{"id":5296,"date":"2012-11-11T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/howto-use-the-huawei-e398-lte-speedstick-with-a-fritzbox-7270\/11-2012\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:42:08","slug":"howto-use-the-huawei-e398-lte-speedstick-with-a-fritzbox-7270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/technology\/howto-use-the-huawei-e398-lte-speedstick-with-a-fritzbox-7270\/11-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"HowTo: Use the Huawei E398 LTE Speedstick with a FritzBox 7270"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since FritzBox laboratory firmware version xx.05.07-21008 it should actually be possible to use the Huawei E398 LTE USB stick \u2013 sold by Telekom as the Speedstick LTE \u2013 with a FritzBox as the internet connection. This can be useful as a backup if the DSL line fails, or even as a permanent alternative. Unfortunately, after one of the more recent laboratory firmware updates my E398 suddenly stopped connecting.<\/p>\n\n

The following changes to the FritzBox settings got it working again:<\/p>\n\n

1. Connect the Speedstick LTE to the FritzBox and wait until it appears under \u201cHome Network > USB Devices\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"Connecting
Connecting a Huawei E398 to a FritzBox 7270<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

2. Under \u201cInternet > Mobile Communications\u201d, make sure the following settings are used:<\/p>\n\n

– Enable \u201cAllow roaming onto other networks\u201d. If you live near a national border and can also receive mobile networks from the neighbouring country, however, be careful with this setting!<\/p>\n\n

– Under internet access, change the mobile network operator to \u201cOther operator\u201d. The access point must be \u201cinternet.telekom\u201d, the dial-in number \u201c*99#\u201d, the username \u201ct-mobile\u201d and the password \u201ctm\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"Configure
Configure Telekom mobile internet access for an E398 on a FritzBox 7270<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The connection to the Telekom network should now work again.<\/p>\n\n

Anyone expecting full LTE speed will unfortunately be disappointed. According to speedtest.net, the E398 connected to the FritzBox 7270 achieves a data throughput of only just under 8 Mbit\/s, compared with around 25 Mbit\/s when I use the stick directly on a computer at the same location.<\/p>\n

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\"Data
Data throughput of a Speedstick LTE on a FritzBox 7270<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

If you also want to make VoIP calls over the mobile connection, make sure your Telekom contract permits this function. If it does, VoIP works surprisingly well.<\/p>\n\n

You may also want to disable compression. This can be done at speed.t-mobile.de<\/a> (accessible only from the T-Mobile network). Even then, not everything seems to work as it does when the LTE stick is connected directly to a computer. With the configuration described above, for example, some services did not work reliably for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since FritzBox laboratory firmware version xx.05.07-21008 it should actually be possible to use the Huawei E398 LTE USB stick \u2013 sold by Telekom as the Speedstick LTE \u2013 with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[321,287],"tags":[367,308,343,399,330,289,290,363,349],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-technology","tag-broadband","tag-how-to","tag-internet","tag-lte","tag-mobile-communications","tag-product-review","tag-technology","tag-telekom","tag-test","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Fritzbox-7270-Huawei-E398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}