BosseSwede
Regular Contributor
I am new here in order to possibly find a solution to my mobile broadband problem...
I have only mobile 4G broadband access at my summer home and I have been using a Dovado PRO router with the Huawei E3372 modem connected by USB. It has worked mostly OK for several years.
But I would like to improve the WiFi coverage and add 5G too so I moved by home router RT-AC68U out since it has the capability to "fall back" to mobile broadband if there is no Ethernet connection.
When I tried it over the week-end it seemed at first to work , but after a few hours I was off-line and the ASUS reported that it had no Internet connection even though the lamp on the modem was showing a working connection.
So I tried to unplug the modem and put it back again, but that did not work either, and switching between USB2 and USB3 made no difference either.
I also tried power cycling the ASUS but no go.
So I replaced the ASUS with the Dovado Pro old router and it immediately got connected (well, it normally takes a minute or more to get connected).
It is important that the network is up 24/7 at this location because of access to monitoring equipment over there.
Question:
Is it normal that the ASUS cannot reconnect if it loses connection to the Internet?
The Dovado explicitly will retry indefinitely if it loses connection.
Or is there a setting I have missed to enable reconnect?
I am now back home with the ASUS router but the modem is attached to the Dovado PRO at the summer home...
I have only mobile 4G broadband access at my summer home and I have been using a Dovado PRO router with the Huawei E3372 modem connected by USB. It has worked mostly OK for several years.
But I would like to improve the WiFi coverage and add 5G too so I moved by home router RT-AC68U out since it has the capability to "fall back" to mobile broadband if there is no Ethernet connection.
When I tried it over the week-end it seemed at first to work , but after a few hours I was off-line and the ASUS reported that it had no Internet connection even though the lamp on the modem was showing a working connection.
So I tried to unplug the modem and put it back again, but that did not work either, and switching between USB2 and USB3 made no difference either.
I also tried power cycling the ASUS but no go.
So I replaced the ASUS with the Dovado Pro old router and it immediately got connected (well, it normally takes a minute or more to get connected).
It is important that the network is up 24/7 at this location because of access to monitoring equipment over there.
Question:
Is it normal that the ASUS cannot reconnect if it loses connection to the Internet?
The Dovado explicitly will retry indefinitely if it loses connection.
Or is there a setting I have missed to enable reconnect?
I am now back home with the ASUS router but the modem is attached to the Dovado PRO at the summer home...
