GL-MT3000 cannot connect with repeater (xfinity hotspot)

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Hello - I purchased a GL-MT3000 a couple months ago to connect to an xfinity hotspot. It worked well for a couple months, presumably because the hotspot was 2.4ghz. Last night the xfinity hotspot changed to 5G and I can no longer connect.

I have restarted the repeater wifi and all I receive is "getting....." on the IP address/gateway etc. I have also tried randomizing the mac address, selecting 5G only, but no luck yet.

I can connect fine with my laptop to xfinity but the router does not. I also tried to clone the mac address of my laptop, and use the same IP address/gateway etc in my macbook's TCP/ICP settings. I was only able to receive "This interface is connected but internet will not work."

Can anyone give some advice on what to do? Thanks!

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So the xfinity only broadcast on 5G wifi, not 2.4G now?

Does it still use the same SSID and password?

Can you go to the admin panel->system->log and get the system log, after the router does not connect.

There is also a OpenWrt24 firmware with open source wifi driver and you can have a try?

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Correct yes it is only broadcasting on 5g now (not 2.4).

It still uses the same SSID, there is no password (it is public). When you connect it is supposed to bring up a browser tab where you can login with the user/pass.

I believe I am already on 4.6 already -- I will check and come back to you :slight_smile:

edit: As far as I know, it just freezes at "getting..." so it doesn't seem to actually fail or succeed connection.

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Can you clarify you used the 4.7.0 releaes by using auto update or the 4.7.0-op24 firmwre?

You should try the op24 firmware.

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@alzhao Thank you - it seems to work with op24 firmware. I am not sure why, maybe a bug fix?

Appreciate your help :slight_smile:

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It is a known bug in the MTK drivers. Can you let me know where these xfinity hotspots are?