AR-750 won't reconnect

thunk · 2019-03-09T17:12:35.835Z

what is “travelmate?”

John · 2019-03-09T18:26:07.463Z

Got travelmate going, it seems to be working. Thank you for the help!

thunk · 2019-03-09T23:57:55.604Z

Yes, of course I saw the preceding messages. Both refer to travel mate. Neither explained what it is.

No problem. I’ll just return this buggy piece of junk to Amazon. Thanks for your time.

sos_sifou · 2019-03-12T02:54:46.275Z

Hello Thunk, sorry we didn’t give more details, follow this link to a different thread AR750s Keeps disconnecting - #32 by wellnw

Travelmate is a package made for open Wrt firmware, it has a set of instructions and config to help you use a router as a travel router, it will easily connect to a wifi and repeat it, it is stable and it has a special script to connect easily to captive portals on hotels wifis. Well basically travelmate should be something implemented into our small router the Slate. In fact it is, they call the script, gh health, but looks like this one isn’t working well for some of us, so we are using the wonderful capabilities of this router to load different scripts. You are not entitled to use only official releases, if you have enough knowledge, you can even write your own software and make it work exactly as you would like to.

What you need to do is simple
First step is, delete this package using Puty (you will need to use some google)

killall gl_health
mv /usr/bin/gl_health /usr/bin/gl_health_bak

Then install travelmate files from Luci, to be more precise, packages.

After that, follow the instructions I sent you on the link.

There you go you have installed and set travelmate to enabled, now hopefully, you will have almost no disconnections and the router will reconnect automatically and quickly.

This router is a wonderful piece of tech, if the software was good. bugs are distroying it. hopefully, the devs are watching our frustration and they will soon release a bugfree firmware.

dbbarron · 2019-06-17T13:53:46.627Z

I am having the same troubles using the Slate to repeat an iPhone hotspot connection to a LAN port. After a disconnection, the Slate won’t reconnect to the iPhone hotspot unless you manually force this in the Slate interface UI.

I have absolutely no idea how to install packages on the Slate. Can someone please send explicit
instructions or point to some online resources.

Thx!

sos_sifou · 2019-06-17T15:10:58.363Z

@dbbarron Hi
They dev team fixed the issu on the new firmware, so there is no need to install a package.
Just head to official support page for the slate and download the update file and upload it to the router. Please report back if you are still facing problems

Good luck

dbbarron · 2019-06-17T15:35:17.593Z

Which version has the fix? Is it the dev version or the production (V1) version or otherwise?

sos_sifou · 2019-06-17T15:53:19.804Z

Hi,
Do you have AR-750 or AR-750S?

sos_sifou · 2019-06-17T16:12:01.944Z

Well, I suggest you install some new testing firmwares from here
http://download.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750s/testing/
For the slate

And
http://download.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750/testing/
For the ar750

V1 is the original firmware

dbbarron · 2019-06-17T23:02:01.660Z

Works great!
Reconnects like a champ.

3dmurphybeds · 2019-06-18T13:52:37.545Z

Hello I have the same issues but my Router says it is a “750m” which firmware can i use to solve my problem

alzhao · 2019-06-20T05:10:27.833Z

If AR750 (while without external antenna) you should use this one http://download.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750/testing/

If AR750S (black with two antenna) you should use this one: http://download.gl-inet.com/firmware/ar750s/testing/
openwrt-ar750s-3.025-0618.tar

3dmurphybeds · 2019-06-20T13:39:58.609Z

Got it works great now thank you!

NetworkGuy · 2019-06-25T20:51:43.820Z

This is getting closer, but still not solved. The new firmware does succesfully reconnect to the wifi source now, thanks!!

But… it won’t reconnect to the VPN unless I log into the web UI and manually connect.

So, the latest test Firmware is better, but the problem still isn’t solved.

kyson-lok · 2019-06-26T01:23:29.286Z

For the issue of VPN, did you try it on your PC before using on the router? You should validate it can work fine before using on the router.

btw, which VPN are you using? OpenVPN or WireGuard.

alzhao · 2019-06-26T02:02:29.775Z

pls send the log (screenshot) of the vpn page after repeater reconnect.

Openvpn should reconnect unless there is no correct config in the ovpn or the server forced you to quit.

NetworkGuy · 2019-06-28T04:03:05.459Z

I’m using openVPN. I have had this config installed on the 750 for about 9 months with no prior issues. As I mentioned, on this new firmware, this vpn config works fine when I click abort followed by connect.

Here’s a screenshot from today when the 750 failed to reconnect. This is about 7 hours after the wifi source was restored. The 750 had reconnected to the wifi source, but not the vpn.

As usual, I clicked abort, then clicked connect, and it reconnected to the vpn fine. But the 750 can’t seem to do it on its own.

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alzhao · 2019-06-28T09:27:49.598Z

I see. Thanks. The log does not show anything special.

But I can see which server you are using and I will test the same.

alzhao · 2019-06-28T10:00:01.283Z

I am also using Nord and want to know if I can replicate this issue quicker.

Are you connecting to the same wifi network when your opvn break? I know that if you connect to another wifi network and the server found that you changed your IP, the server will kick you out.

I am on Nord and not sure when this can happen. I will just wait and see. If you know there is a way to replicate this problem quicker pls let me know.

batstreamer · 2020-10-24T20:39:27.508Z

By chance, does anyone know if the “dropping repeater” has been fixed in AR750S firmware version 3.104? Also, where might I find Travelmate in Luci via the menu when logged in? Thanks in advance for the guidance.