im trying to connect to my phone’s hotspot(e, excuse me. im connected to the hotspot as the infographic on the system’s mainpage indicates and my phone indicates too) . the hotspot works fine for anything other device.
its setup in router mode. it is showing it is connected to my phone’s hotspot. the cat5e is plugged into a lan on the router and into my PCI NIC’s only ethernet port.
google.com wont load. im acsessing the menus/systemGUI via the cat5e connection; not via wifi.
thank you whomever 
You set up repeater to your phone and it is connected? Can you give a screenshot of the UI?
Can you ping 8.8.8.8 to verify it is DNS problem or the internet does not work at all.
yes it is in repeater mode. i know this because i see “repeater options [settings gear icon]” on the main page by where my phone’s hotspot is indicated as connected. the hotspot’s name and green circle pic are displayed.
when pinging 8.8.8.8 via bash’s command ping it says:
"From 192.168.43.114 icmp_seq=1(and a secondline with same text with just a 2 here…) Destination Net Unreachable
… the tower computer is a legaly salvaged thinkcentre m92p atx tower used at a panera bread, what im getting at is i hope the NIC doesnt have some security protection?? in 5 hours i can check with a whole different computer if its the NIC doing funky business. but i dont think this is the case. the computer’s drive was replaced and its running ubuntu right now just to get the thing working first
and:
Luci ERROR: not installed yet!
“the router failed to reach the software repository”
e, yeah i cant install it… it is as though the box isnt reaching anything past my phone. i wonder if the ‘country code’(??) isnt correct after reading Repeat Failure - GL.iNet Docs
uh, isnt MORE SETTINGS → Advanced → ______ supposed to yeild a login and password prompt for some higherlevel admin features??
i can reach a portal page for the xfinity wifi hotspot but dont have credentials to get past that. so that far works. my phone is a govt prepaid phone from china and im sure there is some clandestine wares somewhere on it; maybe the router sees an odd DNS reroute? idk
i will take the router and my laptop(differnt device, known to work) to the library and see if its my phone
Just use a dns bypass it’s slow but works.
are you refering to an iphone app called dns bypass (whichsace is not relevant, i dont use an iphone)
or are you referring to me editing etc/hosts to bypass a dns lookup?? whichcase, i entered in an ip adress, googles, 8.8.8.8 and that like bypasses dns lookup.
im not gettin ya (e, single dad here. pardon the punctuation and simple responces. im multitasking through life)
ifconfig output when ssh’d into the slate router:
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BA
inet addr:192.168.8.1 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11633 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2379702 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:3052762 (2.9 MiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BA
inet6 addr: fe80::9683:c4ff:fe10:c6ba/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12659 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2541808 (2.4 MiB) TX bytes:3565233 (3.3 MiB)
Interrupt:4
eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BA
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14093 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2288134 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:3003673 (2.8 MiB)
eth0.2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BA
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:508896 (496.9 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:120862 (118.0 KiB) TX bytes:120862 (118.0 KiB)
wlan-sta Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BA
inet addr:192.168.43.245 Bcast:192.168.43.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1991 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:258922 (252.8 KiB) TX bytes:563040 (549.8 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:10:C6:BB
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:15647 (15.2 KiB)
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 96:83:C4:10:C6:BA
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:805 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:66880 (65.3 KiB) TX bytes:35596 (34.7 KiB)
It has some data but seems have problems.
Can you try the following
ping baidu.com
ping 114.114. 114.114
i have been speaking with alzhao on facebook and have discovered this problem is due to my Maryland government free phone is blocking the router. how i dont know yet. so this is solved. the box works fine on neighbors hotspot.
This app is freaking awesome 