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Thanks. I'll give it a go.

I have a NEX1PGO / WG3526-P router with a Sierra Wireless EM7565 modem. Purchased in August 2021.

Firmware is WiFiX-NEXP1GO-GO2023-12-02-upgrade.bin

I am not able to set band locking. I can uncheck some of those checkboxes but no matter what I do next, they always return to being all checked on ...

I wonder if they'll make the update public. Their download page https://www.cudy.com/lt18_software_download is still the 2023-04-20 version.

What VPN software does Nord VPN use? Is it OpenVPN, WireGuard or what?

For what it's worth, the standard firmware seems to work great with Windscribe on both ...

Thanks, do use external antennas for wifi and cellular on the roof? If so, which antennas did you order?

Yes, I already had something like this installed from an earlier package. https://poynting.tech/antennas/mimo-3-15/
That does cellular and Wi-Fi so it's supposed to be good for picking up the ...

I got mine a couple of years ago by calling 855-593-1430. I must have got lucky twice because the rep immediately knew what I wanted. I had to do it twice because the first order was canceled when an error on AT&T's website prevented me from accepting the terms and conditions.

There's some useful ...

The Cudy is going great. Everything about it has been smooth and effortless. I have it running Calyx. I'm very happy with it although I probably should have waited for the 5G version.

Maybe a long shot but are you using a UDP based VPN such as WireGuard? I don't know about Magenta but that pretty much kills Calyx which is on T-Mobile.

Latest version firmware. 2022-03-23a.

I finally splashed out on a Cudy LT18 and the NEXP1GO is now relegated to being a spare router / modem. It had a handful of problems. None of them showstoppers but a source of frustration.

Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble. I'd like to hear any ideas or experiences.

I want mobile internet for an RV. I have a NEXP1GO router with a EM7565 modem. I've been playing with various options for the last year or two but this week has been the first real world experience away at a campground ...

I'm thinking of getting a Cudy LT18 AX1800 for my RV but I'm still a little undecided. I have a NEXP1GO with a EM7565 which is okay but I have my frustrations with it so I'm reluctantly thinking of getting something else.

Can anyone report their experience running WireGuard with the LT18? I'm ...

Is this supposed to change dynamically?

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Mine doesn't change. I'm just using it with the little whip antennas but I can move it around the room and even remove the antennas and sure enough, the connection disappears but the numbers never change. Is that ...

I'm getting what sounds like the same or very similar thing with the same router and modem. Mine is a couple of months older than yours.

I tried it in my RV a couple of weeks ago. It would go through a the usual startup. Initially it shows no modem, a minute or so later the modem appears, then it's ...

I used Page Plus for a while. I think I used a APN of TRACFONE.VZWENTP.

Thanks. It's working very well right now but I might do as you suggest and do a reload from the bootloader just so I know everything is "clean".

I'm not too upset about the Wi-Fi if that's just the way it is. I might be better to turn it off because I do have another router / access point that I ...

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.

My WiFix device has the Chinese bootloader. I've used it once previously. Not this time but once when a flash went wrong.

I don ...

I installed WiFiX-NEXP1GO-full-GO2022-03-23-upgrade.bin yesterday.

It works nicely. I noticed two things that seem to be fixed.

Setting the protocol to IPv4 in the connection profile now works. That didn't seem to work before (https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=22635#p22635)

I use mine ...

It doesn't do voice calls or texts. Of course it's an internet connection so you can use something like Skype.

I have the same model router (but with a Sierra Wireless modem) and certainly haven't haven't noticed that behavior.

Make sure you have an adequate power supply.

The only kind of similar issue I've had is that 5 GHz Wi-Fi often doesn't start (or at least the SSID never shows up) and when it does I ...

I finally found the problem after a spending a few hours on it searching the web for reports of similar experiences. It has nothing to do with the router but I'll post the answer in case someone else finds their way here.

Despite what I said above, it wasn't really working quite as well as it ...

This is a bit of a long shot and I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I'm having a problem with a slow connection on my MacBook Pro talking to the Wi-Fi on a NEXP1GO / WG-3526-P. The router has a EM7565 on the AT&T tablet plan. It also runs WireGuard.

