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[meritez]

[burakkucat]

That, of course, depends upon where, in the country, your desk is located. 

[meritez]

That, of course, depends upon where, in the country, your desk is located. 

200 metres from the local mobile mast, in a straight line,

[burakkucat]

Thank you. That was was the missing piece of information.

[johnson]

[meritez]

[johnson]

[meritez]

There's a script that lets you get into the debug mode of the web interface and select bands.

The external antenna on the back are main and div, but if you open the unit up there's five antennas on the mini pcie:

https://openwrt.org/_detail/media/zte/mf286d/mf286d-12.jpg

If you're handy with a Dremel you could add extra external antenna.

I've been testing it in poor signal areas and seeing 110/30 speed tests in most areas, only an alleyway in London was 14 down and five up.

[johnson]

Ah, great stuff!

[johnson]

[meritez]

Updating the modem firmware looks intriguing, running a cut down version of android like the pinephone ec25?
https://dylanvanassche.be/blog/2022/pinephone-modem-upgrade/

[johnson]

The huawei E3372 I have also runs android behind the scenes, so from my sample size of 2 it seems to be common. I guess when pretty much the whole market for modems is phones, android is a good choice for the SoCs OS.

The pcie card on the MF268D runs another ARMv7 core:

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admin@(none):~# adb shell
/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 38.40
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc07
CPU revision : 5

Hardware : Qualcomm Technologies, Inc MDM9650
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
/ # cat /sys/bus/cpu/devices/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
1286400
/ #


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/ # uname -a
Linux mdm9650 3.18.31 #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 27 11:53:02 CST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux


[meritez]

Did you manage to successfully update?

[LeeH]

There's a script that lets you get into the debug mode of the web interface and select bands.

The external antenna on the back are main and div, but if you open the unit up there's five antennas on the mini pcie:

https://openwrt.org/_detail/media/zte/mf286d/mf286d-12.jpg

If you're handy with a Dremel you could add extra external antenna.

I've been testing it in poor signal areas and seeing 110/30 speed tests in most areas, only an alleyway in London was 14 down and five up.

Hi meritez, I have a few Q's

What external directional antennae would you recommend?  The ones I have seen have 2 connectors.

Which of the existing one is the cellular?

In the image, which one is the additional cellular antenna?

 

[meritez]

Let's wait for it to arrive, I hear good things about poynting.