Cool Ideas Fixed 5G/4G Feedback Thread

Zurg said:
Plugged the router in as is, no config change nada.

I'll leave it this way for about a week then integrate it with the rest of my network.
I am on the 100Mbps Vodacom package.

Just a sneak peak.

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Those are the best download and upload speeds that I have seen from any customer so far ! Very, Very COOL !
 
William1102 said:
Nice thing about this router is it supports bridge mode so if you use this as a failover or even normally you can plug this into say a UniFi router or pass it through to a Mikrotik without a double nat and will pass through the WAN address
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Hey man, how do you set this router into bridge mode?
 
Chris_Auc said:
Backup internet for my Unifi setup @ home :)
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So Bridge mode won't allow you to do failover, the setting you are looking for would be "Automatic" mode.
However this only supports Dynamic IP so far, we are working on a new firmware with ZTE to include PPPoE in this mode as well
HI @Chris_Auc , sorry I got confused on this one, so just to correct myself, yes it will do failover, but you would need some sort of WAN2 on the Ubiquity side. Also your WAN 2 will see the CGNAT IP of the SIM, instead of a DHCP address from the ZTE internal LAN (so you won't have a Double NAT + CGNAT situation), the other solutions mentioned below would be alternatives., Just use the LAN/WAN port on the ZTE to your Ubiquty WAN2

if you do want to use Bridge mode, it would be "Wireless mode" and there will be an option below that for Bridge
Ive just personally not been able to get it working myself. Have not had enough time with it.

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So basically ZTE as main-- > Dynamic IP to Unify (but would be Double NAT)
Then the ZTE will failover to 5G if the WAN goes down.

Personally how I have mine set up, is with a Cudy as main router, and WISP connected over wifi to my ZTE.
This way when my WAN goes down on the Cudy, it switches over to WISP in about 1 minute.

Not sure if your Unify supports WISP?

Or I guess you could always make a second WAN port, and just have that on (WAN2)Dynamic IP --> LAN on the ZTE

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CoolEscalator said:
Personally how I have mine set up, is with a Cudy as main router, and WISP connected over wifi to my ZTE.
This way when my WAN goes down on the Cudy, it switches over to WISP in about 1 minute.
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For context, this was my connection with that recent Octotel maintenance
WISP works pretty well as a backup :)
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Internet's down for me.
Anybody else?

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Traceroute from the CPE router itself

traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 66 byte packets
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2 10.60.254.213 (10.60.254.213) 46.013 ms 46.756 ms 46.874 ms
3 10.60.254.212 (10.60.254.212) 41.746 ms 42.755 ms 38.761 ms
4 sfp-tengig-2-as1-2901-echovc-apn.terjhbcgnatar0-coolideas.cisp.co.za (100.127.1.161) 43.965 ms 42.804 ms 46.840 ms
5 sfp-tengig-2-as1-2901-echovc-apn.terjhbcgnatar0-coolideas.cisp.co.za (100.127.1.161) 39.911 ms 40.626 ms 41.076 ms
6 100-99-22-17.p2p.cisp.co.za (100.99.22.17) 39.968 ms 42.817 ms 42.886 ms
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