Wireless Joint

It depends on "which wifi?", but assuming that you probably rather mean the "fronthaul" connections with their broadcasted SSIDs (opposed to the hidden ones when using additional satellites):

While it would be far too easy and also convenient to be able to do that via the official GUI (so Netgear ...

Yeah, unfortunately it looks like that. While I can't get rid of the impression that most of such missing features are rather caused by suboptimal software than hardware constraints, maybe one eventually simply also pays for exactly that kind of better software when buying more expensive devices ...

Thanks for pointing me into that direction. I've tested it again and strangely, this time the DNS resolving worked via the VPN route, although I didn't change the DNS settings (still manually pointed to three different ones in the regular internet connection GUI setup).

Adding the up/down commands ...

@hazarjast: Thanks a lot for your elaborate reply.


'AT+QCAINFO?' can give you band info but it is specifically used for showing info about carrier aggregation status. I think mostly Netgear and folks interactively querying the modem are using 'AT+QENG="servingcell" to check the currently ...

1; How do I see what bands I'm currently on?

echo -ne "AT+QCAINFO?\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

2: What's the telnet command for changing the bands?


Since the access method depends on your firmware and settings (telnet OR ssh), not a "telnet" command per se, but rather one of ...