Huawei B593 4G-router SMS
Sunday, February 3. 2013
I got my hands on Huawei B593, punched in a SIM-card and turned the thing on. The admin is at http://192.168.1.1/ and admin password is admin like on many other devices, no surprises there.
Since my SIM is a pre-paid one which I use for testing and temporary Internet access, I simply wanted to see how much credit I had there. But wait! There is no Send SMS -functionality. I got the PDF-manual which said that there would be one. I think every 3G USB-stick software has that, why a 4G router wouldn't have the simple thing?
Little bit of Googling revealed that some telcos actually don't put it there. I did get my box from an independent reseller, but it looked like it was a Sonera (Telia) branded hardware. Little bit of more Googling ended me to one of their competitors, Saunalahti. From their customer support page, I got their firmware, uploaded it and noticed a number of drastic changes. Login screen was changed in to a generic Huawei one. After login my precious SMS-menu was there!
Yet another shame on you Sonera! Why did you leave the SMS-sending out. Idiots!
Update:
The login screen for the Saunalahti firmware version V100R001C260SP055 looks like this.
Update 2:
Most non-Finnish readers cannot read the telco's support-page. Download link for the firmware is http://www.elisa.fi/elisa/docimages/attachment/tuki/elisa_r+m+h+s.tar.bz2
Update 3:
There is an article about firmware from 3 Denmark.
