I'm having trouble with my internet signal dropping. By "dropping" I mean that webpages, streaming videos or uploading videos become incredibly slow.
I suspect this is a problem with my internet provider, but I wanted to use the Admin Panel of my GL-X3000 to diagnose and monitor the problem. Yet, when the problem is happening I do not see any change in the "Internet/Historical Signal Record"
This doesn't make sense to me because if I do ping 8.8.8.8 in the Terminal I see very high pings during the time when the signal is dropping.
The signal quality and strength has only a limited influence on the speed and reliability of the Internet connection.
Even on perfectly developed railway tracks (signal itself), delays and train cancellations (ping timeout, high latency) can occur - but this does not change the physical condition of the rails.
Is there any way I can use my GLX3000 router to diagnose or track these type of situations?
I have two Sim cards in my GLX3000 from Internet providers in different countries in Europe. What is the best way for me to set up my system so that these Internet pauses will cause me the least trouble?
@bruce Thank you for the help but I have some questions:
How do you know I need a firmware update to my GLX3000? The problems I described in my original post do not involve the GLX3000 -- it is a problem with the internet service provided in European countries. I'm just trying to make use of the GLX3000 to minimize this problem
When I ran the first command in Terminal the response was
zsh: command not found: wget
I assume this means I need to install "wget" But, what is "wget"? Who makes this software? How do I know it's trustworthy?
@admon I don't understand what you mean here. Is there a command line interface on the router? If so, can you tell me where? Or do I have to ssh to the router as on this page? This is not the sort of thing I've done often -- I think the last time was 20 years ago and I just followed instructions to do it.
For the SIM, you can also test on your phone directly.
I have two SIM cards in my phone, from two carriers. Both has good signals but one carrier is really bad. Speedtest is not good. High legacy. Even phone call breaks from time to time.
It is a cheap carrier though. It does not have its own infrastructure and needs to rent the towers from the other carriers.
The other one is very solid and have good signal and speed.
@bruce Now I can open the upgrade guide, and I tried to use what you suggested in step 2. However it didn't work. I tried several times. For example, here is my last attempt:
tony@mba Desktop % ssh root@192.168.8.1
root@192.168.8.1's password:
BusyBox v1.33.2 (2024-04-19 07:45:03 UTC) built-in shell (ash)
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| - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
|_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
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OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT, r15812+880-46b6ee7ffc
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root@GL-X3000:~# cd /usr/bin/ && wget https://fw.gl-inet.com/tools/quectel_tool/QFirehose-
mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944
Downloading 'https://fw.gl-inet.com/tools/quectel_tool/QFirehose-mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944'
Connecting to 3.160.188.80:443
Writing to 'QFirehose-mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944'
Cannot open output file: File exists
root@GL-X3000:/usr/bin# chmod 775 QFirehose-mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944 && sha256sum QFirehose
-mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944
c0b944f62e5ef9e83a71775b494f96d661b0ffafa3490ddb901e460084cd0ffb QFirehose-mtk7981a-sha256-c0b944
root@GL-X3000:/usr/bin# wget http:// download.gl-inet.com/download/RM520GL-modem_firmware/
RM520NGLAAR03A03M4G_BETA_20240521C_01.200.01.200.zip -P /
Downloading 'http://'
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
root@GL-X3000:/usr/bin# wget http:// download.gl-inet.com/download/RM520GL-modem_firmware/
RM520NGLAAR03A03M4G_BETA_20240521C_01.200.01.200.zip
Downloading 'http://'
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
root@GL-X3000:/usr/bin#
Also, can you explain is this the same as upgrading the Firmware in my GLX3000? If so, why does my Admin panel say my firmware is up to date?
When I have trouble with my ISP, I setup a small linux system with 'smokeping' (URL below) and configure it to a few domains, that are regional and some globally. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
Here you can see if and when the connection getting worse, based on simple ICMP pings, with nice graphs. Even if you need a system that provides at least a LAMP setup, it is less difficult than brick the router. If you don't have any raspberry or similar with ubuntu or similar image, you could just set up a virtual machine with hyper-v or virtualbox on your main computer.
Tony, if you are not very familiar with the command line, please test the sim card on the phone first, please put the upgrade process of the modem aside
Could you please refer to attached to bind the router to the GoodCloud, and share the device with us? We will try to check the issue you met. Thanks in advance.
