AXT 1800 connection to WiFi keeps dropping randomly

Tester1724 · 2024-01-28T18:05:47.442Z

I am using an AXT 1800. I connect to WeWork WiFi and everything works. After a few minutes, the internet drops and the WiFi has disconnected. This has happened a few times now.

Then my connection to the AXT drops completely (it is connected via ethernet to my laptop) and I cannot access 192.168.8.1.

admon · 2024-01-28T18:20:06.695Z

Hey,

did it work before (so did you change something?) or was it always a problem with the WeWork WiFi?

Tester1724 · 2024-01-28T18:28:34.337Z

I used it everyday this past week. I connect to it, it stays online for 5-6 hours, then goes offline. Then I reconnect and it’s back to working (perhaps WeWork kicks a device off after being connected for a long time)?

But today, it’s different. Frequent disconnects. Maybe it’s the weekend so WeWork is performing maintenance?

It’s working as we speak (1 device connected via ethernet and 1 via repeater mode).

Very strange and inconsistent.

Tester1724 · 2024-01-28T18:29:45.790Z

The only change I made as an attempt to fix the issue was changing MAC address from clone to Manual (Random).

Tester1724 · 2024-01-28T18:39:01.224Z

Stopped working again.
Couldn’t connect to 192.168.8.1 either.
Now reconnected to router, but internet not working.
Internet working again.

^The above process happens constantly.

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admon · 2024-01-28T19:31:28.107Z

Could be some issues with mwan3, which tries to detect if the connection is down or not.
Try to disable all connectivity checks on each interface:

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Tester1724 · 2024-01-28T20:03:42.969Z

Why would disabling solve that?

admon · 2024-01-28T20:28:55.517Z

Because the logs suggest that mwan3 might be the problem here. Just try it and see if it’s get better.

bring.fringe18 · 2024-01-29T09:26:22.670Z

Getting ‘eyes up’ would be advised.

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bring.fringe18 · 2024-01-29T09:27:43.578Z

Increasing the timeout/check periods worked in my case. So did finding faster IPv4/severs to ping.

Tester1724 · 2024-01-29T10:10:17.631Z

On the multi-wan3?
Also, did you have the same issue with using a Glinet device at WeWork?

Because I do not have this issue on a home network.

bring.fringe18 · 2024-01-29T10:31:34.663Z

Yeah, the period on the Multi-WAN; 1.5x their current values or so helped.

I don’t use WeWork but I seem to recall fr an older thread they recently started using DFS on their Wi-Fi APs. @admon , do you recall anything about that? You know how quickly threads get buried 'round here.

Tester1724 · 2024-01-29T10:34:19.494Z

Yeah, that thread was initiated by me as well haha. Guess I’m the only one here using at WeWork.

bring.fringe18 · 2024-01-29T10:37:10.356Z

Hah! Too funny! Sorry I don’t know for sure but I’d still give increasing the periods & change out the pinged IPs to something like Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.2). Cloudflare has very fast infrastructure if you don’t care about hitting their sever logs w/ your IP.

admon · 2024-01-29T10:37:46.527Z

Even if they use DFS it would not explain why the disconnection happens so often.
DFS is every 3 or 6 hours or something like that. Would be strange for a Co-Working space if they interrupt every video call like twice an hour just to do DFS stuff.

bring.fringe18 · 2024-01-29T10:38:41.638Z

… or the APs were set up by the lowest bidding tender/contractor. This is the USA we’re talking about, after all.

Tester1724 · 2024-01-29T10:42:30.381Z

For reference, my setup includes a Wireguard VPN tunnel using (2) AXT 1800s. One is in the US connected to residential router. The other is with me (travel router).