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WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:25 pm
by sethrailing
I have a WE826-T2 flashed with the newest wifix, the card is a Quectel LTE EP06-A. I am trying to use a Visible sim witch is activated and worked great in the Mifi hotspot other than the hotspot had horrible connection issues. I cannot get the sim to work, the error is (Provider: Failed to connect) i have the correct apn setting. Any help would be great, i live in a very rural area and this is my only source of internet and the only tower i can use is a Verizon tower. Thanks!
Re: WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:37 am
by sethrailing
Update- it is appearing that it's not a Sims issue but it is failing to connect to the modem
Re: WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:35 pm
by slacker
I;m using a similar setup (WG3526 / EP06-A) and am having a similar issue with a vzn prepaid sim. The modem managed to connect once out of 5-10 tries, the other times it is not connecting to the nearby tower. Interestingly, when I tried with a postpaid vzn sim (which has some hotspot data), I was able to connect, though the data used was tagged as hotspot even with commonly discussed TTL settings.
My current theory is that vzn is blocking the Quectel EP06-A IMEI when it tries to connect, at least for plans with no hotspot data, but I'm going to reset modem to factory settings, reflash GOrb firmware, and start fresh to make sure nothing is in a misconfigured state. If this doesn't work, I'm assuming its an IMEI issue and will probably use my phone for tethering. It could be that vzn doesn't have a problem with the mifi's IMEI, but does with the EP06-A's. If you figure anything out, please post it here, I'll do the same.
Re: WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:34 pm
by gscheb
Believe visible uses Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) if that wasn't set.
Re: WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:23 pm
by sethrailing
FIXED! I previously had set the camand prompt to ipv4v6 that wasn't the issue. The port for the modem was set to USB 3 switch to USB 2 and all is working now. My only issue now is it is only using band 4 and my closest tower is band 13 but might be the cheap outside antennas I bought.
Re: WE826 with EP06-A card
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 12:09 am
by gscheb
sethrailing wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:23 pm
FIXED! I previously had set the camand prompt to ipv4v6 that wasn't the issue. The port for the modem was set to USB 3 switch to USB 2 and all is working now. My only issue now is it is only using band 4 and my closest tower is band 13 but might be the cheap outside antennas I bought.
Hello,
Now that you got this up and running was wondering if you would let us know about your experience with it.
How far away is the tower from you and what are the speeds you are experiencing?