2) YouTube videos will sometimes buffer part of the way, then stop buffering until I manually advance the progress slider to the next "section" and then it happily buffers that section before hanging again.
I noticed this exact same behavior when connected through the router as well. My feeling is these issues may be resolved if we can figure out how to set this up in regular router mode instead of switch mode. I'm not sure where to start on that. All my other devices that connect through the router are working great: Slingbox, Tivo, VOIP phone. I've just been leaving the iSpot's wifi on and connect the laptop directly to it to get around those annoying website hangs, but you're right about the range being too short. It'd be great if someone could figure this out! _________________ Asus RT-N16
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Maybe you could help me understand something: You said it might have something to do with having the router in "switch mode." What do you mean by that, exactly? Is that when you turn the DHCP server off and allow the modem to assign the network's IP addresses, or something more complex?
My modem is currently the only DHCP server on my network, and the router is set up to pass traffic through... But I bet I could put the modem and my LAN on separate subnets to keep the DHCP servers from interfering with one another. Think that would change anything?
Maybe you could help me understand something: You said it might have something to do with having the router in "switch mode." What do you mean by that, exactly?
Look at post 2 in this thread:
hanskloss wrote:
Part 2
Setting-up Internet Connection
Once USB dongle is recognized is time to make it default internet connection.
First, please follow wiki guide how to change router into "switch"
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Switch
The wiki explains what the router does in switch mode better than I can. Basically, the USB modem is handing out IP's and the router is just sharing the internet connection with all connected devices in this setup. My hunch is packets are getting lost this way, but I'm not sure because everything except the computer that is connected to my router is working fine.
x64Jimbo wrote:
But I bet I could put the modem and my LAN on separate subnets to keep the DHCP servers from interfering with one another. Think that would change anything?
I tried this and it really didn't help. I have a second router, a Linksys on another subnet, connected to the Asus...same issues with hanging websites/youtube videos etc. _________________ Asus RT-N16
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 16:31 Post subject: Hello
I did something a little different on my tomato router; it may work a little different on dd-wrt.
Basically, I have my router acting as a router. The router requests an ip address from the clearspot, then uses ip masquerading to hand out ip's to the computers / devices behind the router. Everything goes to clearspot through the 1 ip address.
Here's how I did it:
I have the following 3 ko's on a jffs partition of my router; mii.ko, usbnet.ko and cdc_ether.ko.
I run the following script to get internet as described above:
The script definitely needs to be tweaked and I need to figure out a way to get this to be automatic. I haven't experienced any sites timing out or anything.
Very interesting, calimansi. Would you mind attaching the kernel modules that you used, so I can give it a shot?
Incidentally, I'm not sure how Tomato routers work, but DD-WRT has a feature where you can store a list of commands in plain text right from the admin page, and the router will execute them as a shell script whenever it powers on. You might try looking around for a similar feature in your firmware, or failing that, you could always just drop those commands into an init script, old-school Linux style
I'm currently trying to get a CLEAR 4G stick to work on my Linksys E3000. I've done all the steps up to ifconfig but usb0 doesn't initialize or load. Maybe it doesn't recognize this specific device?
On a related note, where did you get the rndis kernel modules from?
I can recommend Kong Mod to achieve this. Works right out of the box, at leastt for me. I recently lost my wired internet connection and used a 3G dongle as backup. The only thing I did was to plug in the dongle, select '3G/4G' as Wan connection and filled in the APN. Everything worked directly, no additional modules to load. Success or failure is of course dependent on the dongle being supported.
I've been using this setup for a year now. It's been quite reliable...more than my cable modem used to be.
1. The Asus RT-N16 keeps the iSpot charged via USB...no splitter needed.
2. All the Lan ports can be used on your router. Initially, I had some trouble getting my Slingbox to work plugged directly into the Asus because it is used as a switch instead of a router. So I connected a Linksys router to one of the Asus Lan ports and then connected all devices to that: Slingbox, Tivo, VOIP phone, laptop.
The only issue I've had with this setup is the occasional "hang" on loading of some websites. I've wanted to try to get this working with the Asus in regular router mode instead of switch mode...just haven't gotten around to attempting it. For now, when I have trouble loading a certain site I just connect to the iSpot's wifi signal directly and the site loads fine.
I'm currently trying to get a CLEAR 4G stick to work on my Linksys E3000. I've done all the steps up to ifconfig but usb0 doesn't initialize or load. Maybe it doesn't recognize this specific device?
On a related note, where did you get the rndis kernel modules from?
The modules can be found in the download section, under "Optional kernel modules." This will be a download for your respective version of tomatousb.
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 21:32 Post subject: Re: Hello
calimansi wrote:
I did something a little different on my tomato router; it may work a little different on dd-wrt.
Basically, I have my router acting as a router. The router requests an ip address from the clearspot, then uses ip masquerading to hand out ip's to the computers / devices behind the router. Everything goes to clearspot through the 1 ip address.
Here's how I did it:
I have the following 3 ko's on a jffs partition of my router; mii.ko, usbnet.ko and cdc_ether.ko.
I run the following script to get internet as described above:
The script definitely needs to be tweaked and I need to figure out a way to get this to be automatic. I haven't experienced any sites timing out or anything.
Let me know if you guys can get this to work.
Thanks.
Calimansi, can you tell me which version of Tomato you are using? For fun today, I tried the latest version but have not gotten this to work. I also tried KingKong mod but had no luck.
Did you figure out how to make the changes permanent?
Anyone else had success with the Clearspot or iSpot paired to a router? Lately, I've just been using internet connection sharing from the iSpot through Ubuuntu to my router. It's a smoother connection than my original setup with the Asus RT-N16 but still not ideal. _________________ Asus RT-N16
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