HUAWEI B618 LTE-A router discussion thread.

ReeceDBN031 said:
I have no idea..? lol

only ones ive used are B315 and now B525
i want the B618-65d.. as i hear works best on telkom.
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How did you find the move from the B315 to the B525?

B525's are a dime a dozen here in PE, but they only have 2x2 MIMO as far as I'm aware.

The B612 and B618 both do 4x4 MIMO, however B612 is missing some odd features. 5GHz Wifi, it only has cat6 LTE, can support 32 users on the built-in wifi as opposed to 64 users on the B618 and a few others that I have since forgotten
 
PhireSide said:
How did you find the move from the B315 to the B525?

B525's are a dime a dozen here in PE, but they only have 2x2 MIMO as far as I'm aware.

The B612 and B618 both do 4x4 MIMO, however B612 is missing some odd features. 5GHz Wifi, it only has cat6 LTE, can support 32 users on the built-in wifi as opposed to 64 users on the B618 and a few others that I have since forgotten
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Hi there

well.. was maybe only a slight differance from the B315 to the B525. But i wasnt really all clued up back then lol. But to be honest didnt do speed tests or anything to confirm this.

But the only problem with @Daruk, reason for my question is mothers adsl being decomissioned and "upgrading" via Mweb, they dont offer mtn i see.
they do however offer the B525.
 
I see the phone port on my B618 has now started to work using an analogue phone and Telkom sim. I had tried a month ago and it didn't work. It's great because I can use my redundant telephone cabling and plug points.
 
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Daruk said:
Totally - it's already a very basic firmware. Seems some international folk are having the same issue and loading foreign language firmwares to get around it. pornjk porn800 redtube
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*EDIT* After some tests it seems the router was in the best place possible in the house for signal which leads me to believe the external antenna is pointing at the right tower, but it's performing consistently better on internal antennas with the external antennas often peaking around 20mbps and internal has gone over 75Mbps.
 
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I am looking to connect an older ASUS AC52U router to my B618 to use as an effective bridge to supply a better Wi-Fi coverage to the house.

I am not winning as I have no clue how to setup the ASUS as a bridge to enable throughput from the B618. It doesn't seem as if the B618 supports a bridged connection as the ASUS has to specify MAC addresses to bridge with.

Anyone have any luck doing this? Would prefer a wireless bridge but if you can only do via WAN, then I can make a plan.
 
Mista_Mobsta said:
I am looking to connect an older ASUS AC52U router to my B618 to use as an effective bridge to supply a better Wi-Fi coverage to the house.

I am not winning as I have no clue how to setup the ASUS as a bridge to enable throughput from the B618. It doesn't seem as if the B618 supports a bridged connection as the ASUS has to specify MAC addresses to bridge with.

Anyone have any luck doing this? Would prefer a wireless bridge but if you can only do via WAN, then I can make a plan.
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There is nothing special that needs to be done. Set up the Asus that the gateway and DNS is the IP of the main router, ensure that DHCP is turned off on Asus, and it has a different IP of the main router. Plug in, and done.q
 
Pablo37 said:
I see the phone port on my B618 has now started to work using an analogue phone and Telkom sim. I had tried a month ago and it didn't work. It's great because I can use my redundant telephone cabling and plug points.
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Can a cable from the router be plugged into the existing phone jack points in your home enabling them to be used with your old phones ?
 
3Gee said:
Can a cable from the router be plugged into the existing phone jack points in your home enabling them to be used with your old phones ?
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Yes. I never applied for any activation for this. It just started to work. Plugged a phone in and got a dial tone. When I connected the telephone cabling there was initially a hum on the line that wasn't evident with just a phone connected so I disconnected the main Telkom feed. Not sure what standard it is because VoLTE is disabled on the router. I have two phones on the same line and the sound quality is excellent. All I did was load airtime.

EDIT: The telephone function does not work when the router is set to '4G Only'. You just get an engaged signal. When you set it to '4G&3G Auto' you get the dial tone.
 
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Pablo37 said:
Yes. I never applied for any activation for this. It just started to work. Plugged a phone in and got a dial tone. When I connected the telephone cabling there was initially a hum on the line that wasn't evident with just a phone connected so I disconnected the main Telkom feed. Not sure what standard it is because VoLTE is disabled on the router. I have two phones on the same line and the sound quality is excellent. All I did was load airtime.
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Interesting...
Excuse the somewhat ignorant questions:

I have a B618 and a phone and cable lying around not being used( from a disconnected previous Telkom landline)

How do you know what your number is? Can you receive incoming calls? How do you buy "airtime"??
 
