Constantly have to restart router

[jboyx989]

Im currently using a Cell C dongle in a netgear MBRN3000 wireless router. For the last 2 months , I have been experiencing an extremely annoying problem.

Basically, after my dongle connects, it works perfectly for about 5-10 minutes. Then it will disconnect, and the light on the dongle will flash. It will never reconnect after this stage unless I turn the router off, then on again. Then it will reconnect and work for another 5-10 minutes. Then repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Its driving me nuts! Sometimes I get lucky and it might stay connected for a few hours, other times its only 1 minute, but without fail it WILL disconnect.

Can anyone offer any advice as to what could be causing this?

Thanks!

 

[DMZ]

I have the exact same problem on 8ta using a cheapo router. What works for me is to leave a torrent program running in the background seeding at 1kb/s. This keeps the connection active permanently. Whenever the data throughput stops for more than a few seconds the dongle drops the connection.

 

[sajunky]

Test dongle with other network SIM. Test dongle on PC/laptop, meassure signal strenght with MDMA. Check if experiencing the same problem. Do you use USB extension cable? Do you use original power cable to the router, or it is extended?

 

[jezzad]

Doesnt 3G auto disconnect after a certain period?

Also maybe look into DD-WRT firmware, i just installed it and it works a treat.

 

[ebendl]

In my personal experience, the dongle+router combination just never works. That being said, I have the ZTE MF668 dongle and it seems to be a little bit less reliable than the Huawei's.

I've used it with the TP-Link routers (disaster) and now running it with a Mikrotik Routerboard (more reliable, although I've had to power-cycle the router a couple of times now when the dongle just stops responding to any USB requests).

Also make sure you disable the CD-ROM autorun, seems like this could be a problem on some routers. As the other said, make sure your router is giving enough power and try to remove any USB extension cables between the router and the dongle. You can also check that everything isn't getting to hot - some people have had success by running everything on top of a laptop cooler.