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by gscheb
Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:48 pm
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Re: Options for hotspot with AT&T Unlimited Elite plan?

T-Mobile post pay phone sim works great.
Hear at&t post pay tablet plan works.
Hear prepay Verizon phone sim works.
If you don't t mind high ping visible works.
Why pay over $100 per month to these resellers?
by ssnacks
Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:53 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Great work. Another option if you don't want to be dependent on external DNS to keep the firmware from being updated is to add an entry for devcom.up.netgear.com to /etc/hosts. I confirmed that gives me back a "Service unreachable" when I attempt to update. echo "127.0.0.1 devcom.up.n...
by egauk
Wed Mar 10, 2021 7:42 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Excellent point, I modified my original post.
by Voxel
Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:21 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Let us continue directly with me. It would be more correct I think? ;-) Just found this forum and this thread after reading @hazarjast e-mail re: LTEHACK forum. Thanks for him for his good words. Thank you @shinesmart as well for your attempts of testing. Let us a bit clarify. First, ssh access shou...
by Didneywhorl
Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:28 pm
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Re: LBR20 IMEI Help

Hmm, wouldn't that command be the one for factory reset of NRAM (counterproductive to what we are trying to accomplish)? I am working off the below for reference since "QPRTPARA" is not documented externally: https://forums.quectel.com/t/bg96-difference-between-at-qprtpara-3-and-at-qcfg-n...
by Alberteezy21
Sat Jul 10, 2021 2:17 pm
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Re: DW5821e / T77W968 - AT-Commands documentation?

Here you go. Doesn't have all the AT commands but i believe There's a command in there that will show you all available commands.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPl ... p=drivesdk
by Sam023432
Wed Aug 04, 2021 10:07 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

yes !!!!!! thank you soooooo much : ) ...... i had been working soooo hard at trying to fix this you have no idea i was literally up until midnight the other night trying i even wrote down my username as my email lol this was so exhausting but thank you so much for the step by step guide this is goi...
by egauk
Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:58 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

I just installed Voxel and it is working great except for dnscrypt, which only works over wifi after the LBR is fully booted and I restart the dnscrypt service. It seems dnscrypt may be starting too early in the boot process (before all of the interfaces are up). Has anyone else encountered this iss...
by shinesmart
Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:20 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Here is a roundup of the providers/data plans I’ve tested on the LBR20 during the past 3 months: By Price: 1. $15 Verizon Tablet Plan: Magic & TTL 2. $15 MetroByTMobile Tablet Plan: Magic & TTL 3. $20 AT&T Tablet Plan: Magic only 4. $25 Visible Plan: Magic & TTL By Performance (Uploa...
by tal7901
Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:01 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

You could go back to page 1 and read everything up to this point (many many times as I did lol ) :D :D :D Please don't take this the wrong way. Not meaning it to be an A**hole or anything but that's what the I think the majority of us has probably done lol! I've read over the whole thread no less th...
by BillA
Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:45 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

root@LBR20:~# cat /mnt/circle/overlay/opt/scripts/firewall* # IPv4 TTL mod iptables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64 > /dev/null 2>&1 || \ip tables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING 1 -o wwan0 -j TTL --ttl-set 64 ip6tables -t mangle -C POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j HL --hl-set 64 > /dev/n...
by am888
Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:59 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

VOXEL FIRMWARE -------------- Is there any sort of cron with voxel? (NM - found cron - will see if I can get it to stick) Will it try and auto-update the firmware if I don't use any sort of DNS block? One thing I thought would be neat - though outside of my ability - would be being able to send an ...
by am888
Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:50 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

I forked a keep-alive script for the Orbi and added it to my cron. Working good so far. (sorry took this post down ealier cause i ran into some issues) Will reboot router on failure. https://github.com/HiDef888/openwrt-lte-keep-alive Easy to install, just run script in /mnt/circle/overlay/opt/script...
by shinesmart
Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:17 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

I’ve put together this guide to help anyone wishing to Cell Lock to a specific cell. Please use at your own risk and know the pros and cons of cell locking before jumping in. 🤓 Netgear Orbi LBR20 Cell Locking Author: shinesmart Login using PuTTy: 192.168.1.1 UN: root PW: your admin password To query...
by shinesmart
Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:50 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Here are some additional useful commands: To disable Cell Lock: echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2 To query Cell Lock status: echo -ne "AT+QNWLOCK=\"common/4g\"\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2 You can also lock...
by shinesmart
Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:50 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Nice……It’s great that everyone keeps adding more cool stuff to do with the LBR20.