I've done some tests which ...

I understand being able to use a business WiFi connection (campground, hotel, Walmart). I just did not think it made sense to put another router between it and the end point.

The big thing is the simplicity of changing the WAN connection in one place if you have several devices on a LAN. Also the ...

I have this in my RV https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/route ... le-em7565/. I bought the router and modem separately but the end result is that package.

Hard to figure what the WiFi as Wan is necessary for.

Most campgrounds provide Wi-Fi. It's usually not great which is why RVers use cellular but if you're lucky enough to be somewhere with adequate Wi-Fi then Wi-Fi as WAN lets you use it transparently if the cellular signal is bad or you just ...

I didn't need to do anything on my firewall. I think I'm basically using default settings and WireGuard just works.

The only things I needed to change were:

* Set a custom DNS in the LAN interface. I use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1.
* Set the modem to only do IPv4. See https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic ...

Its the drop down under the APN setting, but only in the latest firmware. If you are using the NEXP1GO firmware, you have it.

Thanks, I don't know how I missed that but ... I think I agree with 56387f above. I put my script back to original and changed that setting to IPv4 but it still connects ...

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 problem is that later the system overwrites this setting and automatically uses IPv4V6 instead.

I was looking for it but I ...

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

I have a NEXP1GO / WG3536-P router with a EM7535 modem. Running the latest WiFix firmware.

It's been working very well. I've been trying different plans. I did a month on Net10 then a month on Page Plus and this morning I went to the AT&T tablet plan. I run WireGuard via Windscribe which works ...

Yeah, I haven't solved it but it doesn't really matter.

Probably unrelated but just an interesting thing I noticed. I'm into my third week on Page Plus and the first week or so the modem network status showed Provider as HOME, then it was VERIZON for a week or so and now I just noticed it's back to ...

I have a fairly new WiFix WG3526-P or NEXP1GO as it's now called containing a EM7565 modem.

I'm generally happy with how it's working but when clicking around the admin pages, I sometimes get a blank page with the digit 0 at the top left. A refresh or two on the browser fixes it.

It's not a big ...

ngrok is great tool although I think it's intended more as a developer tool than a production thing. I've used it when developing code that needs to receive webhooks etc. It's worked perfect for that. It's $60 per year if you want to attach a domain. The free version will give you a different URL ...

Another update in case this is useful for anyone. I'm still messing around trying to get the perfect startup script. It's a frustratingly simple but somewhat tricky to solve problem.

The script I published at https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=274&start=50#p22004 has been working well ...

This might be basically the same problem as https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3100 except that I'm just using the admin UI.

I've had this device for a month or so and still experimenting with plans etc. I had Net10 on AT&T for a month and everything worked well including sending and ...

I haven't tried Simple Mobile. I think they're T-Mobile. The Poynting antenna on my RV doesn't do band 71 so I've been sticking with AT&T and Verizon. I haven't tried it but I guess Cricket is certainly an option.

I think the answer is no but I can't tell for sure purely about the plan. I have this plan in an AT&T branded Samsung S5e tablet which I bought as an "open box" on eBay about a year ago.

It has no phone or text app so no way to make an outgoing call. I don't know what would happen if I put the SIM ...

That's impressive.

Is the Net10/AT&T plan $25 per month or $50 per month?

It's $50 https://www.net10wireless.com/serviceplan. Sorry, I might have been a bit ambiguous there. I've been testing the new router / modem / WireGuard setup with Net10. I only need it when I'm in the RV so I don't want ...

but it would be more efficient to just run Wireguard directly from the router for all devices.

Not just more efficient but it hides more information from any sort of packet inspection. With a VPN on each device, I think it would be possible to look at the traffic, especially the return ports, and ...

I think I have a reasonable solution to this:

Here's my script. I'm no expert at (b)ash so I'm sure this is not perfect but it seems to work. It assumes that the WireGuard server remote endpoint is also an NTP server. This is very simple to do (at least on Ubuntu) by installing something like ...

