Wireless Joint

Ok, welp going to come clean here.

I had the wifi SMA female antennae plugged into the SMA female connectors coming from the modem....

Not a super good connection going F to F


Used the SMA Male antennae and miraculously was able to get a signal.

I'm going to go crawl back under my rock and hide ...

Hi All,

I've had good success for the last year with an EM12G on a Verizon post paid plan. Can a modem just "ninja brick" where it reports correct parameters, but is never going to work?

I hope I'm missing something obvious. I try to be through and scientific, but I'm far from a subject expert ...

I had the included 12w power brick fail on mine, and later the 24w one that I pulled out of the power supply bin also failed.

The one thing I've noticed it that the DC plug connector on the board is inset a bit from the front of the case. The standard ~8mm depth that most DC barrel connectors have ...

Thank's BillA

I have followed your USB teather guide with an old phone. I've been up and running with that. I actually just updated the FW this past weekend.

Now it does in infinite boot loop. I posted up on the rooter forum to get some help.

I'm completely beyond my depth with ROS, so I'm in the process of flashing the latest GO FW

https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/upload/RBM33G-GO2020-11-18-19074.zip


I can't seem to get the firmware to stick, when I Follow the instructions from the PDF it bricks on the load upgrade firmware step ...

I've got the RouterOS to see my modem and that is about it. I can send AT commands and get responses. It can see my sim and IMEI of my modem. It even will scan and tell me that there is a Verizon tower near me, just nothing past that.

I'm way out of my depth with the MikroTiK firmware RouterOS ...

You ever get this going?

I'm bench testing a RBM33G and an EP06 at the moment. Using the ROS v7.xx beta firmware, I'm close but the ROS is some DANK software.

pushed ~200Gb through the phone's wifi hotspot last month. Still cant get USB to work.

Had to power cycle the router a couple times but it's been pretty solid @ ~50 x 3Mbps the entire time. Already 80Gb this month.

I must be on a very under utilized tower because I haven't noticed any de ...

I'm still banging my head on the Routerboard ROS firmware. There is a steep learning curve when compared to a consumer router GUI. I'm using Beta Ver7.xx

I've got the modem to be recognized and I can use AT commands through the terminal within the ROS Winbox software, I just don't know how to ...

I got my RBM33G sitting on my bench today. Going to be playing around with it.

My thought is to go the hard way and try to use ROS... We shall see how that goes.

Thx for the post!

I had that same password glitch too.

Reflashed with the the FW recovery and was able to create a new PW and now it works pretty well.

You are going to want a m.2 interface modem for that wg1608, like an Em06 or better.

I've got an ep06-a useless next to my wg1608, currently tethering a phone to it to connect a WAN.

So it occurred to me that not having a cap on Netflix means that it thinks I'm using hotspot data. Since mobile data is capped at 5Mbps or so. No idea if this is correct.

I set it back down to 65 across the board. Still can't get the dang usb drivers to work in Rooter though.

Just changed my TTL to 66 (from 65) although I'm still not able to use the USB hotspot (wireless hotspot works), I can now test out at unthrottled speeds on fast.com so that's something.

the br-lan lines locked the ttl to the router to 65
the usb lines don't do anything because I can USB tether ...

gscheb: I did change the custom firewall settings for usb0 as you indicated. However, I tried both 65 and 117 (not simultaneously). I don't know which is correct, over on FB, someone mentioned that anything under 65 is proper.

tvecell: in the Router is just shows connecting under the modem/network ...

I haven't been able to get mine to work yet, I'm down to learn too.

This is what I'm attempting at the moment.

https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303#p10303

Thanks to BillA

Ok thanks, looks like I need to change the firmware to GoldenOrb and not use the stock firmware would this be Correct? It's a GL-AR750 router


I'm super new to all this, but I've been helped by the community so if I can I'll do the same.

Here's some info on the GO firmware:
https://www ...

I have no idea which forum to post this in.... my apologies if this is wrong.

Little background, I set up an old phone (SMG930v) using BillA's guide...
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=10303#p10303
I added a line on a post paid family plan (was this a mistake?)

It worked pretty well for a ...

I've used the stock Mikrotik Routerboard firmware on several traditional networks, I've no experience with WWAN setups with them, and I've never flashed alternative firmware onto them.

I'm attracted to the RBM11G because I have no need for WiFi and have a managed POE switch at the center of my LAN ...

I do understand that that will be necessary, but I don't know how yet.

Would you advise me where to look for the info?

OK I got my USB adapter to work, and now the router sees my Modem!

I'm still very unfamiliar with this firmware so I hadn't installed any software packages.

I would plug your ep06a into this and use the USB slot on the 1608 you bought.

https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/pcie-m-2/m-2-ngff/usb3-to-ngff-m-2-key-b-adapter-enclosure-with-sim-card-slot/


I have a usb adapter that works in my PC for the EP06-a, however I dont know how to make the 1608 ...

I'm thinking about getting a RBM33G...

I've used Mikrotik products in the past. Not with custom firmware though.

I tried to go my own way, and I'm failing. I purchased a WG1608 and an EP06-a modem from ebay.

On Verizon I get about 50/5Mbps on my cell phone hot spot when I leave it in a window.

The WG1608 showed up with only an M.2 slot and not both m-PCI-e and m.2 I can't get the USB mPCI-e adapter to be ...

Welp I failed big time.
I refused to use a magnifying glass and then when I soldered some pins together, wick to get the pins unstuck I pulled the pad right off the board.

Kinda pissed at myself, but if you never try you never know.

I'm assuming that it should auto detect the modem and power the ...

I'm curious, though if it will work.


I got my m-PCI-e header in today. I went with an 8mm height one, from mouser.
Probably going to give it a try this weekend. I forgot to order 0.3mm solder so I need to source that, I'm not going to do this with 0.8mm solder.

As well as a USB -> mPCI-e ...

Why such a low modem for the 4x4 mimo ready router? Saving money? The original version with both slots is cool as heck. They are now only selling the WG1608 in 2 seperate versions. The WG1608-5G and WG1608-M or something. One has the M.2 slot only, the other mpcie only. They made them dual slot ...

Hi all, newbie here.

Trying to connect to a Verizon tower. My Cell gets 50/3Mbps in hotspot mode, whish is plenty speed for my needs.

I just recieved my WG1608v2 the other day, but was disappointed to see only a m2 header on the board. It seems the boards with both m2 and mPCI-e were just ...

I don't know if it's in poor taste to bump an older thread on this forums, so please forgive me.


I just received a WG1608v2, it's flashed the with golden orb: "openwrt-WG1608-GO2020-06-14-upgrade.bat" there are some glitches with the Firmware, but so far it's functional and I can bridge a WiFi ...