Band locking M6 MR6500

[Hotrod Hemi]

Greetings - Looking for assistance or a second set of eyes on how to select/change added bands on the new M6 MR6500.

M1 series - Web interface
M5 series - Mobile app interface
M6 series - Neither option is available (the mobile app omits the 'Bands' option under the Settings | Network | section

Adding custom band options through the CLI is/was straightforward in the same way as the M5 series - including retaining after reboots. However there is no UI to actually select the specific bands after they have been added to the band table.

Has anyone else experimented with, or encountered this with the M6 units? In particular, @Rich Hathaway?
Thanks in advance.

[w1lliam]

you can try with "at !band=xx" where xx stands for index number for the band option that you want to pick up as default

[Hotrod Hemi]

Thanks, yes, correct, that does work. [Inelegant though due to a terminal connection required each time a band change is needed (when traveling) - (e.g. LTE to 5G, AT&T to Verizon, etc.)]

[w1lliam]

Netgear changed FW behavior which is preventing custom band selection, going through terminal is the only way at the moment

there is a tool, mrCONFIG at tinyurl.com/mrCONFIGTools, that can do the same as Telnet tool but more simple and convenient, you can give a try

[Hotrod Hemi]

Thanks - I will check out that tool.

[objchad]

I just toyed around with mrCONFIG, inside and outside Sandbox, couldn't get it to work.
Telnet with PuTTY to port 5510 is open, AT!GSTATUS does not work, command is case sensitive

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at!gstatus

command works

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at!band=?

command also works

Following the article on Waveform for the M1, I think I've been able to set the band to Band 12. I initiated a reboot from the web GUI and the bands seem to persist, though the web GUI and at!gstatus shows different...

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at!band=?
Index, Name,         GW_Mask          LTE_1-64         LTE_65-128       NR5G_1-64        NR5G_65-128      NR5G_257-320
03, LTE B12,         0000000000000000 0000000000000800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

                                      0000800000000000 - LTE B48
                                      0000200000000000 - LTE B46
                                      0000000020000000 - LTE B30
                                      0000000010000000 - LTE B29
                                      0000000000002000 - LTE B14
                                      0000000000000800 - LTE B12
                                      0000000000000040 - LTE B7
                                      0000000000000010 - LTE B5
                                      0000000000000008 - LTE B4
                                      0000000000000004 - LTE B3
                                      0000000000000002 - LTE B2
                                      0000000000000001 - LTE B1
                                                       0000000000000002 - LTE B66
                                                                        0000000020000000 - NR5G N30
                                                                        0000000010000000 - NR5G N29
                                                                        0000000000002000 - NR5G N14
                                                                        0000000000000800 - NR5G N12
                                                                        0000000000000010 - NR5G N5
                                                                        0000000000000002 - NR5G N2
                                                                                         0000000000001000 - NR5G N77
                                                                                         0000000000000002 - NR5G N66
                                                                                                          0000000000000008 - NR5G N260

I'm not sure how good you guys are at this, but I'm trying to lock on to LTE B12. So far this looks right imo after following that Waveform article, but like I said the GUI (and at!gstatus) shows different.

Also important:
Hardware Version: 1.0
Firmware Version: NTGX65_10.01.31.01
Modem Version: MPSS.DE.1.0-02183.2-OLYMPIC_GENALL_PACK-1.476678.2
GUI Version: MR6500-1A1NAS_05.00.28.00
PRI Version: 01.05
Firmware Build Date: 2022/04/16

[Hotrod Hemi]

Can you reply back with a screen shot showing the difference you are referencing? (e.g. at!gstatus=? output | screen capture of the Status | Diagnostics window).

BTW - a specific example command for adding LTE band 12 would be: at!band=03,"LTE B12",0,800
<0x - x=any number between 0-9 not currently in use> | "LTE B12" - human readable text for your reference | 0=no CDMA value | 800=LTE Band 12>

[jhartbarger]

Not really band locking but what I did with my MR6400 was to create a custom band list with dc-unlocker and applied it.

[Hotrod Hemi]

@jhartbarger
Glad you found a solution that works for you.

[jhartbarger]

only side note is that if I master reset the device I have to re-apply it.

[Hotrod Hemi]

Yes - and, that is correct whether using the manual band lock or DC Unlocker methods. I found it be simply a nuisance, since it was very easy to manually add new band lock lists after the fact. (~15-30 seconds, followed by the reboot)

[rizman]

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Sorry I have a very silly question, I’ve try to use mrconfig, but it everytime just show me ’mrconfig’ is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How can I fix it?