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To insert a SIM into a Huawei 3G dongle, for example, you will need to have a large-size SIM, so do not pop out a small-size SIM from its enclosing card. You remove a SIM-carrier tray from the dongle, fit the SIM into the tray and reinsert it into the dongle.
=3G/4G Fallback=
The 2700 and 2900 models have a USB port that can be used with a 3G or 4G dongle for connectivity and/or fallback. The FireBrick 2500 does not have a USB port. By using a 3G dongle with one or more FTTC/ADSL lines from AAISP you'll be able to fall back to using 3G in the case of the FTTC/ADSL going down - this includes routing of your public IPv4 blocks and IPv6 blocks (IPv6 via a tunnel). Note: 4G dongles may have a problem with routing public IPs to the FireBrick as they act as a NAT device. In these cases using a L2TP tunnel will enable the IPs to be routed.
==Working 3G Dongles==
A 4G dongle will usually work as an ethernet device, and so the FireBrick will need an interface on the IUSB port, set as a DHCP client. If your config doesn't have an Interface already, then add one such as:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<interface name="Dongle" port="USB" graph="Dongle">
<subnet name="DHCP Client" nat="true" comment="Dongle"/>
</interface>
</syntaxhighlight>
==Unknown or not yet working==▼
▲==Unknown not yet working==
▲*Huawei E3272 LTE Surf-Stick (still testing)
▲*Huawei E3276S-920 (still testing)
▲*Alcatel One-touch L850 (still testing)
*Alcatel One-Touch 800 (Does not work, seems to only support RNDIS Interface which FireBrick does not support)
<route ip="::/0" gateway="81.187.81.6" comment="IPv6 default route using IPv4 tunnel"/>
</syntaxhighlight>
=== Configuration and testing ===
When you plug a usb dongle into the Firebrick, to test if it is working you can use the CLI ‘<code>show dongle</code>’ command in a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet Telnet] session. However, unfortunately this command fails to detect the dongle if <usb> and <dongle> elements have not been added to the XML configuration file. You can at first just add the following to the XML by using the web UI of the Firebrick, under Config > XML Edit:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<usb>
<dongle name="AA" />
</usb>
</syntaxhighlight>
If you prefer not edit the XML, then you can make the change by using the web UI commands Config > Edit choose ‘Interface’ and then ‘USB and 3G/dongle settings’. Drill down until you see whole lot of options in a number of ‘3G/dongle config settings’ fields. Set the option fields appropriately, at a minimum fill in the ‘Name’ field, and then hit ‘Save’. This will add the <code><usb></code> and <code><dongle></code> elements for you in the XML configuration.
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