souper
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The router/modem works, but the router connected to that doesn't... And I'm out of ideas for what to do. Here's the issue.
I just can't get reliable pageloads through my AC3200 with the USB modems I'm using. While I'd be quick to think it's an issue with Sprint, and certainly the R910 was an issue.. But I can literally hop from the AC3200's network directly to the ZTE Warp Connect (or the Franklin R910) without even reloading and the page will immediately start loading. Sometimes I'll have to hit reload, but the page will load once I'm connected to the modem itself without fail, whereas I can sit on the AC3200 and reload over and over and it just times out. Maybe it'll load eventually, but usually not. Some pages are worse than others. snbforums.com is actually one of the ones that almost always refuses to load through the AC3200, but as soon as I switch to the "hotspot" network, it loads right up without problems. It almost seems like a DHCP issue, and I'm led to think that disabling DHCP on the hotspot modem and setting a static IP would solve the issue, but the interface does not allow for this, and I'm admittedly not intimate enough with the SSH on the router to do it there (yet).
First, we had a (very unstable) Franklin R910 with USB tethering enabled. That was unstable and kept crashing, and we thought it was related to this issue, so we swapped to the ZTE Warp Connect. It's not crashing, but it's also doing the exact same thing with the pages timing out.
I've tried "optimizing" the MTU (fragmentation stopped at 1428, but responses timed out at anything above 1024, so it's set there now). We have DSL as the failover currently, but that doesn't give us any problems. IPv6 disabled, firewall disabled. I've tried static routing, AP mode (which didn't see the modem at all. Would be awesome if USB WAN would work in AP mode, would probably solve the problem), disabling the DHCP on the AC3200 and putting the ZTE on the same subnet (as you can tell, I'm not quite "advanced" with networking, probably "lower intermediate" level).
Running latest Merlin, and not sure if I should maybe try another firmware to see if it does the same thing there? Would at least provide some insight as to whether this is a Merlin issue, though admittedly, I guess just begging for 4g modem mode to be enabled in AP mode is preferable.
If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be helpful. This is stopping us from entirely dropping our slow DSL. The 4g is just so much faster, and works great via the wifi on the hotspot. Even wifi connected to my Buffalo router in client mode and wired to ethernet gives the same problems. I just don't know what could be causing this problem, and I'm out of ideas. There are no ethernet ports on either of these modems, and those are the only two modems offered by "unlimitedville". I shamelessly beg for your help.
Any thoughts?
I just can't get reliable pageloads through my AC3200 with the USB modems I'm using. While I'd be quick to think it's an issue with Sprint, and certainly the R910 was an issue.. But I can literally hop from the AC3200's network directly to the ZTE Warp Connect (or the Franklin R910) without even reloading and the page will immediately start loading. Sometimes I'll have to hit reload, but the page will load once I'm connected to the modem itself without fail, whereas I can sit on the AC3200 and reload over and over and it just times out. Maybe it'll load eventually, but usually not. Some pages are worse than others. snbforums.com is actually one of the ones that almost always refuses to load through the AC3200, but as soon as I switch to the "hotspot" network, it loads right up without problems. It almost seems like a DHCP issue, and I'm led to think that disabling DHCP on the hotspot modem and setting a static IP would solve the issue, but the interface does not allow for this, and I'm admittedly not intimate enough with the SSH on the router to do it there (yet).
First, we had a (very unstable) Franklin R910 with USB tethering enabled. That was unstable and kept crashing, and we thought it was related to this issue, so we swapped to the ZTE Warp Connect. It's not crashing, but it's also doing the exact same thing with the pages timing out.
I've tried "optimizing" the MTU (fragmentation stopped at 1428, but responses timed out at anything above 1024, so it's set there now). We have DSL as the failover currently, but that doesn't give us any problems. IPv6 disabled, firewall disabled. I've tried static routing, AP mode (which didn't see the modem at all. Would be awesome if USB WAN would work in AP mode, would probably solve the problem), disabling the DHCP on the AC3200 and putting the ZTE on the same subnet (as you can tell, I'm not quite "advanced" with networking, probably "lower intermediate" level).
Running latest Merlin, and not sure if I should maybe try another firmware to see if it does the same thing there? Would at least provide some insight as to whether this is a Merlin issue, though admittedly, I guess just begging for 4g modem mode to be enabled in AP mode is preferable.
If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be helpful. This is stopping us from entirely dropping our slow DSL. The 4g is just so much faster, and works great via the wifi on the hotspot. Even wifi connected to my Buffalo router in client mode and wired to ethernet gives the same problems. I just don't know what could be causing this problem, and I'm out of ideas. There are no ethernet ports on either of these modems, and those are the only two modems offered by "unlimitedville". I shamelessly beg for your help.
Any thoughts?
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