MIKROTIK RBSXTR&R11e-LTE

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:14

Anyone here got experience of using one of these? I've just gotten hold of one via work.

Steveocee · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:27

212.159.5.208 said:
Anyone here got experience of using one of these? I've just gotten hold of one via work.

Yes lots. What do you want to know?

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:46

Steveocee said:
Yes lots. What do you want to know?

How much setting up does it require? Found nothing really showing or explaining. It's got dual sim and we have a vodafone and EE we'd like to use.

Caged · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:01

Dual SIM but not dual radio IIRC

Steveocee · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:04

212.159.5.208 said:
How much setting up does it require? Found nothing really showing or explaining. It's got dual sim and we have a vodafone and EE we'd like to use.

Not a lot. Just need to make sure you set the APN's up and you should be away. MikroTik kit is a bit of a learning curve if you haven't used it before. The webfig quickset menu will just about scrape you to a working config but there is SO much more.

Caged said:
Dual SIM but not dual radio IIRC

Correct.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 14:41

I'm stuck for setting the APN's up.

I've done a few Mikrtoik but this is really giving me the run around

WJA96 · 9 Oct 2019 at 19:07

212.159.5.208 said:
I'm stuck for setting the APN's up.

I've done a few Mikrtoik but this is really giving me the run around

What service providers are you using? Most of the APN information is freely available on the internet.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 19:42

WJA96 said:
What service providers are you using? Most of the APN information is freely available on the internet.

Vodaphone and EE

Is there a way to tell it or set it up to use the best one? Presume it’ll default across to one of one goes down

WJA96 · 9 Oct 2019 at 20:01

Yes, you can specify which SIM you want to use as the primary. The other one can be set up as the failover.

EE is

Name: EE internet
APN: everywhere
Proxy: Not Required
Port: Not Required
Username: eesecure or not required
Password: secure or not required

Vodafone is

Name: Vodafone internet
APN: internet
Proxy: Leave in Blank
Port: Leave in Blank
Username: web or not required
Password: web or not required

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 20:12

WJA96 said:
Yes, you can specify which SIM you want to use as the primary. The other one can be set up as the failover.

EE is

Name: EE internet
APN: everywhere
Proxy: Not Required
Port: Not Required
Username: eesecure or not required
Password: secure or not required

Vodafone is

Name: Vodafone internet
APN: internet
Proxy: Leave in Blank
Port: Leave in Blank
Username: web or not required
Password: web or not required

My EE is showing as eem2m

photo uploading sites

I can confirm the Vodafone is working which is in the slot B

WJA96 · 9 Oct 2019 at 21:04

Did it self populate like that or did you type it in?

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 21:05

WJA96 said:
Did it self populate like that or did you type it in?

Truthfully I can’t recall now. Been fighting with it all day

WJA96 · 9 Oct 2019 at 21:07

I suspect you typed it in. Try the vanilla EE settings I posted. It’s always worked for me.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 9 Oct 2019 at 22:09

WJA96 said:
I suspect you typed it in. Try the vanilla EE settings I posted. It’s always worked for me.

Is there something I’m missing for the sim car selection to which APN that is?

WJA96 · 10 Oct 2019 at 07:15

212.159.5.208 said:
Is there something I’m missing for the sim car selection to which APN that is?

I’m not in front of a machine running webfig at the moment but from memory you need to set the sim slot in the modem tab on the LTE interface. There are generally two options - up and down. Which I know doesn’t make sense, but welcome to the world of ‘Latvian Logic’.

With Mikrotik, you always need to bear in mind that this is generally not a device for Plug’n’Play home users. Quickset will get you up and running but after that you need to switch to Webfig and it can be overwhelming understanding where everything is and how the software authors think.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 10 Oct 2019 at 07:17

Just changed the EE settings and this is how it looks.

WJA96 · 10 Oct 2019 at 07:27

And which interface are you using currently? You shouldn’t still have a default LTE interface if you started off with Quickset.

How did you get to this point?

You may be better off doing a complete reset and rebuilding the list. Quickset gets you up and running. After that you’re best downloading Winbox which gives you ALL the exposed options.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 10 Oct 2019 at 09:26

WJA96 said:
And which interface are you using currently? You shouldn’t still have a default LTE interface if you started off with Quickset.

How did you get to this point?

You may be better off doing a complete reset and rebuilding the list. Quickset gets you up and running. After that you’re best downloading Winbox which gives you ALL the exposed options.

Webfig right now. I honestly can’t recall it’s been one of them weeks. So many projects on the go.

Steveocee · 10 Oct 2019 at 11:47

Example here is for the LTAP but should be easily changed for the SXT kit:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Dual_SIM_Application

Obviously this is after you have EE working.

Erm yeah that’s hard to pick one · 10 Oct 2019 at 12:07

Steveocee said:
Example here is for the LTAP but should be easily changed for the SXT kit:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Dual_SIM_Application

Obviously this is after you have EE working.

That’s using the CLI option via SSH