Can't Connect with 4G Router (SOLVED)

RealGem

Hi 

I bought a used 4G unlocked Router Huawei B315 and the lights are all working as they should be. 

I have an EE Sim card that was originally with a tiny EE dongle. The username was MY WIFI 2A-- and the password was MYWIFI----

I recently renewed the EE tariff to a rolling 30 day tariff, and it works with the old login. Is my SIM locked to EE? I told the EE sales person I would be getting a more powerful router. 

But when I plugged the new router in and turned it on, it showed up as "HUAWEI B315...." and my original EE password doesn't work.

Any idea how I find out what my login / password is please?

Thank you

400ixl

The SIM will be locked to EE, but that is not really relevant here.

The WIFI id and password will be the ones for your old wifi dongle, not the sim. This will not work with the new router as it is for the old one.

You need the wifi password for the new router you have put the sim card in. Often it is written on the back of the router, or will be on a card similar to the one you have a photo of for the old dongle.

If you then want to change the wifi name & password once on you can go to an IP address of 192.168.1.1 and the usual default username and password for the login is admin and admin for username and password.

Neil_Jones

Somewhere on the router will probably be a reset switch.  It may be a button, it may be recessed (with a need to user a paper clip to press).  Reset the router and it should go back to the default details (which may not match what your piece of A7 says)

Also somewhere on the router may be the default log-ins for when you do reset it.

RealGem

400ixl said:

You need the username and password for the new router you have put the sim card in. Often it is written on the back of the router, or will be on a card similar to the one you have a photo of for the old dongle.

Thank you!

Now I feel thick! (...My VM login was on the router. I should have known this). 

400ixl

Updated my post above.

Once logged onto the wifi for the device you can in a browser go tho 192.168.1.1 and that will bring up the login screen.

Login will be admin and password of admin.

You can from within the menu's change the wifi name and password (I think you mean WPA (should be WPA2) as the security level as WPS is the way to sync allow devices to join via the button on the router).

You should also change the admin password to something new (not admin).

If you search on the internet now you should be on it for your device model name and change password it should show you instructions.

RealGem

400ixl said:

The SIM will be locked to EE, but that is not really relevant here.

400ixl said:

Once logged onto the wifi for the device you can in a browser go tho 192.168.1.1 and that will bring up the login screen.

If the SIM is locked to EE then surely that means I can't use this SIM? I just started paying £35 a month for it. 

Will they unlock it for me if I ask them?

If not, what do I do?

Thanks

400ixl

The sim is what goes inside the router and can only be used on the network it is with. You can't use an EE sim with any network other than EE. You can't unlock a sim to other networks.

If however you are asking in the router is network locked, then it could be, but you said you bought an unlocked router. Where was it bought from.

If the router is unlocked, you put the EE sim in it and it will connect to the EE network. You then connect to the router wifi network with the password and that then connects you to the router which passes your network traffic to the internet via the EE network.

What exactly is the issue you are still having?

RealGem

400ixl said:

The sim is what goes inside the router and can only be used on the network it is with. You can't use an EE sim with any network other than EE. You can't unlock a sim to other networks.

If however you are asking in the router is network locked, then it could be, but you said you bought an unlocked router. Where was it bought from.

If the router is unlocked, you put the EE sim in it and it will connect to the EE network. You then connect to the router wifi network with the password and that then connects you to the router which passes your network traffic to the internet via the EE network.

What exactly is the issue you are still having?

Hi 400ixl 

Thanks I really appreciate your help. 

Yes the router is unlocked. I got it off Ebay but I only buy off people with 100% good feedback, and the seller has been extremely helpful so far. I believe he is honest and sold me a good router. All the lights are doing what they are meant to according to a YouTube video I found. 

I found the correct wifi login but instead of connecting me, it took me to the Router's IP page in my Chrome browser, which was weird seeing as there was no internet connection! (so I don't even understand how that is possible!)

I will have to go back and try it again, so I can take a screenshot. But this will mean disconnecting from my VM connection. Hang on...

400ixl

The routers webpage runs on a local web server so does not need to be connected to the internet.

Starting with the basics.

You have put the EE sim card into the Huawei router
You have connected to the Huawei router wifi and not your VM wifi

If you try to then go to a website such as www.google.com, what happens? 

400ixl

What lights do you have on the router

https://consumer.huawei.com/za/support/content/en-us00429193/

RealGem

400ixl said:

The routers webpage runs on a local web server so does not need to be connected to the internet.

Starting with the basics.

You have put the EE sim card into the Huawei router
You have connected to the Huawei router wifi and not your VM wifi

If you try to then go to a website such as www.google.com, what happens? 

Thank you

The EE SIM is in the router. 

I am IN! (to the wifi)

It seems it only accepted my login after I reset it like Neil said. 

Now I can't change the password from admin to something else. It appears to want to change the wifi password. I am getting confused by this. Also I don't understand why I need to login online??? (the admin login) What do I need this for?

I mean I know admin is a rubbish password and that for security I need to change it, but why do I need to go to that page anyway? I have my wifi connection. 

Sorry if that's a stupid question. 

Here's more pics. Don't know if they help: