Spark wireless broadband - use alternative router

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dbuckley

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#2959216 25-Aug-2022 11:14

Sometimes I demonstrate I'm not the sharpest tool in the box! I already have an old Skinny modem, so I took the SIM out of the SM2, and put it in the old Skinny Huawei, and that is how I'm currently online.

Now, lets see if this holds up; It's on the UPS too.

coffeebaron

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#2959220 25-Aug-2022 11:21

dbuckley:

Sometimes I demonstrate I'm not the sharpest tool in the box! I already have an old Skinny modem, so I took the SIM out of the SM2, and put it in the old Skinny Huawei, and that is how I'm currently online.

Now, lets see if this holds up; It's on the UPS too.

I was just about to post, that the SIM's are usually TAC locked to all of their 4G modem range, so it may well work in an earlier version.

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#2961432 31-Aug-2022 09:10

Just so you know -- I've had problems with a few devices on UPS and the solution seems to be trying alternative power supplies. It's not always straight out not working, sometimes it's intermittent faults - for example an Arlo hub kept needing to sync with cameras which made it pointless but changing the power supply fixed this on the "true online" UPS (worked fine off mains power)

fallafalla

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#2965618 10-Sep-2022 20:19

Have read in several different threads that the sims are locked, though that doesn't look to be the case at least for the 2 I have. They'll happily work in just about anything, both are running in Vodafone supplied Huawei B818's at the moment.

So the B818 might be worth a look, I can get near 100mbps on each in a rural location.

dbuckley

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#2965858 11-Sep-2022 11:41

That's interesting.

Currently using the "old" Skinny Hauwei, and it hasn't missed a beat since commissioning on 24/8/2022.

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#2965863 11-Sep-2022 12:08

Since when is a consumer grade Huawei model as supplied by a NZ ISP for FWA just about anything?, I've never used one.

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