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WahroongaFarm

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#119536 5-Jun-2013 11:32
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Hi from across the ditch.

Thought you may be interested in a little project that was spawned in a Whirlpool Australia thread and has snowballed rapidly into creating a bunch of pretty heavy hitting 3/ 4G routesr, using OpenWRT as the core.

The fundamental objective of the project is to support late model high speed 3G, Cat3 and Cat4 LTE modems to enable them to run at their full 42Mpbs, 100Mbps and 150Mbps potential, whilst router connected.

You may have discussed these connection speed issues elsewhere in your excellent forum.

Very few of the commercial offerings support speeds greater than 25Mbps. One shining example is Sweden's Dovado range.

PPP the traditional Ethernet over USB protocol limits USB transfer speeds to 25Mbps. Different manufacturers use different fast protocols and the one manufacturer may use several different protocols in their product range. However most modems still support PPP as well, so most routers connect just fine albeit slowly.

There is another complication when you move to hostless modems ie ones with a web interface rather than a connection manager.

And there is the universal problem of poor to non-existent modem information, provided by router manufacturers in the router GUI. We all need MDMA style info at our fingertips.

Enter the ROOter.

The ROOter is the brainchild of a bunch of Whirlpool enthusiasts and the deployment is the product of the brilliance of our Canadian programmer, Dairyman.

Read the Whirlpool WIKI for the history and development and link to the current discussion thread.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/router_openwrt

Visit the brand new open source firmware distribution site maintained by Diaryman (our Canadian guru) where you will find the firmware, along with detailed information and tutorials. There are details to make your own build or simply download the appropriate router bin file and flash your router.

http://ofmodemsandmen.com/index.html

We have learned much in our short journey.

Please drop into the Whirlpool thread and say hi.

I will also endeavour to field answers to any questions in this thread. Although I am no expert, I have watched the ongoing development with true wonder.

Enjoy.

Because I am new around here I am are not yet allowed to post links. :(

So ... Google search for 'Whirlpool openwrt WIKI'

and 'ofmodemsandmen'

Some kind mod may fix the links?



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kiwitrc
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  #830944 5-Jun-2013 13:36
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GDay John, thanks, and welcome to GeekZone.



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  #831038 5-Jun-2013 15:40
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Welcome to Geekzone, and an outstanding first post! :)

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  #831245 5-Jun-2013 20:21
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Cool project, great to see most amazing work built on top of OpenWRT...



WahroongaFarm

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  #832209 7-Jun-2013 11:51
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Hi Guys,

Anyone given it a whirl?

Cheers

John k

WahroongaFarm

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  #836194 13-Jun-2013 10:40
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Hi guys,

Pretty quite here, although there have been quite a few NZ downloads.

Any reports of success?

Cheers

WahroongaFarm

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  #837665 16-Jun-2013 16:22
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Huntsman 2013-06-16a is released.

The long awaited SMS messaging arrives. Network Status information is now only active when visiting the Network Status page. The modem is only sent signal commands when you are on the Network Status page and there is a delay while the data is gathered when you first go to the page. This eases the load on the modem and the possibility of modem communication conflicts. Enjoy!

Notes:
The SMS feature may not work correctly for all SIMs and modems. Please advise any SMS bug reports. To make flash RAM room for the SMS feature 4Mb routers only have IPv4 support in this version. 8Mb still support IPv6.

Current reported issues with this release:
Luci may lock up "problem loading page", but internet connection is fine. It appears to be a consequence of OpenWRT Version R36713. A fix is available and a new release is on the way shortly (2013-06-17).

Visit the usual places.

WIKI change log - http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/wiki_rooter_pg4

Of Modems and Men - http://ofmodemsandmen.com/index.html

WahroongaFarm

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  #840998 21-Jun-2013 12:54
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2013-06-18 There are no new features as it is a "stability" release. It has the latest OpenWRT updates in it and both the SVN and Packages have been updated. 'getsig' has been modified (again) so that it runs all the time while the modem is plugged in and the Network Status page will display data without any delay. The SMS Messaging has been modified so it reads the messages much faster. The old GUI for Luci has been removed, as this seemed to be the cause of the web interface disappearing. Hopefully this cures some of the reported stability problems that have cropped up recently.


Enjoy!


I suggest that if you have not done so already, a move to 2013-06-18 is a good one.

BTW Happy to hear any reports of the new SMS feature.

There will be a new release soon with a few new features and DM has miraculously found a bit more flash ram space, so iPv6 will be back for all routers.

 
 
 

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WahroongaFarm

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  #841811 22-Jun-2013 23:21
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... I suggest that if you have not done so already, a move to 2013-06-18 is a good one.


... Unfortunately it has a few issues with SMS and the AT command function has taken a hit. :(

New release coming soon. :)

All the fun of the fair ...

WahroongaFarm

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  #846168 27-Jun-2013 14:29
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Huntsman 2013-06-27

The SMS Messaging is (hopefully) fixed and is quicker and more stable. It now reads concatenated messages correctly.

Keep Alive now has user definable options so you have control over every aspect of it. There is the option to use a second server to ping so, if it fails on the first, it will try the second. It has the option to use modem power toggling if the router supports it. If power toggling isn't supported it will do a WAN restart. The router reboot option will also toggle the modem power before rebooting if it is supported. Power toggling is supported by all TP-Link routers except the WNR4900 and WR1043ND. It is not supported by any Netgear router.

Modem power toggling (turning the USB 5v off and on again) is a key new feature and will hopefully overcome the nastiest modem lock-up. :)

Over to you guys for testing.

Information and download available from the usual places:

http://ofmodemsandmen.com/index.html

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/router_openwrt

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