Question question regarding compatibility of umts-stick with mobile router

[rosika]

Hi altogether,

I want to solve a particular problem:

My sole method of connecting to the internet is via a UMTS-stick.
Living in Germany I purchased such a stick from Aldi. It is the model S4012 (or Huawei E1550 HSDPA USB-stick).

The thing is: I normally connect the web-stick to my main PC. On occasions I need to connect it to my Laptop as well. So I have to disconnect and connect and so on.
In order to avoid this clumsiness I thought of buying a portable router. This one should have my web-stick as "input" and generate a WIFI-hotspot as "output" in order to be able to connect my PC and/or the laptop more conveniently.

After a bit of research I found the "TP-Link TL-MR3020 V3 Portable 3G/4G Wireless Router" (https://www.amazon.de/TP-Link-TL-MR...less+Router&qid=1562421268&s=computers&sr=1-5 ).

This one seems to be well-suited for my needs.

One question remains though: Does anyone know whether the TP-Link is compatible with my Huawei web-stick?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

Greetings.
Rosika

 

[bill001g]

https://www.tp-link.com/in/support/3g-comp-list.html?model=TL-MR3020

edit...that did not work out so well. I am trying to outsmart tplink location thing and it picked up a india link. Here is one for the UK which I assume is also not very good. Maybe tplink will work if you search it from your location.
https://www.tp-link.com/uk/support/3g-comp-list.html?model=TL-MR3020

Not sure if this is the most current list or not.

This is a huge pain to figure out in most cases. It is not just the hardware it is also the ISP. The same exact hardware can work on some routers but only for certain ISP. This is mostly because the ISP do not release information that the people writing the drivers need. Partially this is related to the radio frequencies used but it is more something very simple like some access code or procedure. Not sure some ISP want to force you to buy devices only from them and many do not sell actual routers.

In general the longest list of supported devices in on dd-wrt. You could find a router that was compatible with dd-wrt. You still need to dig, you must find a match for both the hardware modem you use as well as the ISP

 

[rosika]

Hello bill001g ,
and thank you very much for your answer.

Yeah, it seems like I have to dig deeper.

On https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices I found the MR30120 from tp-link listed as supported device. At least that seems to be O.K.

As for the compatibility with the Huawei web-stick I have to say that there is no entry under https://www.tp-link.com/de/support/3g-comp-list.html?model=TL-MR3020 for Germany.
Huawei E1550 doesn´t seem to be there.

The Aldi-stick uses AldiTalk which in turn is based on Eplus. As far as I know Eplus
have merged with O2.
O2 at least is listed but in conjunction with the Huawei E1750 but no with the E1550.

It´s a bit of a shame as the concept of turning a UMTS-stick into a WIFI-hotspot seems the right thing.

Thanks a lot anyway for your help.

Greetings.
Rosika