks like the command to check firmware version is
ati
will respond with something like this

Quectel
EP06
Revision: EP06ALAR02A08M4G

thats from my modem that works fine on visable and is over a year old

mine is an EP06-A

from a different thread but they had simular issues
Have you tried resetting the modem?

Should be AT+QPRTPARA=3 then after it reboots AT+QPRTPARA=1

Ok then the factory reset isnt happening. Not at all sure why

Send a message to The Wireless Haven tech support then, maybe the reset doesnt go to chinese on their units but I thought it did.

Aftert you do the process and you get the wifix login.... does your unit reset to defaults or does it "remember" all your settings? It sounds like its NOT factory ...

I cant explain it either, and apparently no one else wants to chime in. I am betting most would say to reflash the firmware, many would say 3 times :). I am recommending the full factory reset as that eliminates all previous remnants of goldenorb/wifix.

That said the one issue with flashing the ...

Saw another post with symptoms like yours

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3108

that makes at least 3 i know of

This is just my PERSONAL recommendation based SOLELY on my own expierences but

When I loaded the latest firmware version I had signal issues. Now that could have been a ton of different things but when I went back to my old version all the issues went away and things got rock solid stable again ...

How are you determining there is no internet?

I ask because recently we had a posting in here saying the same thing and it turned out that he did have internet but it was being throttled so badly that nothing would load. He determined this by putting the sim back in his phone and somehow tested and ...

ok yeah i think i remember this now from earlier in this thread. Since you already have a 75 ohm booster and its working I would do like I have in my home and have 2 seperate systems.

A booster for phone use (use your 75 ohm booster system)
A router for internet, in my case a wg3526 with an EP06-A ...

Well I can only speak on verizon 4g but in my case the strongest signal is 13, the signal my router would pick by default is 5 and the best band for actual use is 66.

My situtation is heavy trees, mountains and a the closest line of site tower is over 6 iles away.
66 is still best but the only way ...

You mean like one of these:

https://www.weboost.com/products/314411

I started with one of these and then purchased a second one to run in mimo config. They are SLIGHTLY worse then the The Wireless Haven ones, at least on paper, but also can be found for about $50 each.

Would be curious what ...

In the rooter/wifix firmware there is bandwidth monitor that might help you monitor your usage. It seems to start at the first of every month but you might be able to tweak that somehow.

Its found under services/bandwidth monitoring

There s also an addin called lede traffic usage monitor that also ...

Just be carful when you read something that says 15db or whatever rating as on a multiband antnna the db rating is usually for the highest frequency of the antenna. Using the model above as an example its ONLY 15db gain at 2700mhz at something more in the LTE spectrum like 2100 (band 4,66) its about ...

When setting up things or troubleshooting its always best to use ethernet. That said I have always just setup the wifi over ethernet so am not sure what the default password would be. Try 12345678

no password

https://ofmodemsandmen.com/configure.html

When I had a situtation like yours (wouldnt accept AT commands) in rooter/wifix firmware I ended up having to buy a usb adaptor and "programming" the modem with AT commands from my windows laptop. After I did that it worked properly.

All I can think of is the phones have a higher cat level then your cat 20 modem (very unlikely) or perhaps the phones are 4x4 antennas where as your modem setup isnt (also unlikely)

Kinda stumped as well

BTW I HATE you my system get 20 meg down on the best days

Thats a dell branded version. Not sure if they use a custom firmware or not someone in here thats smarter then me might know.

I found this about it but this is well above my "pay level". Hopefully as I said earlier someone else who is smarter then me in here can help. If I am reading it right you ...

I guess this is not a Sierra EM7455. It must be some kind of generic knockoff. Never even been used. Is this going to cause me problems? I guess try it like it is and see what happens?

Take a picture of the label on it or type in anything you see as a model# as the AT commands can be different ...

in my area dsl isnt even an option. so no cable option at all.telco lines are 20+ years old and dsl has been "full" for over 7 years. Satellite is completely oversaturated both viasat and hughesnet cant even get 1 meg down. Cell access is so bad cant even make a reliable call without a booster or ...

Its not just about being de-prioritized it is also about server utilization. Sounds like at 1am there is low utilization and when you last tested there were many more people utilizing the server.

Also I have found different bands not only work faster and slower but also some are less utilized then ...

rofl "project shrek" is getting better results then I am with dual mimo external antennas and over a year of tweaking.

You can spend a lot of money and likely do no better and perhaps not as good then your Comcast setup. I got into cellular internet because there was only Dialup and sat internet available to me where I live. If cable Internet was available I would never have gone through all the other hoops.

