One NZ 5G broadband: possibility to use alternate (non-TP-Link) hardware?

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#3275039 24-Aug-2024 22:38

@CamH

All 3 of those brands seem perfectly Cromulent, unlike this TP-Link....... shitshow. The question is could we get out of our One NZ contract, and waht would be the pricing for unlimited 5G with a public IP in Wellington CBD/Te Aro?

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ThatPrettyFreya

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#3275041 24-Aug-2024 22:40

@CamH

And just how managed is managed? actual root-admin (goddamnit aerohive / Extreme accesspoints your CLI syntax sucks) user locked down?

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#3275042 24-Aug-2024 22:48

ThatPrettyFreya:

@CamH

All 3 of those brands seem perfectly Cromulent, unlike this TP-Link....... shitshow. The question is could we get out of our One NZ contract, and waht would be the pricing for unlimited 5G with a public IP in Wellington CBD/Te Aro?

We generally only sell to business. Our product and a product from someone like Full Flavour (who do sell to residential and may be able to help you) will be the same anyway, just they'll be setup for it. You just need a SIM card that's not TAC Locked and you can go out and grab something yourself.

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#3275043 24-Aug-2024 22:52

that makes sense. We really are hoping for either (A) some lovely Wellingtonian to be able to drop by with a 1.8v UART adapter and a soldering iron to liberate this router from the hell it is currently in, (B) One NZ and TP-Link to get their asses in gear and release that update with bridge mode that someone earlier in this thread said was coming out soon(tm), or (C, and most unlikely) things to get sorted out so we can piss off back to Seattle with our gf. We feel like we're pretty solidly locked into our contract, and those ETFs, to someone on an MSD benefit are very very not good. Very very extremely most definitively not good, in fact.

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ThatPrettyFreya

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#3275044 24-Aug-2024 22:54

oh also slightly OT but another load on the budget is trying to find someone's old 4-bay NAS of some description that we can give to said GF, she is currently trying to do audio production with only a 500GB internal ssd and it is not going well for her.

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#3275078 25-Aug-2024 09:45

If you're leaving to move overseas soon why would you take up a connection with a contract term? Sorry, that seems a bit unusual to me.

If you're only going to be in NZ temporarily I would look for some sort of connection with no contract you can break at any time if required without penalty.

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#3275079 25-Aug-2024 09:46

@quickymart

Cause we're not going to be able to leave any time soon. US immigration is a bitch, we're gonna be here for (at least) a year more, so...

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ThatPrettyFreya

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#3275080 25-Aug-2024 09:49

ffs. just tried to post a thing in the wanted/fs group, nothing doing. ID verification is completely not accessible if you're blind. grand.

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#3275082 25-Aug-2024 09:59

ThatPrettyFreya:

ffs. just tried to post a thing in the wanted/fs group, nothing doing. ID verification is completely not accessible if you're blind. grand.

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I imagine this is probably done to prevent scamming though...

ThatPrettyFreya

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#3275083 25-Aug-2024 10:00

oh, absolutely, but still. the ID verification thing requires webcam usage and that doesn't quite work. Long shot, anyone got an old one on here they're willing to toss our way? If asking for that here is against the guidelines, delete/move it.

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#3275084 25-Aug-2024 10:02

@ThatPrettyFreya you should be able to post there, for now. I have changed the number of posts in your account but it update back at some point.

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#3275144 25-Aug-2024 10:42

yay, that worked. Now just gotta hope someone's nice enough to offer a thing.

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#3275258 26-Aug-2024 09:37

ThatPrettyFreya:

@SomeoneSomewhere
Tried a retail 1.2.x(?) image from TP-Link UK, nope, nothing doing, errored out. Would very much appreciate a serial port being put onto this, but hnah we have no 1.8v serial gear either. We would gladly run the experimental software, even if to just throw the thing into bridge mode.

We do hope to exploit the http upgrade mechanism, I have already patched the stock image removing the root password and installing ssh tools so someone smarter than me can attempt a buffer overflow error and run arbitrary shell code to upgrade the firmware without serial.

If someone wishes to try upgrade it themselves a serial adaptor is only 5 bucks on aliexpress, if you did send it to me, I would be happy to do it for a few bucks to cover return post I'm based in Taranaki. officially the firmware is experimental as it has not been unstreamed yet as an officially supported target in OpenWrt but that is a plan to do also I see no reason it would fail I just want to push it with the exploit all in one hit if it can be accomplished.

One of the other providers may offer an unlocked sim with a device with better software, it i might be a better idea if one is not so techie to stick with a mainstream retail router and OS, I have brough a few devices now to play with my skinny broadband, but none have hardware as good as this device that I have seen, There is a reason it is $1100 retail.

So I was told but our business manager that they plan to use this router as fallback to 4g/5g with fibre connections on the one nz network, only problem is the loss of ones static IP from the fiber service in times of outage.

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#3279557 6-Sep-2024 17:09

update on this thing. Eventually got some downtime to try running the sim in an unapproved device, whatever, no support, ok fine. Outcome: Right about nothing. It could see the ICCID, and.... that's about it. No connection, even after we changed the APN. We're going to guess that, contrary to what someone on here said, we don't remember who, these SIMs are TAC locked. We continue to wait for bridge mode on the x80, whenever the hell that's supposed to be slowing up.

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ThatPrettyFreya

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#3279559 6-Sep-2024 17:10

Well, we did intend to write "showing up", but based on the nothing we have heard about this since, "slowing up" seem to perhaps be somewhat more accurate.

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