HUAWEI B315s LTE router discussion thread.

Thanks man!
sajunky said:
Exactly the same. Note that B315s LAN interface default IP addres (GR IP) is 192.168.8.1

In addition B315s has an option to disable firewall competely. I suggest to investigate it, but I can't guide, as I haven't try it yet. :)
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I have recently aquired a B315s-936 from Telkom and I must admit I am impressed so far. I am getting speeds of 8MB/s down and 3MB/s up on the bunny ears.
For best results I have the router facing the wall in the direction of the tower and the antennae sticking out horizontally on both sides. Considering the coverage map shows no coverage in my area this is pretty good.
Prior to signing up with Telkom I had one of their agents come out to run tests and with a Poynting panel antenna on a broomstick we were able to get 45MB/s down and 10MB/s up. That will be my next upgrade.
With the Telkom account I get extra night surfer data but for some reason known only to Telkom I have to log off and back on again to activate this.
I am looking at writing a macro of some sort to do this automatically with a scheduled task but I can't find any info on how to Telnet or SSH into this device, I ran a port checker but could not find port 22 or 23.
Anybody got any ideas?
 
No. All ports are closed except http/https and some other port, don't remember.
However there is XML api in the WEB server. It allows to restart router from API. Look here and please share. :)

B315s also respond to these commands. I think it is complete API for a new version of MDMA, but I think ginggs has recently graduated and has to earn for living now. :)

https://blog.hqcodeshop.fi/archives/259-Huawei-E5186-AJAX-API.html

BTW, for rebooting it will be a simple script in Python or Windows Power Shell.
 
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8MB not Mb! That's great! I spike at up to 6 but usually 3-4MB/s. What service/download did you use for that test?

Fred Philpott said:
I have recently aquired a B315s-936 from Telkom and I must admit I am impressed so far. I am getting speeds of 8MB/s down and 3MB/s up on the bunny ears.
For best results I have the router facing the wall in the direction of the tower and the antennae sticking out horizontally on both sides. Considering the coverage map shows no coverage in my area this is pretty good.
Prior to signing up with Telkom I had one of their agents come out to run tests and with a Poynting panel antenna on a broomstick we were able to get 45MB/s down and 10MB/s up. That will be my next upgrade.
With the Telkom account I get extra night surfer data but for some reason known only to Telkom I have to log off and back on again to activate this.
I am looking at writing a macro of some sort to do this automatically with a scheduled task but I can't find any info on how to Telnet or SSH into this device, I ran a port checker but could not find port 22 or 23.
Anybody got any ideas?
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Apologies for the typos. Should have typed Mb/s not MB/s.
Thanks for the info about the API. A reboot would be just as good, just takes a bit longer. Now I must just figure out how it works.
 
Hey guys when i manually search for network on my B315s everything but Telkom comes up as '(forbidden)'. Why would this be the case? I get perfect mtn LTE in my house but the router doesn't seem to want to roam on it (Yes data roaming is checked)
 
KiLLa007 said:
Hey guys when i manually search for network on my B315s everything but Telkom comes up as '(forbidden)'. Why would this be the case? I get perfect mtn LTE in my house but the router doesn't seem to want to roam on it (Yes data roaming is checked)
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It is not B315s question. Please revert to your own thread for further questions. Roaming agreement with MTN is not for LTE. Standard contracts and prepaid packages will roam on 3G. However there are special LTE packages which will not roam MTN at all. To answer your question, if you see "MTN 3G forbidden" it means you have one of such SIM cards
 
Anybody else having problems with this router and linux mint/ubuntu ?

My girlfriends B593 and other wifi networks work fine, just on the B315s it doesnt pick up.

Would hate to have to go back to Windows just because of wifi
 
The only things which could affect connection is default IP address of the router, so change default IP on B315s to 192.168.1.1 and it should work.
 
sajunky said:
The only things which could affect connection is default IP address of the router, so change default IP on B315s to 192.168.1.1 and it should work.
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Didn't think of that...will try it out.

Thought it was weird that my raspberry pi and windows work laptop connect fine but not my own laptop.
 
Is there any way to reserve an IP address for a specific device on the Wi-Fi network? eg: I want my iPad to always be 198.168.8.102, and keep this IP even when I reboot the router.

I could do this on my old Mega100WR...
 
Tucano said:
Is there any way to reserve an IP address for a specific device on the Wi-Fi network? eg: I want my iPad to always be 198.168.8.102, and keep this IP even when I reboot the router.

I could do this on my old Mega100WR...
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hmm from a quick look it doesn't seem to have an option for DHCP reservations. Your other option is to disable DHCP on it and use DHCP from another DHCP server i.e. your old router
 
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Huawei always gives substandard router option. No IP reservation. Without other router you must change your iPad IP address to 192.168.8.99 something (between 2 and 99 or above 200) to keep it outside DHCP server (which is between 100 and 200). Or if you want to keep 192.168.8.102 for iPad, then adjust DHCP range to something between 103 and 200. Keep DHCP server enabled.
 
Hey guys, I have recently purchased one of these routers. Afrihost standard SIM is being delivered today. I am quite concerned though, I see the router (purchased from Edgars) has 'Telkom' on the front. Please tell me it is not hard-coded to Telkom only? Is there anything specific I need to know to get it to work on MTN through Afrihost?
 
4ftersh0ck said:
Hey guys, I have recently purchased one of these routers. Afrihost standard SIM is being delivered today. I am quite concerned though, I see the router (purchased from Edgars) has 'Telkom' on the front. Please tell me it is not hard-coded to Telkom only? Is there anything specific I need to know to get it to work on MTN through Afrihost?
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It's just a Telkom sticker - the router is not locked & works with any SIM. Just change the APN on the router to afrihost or whatever APN your service provider requires. I bought the same router & use it with AH :).
 
blowdart18 said:
I see when you use the URL for device signal it gives the numbers in sequence.

Does that sequence follow the above RSRQ, RSRP and RSSI in that order?
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In IE you probably get error message "Internet Explorer cannot display this feed". Go to the menu View -> Source, you will see tags description like here:
Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<pci>78</pci>
<sc></sc>
<cell_id>453377</cell_id>
<rsrq>-6dB</rsrq>
<rsrp>-96dBm</rsrp>
<rssi>-75dBm</rssi>
<sinr>1dB</sinr>
<rscp></rscp>
<ecio></ecio>
<mode>7</mode>
</response>
In Chrome <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+I, but you must find the way to display tag names.
 
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Thank you for that. Used view-source in chrome mobile Web browser.

These are the raw results:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<pci>83</pci>
<sc></sc>
<cell_id>4178688</cell_id>
<rsrq>-4dB</rsrq>
<rsrp>-75dBm</rsrp>
<rssi>&gt;=-51dBm</rssi>
<sinr>&amp;gt;=30dB</sinr>
<rscp></rscp>
<ecio></ecio>
<mode>7</mode>
</response>
 
Quick question for the guys out there, after positioning my Antenna with the help of sajunky I am getting a stable down and upload speed.

This is however capping at 59.55Mbps download, and 12.33Mbps upload.

Could this be a base station limitation or could it be a HUAWEI B315s limitation.
 
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