If ...

The main issue is that rg6 and rg58 have huge signal loss compared to lmr400. In a worst case scenerio based on the linked calculator @100 foot cable length:

https://www.qsl.net/co8tw/Coax_Calculator.htm

lmr400 @ a frequency of 2100 which is band4/66 frequency for downloads you would lose about ...

dbshelton wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:17 am Good point. Now I am using an Archer AX21 router as an access point and the Wifi is much better than the NEX.

I use a low end archer c8 and its also much better. Router cost me like $40

lol cant help you there only streaming I do is netflix and amazon to watch movies

I am really just asking out of curiosity for information.
Could another NEX5RGO be used as an access point for my current NEXR5GO then it could be put into service as the main router if needed?

You could but honestly on most of the routers the wifi is subpar to using even a generic home router ...

Well I cheat... I have my media pc wired difrectly into my router via ethernet and plug it into the main tv via cdmi. That way if I need to access the router via ethernet i just grab a keyboard and mouse. Its also on tightvnc so I can remotely takeove the pc if needed as well.

But honestly I rarely ...

All of your above research is correct, though we do not talk details about changing imei in here as TECHNICALLY its illegal to be doing that. From my limited knowledge you will need to reseach the exact At command on your own but the quectel modems are the easiest to do this on while the sierra ...

far as i know the "conventional router" would have to be running some form of goldenorb to be able to use the usb/modem card.

I have had my wg3526 running over a year 24/7 and no issues.

Well satellite will ALWAYS have very bad latency its just part of how satellite works.

As far as your setup I think we are at the point of the old adage

"If it aint broke dont fix it"

:)

Congrats you are now to the point you shoudnt have to worry about these things anymore and just use it.

Speeds vary greatly not only by location and setup but also by weather, time of day and tower utilization.

Even which site you use for testing can give different results. Speedtest.net randomly changes testing servers and different speedtest.net servers give different results.

All that said I have ...

VPN's are complicated, in theory it hides everything from your carrier, but the carrier still has the ability to tell how much data is being used and I believe they can also tell the TYPE of data. They cannot see the details of the data as its encrypted, however, your vpn provider CAN see everything ...

Does nordvpn even support wireguard protocol?

Well this is why I dont use a vpn myself. At best i get about 25 down and at times as low as 8 down, if I used a vpn I could very easily make my internet unusable,

As far as your connection issues I really cant say. I dont have such issues and I only have one viable server to connect to thats well ...

Can you be a little more specific on what you have had to do each time you "finally got it working again"
as I see the problems you have had for sure but without knowing what you did to resolve them makes it very difficult to know what your problems might be related to.

Again using my own setup as ...

Ok next step is like myself and @Didneywhorl suggested a FULL factory reset, Meaning it wil remove ALL settings and after you will need to add them back in manually. For testing after really the only values you will have to enter are the apn and the ttl settings. If your router is hard to get to ...

is there anything in the modem imei field?

What if anything is showing on the modem/status page?

Does it show in a connecting state?

Do a hard reset then, where you hold down the reset button and it brings you back to the chinese screens. I dont have a link to the exact process but its basically hold the reset button in with the unit off, still holding the reset button power on the unit and wait about 30 seconds still holing in ...

I would do a factory reset the put back just the apn and ttl settings, nothng else. That should get you back to working, At that point we can try and tackle the vpn again if you choose.

well as a test i would re-run the same confg file making process, but use openvpn, then apply the config file in the same way under services openvpn.

Wireguard is new to the router builds openvpn has been there for years. Its even on my build from 5-18-2020

Worth a try anyway, let me know if that ...

Well remember I am on a different firmware version then you as also dont use your vpn but it looks like once youget your config file created on the router you go to services and i would think there should be a wireguard option there. In the wireguard option there should be an inport ovpn option or ...

in the router software under modem/connection profile
fill in the apn field with
VSBLINTERNET
click the save and apply button

under network/firewall at the top choose custom ttl settings then pick 64 for the ttl value field
click save and apply

thats it for basic connection. you may need to reboot ...

Well, the answer appears to be no. I noticed my internet was slower than usual, checked and found that the modem had selected B13, occasionally aggregating with B4, but definitely using B13 as primary. Sent AT command to lock onto B4 and got back my high speeds...

I had issues like yours and ...

what we are going to do is have the router itself run the vpn so once this is all done the router will be running the vpn and thus all devices using the router for imnternet will be using the vpn.

You computer will no longer need to run the vpn software at least when its on the wifi of your router.

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