MC7710 exact procedure to get it working with Routerboard

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi Everybody.

I’ve bought and an Routerboard RB953GS-5HnT-RP to use with an LTE MC7710 LTE PCI-E.
I’ve upgraded router OS to latest 6.x available (6.37.1) but I’m stuck on get it working MC7710. When I mount the MC7710, RouterOS create a PPP connection but no LTE interface.

I’ve got a DELL LAPTOP running Windows 10 that have mini PCI-E slot. As I’ve read into another post, we have installed on it the driver from Fujitisu
http://support.ts.fujitsu.com/IndexDownload.asp?lng=&SoftwareGUID=AB68494E-DB01-4B76-AFC7-D391CEC061F4

But unfortunately I’m unable to flash properly the MC7710 to version 3.5.23.2 (that is reported to working) neither the latest one 3.5.24
I’ve downloaded following firmwares files from sierra official webpage but I’m unable to complete upgrade procedure with any.

https://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/airprime/software/mc7710_fw_3_5_23_2_dip/
or
http://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/airprime/software/mc7710-fw-3,-d-,5,-d-,24,-d-,0_dip/

Can anyone can help me with this? Does anyone can provide me the exact working firmware link and how to guide to get it routerboard working with MC7710 ?

Regards

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I’ve got the MC7304 but since no one else has replied yet…

Does it work with PPP?
Why can’t you flash “properly”?

3

Hello,
Mikrotik shows you ppp interface, because card is probably in QMI Mode. For LTE interface, you must switch card to DIP mode.
Look for PID of your card. 68A2 means QMI mode, 68A3 means DIP mode. You can switch mode by AT commands. I done it twice in the past on laptop.

AT command to switch mode:

To QMI (not probably your case):
AT!ENTERCND=“A710”
AT!UDPID=68A2
AT!RESET

To DIP (probably your case):
AT!ENTERCND=“A710”
AT!UDPID=68A3
AT!RESET

Steps:

  1. insert card to laptop, check PID card if is 68A2, install QMI drivers from Sierra site (I have Generic_M2M_DriverSetup_Build4464)
  2. find and connect to COM port of AT interface of card
  3. write commands - card changes mode. For sure you can restart laptop. Check, that card has new PID - 68A3.
  4. install DIP drivers from Sierra site (I have Build3795_DriverInstaller)
  5. flash latest DIP firmware from Sierra site (I have SWI9200M_3.5-Release13-SWI9200X_03.05.29.03)
  6. insert card into Mikrotik and look for lte interface.
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Sorry to drag this post up but I am looking at a RB912UAG-2HPnD and I am being told that the Sierra MC7304 is unsuitable because it only does ppp and that it needs DirectIP to work with LTE speeds.

From what I am reading below the MC7710 can work with DIP ? Can I expect LTE speeds with an MC7710 and RouterOS 6 ? I can’t wait until RouterOS 7.

Thanks

5

I’ve got both RB912UAG-2HPnD and MC7304 working just fine with PPP. You are limited to around 22-25Mbps but if you don’t need more speed, they work flawlessly.

6

Thanks for the reply. I’m interested to know how the ppp serial interface affects upload speeds. The application I am looking at is remote video surveillance access so the 4G upload speed is of interest to me.

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I’m not sure to be honest. The only speed test I’ve done without RouterOS was years ago so I can’t remember. I think it would be limited to the 25Mbps limit?