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Mikrotik wAP LTE kit
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Hamish McPanji
Honorary Master
Yes. Comes with a mounting bracket.
ThatGuy_ZA
Senior Member
It should until they start restricting which devices can register on their network:
https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/917419-Rain-LTE-A-SIMs-to-stop-working-in-smartphones
Thanks.
So we purchased 2 x SMA Female To U.FL Connector and a A-XPOL-0006. Poynting will shorten the cable on request (ships with 10m).
I initially made the mistake of connecting the cables to the two headers on the board. Turns out these are "used only for factory Wireless calibration" according to Mikrotik support. So you need to remove the hot glue and the internal antennas and connect them directly to the mPCIe card. The glue is pretty simple to remove but connecting the U.FL connectors can be a bit fiddly. A decent set of long nose pliers will help. I also found a use for the Mikrotik sticker
Connecting to the card
Something to keep them in place
I initially made the mistake of connecting the cables to the two headers on the board. Turns out these are "used only for factory Wireless calibration" according to Mikrotik support. So you need to remove the hot glue and the internal antennas and connect them directly to the mPCIe card. The glue is pretty simple to remove but connecting the U.FL connectors can be a bit fiddly. A decent set of long nose pliers will help. I also found a use for the Mikrotik sticker
Connecting to the card
Something to keep them in place
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Hamish McPanji
Honorary Master
/drools
Oh and I probably managed a good 10 dBi gain over the internal antennas.
Internal antennas supposedly offer somewhere in the range of 2 - 4.5 dBi gain, but I think they are pretty useless, especially when compared side-by-side with a Huawei B315.
Internal antennas supposedly offer somewhere in the range of 2 - 4.5 dBi gain, but I think they are pretty useless, especially when compared side-by-side with a Huawei B315.
You can send AT commands to the LTE modem from the terminal. 
Request manufacturer identification:
Request revision identification:
Request model identification:
You can also send USSD, but the command takes a while to complete, so you need to add "wait=yes" or you only get back "OK":
The returned USSD response is a string of ASCII hexadecimal digits.
I haven't figured out if it's possible to get the output in plain ASCII.
Request manufacturer identification:
Code:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMI"
output: +CGMI: "MikroTik"Request revision identification:
Code:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMR"
output: +CGMR: "MikroTik_CP_2.160.000_v001"Request model identification:
Code:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMM"
output: +CGMM: "R11e-LTE"You can also send USSD, but the command takes a while to complete, so you need to add "wait=yes" or you only get back "OK":
Code:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CUSD=1,\"*101#\",15" wait=yes
output: OK +CREG: 1, 51, 25cd684, 2 +CGREG: 1,"0051","025cd684",6,10 +CEREG: 0 +CREG: 1, 51, 25cd684, 6 +CUSD: 0,
"417661696c61626c652042616c616e63653a205220302e3030202e446174613a203132383632332e3334204d422e4d69646e6967687420446174613a2031323132372e3
938204d422e20596f7520617265206f6e207468652045617379436861742074617269666620", 0The returned USSD response is a string of ASCII hexadecimal digits.
| 0x41 | 0x76 | 0x61 | 0x69 | 0x6c | 0x61 | 0x62 | 0x6c | 0x65 | 0x20 | 0x42 | 0x61 | 0x6c | 0x61 | 0x6e | 0x63 | 0x65 |
| A | v | a | i | l | a | b | l | e | B | a | l | a | n | c | e |
I haven't figured out if it's possible to get the output in plain ASCII.
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Hamish McPanji
Honorary Master
That's awesome. Do sms also have a delay?
I haven't tried on this modem, but from what I recall, a USSD response is usually quicker than sending and receiving an SMS.
Looking at the online documentation https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Tools/Sms it seems sending and receiving SMS requires a serial port (i.e. modem must be in PPP mode, not LTE mode).
SilverNodashi
Expert Member
You can send AT commands to the LTE modem from the terminal.
Request manufacturer identification:
Code:[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMI" output: +CGMI: "MikroTik"
Request revision identification:
Code:[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMR" output: +CGMR: "MikroTik_CP_2.160.000_v001"
Request model identification:
Code:[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CGMM" output: +CGMM: "R11e-LTE"
You can also send USSD, but the command takes a while to complete, so you need to add "wait=yes" or you only get back "OK":
Code:[admin@MikroTik] > /interface lte at-chat lte1 input="AT+CUSD=1,\"*101#\",15" wait=yes output: OK +CREG: 1, 51, 25cd684, 2 +CGREG: 1,"0051","025cd684",6,10 +CEREG: 0 +CREG: 1, 51, 25cd684, 6 +CUSD: 0, "417661696c61626c652042616c616e63653a205220302e3030202e446174613a203132383632332e3334204d422e4d69646e6967687420446174613a2031323132372e3 938204d422e20596f7520617265206f6e207468652045617379436861742074617269666620", 0
The returned USSD response is a string of ASCII hexadecimal digits.
0x41 0x76 0x61 0x69 0x6c 0x61 0x62 0x6c 0x65 0x20 0x42 0x61 0x6c 0x61 0x6e 0x63 0x65 A v a i l a b l e B a l a n c e
I haven't figured out if it's possible to get the output in plain ASCII.
Do you know if it's possible to change the identify of this device, to make it look like one of the supported LTE routers on the RAIN network?
Highly doubtful.
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