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Only thing I noticed and not sure if it matters, but the Init String is lower case z and mine is upper case Z.
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First thing I would do is disable the ppp instance in the gui and try to connect to the ports at the CLI until you find which one is listening for AT commands.
[23.01-RELEASE][admin@3100.stevew.lan]/root: cu -l cuaU0.2 Connected at OK ati Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Incorporated Model: EM7455 Revision: SWI9X30C_02.08.02.00 r5428 CARMD-EV-FRMWR2 2016/01/06 20:38:53 MEID: xxxxxxxxxxxx IMEI: xxxxxxxxxxxx IMEI SV: 4 FSN: xxxxxxxxxx +GCAP: +CGSM OKUse
~~.to escape that cu session.Then once you know which is the correct port check the ppp logs to see what's happening when it tries to connect.
Steve
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Here are three links you could try out a step by step
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@90ninety Also on mine, cua0.0 is without the cellular package cuaZ99.0 with it.
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It's important to note that the upper case
Uin the port name indicates it's a USB connected device. So in my output above the port is cuaU0.2.
Almost all devices have two onboard com ports even if they're not connected to anything named cuau0 and cuau1.
The Cellular package adds the cuaZ* aliases in order to workaround the ports being re-ordered.Steve
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Pending on the vendor, but in the most cases "the modem"
is installing 4 ports and one is often in usage, so you cant connect to. Now you have to normally to find out what port is open and able to use. So you do probing all modem ports
out so that you will get the right one what is responding on AT commands.- Putty (115200,8,N,1)
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Find out your modem vendor the ugen - usbconfig -d 2.3 dump_device_desc
As an example we use here ugen2.3
ugen2.3: <HUAWEI Technology HUAWEI Mobile> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)- Type in the console "ls /dev/cuaU*"
Now all the cua Ports will be presented to you - Now try out all the cua ports with typing in
cu -l /dev/cuaU0.0, cu -l /dev/cuaU0.1 and so on - If you found the right port you will see something like
connected - Then you will be able to probe the AT commands after setting the modem into verbose mode.
And now, you will be able to create an interface in the
pfSense interface setup and use it as WAN or what ever
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I have the same modem which connects and works reasonably well using the init string:
&F0E1Q0 +CMEE=2My issue is that I cannot get decent bandwidth even with an external high gain antenna attached. I get 10 times the bandwidth from an iPhone on the same provider.
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What bandwidth do you actually see?
pfSense is highly restricted by the connection type it has to use since FreeBSD doesn't, yet, support MBIM or QMI.
I've never seen faster than ~60Mbps. We have seen reports of ~100Mbps.
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@stephenw10 Best I have seen is 12Mbps on the 4G modem. I'm now in the process of changing over my edge firewall to use OpenWRT as it supports QMI.
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Oh? In what respect? I've not tried that, the description looks almost identical to how pfSense works with the exception of multiple routing tables.
Also dpinger only monitors the gateways, or other IPs, it doesn't do any of the policy routing or traffic failover/balancing.Steve
