LtAP Mini - EE LTE Help

[Cyberprog]

Hi All,

Just looking for a santiy check here before I go back to EE!

I have a LtAP Mini (the new 2024 version) with an external antenna.

EE as the network obviously.

RSSI -77 dBm
RSRP -92dBm
SINR 2dB
RSRW -13dB

I’ve configured the APN for EE as “everywhere” with “eesecure” and “secure” as the username/password. Doesn’t seem to matter if I use PAP or CHAP.

I keep getting an internet IP of 254.128.0.0 and can’t ping 8.8.8.8 for example on the lte1 interface.

LTE interface is configured for bands 3 and 20. (I have tried specifying no bands, and it picks up Band1 (-86,-100,3,-13 respectively on that band)

Cell monitor sees plenty of Cell ID’s on Band 3.

Seems like things are up, but not getting an IP. Can anyone suggest some troubleshooting please?

[jaclaz]

If you put an APN manually, It Is ignored if the “use network APN” is ticked.

Not to be overly critic of the good Mikrotik guys, but I think that GUI designer apprentices learn on the first or maybe second day that when a check box disables a field, the field must be grayed out and made not editabile.
Still …

[Cyberprog]

If you put an APN manually, It Is ignored if the “use network APN” is ticked.

Not to be overly critic of the good Mikrotik guys, but I think that GUI designer apprentices learn on the first or maybe second day that when a check box disables a field, the field must be grayed out and made not editabile.
Still …

Good spot - I will try and toggle this when I return to site tomorrow!

[Cyberprog]

Ok, this doesn’t seem to have affected anything sadly. Still getting that 254.128.0.0 IP.

Put a known working SIM in also, and it registers OK, but doesn’t seem to change no matter if I try CHAP or PAP or leave the Use Network APN enabled or not!

[Cyberprog]

Cracked it - had the IP set to “Auto” not “IPv4”.

FFS!!!

[MrYan]

With 1pMobile (an MVNO on EE), the following works:

[admin@MikroTik] > /interface/lte/apn/print detail  
Flags: * - default 
 0 * name="default" apn="data.uk" use-peer-dns=no use-network-apn=no add-default-route=yes default-route-distance=2 ip-type=auto authentication=none

It might be that they run their own PGW and so the allocation process is different, but I get an EE IP address (not locally, it’s a CGNAT NAT44 external address) so I’m tending to think they don’t.