Got the new gateway online now.
- Did select “old packet forwarder”
- Did insert “FFFE” in the middle of the DEVEUI printed on the gateway sticker
After this it was immediately online in the console.
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After a good night of sleep I found this morning the Gemtec gatway connected and forwarding data.
It seems as if the outage of TTN yesterday evening at the time of my activation has troubled us. How unfortunate. 
Now we can investigate further.
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Is the gateway already for sale somewhere?
I read somewhere it will be availibale in the early days of february.
Or did someone hear a definitive sale date at the things conference?
He was announced last night on the website of the things industries.
How long are people seeing a delay between switching the device on, the LED going “stable” and data actually showing up in the console?
NVM, I had the EUI typed incorrectly…
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Q : if you connect the USB C power cable… can the unit still be in vertical position ? or must it be in horizontal position (hence change the antenna position)
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When somebody has the link to the product on the RS website, please share 
must be in horizontal position with plugged USB C.
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but, when the wallplug is in horizontal position ?
No, doesn’t work. You would need a 90 dregees USB-C for this, then it could work.
Also being confused by the TTN outage at first (that was not on status.thethings.network? but most of my gateways appeared down anyway) I’ve got the unit working as well.
What I’m surprised about, is the reception of LoRa, and I’m curious about experiences from others. I see some frames being received by gateways on the other side of town but not this gateway (for a sensor with SF11) and another sensor with SF9 only comes in when I turn the gateway towards it. Sometimes. Without any user-interface it’s hard to diagnose whether the WiFi signal is good, yet the “last seen” messages appear to come in at the same time. Other experiences?
That’s how the Giveaway-device (868MHz) looks from inside:
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That answers the question if a simple firmware upgrade could change a US915 unit into a EU868 unit (while the antenna would be troublesome then). No, that would at least need some soldering as well:
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Is that a 0 ohm resistor or a PCB trace (that will have to be cut)?
maybe it’s only a passive “DIP-Switch” which is read by firmware?
Given the distance from the antenna and its connector on the very same board, I’d guess it doesn’t change much in that antenna path. But this is not my area of expertise at all… Maybe some might be able to tell us if the chip sets would support multiple regions to start with?
As an aside, the “also available” made me laugh; apparently it needs to be mentioned separately?
I have followed these steps. After reboot how do i register it in the TTN console? thanks
Seems to be 0 Ohm resistor, as measured as 0 Ohm resistance.
Detailled photo might expose a UART Inferface:
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