I’ll be getting my beryl ax soon. I wonder if we have updates that F50 can be directly connected to beryl ax without restarting?
so far I’ve seen they are using usb hubs with power supply to power up zte f50
Did you get your F50 already? Your Beryl AX worked with F50?
PS: I`m on the same boat, just bought a F50 and I am waiting it arrive.
@alzhao, what is the power supplied by the USB3.0 port by Brume 2 (GL-MT2500). Should it be enough for F50 or is it limited at 5V1A as the Beryl AX (GL-MT3000). And where can we get this information for your routers? I could not find it at the gl-inet webpage neither in the datasheets.
Should be max 5V1.2A
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My zte f50 5g is still restarting directly connected to beryl ax or beryl ax not detecting zte f50
Just in case anyone still feeling interested on this…
Basically this is my setup to get things work,
It’s all getting down to the insufficient output power that MT3000 can provide with the USB port, so… what I added here is one extra cable (to give additional power), and a USB hub (to combine the power cable and the data cable).
So basically, plug in the output side (the side with only one male USB plug) to the MT3000’s USB port (apply a type-c to USB-A adapter if necessary); for the input side there are two ports, one for data and one for power (depending on your USB hub you got on hand, but it has to have dedicated port for additional power supply). Connect the data port with ZTE F50 with a proper cable that fits in your case, and plug in another cable to add in additional power.
Lastly, make sure MT3000 has plugged-in with a cable that can provide enough power for itself.
I tried a few different hubs I got on hand, and even tried with two power banks that serve both cables respectively, all work like a charm.
Hope that helps.
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As mentioned on previous discussions, software is the problem. Does your setup continuosly work without sudden boot up of your f50 and actually works if I add another power supply?
I'm using old Beryl MT1300 with ZTE F50 and it works great with the power from Beryl's USB port. I've bought Ugreen USB-C to USB-A adapter, to make sure it'll have additionall pins to support USB 3.0 speed.
Just use a powered USB3 hub and make sure the data cable between the F50 and USB3 hub is of good quality (those which can fast charge a phone and can connect with a PC). Also put a fan on the F50 as it goes down to 4G when overheating. Aside from the F50, I've got the fan and a long USB3 cable for my flash drive (since it interferes with the 2.4G wifi signal) connected to the USB3 hub. The USB3 hub is powered by a phone charger adapter with 2.0A rating. You also need to use a good power cable for the USB3 hub. The cheap ones can't even draw more than 1.0A of current
I have experience of suffering with MT3000 and F50 for almost a year.
At first, everything was fine. F50 was fixed on the mast, at a distance of 7 meters from the router. Used active USB cable with additional power. The system worked stably for about 4 months, and then it started...
At peak speed (about 150-250 Mbit/s, the cellular network was lost and was not restored until the modem was physically reconnected. Moreover, searching for a cellular network began to take more than 10 minutes, sometimes I had to disconnect and connect the modem several times before the connection was established. It became impossible to live with this. I tried everything: additional power, high-quality cables, different firmware, switching from RNDIS to CDC-ECM and back. Everything was useless. Sometimes it was better, sometimes worse, but overall - crap. I even suspected that the source of the problems was the F50, but it worked correctly with any other device - computer / smartphone / router. This week I gave up and threw my MT3000 in the far corner. I can't look it anymore.
Instead, I took a Raspberry Pi4 with OpenWRT on board. Here's how it is looks like: a router with OpenWRT is installed at home, then a 48V PoE injector and a 12m long LAN cable. At the other end there is a Pi4 + F50 with a 5V/3A PoE extractor, two SSR, an ESP32C3, two temperature sensors Dallas and three fans. Works perfectly. The MT3000 is forgotten like a bad dream.
And yes, my opinion is that it is a hardware problem.
The photo shows the last attempt to use the MT3000.