MirageF1 said:
Interesting...
Excuse the somewhat ignorant questions:

I have a B618 and a phone and cable lying around not being used( from a disconnected previous Telkom landline)

How do you know what your number is? Can you receive incoming calls? How do you buy "airtime"??
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You can use the USSD function when you login to the router. To check a Telkom number the code is *1#
Yes you can receive incoming calls even if there is no airtime loaded, same as a cellphone

For Telkom LTE
GOTO https://onnetsecure.telkom.co.za/onnet/public/mobileData? Your telephone number is reflected on the right hand side as well as your data and airtime balances. You can also buy data and airtime from here. No need to login.
To buy airtime, USSD Code *180# on your device and following the prompts.
Buying at any Telkom store.
Using online banking.
Logging in to My Telkom.
 
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Pablo37 said:
You can use the USSD function when you login to the router. To check a Telkom number the code is *1#
Yes you can receive incoming calls even if there is no airtime loaded, same as a cellphone

For Telkom LTE
To buy airtime, USSD Code *180# on your device and following the prompts.
Buying at any Telkom store.
Using online banking.
Logging in to My Telkom.
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Thanks, have just connected the phone to the tel port.
Will do some more research on cost of calls from Telkom, etc
I get the engaged tone as you mentioned...a bit reluctant to change the mode to 4G/3G as won't this perhaps affect affect my internet speeds at times i.e during a call?

EDIT: I get
Sent:*180#
Received:Failed.

I guess it's because I'm using a MTN not Telkom Fixed LTE connection!
I will check MTN options for buying airtime tho i suspect I can only buy mob airtime not landline.

EDIT: OK now i'm suitably confused...all USSD codes fail as well.

Sent: *136*10#
Received: Failed.
Sent: *141*1#
Received: Failed.
 
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Pablo37 said:
Same issue as telephone. The USSD codes will not work if the router is set to '4G only'.
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It wasn't...I changed it to Auto before I sent the USSD's

Might just do the VOIP thing (FreshPhone or SwitchTel look decent)...probably cheaper and more flexible as well.
 
MirageF1 said:
...a bit reluctant to change the mode to 4G/3G as won't this perhaps affect affect my internet speeds at times i.e during a call?

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The '3G&4G Auto' setting works for me. Normal surfing it'll use 3G but when downloading the routers GUI shows that 4G+ kicks in automatically.
EDIT: Actually uses 4G normally and 4G+ when downloading.
 
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Pablo37 said:
The '3G&4G Auto' setting works for me. Normal surfing it'll use 3G but when downloading the routers GUI shows that 4G+ kicks in automatically.
EDIT: Actually uses 4G normally and 4G+ when downloading.
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Hi all , rather than starting a new thread I thought I would post here for some help and advice;

I am trying to set the B618 router to use the open dns family shield servers using telkom mobile internet.
I have a Huawei router tool and I can see dns is set to "1" which I think means Auto?
If I change it to "0" and put the open dns server address in there and write to the modem would that work? See attached screen shot. Do I put the html tags in for a secondary dns and put the other open dns address in there? Thanks all.
 

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Daruk said:
Hmm.... Will test this and let you know. Didn't know there was an API.
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Thanks you, I am on holidays and just trying to setup my parents new router. I am pretty sure I stumble across the API on this forum . I also tried the v0.8 and v0.9 but that did not open in my windows 10 and different author.
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Do these routers ever get any updates?
My firmware:
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Daruk said:
Hmm.... Will test this and let you know. Didn't know there was an API.
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None of these API tools work ! I even installed windows 7 (tool open but did not work when writing to the api.

This is the answer posted by D_O "thanks" worked for both the b618 and the b315

Nov 13, 2019
I know I am extremely late to the party, but here's a simple solution that still works as of 2019

1. Login to the admin site for the router (usually at 192.168.8.1 for Huawei routers) and go to Settings -> DHCP
2. Press F12 to open dev tools
3. In the console, insert the following commands and press enter between each:
JavaScript:
$('#dhcp_dns_statistic').show();
$('#dhcp_primary_dns').show();
$('#dhcp_secondary_dns').show();
If you can't get step 3 to work, open the elements tab of dev tools and find the following elements:
<tr id="dhcp_primary_dns" style="display: none;">...</tr> and
<tr id="dhcp_secondary_dns" style="display: none;">...</tr>
remove the 'style="display: none" attribute and the dns server settings will be displayed!

Below is a screenshot of the above method in action, as you can see, the primary DNS server option is now available:)

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Credits go to the authors of the following link https://yescrowd.optus.com.au/t5/Br...outer-Fix-for-missing-DNS-setting/td-p/529501

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You may need to update the APN settings for your network provider after applying the DNS server changes.
 
Dianysis said:
Do these routers ever get any updates?
My firmware:
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Mine reads...
Device name: B618s-65d
Hardware version: WL1B610FM01
Software version: 11.195.03.00.372
Web UI version: 21.100.39.00.03
 
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