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SIM Card in MBR1210 NETGEAR router
I have this MBR1210 "Mibile HSPA + Broadband 11n Wireless Router" that can accomodate a SIM card so presumably I can install it at the cottage where there are no land lines and get internet trough my TELUS SIM card.
I thought I could just pop in my new TELUS SIM card and it would work, but There are a lot of saettings, and it didn't 'just work' when I popped in the SIM card.
Has anyone gotten this to work, or can offer advice?
That is an ancient device. Bell offered that back in 2011 and it's 3G only. That won't work with Telus.
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I don't know if telus did something on my account parameters in the backend but lo and behold, my old tablet that seemed to work a few seconds when I initially put in my SIM card and then stopped seeing TELUS now sees TELUS, and says LTE with one or 2 little circles blacked out, presumably the signal strength? Not to look a gifted horse in the mouth... Let's see when I change location between my house and our cottage in Ontario if it still works, and if ultimately I can enable hotspot on it and connect my wifi surveillance camera to it.
- Nighthawk
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That is an ancient device. Bell offered that back in 2011 and it's 3G only. That won't work with Telus.
Darn. Unless where I want to put it (Hicktown Ontario near Hawkesbury) they still have 3G there? I assume the SIM card is related to the 3G and if it's recent doesn't mean it's backwards-compatible?
- Nighthawk
A device that old may be carrier locked. If it is you are likely totally out of luck. I'm not sure if the cellular routers were originally but cell phones back then were carrier locked. You may also need a specific SIM / account to use as a SIM that's part of a phone plan may not work at all for a data only device.
3G is supposedly being retired nation wide in the near future by all carriers so that device won't be usable for long, if it'll work at all currently. Most carriers are charging extra for 3G currently also.
