As the title says…can anyone shed any clues or is it just the chinese reserving certain ports for spying?
i use the router in my van with an ee sim card but find certain apps just wont connect or load content through the router and wifi. Turn off wifi to use phones data and connection isnt an issue so its something in the router.
started with kids Roblox but the banking apps have tightened security maybe so wont load and now even sportpursuit app wont load! But strangely I can access some sites via web interface and not their app.
any clues? I tried portforwarding for roblox but the range they published gave problems with the router saying a specific range was reserved…..possibly for spying!!
Any ideas ?
is it the sim card service provider?
I have had some vpns etc blocked by certain providers, take the sim out of your phone and use it in the router, if it works then its the sim card provider if it doesn't then its the router.
I am looking to get a very similar one myself, so fingers crossed
Deffo the router. Sim card comes out of my phone and gors into the router when we’re away - external aerials on the router and easier to use a router than have whole family tethered to my phone.
i never had issues on a TP-Link router but it was cat 6 so super slow. But at least all sites worked!
Dint bother with the B818 if you’re looking at it. I’m going to get rid if i cant aort the apps being blocked. Too many apps now dont work and its a PITA with kids whining at me!
Can you go here on your phone and see what the MTU is?
1420
I remember the days of my qnap servers and tinkering with it but is there anything i can do on the router? Dont recall seeing any settings.
I dont know anything about that model, unfortunately, but can you now do the same thing without using the router and see if the MTU is higher?
Same - 1420.
I’m thinking theres something in port mapping / routing that needs opening on the router but huawei seems to keep a few locked and hidden
Disable any firewalls or similar on it and see if that helps.
Is it a PAYG sim? I've had issues with routers set up using sims in a temporary work space - seeming to block certain functionality (particularly things like PayPal transactions) and it was something to do with the PAYG sims not being registered to anyone's address - it was the carrier / ISP blocking the traffic rather than the router.
Sounds not dissimilar to the issue I was having recently (I did a thread on here a week ago). Definitiely seems to be a mobile phone/IP conflict thing happening out there. My PC and laptop work fine via my home router but all mobiles, be they android, Huawei, or Iphone all struggle with certain websites and apps to gain full (or any) access. A full VPN installed on the mobile devices was an instant (if OTT cure). After some investigation it was possible to acehieve the same thing using the 1.1.1.1 Warp App.
I am not that tech so please don't ask me to explain what is happening or how these apps fix the iussue. I am just happy that they do
Interestingly my VPN wont connect when via the 4g router but will via my phone 4g.
Downloaded a couple of others to test and the router is stopping them connecting too.
Thats firewall on or off. I’m 99% convinced there’s something with the available ports on this things. The conspiracy theorist in me makes me think “normal ports” are somehow reserved for other things and thats half the issue with Huawei a few years ago with the security hooha.
No its not a PAYG. Tis my normal unlimited EE monthly sim.
Well i need to apologise to the chinese! The port issue was a conicidence.
if it helps anyone else the issue seems to be related to ipv6. I set up a new ee apn profile in the router and set it to ipv4 only whereas the previous profile was ipv4 & ipv6. All works flawlessly.
