Overview

This guide provides a step-by-step walk through that will help you complete your first cellular network scans using SurfScan WRT based devices, and view reports from your scan data on SurfScore.Live.

surfscore.live: Operator Comparison Report

Pre-requisites

Install SurfScan applications on your devices and sign up for SurfScore.Live.

• Gl.iNet 5G Router. Models Supported:

  • Mudi 7 (GL-E5800) 5G NR Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Travel Router

  • Puli AX (GL-XE3000) | Wi-Fi 6 5G Cellular Router with Battery

  • Spitz AX (GL-X3000) Wi-Fi 6 AX3000 | 5G NR | Dual-SIM failover

• SurfScan Mobile App: Android, iOS (Aug ‘26)

• SurfScore.Live account

Your First Scan

Power up your Gl.iNet router and connect to the Wi-Fi from your Android device. Once connected open the SurfScan mobile app, login to your SurfScore account, and choose the ‘SurfScan OpenWRT’ option from the Analyze window.

SurfScan Mobile App: Analyze : Select SurfScan OpenWRT

Enter the router admin password and click ‘Connect’

SurfScan Mobile App: Connect to SurfScan OpenWRT

At the ‘Scan’ page, select scan duration (5 min recommended), and enter a location name in the notes field (optional, recommended).

SurfScan Mobile App: Scan - Select scan duration, add notes.

Click ‘Start Scan’ and follow the prompts to capture GPS location of the scan from your mobile device.

SurfScan Mobile App: Scan - GPS Popup	SurfScan Mobile App: Scan - Set Location, Start Scan.

Click ‘Start Scan’ and monitor scan status, as mobile networks are detected you will see Operator names and bands updating. The first results can take up to 70 seconds, and the scan process is cumulative as the router’s 5G modem performs multiple network probes throughout the scan duration.

SurfScan Mobile App: Scan - Status Monitoring

Once the scan completes select the ‘Sessions’ page and you will see your completed scan in the list. Click the session for a raw list of all detected bands. The scan sessions are automatically uploaded to SurfScore.Live every 15 minutes, you can also trigger a manual sync from the ‘Sync’ page, which also details last sync time and number of scans uploaded.

SurfScan Mobile App: Session - Scan Session List	SurfScan Mobile App: Session - Scan Session Details	SurfScan Mobile App: Sync

Congratulations! You completed your first scan and the data is now ready to view on SurfScore.Live.

SurfScore Online Analytics

All synced scan data is immediately available to view on the SurfScore platform.

To access the analytics, Click ‘Sign In’ and enter the email address you used for sign up. A One Time Passcode (OTP) will be sent to your email, enter the code to complete login.

SurfScore : Sign In

SurfScore : Sign In - Email

SurfScore : Sign In - Enter OTP

You will now see the SurfScore map view with circular markers identifying your scan locations. Clicking on a marker to zoom in on that location.

SurfScore : Map View

If you have multiple SurfScan devices, use the dropdown device selector to view scans from individual or all your devices.

SurfScore : Map View - Zoomed to Scan Location

SurfScore groups scans into H3 Res 9 hexes, click on the hex to view all scans performed within that area.

If multiple scans have been performed in the area use the ‘Sessions’ drop down to select which will be used to create your reports. You can see from this screenshot the two test scans we just performed to create the screenshots for the SurfScan Mobile app with ‘enter location name’ in the notes field.

SurfScore : Reports - select sessions.

Once you have selected your required scans, click ‘Sessions” to collapse the selector and view reports.

SurfScore : Reports - Expert	SurfScore : Reports - Operator Compare	SurfScore : Reports - Bonded Uplink

Click the ‘PDF’ button to download all reports to a single PDF file.

Happy Scanning! If you have any questions please contact the team support@waveriders.live