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I have a Suncomm S2 router that I use with an AT&T plan (Mobley). I upgraded it from the stock Suncomm firmware to GoldenOrb firmware in April of this year using the 3-27-2024 build found at http://aturnofthenut.com/autobuild and the router has been working great.

I normally don't upgrade the ...

Any diference or stability on this R13 modem firmware?


It is about as stable as it was before but it contains some security fixes which I figured couldn't hurt. I mainly did it because I was still using the last Netgear official firmware which was several versions back from the current release ...

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 ...

Attempted to upgrade fw to R13 on NBR750 without taking the modem out. I moved the fw using SCP to /tmp/ in the router and used the QFirehose present in the router to flash, resulted in a bad flash :evil:
I can still ssh into the router but the modem/sim is no longer recognized. I can't send any ...

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 have an LBR20 with Voxel and have been using it without issue as a backup. I decided to sell it but the buyer did a hard reset by holding in the reset button even though I told him I had reset all the settings and provided the login credentials. Now the device will boot up, but the login page is ...

Hazerjast, I was reviewing the posts from earlier this year and had a question on the following commands that were posted:

Allow both 5G NSA and SA:
echo -ne "at+qnwprefcfg=\"nr5g_disable_mode\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

Disable 5G SA (Default, but can be slow if n41 SA is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have NBR750 working on Zain Kuwait 5g network. it was working fine until I updated the firmware of the router and Modem firmware. now I m facing very interrupted service. It looks the router is connecting online but it keeps disconnected and the speed is very slow.


NBR750 verson i m ...

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 ...

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.local is ...

I tried extending the sleep from 2 minutes, to 6 minutes and then to 10 minutes. In each case, the wifi stays up unless I log in and issue the wifi down command via SSH. Is it possible to issue two wifi down commands in the same script? Something like this?


#!/bin/sh

sleep 120
wifi down >/dev ...

Those commands took without error. I then uncommented the script, saved it and rebooted the router. However, upon reboot the wifi is still being broadcast.

If I manually issue the "wifi down" command via SSH, I get the following output but it does stop broadcasting the wifi signal:


root@NBR750 ...

I hadn't run those commands yet as I thought they were just for splitting the SSIDs. However, when I try to run the first command, the result is:

root@NBR750:~# config set wifison-monitor_stop=1
-sh: config: not found

Before I issued the command, I commented out the lines in the wifi_down.sh ...

I have added a startup script to shut down the wifi on the device. However, in doing some additional testing, it appears that approximately 24 hours after a reboot, the wifi is turned back on. There must be a service that checks the wifi status and if it is down, it restarts the wifi. I don't know ...

Turns out it was user error regarding vi. It is working as expected. I have more experience with nano so my lack of experience with vi was the issue. I I am really happy with the speeds. With the LBR20, I was getting approximate speeds of 50 down/10 up. Here are the speed results with the NBR750 ...

hazerjast,

Thanks again for another great tutorial. I received and set up an NBR750 last night and it is working great. The last step I want to do is to turn off wifi at each startup. I am familiar with the process as it is close to what was done on the LBR20. On the Voxel firmware, I used nano as ...

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try it out and see how it does.



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 ...

I am trying to follow the post below to set up a cron job to reboot the router twice a week. I understand and completed steps 1 and 2 but am stuck on step 3. Step 3 says:

3. Created /mnt/circle/overlay/etc/crontabs/root (rw/r/r perms) <------- This is your new crontab (for editing/persists)

my ...

Hoe does one check the CPU load of the device?


Thank you , no more wifi , but i found out , that in top increased Load average: 1.38 1.35 1.33 . I checked the clean version , and i could see , that load average: 0.36, 0.25, 0.34
But i can't see anything with could use cpu so much. Can you check ...

This is the guide I followed to turn off the wifi radios on mine. Credit to hazerjast.

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=20064#p20064


Hello , i have a question , is there a way to turn off wifi (all 3 radios) ?

Is there a way to switch router in o a bridge mode ? ( connected to LAN ...

hazarjast,

Would one implement one or both of these scripts? I use both T-Mobile and AT&T plans with my Orbi LBR20. Is it possible to combine them into one script or is that not recommended?

Thanks!


While working on a friend's LBR20 I finally figured out the cause and solution of the ip6tables ...

What do you mean by auto-update patch? Do you mean does the Voxel firmware prevent Netgear from auto-updating the device? If so, then yes, the Voxel firmware blocks updates from Netgear.

Keaton85 wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:50 pm Edit: figured it out

Does Voxel firmware have auto-update patch already applied?

hazarjast,

Does one also need to add a line to the rc.local file to call the firewall-start.sh or does it start on its own? Just trying to understand better.



I would store it on the overlay filesystem under '/mnt/circle/overlay/opt/scripts' where the 'firewall-start.sh' script is located. That ...

hazerjast,

Another awesome addition. Thanks! Where do you recommend that this script be placed in order for it to run each time on bootup of the Orbi?


It is funny you had posted this today because I just finished working on the first version of a script that directly relates to cell locking and ...

Thanks for the extensive writeup. I am new to much of this and trying to understand the purpose of the cron jobs. What do QoSControl auto_update and bdupd_start_schedule.sh do?



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 ...

Magic allows the Orbi to appear as whatever device you told your carrier you were using for their service. Some carriers will remove your plan if you are not connecting with the device you said you were using.

I have been using your exact scenario for the last couple of years (Unifi for WiFi). A quick and dirty takedown of WiFi can be accomplished manually over SSH by issuing simply "wifi down". However, there is a lot of ancillary services still loaded for WiFi which are still running. So far, through ...

I see that Voxel has released another update to his firmware. Once an LBR20 has the Voxel firmware and he releases a new version, is it necessary to revert back to the stock Netgear firmware (2.5.2.20) before installing the new version or can the new Voxel firmware be installed over top his old ...

I am getting caught up with this thread. A lot of good info! What would be the correct way to disable wifi while using the new Voxel firmware? I have Unifi equipment in place and would prefer to use it instead.

I downloaded and installed the image named below on a WG1608 router:

WG1608-GO2020-06-10.zip

from the site - https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/upload/

It is prompting me for a password for the root account on the initial page, but I don't know what it is. I have tried 'rooter2017', 'Rooter2017 ...