FYI: Added the code boxes…..good point!
by Didneywhorl
Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:21 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 SMA Ports

@hazarjast tagging works now too. :)
by samsil
Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:23 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Thanks I should be able to get it installed with your instructions. Thanks again!
by parkercs
Sat Mar 12, 2022 10:52 pm
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Re: 5G Raspberry Pi 4 Build w/ OpenWRT, ModemManager

Noticed that when you changed the LAN interface IP in LuCi you waited the full 90 seconds for it to timeout and then apply unchecked. Instead of doing this, the drop-down box next to the Save and Apply button has an Apply Unchecked button 😉.
by mellow65
Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:12 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

If you are more of a visual learner, a fellow LBR20 user has created a very nice overview video covering most of what is included in this guide (I would still recommend reading through this guide in its entirety for completeness and understanding): https://youtu.be/Mnmby6HLViA Updated with some tim...
by mellow65
Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:55 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

If any one is interested, I recorded myself going through the 4 antenna mod. Now Ironically I stepped back a little because the cheapo antennas were not better than what came from the factory (shocking, I know). But I think it would be well paired with some quality antennas. https://www.youtube.com/...
by Cool Ranch
Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:56 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Just wanted to give a shout out and huge thanks to @hazarjast and @Voxel. Finally got cell locking down good instead of band locking and fixed the circle mod. I appreciate what you guys do :D

Thanks again
by nordicboy2
Wed Jun 22, 2022 2:49 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

I am trying to follow the post below to set up a cron job to reboot the router twice a week. An alternative to using the cron might be to call a script from /mnt/circle/overlay/etc/rc.local that does something like sleep for 3 days, then reboot. Similar to what I did a few posts above to update res...
by MsVibe
Sun Aug 21, 2022 10:36 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Today I found a command to display information about primary and secondary serving cells. I think this gives current information about carrier aggregation. echo -ne "AT+QNETINFO=\"servingcell\"\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2 Command is described on p. 82 of the manual.
by Didneywhorl
Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:52 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

im trying to figure out how to band lock my lbr20 to BAND 2 can anyone help me figure out what i need to do to be able to do so? Band locking method is in this tutorial that your posting in: https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=12676#p12676 The modem is a Quectel EG18, and uses the same comman...
by jareq77
Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:19 am
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

I found a solution - the problem was edited command in Mac OS X notes/ replaced with " BusyBox v1.24.1 (2023-04-10 13:40:57 UTC) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. __ __ _ _ \ \ / /__| | ___ ___ _ __ ___ ___ | |_ ___ \ \ /\ / / _ \ |/ __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \ | __...
by gilbreen
Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:17 pm
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Re: Orbi LBR20 How-To / Megathread

Firmware recovery isn’t possible over SSH to my knowledge. Others have used the TFTP instructions successfully, if they are not working I would recommend going through the steps again carefully to ensure nothing was missed and/or trying a 30-30-30 reset (details on netgear support site and elsewher...
by gilbreen
Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:49 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

I found a solution to the problem where the wifi doesn't go down on boot. It appears that the sleep command executes first and delays the wifi module from being started until after the sleep command has been executed. I found that by forking the wifi down script into the background solves this issu...
by lplassman
Mon Jun 26, 2023 1:24 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

For those who want to enable 5G SA with n41 enabled on boot, here is a method I found that worked. Create a script file at: /opt/scripts/enable_5g_sa.sh and insert the following into it: #!/bin/sh echo -ne "at+qnwprefcfg=\"nr5g_disable_mode\",0\r\n" | microcom -X -t 1000 /dev/tty...
by lplassman
Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:14 am
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

Has anyone been able to figure out how to run the wifi down script at launch? I have created the script with the right permissions and have it called to run from the rc.local file. I have tried calling it with the full path to the executable (/sbin/wifi) and without the full path. I know rc.local i...
by Rich Hathaway
Sat Jun 24, 2023 9:15 am
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

@ jericsmith I will answer your dm here, thanks for the info, I do not need anything else from it, it's not my kind of device I won't be getting one to fool with. I did have a look at the firmware it has a Qualcomm,cpr3-ipq807x CPU, and the image is a double stacked ubi based on openwrt, not my kind...
by jericsmith
Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:02 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

Just a heads up that after upgrading to newest Quectel firmware and disabling NSA (forcing SA) I'm getting 360+Mbps down, so doing better than my other WG1608/Quectel RM500Q-AE based routers at the moment. Thanks again to hazarjast for the compilation of info. CA reporting: +QCAINFO: "PCC"...
by jericsmith
Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:37 am
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

