Can someone help me, how can I manually select the provider for the x3000? I search for the available networks and then what? If I select it here, the network will be blocked, but I don’t want that?!
Can’t anyone help me?
You want to lock the carrier, not the cell tower?
The provider is determined by the sim card you are using. You don’t have the option to select a different carrier.
If we are traveling outside of our home country (Germany) in Europe (roaming), we can select a provider manually with our cell phone, but that should also work with the X3000?
Very interesting. So, what I’m understanding is that your carrier that you use in Germany allows the user/customer to choose which carrier they roam on when in another country. It does not work that way in the United States. Your main carrier will have predetermined roaming agreements with other carriers. The user/customer has no say in who they roam on.
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It‘s not possible with German carriers either - but: There are countries in the EU (Switzerland to be exact) which are not included in roaming.
So if you are in the Alps in Italy you want to choose the Italian network instead of the Swiss one.
Here is a screenshot of my cell phone, here I can e.g. choose between Orange and Movistar! I can do it in Switzerland too, every European can do it!
That highly depends on your mobile contract.
So it’s not like you can usually choose between the carriers you want to use every time.
But within the EU: The mobile phone providers have concluded roaming agreements with each other, you usually have a free choice of network abroad. This is probably quite unique in the world. And that might be the reason why it’s not so well supported right now.
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This is probably quite unique in the world.
In fact, it is NOT unique in the world — it's a great feature, available for EVERYONE and EVERYWHERE via the right eSIM and that's why it would be so cool to have it in the GL-X3000 for example. Many users just don't know about it or how to set it up, and it's only a few providers you are locking this.
If you have a look at keepgo.com, it will take you 30 seconds (the first time it might take you 3 minutes) to register and receive a working eSIM for multiple US carriers. Or Middle East carriers. Or Asian carriers. Or 200+ carriers in >100 countries (that one is expensive).
It's very affordable if you keep it to select regions like US only, US + EU, or middle east only. And every Samsung phone (=Korean) has the option to select settings -> connections -> mobile network.
The problem I am having with the G-X3000 is that it sometimes selects a network that can do 200 MB/s downstream and 100 MB/s upstream, but at other times, it selects another network that only does 5 MB/s and 2 MB/s (in extreme cases). I can tell my Samsung phone to ONLY register to a specific carrier (with the same eSIM I use in the GL-X3000). And if the provider allows it (which keepgo does for all US carriers), it works like a charm.
So one use case is speed.
Another use case is costs, and that applies to 100% EVERY single user in the world on every contract: If you are close to the border of two different countries, the signal from a specific foreign network in Country A might be much stronger. Your provider might allow roaming, but charge a lot of money for it from Country A and restrict the data amount, while the network from Country B might cost no roaming fees or only very little fees. Looking the device to a Country B roaming carrier is the solution in this case (if you turn off roaming, you will have no internet and also loose the connection to country B).
So it would be awesome to be able to lock the carrier (or select a carrier for an eSIM profile) with the GL-X3000, especially with the cool new physical eSIM that can store 8 profiles and allows a dual eSIM. It'S the only feature I am missing now in firmware 4.13 Beta 1.
Until network selection is implemented, I found a way that might work as a workaround (the AT commands did not work for me): My card can use Telekom, Vodafone and o2 where I am. o2 is very slow here. So I blocked Band 20 which it used. It switched to 8. I blocked that, too. It seems O2 can't use band 3 here and so the GL-X now switched to Telekom which is much faster.
I also find it sad that gl-inet (@lizh) is not able to implement this possibility within a year, the RUT routers have had this from the beginning and these are even industrial routers
it is possible!
AT+COPS=1,2,"26201" for Telekom
AT+COPS=1,2,"26202" for Vodafone
AT+COPS=1,2,"26203" for O2
values in "" can be adapted for other carriers
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Thanks a lot, @tomyc ! I tried that, and it did NOT work with the beta firmware that was the only way to use the eSIM app until two days ago. There must have been a bug in it regarding the AT commands. The network selection with AT commands now works — and it would be so cool to have this as a dropdown menu in the manual setup that we could store as a profile (together with the APN etc — it should be a simple step for the developers).
There is still room for improvements for the AT commands, e. g. AT+COPS=? crashed the modem for it (while it correctly returns all available networks with another beta that has no eSIM manager support). AT+COPS? to only return the currently selected operator works.
Hi there,
will catch up this topic again.
I‘m also missing this features.
E.g. In some areas the automatic choosen Carrier is that slow due to too much clients.
Therefore i select manually another provider.
As before wrote someone, the RUT routers have rhis implemeted from house
and it is workimg fine.
Would be great if this could be also a feature on the gli net FW.
Im also strugeling to block cells, but this is my fault as for me its to complicated.
I‘m using cellmaper.net to detect the right cell and provider but the info there is not
matching with the selection I got in the menu of gli net.
As I said , my fault.
Cheers
Thomas
Works like a charm now, a bug in the BETA prevented this from working when I last posted, but it's fixed and working stable since January
Hi Thomas,
as described by tomyc above — a little more detail:
use
AT+COPS=?
to find all available networks, e.g.
+COPS: (1,"o2 - de","o2 - de","26203",7),
(1,"Telekom Deutschland GER","Telekom","26201",7),
(1,"vodafone.de","Vodafone","26202",7),
(1,"Telekom Deutschland GER","Telekom","26201",12),
(1,"o2 - de","o2 - de","26203",12),
(1,"vodafone.de","Vodafone","26202",12),,(0-4),(0-2)
to manually select a network then use
AT+COPS=1,2,"26201",13
or
AT+COPS=1,1,"Telekom Deutschland GER",12
for Telekom 5G
=1,2 if you want to use the number and 1,1 if you want to use the network name, it has to match the network name you received from the query above.
I still use the band blocking/forcing, because after hours of testing, some bands tend to be much faster (for me where I place the device). In my home office, I receive great 5G speeds at night, but during work hours, 4G is much faster for uploads. I don't need 220 MB/s downstream with 10 MB/s up (5G auto select), but prefer 95 MB/s down with 50 MB/s up which I can "tune in" with the bands as described in my other post above.
Cheers,
Rainer