Seems to be the same spec and a lot more of them aboutThanks, I will look into that
@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.
That was iPad, not ZTE.I don’t why know the ZTE was showing my location
That's the only upgrade though.MF297d has WIFI 6. I thought MF296D has WIFI 5
mmm not so muchThat's the only upgrade though.
The modem seems identical and if the device is bridge mode the WiFi is not necessary.
Less than 256MB RAM?mmm not so much
board is an IPQ5018, while the modem is an SDX12 instead of MSM9260
I don't remember, but a friend of mine got it and we found these "news", but not so much information about running OSLess than 256MB RAM?
Oh forks exist, biggest issue is that any device under 256MB RAM cannot run the wireless drivers unless you are using the proprietary drivers.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![]()
They have “private” code that doesn’t share.. and most of the time only little system are supportedOh 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.