Yeah I'm trying to find my way around the internals of OpenWRT / Busybox which is easier said than done when I'm no expert on this stuff. You mention systemd but doesn't it use procd?

Something I did which I think gets me one step closer is I installed an NTP server on my WireGuard server. That was ...

This seems like a good place to continue with another update.

Restarts are not working well. It took me a while to figure it out but I finally know what's happening. It's a common problem with WireGuard on routers with no battery backed real time clock.

You can set WireGuard to start on boot but ...

I don't know if NordVPN does this but by far the easiest way to setup WireGuard is when the VPN provider supplies a config file. That's how I use Windscribe. One of the download options is a config generator which provides a file which you upload to the router. There was no real config to do. The ...

Not quite what you're asking but AT&T prepaid Net10 $50 unlimited seems to work nicely in a WG3526 / EM7565. I've heard that "unlimited" means 200 GB.

Here's an update on using WireGuard in a WG3526 / NEXP1GO with an EM7565 and the latest firmware.

It's generally working great for me. I have it set to start on boot but the one issue I have is that it doesn't survive an ungraceful shutdown. If I simply cycle the power off and then on again ...

It’s my understanding the prepaid plans or for people with poor credit ratings. Or for people that do not trust the carriers with there credit card due to they sometimes hit with a high bill.

The other reason for going prepaid is if you don't need continuous month after month use. I just setup a ...

chumbie wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:23 amIf I use a vpn, does that mean I don't have to disguise the outgoing TTL?

No. It just makes it much more difficult for the carrier to figure out anything from your data.

I'm sure they can tell that you are using a VPN which itself might be a useful piece of information for them.

This is why I like using WireGuard. The only protocol I need the carrier to pass is UDP.

If you build this task, how do you know what to set the TTL to? Is there really a reliable pattern like "after one hour set it to 66, next hour 67 etc? I thought it was kind of random. Maybe you were going to try a selection of them and pick the best speed. That sounds challenging to say the least.

LTE_boi wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:38 pm What wireguard settings are you using?

There's almost no settings to set. I just use the config file I download from Windscribe. It's basically just the keys and endpoint IP address etc.

Right, but I've noticed that each time I change it, I am only able to buy myself a few hours of unthrottled speeds. Are you familiar with how to schedule a task so that the TTL value will change for example every hour? Or perhaps you've had better luck with some particular settings where you don't ...

I have wireguard on my WG3526. What are the appropriate settings to route all my traffic through wireguard? I'm trying to get around Visible's 5 up/5 down speedlimit.

I pretty much just used default settings. I service I use is Windscribe. They have a downloadable config file which I uploaded ...

tetranz wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:13 pmI haven't managed to get WireGuard working yet.

It was just DNS. When I run WireGuard it doesn't seem to be able to use the default DNS. I set custom DNS to 1.1.1.1 in the LAN interface and WireGuard is working great. This is very cool.

Here is the latest: https://thewirelesshaven.com/nexp1go-latest-firmware

The name of the WG3526 is being changed to the NEXP1GO if purchasing from The Wireless Haven. Same router.

https://thewirelesshaven.com/nexq6go-firmware
WE826Q equivilent

Thanks, this was perfect timing. I was just ...

Adm1jtg wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:46 pm but does it have the new status screen that displays SINR?

Do you mean this? That's the latest firmware just announced above in my WG3526-P

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Does this really mean that everyone using a router with a EM7565 is out of luck with AT&T after Feb 2022?

Adm1jtg wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:13 pm Did you happen to notice if the modem status page was the new graphical one that shows sinr?

No I didn't notice that, sorry. I probably wouldn't have seen it anyway since I'm only tethering from a phone.

For what it's worth I tried the latest GoldenOrb from Rooter in my WG3526-P. It didn't quite work. Flashing the firmware went fine. I can login to the admin and see WireGuard in the VPN menu so it's tantalizingly close.

I'm still just tethering on USB. The usb0 port was appearing etc but I just ...

I do not have visible but would bet all of this would be eliminated by routing through a VPN. Wouldn't think the additional TTL changes were necessary, probably just the VPN.