What processor/cpu is inside this model? Specs on the web for are only showing clock speed but no specific cpu label root@NBR750:/proc# cat cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.84 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32...
by jericsmith
Sun Jun 11, 2023 10:12 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

Thank you gilbreen my firmware version is RM502QAEAAR11A02M4G_01.003.01.003 is there a way to downgrade the modem version? I have seen in the web control access of the router a place to update it manually but I don't have the source file to do it I don't believe there is a way to downgrade the mode...
by jericsmith
Fri Jun 09, 2023 11:48 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

Yes, folks have done this. It's officially supported and tested by Voxel in his firmware. If you are looking for support for a specific issue I would suggest posting over at the SnB forums: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-orbi-lbr20-v-9-2-5-2-37sf-hw-v-9-2-5-2-37-1sf-hw....
by roaminggnome
Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:46 am
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

FYI, some Ebay seller has 700+ of these brand-new for $190 on eBay right now. I just received mine today and it's brand new, shipped in a brown Netgear logo box with logo tape that's never been open. I suspect these are covid work from over overstock, and now they're at a great price! Hope it helps ...
by gilbreen
Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:15 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

FYI, the flash has plenty of space so I upgraded modem firmware by sending the most recent file from Quectel over to /tmp via SCP and running QFirehose -f /tmp/firmwaredirectoryname And yes, after you update the modem firmware to the most recent Quectel branch you will get notices from Netgear that...
by Oblivious
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:35 pm
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Re: Router Locking Up

Thank you for the detailed post. For clarity, "The first I would suggest would be to set the IPPT MAC address of the PFSense WAN port manually" I assume means copy the IPPT MAC from the IG ui, then paste it into the "MAC Address" setting of the pfSense WAN interface configuration...
by Oblivious
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:10 pm
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Router Locking Up

I've been having ongoing issues with my network, which seems to be related to the invisagig or the cell network. If you scroll to the last few posts in the following forum thread it appears that the modem is handing out DHCP leases when the modem loses it signal causing my LAN devices to lose connec...
by BillA
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:53 pm
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Re: Router Locking Up

For the WAN interface the IG is connected to, you may also need to uncheck the option for blocking private networks since the 192.168.225.1 is in the RFC 1918 space. Your post prompted me to read the RFC 1918/Private Network Addressing Wiki, which made me realize that the private address range 10.x...
by Oblivious
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:23 am
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Re: Router Locking Up

Just letting you know that so far my network has been stable. Thank you for the help!
by Oblivious
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:30 am
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Re: Router Locking Up

Sure. I'm going to give it a few days, at least through the weekend. Previously I've thought I'd solved it only to have the issue start back up a few days later. This time though, I'm a lot more optimistic.
by Oblivious
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:57 pm
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Re: Router Locking Up

IG gateway has been using 8.8.8.8 as monitoring IP. I have tried other DNS (like, 1.1.1.1 & 9.9.9.9) & disabled montoring also, but I honestly can't remember if that was before or after making the other changes you suggested. I just disabled monitoring & we'll see what happens.... crossi...
by Oblivious
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:34 am
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Re: Router Locking Up

OK. I haven't had any issues since disabling monitoring on the IG gateway but not ready to declare success just yet. Over on the netgate forums, they are thinking it may be a sporadic hardware failure in my router. Yesterday I left it running memtest for several hours, no errors. If it fails again, ...
by Didneywhorl
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:16 pm
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Re: Router Locking Up

Side idea if general local to internet connectivity monitoring is wanted, you could setup a service like "Uptime KUMA" and make it monitor out to a website doing an https check with keyword lookup so that you aren't using icmp protocols, but are using a bit more involved/advanced check met...
by Oblivious
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:54 pm
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Re: Router Locking Up

As you suggested around Feb 28, I manually configured the IPPT that day. And, later, I did try changing the monitoring IP to ping the IG ip address. Just for clarity, I changed that IP from 192.168.225.1 to 192.168.5.1. I don't know if it matters, but when I set-up a static route or VIP, I am able t...
by Rich Hathaway
Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:13 pm
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Re: Orbi 5G (NBR750, NBK752) How-To / Megathread

Looking for the correct command to disable LTE for troubleshooting. Thanxs if it has a qualcomm cpu (I think it does x55) just use offline-D mode you can get to it by sending the dm command 290100 you may need to send the spc first if it does not respond send the spc like this 41 30 30 30 30 30 30 ...