Friday, 18 March 2016

Vodafone R216 Pocket WiFi with Telstra

The R216 Pocket WiFi is a nice little 4G WiFi router from Vodafone (Australia).   It's currently supplied unlocked which is nice.  Most router/SIMs seem to be plug and play these days and often there's no need for additional configuration, however my Telstra prepaid broadband SIM would not work in the device.  It found the Telstra 4G network, but remained disconnected.  The solution: go to the Mobile Broadband tab and connection menu.  Select Custom, and then set IPV4/IPV6 APN field to telstra.internet and IP4/IPV6 Number field to *99#.  Leave the other fields untouched, save and it should then be able to connect.
Posted by squawk at Friday, March 18, 2016
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  1. Sheumack4 April 2016 at 05:10

    Out of interest, what sort of download speeds did you get?

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    1. squawk21 April 2016 at 08:42

      No longer have any Telstra credit, but on a weak Vodafone 4G signal in the centre of Melbourne I just got 5.28Mbps download / 4.75Mbps upload on a broadband speed test

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