If they use TTL to detect tethering then a VPN won't change that. We're talking about different layers of the network ...

Okay thanks. I might try it in the next day or two.

By "custom settings" you mean settings that I've edited, right? If i had to go back to a factory reset and reload the WiFix firmware, it would be back to how it was out of the box, right?

This might be a little off topic but what's really the difference between the WiFix version of GoldenOrb and the version from the Rooter project?

I assume the WiFix version has been tested and approved by The Wireless Haven but is there much risk in trying the later version?

Is the situation this ...

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

Where do I find that build? I recently bought a WG3526. It's running GoldenOrb_2021-02-20 which is the latest version on the WiFix Google drive but there is no sign of WireGuard.

Is there a later version which is not ...

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 ...

Didneywhorl wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:10 pm The latest builds of rooter and WiFiX have Wireguard built into the firmware.

Very cool. I guess that completely solves it. Thanks.

Thanks Bill, yes, I was starting to think of doing much the same thing. i.e, running WireGuard on another separate router.

I've also lowered my requirements and cost a little in that I think a NEXQ6GO-U will suit me just fine so I'll shut down the Wi-Fi on that and use a GL-AR750S which I already ...

I'm also interested to hear of any news on this. i.e., Has anyone managed to get WireGuard working on the The Wireless Haven version of GoldenOrb?

I'm thinking of buying a WG3526-P with a EM7511 and I was hopping to do WireGuard on the WAN.

From the plans page

900 GB is considered the average use for Pink Plan. Usage above 900GB is considered data abuse and your account will be under review.

And from the terms and conditions

The Pink plans have a 900Gb limit

They don't seem to understand what "average" means.

AT&T does require you to go to one of their stores to buy the prepaid Data plans and sim (means you have to pay a $15 activation fee).

I think you can buy and activate it online here with your own SIM: https://www.att.com/prepaid/activations/#/activate.html

That didn't work for me because it ...

See this thread from here down. https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2430&p=17630#p17616
That's me basically trying to do the same thing with a Samsung tablet.

I'm still not convinced that TTL matters for AT&T despite what Bill says there but APN certainly does. On my AT&T branded tablet ...

Well ... I persevered a little longer. EasyTether config on the Pi was interfering with the usb0 interface even though I set it to not hot plug enable and it doesn't seem to be a problem when I use the phone.

Anyway ... I can now get native tethering to work on this tablet using a shortcut to ...

It doesn't look like this is going to work for me. There's a problem even before I get to any of this. This tablet doesn't have the hotspot / tethering option at all. The option is just not there in setup. This app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsamiths.tetheringtoggler makes ...

Thanks Bill. I appreciate your efforts with all this info.

Next, on the phone it's important to set up a new APN profile with IPv4 only as follows:

APN name: ATT
APN: phone or nxtgenphone (try both)
Authentication: None
APN: type: default,dun,supl
APN protocol: IPv4
APN protocol roaming: IPv4 ...

You can tether ANY Android phone or tablet to a mobile router or RaspberryPI via usb or WiFi, and the hotspot limit can be bypassed simply by setting the proper TTL.

Thanks, I'll certainly give it yet another go. I successfully use a TTL setting of 65 when I use the same hardware to tether a ...

I can disable video throttling on SimpleMobile and PagePlus through my dealer account (on new lines only), but for other carriers you could use EasyTether, a VPN, or a regular proxy.

You're misunderstanding what problem I'm solving with EasyTether. It's not general speed, video throttling or ...

In case it's not obvious, there's lots of *.speedtestcustom sites. They're a "private label" version of Ookla's speedtest.net without the ads. I think the backend is the same.

I tried my Pepwave MAX BR1 MK2 and it reports that my "AirPrime MC7455 is not compatible with the Cricket Network due to network changes". It used to be compatible.

Hey Tetranz...wanted to follow up with how this is working for you so far? I am considering doing the same thing, so any suggestions you could make would be greatly appreciated. To summarize, your setup is:
[*]AT&T Unlimited Elite Postpaid Plan
[*]Verizon Visible
[*]Both SIMs in a Pepwave MAX BR1 ...

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