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ZTE MF297D

Bures

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Thinking of upgrading my Huawei B535 to this CAT 12 ZTE router
Details on the net are sparce, numerous adverts but no feedback or even a manual
Is this worth purchasing used "A" condition for £60
 
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@Bures I believe the MF297d is a MF286d in a different case.

Ok, in that case @Bures, I started with a MF286D from Three which I was happy with but after a year I decided to play and got a £35 Sercomm LTE2122GR from eBay which did much better Carrier Aggregation on upload. When my daughter dropped her Vodafone broadband I kept the Sercomm and gave her the ZTE. My (non-exhaustive) testing showed the ZTE has slightly better WiFi reach in her house, though not much in it.

The Sercomm has a Lyca SIM in at the moment - changing APN requires a Requestly addon in my browser and a bit of code. Really very simple and documented in this forum.
 
Ok, in that case @Bures, I started with a MF286D from Three which I was happy with but after a year I decided to play and got a £35 Sercomm LTE2122GR from eBay which did much better Carrier Aggregation on upload. When my daughter dropped her Vodafone broadband I kept the Sercomm and gave her the ZTE. My (non-exhaustive) testing showed the ZTE has slightly better WiFi reach in her house, though not much in it.

The Sercomm has a Lyca SIM in at the moment - changing APN requires a Requestly addon in my browser and a bit of code. Really very simple and documented in this forum.


Thanks, I will investigate the Sercomm
 
Hi, I’ve just bought the ZTE297D, I’ve had a Huawei 535/235 for nearly 4 years now and it’s been excellent. I don’t know how long it will last so I thought I would try out the ZTE.

The speeds are similar, between 50 and 100 download and 20 ish upload but I have a problem with the ZTE. Google maps and Bing maps on my IPad are showing my location as some town in Macedonia not England. Putting the sim back in the Huawei the maps show my correct location. All I can do is set the time zone to GMT. What else can I do? Is this a security concern?
 
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Thanks for the reply. I’ve put my Huawei back in the loft now so can’t do any testing at the moment but I have the Speedtest data and found the external IP and showing as Manchester for both routers. I don’t why know the ZTE was showing my location as foreign town.
 
Fair enough, so I don’t why IPad shows a wrong location when connected to the ZTE, I will test again later thanks.
 
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I don't remember, but a friend of mine got it and we found these "news", but not so much information about running OS

ATM no support of IPQ5018 on OpenWRT :(
Oh forks exist, biggest issue is that any device under 256MB RAM cannot run the wireless drivers unless you are using the proprietary drivers.
Coolsnowwolf and Lean come to mind.
 
Oh forks exist, biggest issue is that any device under 256MB RAM cannot run the wireless drivers unless you are using the proprietary drivers.
Coolsnowwolf and Lean come to mind.
They have “private” code that doesn’t share.. and most of the time only little system are supported
 
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