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Hi all,

Just looking for some advice on this. I currently have my Rain 5G ODU connected to a network switch, nothing fancy but more than enough to get the job done(Rain 5G standard).
The reason for this is down to the lack of available network ports on the 5G router itself. Since doing this I have changed to 3 different switches thinking our network fault is with the switch itself.

We are getting constant, I mean every minute, disconnections at home, and the internet is basically unusable. Rain wants to send out a field agent to switch out the router but I'm thinking it's to do with the switch itself. When disconnecting all the PC's connected to the switch the internet is running like a champ with no disconnections at all.

I'm not very familiar with how these things work but we have not changed any settings on the 5G router itself or the switch since I assumed it was a plug and play method.

Would someone possibly be able to assist and provide some guidance on how I should be getting these two to work together in harmony?
 
Prim0 said:
Hi all,

Just looking for some advice on this. I currently have my Rain 5G ODU connected to a network switch, nothing fancy but more than enough to get the job done(Rain 5G standard).
The reason for this is down to the lack of available network ports on the 5G router itself. Since doing this I have changed to 3 different switches thinking our network fault is with the switch itself.

We are getting constant, I mean every minute, disconnections at home, and the internet is basically unusable. Rain wants to send out a field agent to switch out the router but I'm thinking it's to do with the switch itself. When disconnecting all the PC's connected to the switch the internet is running like a champ with no disconnections at all.

I'm not very familiar with how these things work but we have not changed any settings on the 5G router itself or the switch since I assumed it was a plug and play method.

Would someone possibly be able to assist and provide some guidance on how I should be getting these two to work together in harmony?
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@cavedog @jbroo
 
Prim0 said:
Hi all,

Just looking for some advice on this. I currently have my Rain 5G ODU connected to a network switch, nothing fancy but more than enough to get the job done(Rain 5G standard).
The reason for this is down to the lack of available network ports on the 5G router itself. Since doing this I have changed to 3 different switches thinking our network fault is with the switch itself.

We are getting constant, I mean every minute, disconnections at home, and the internet is basically unusable. Rain wants to send out a field agent to switch out the router but I'm thinking it's to do with the switch itself. When disconnecting all the PC's connected to the switch the internet is running like a champ with no disconnections at all.

I'm not very familiar with how these things work but we have not changed any settings on the 5G router itself or the switch since I assumed it was a plug and play method.

Would someone possibly be able to assist and provide some guidance on how I should be getting these two to work together in harmony?
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By the looks of it … let us see how your connection is setup the ports … From Router to the switch into the wan port … hopefully I’m right … and that should give internet to your switch
 
What you can do is check your routers settings … it should automatically be set as using any other router or so as an extender …

what I did back at home is reset the actual router I wanted use as an extender …

I have a switch as well but I never actually played with it … so the guys I tagged should know a little more about it
 
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Take the switch out of the equation - do you have dropouts when connected directly to the router? Also since you might get 100mbps+ speeds on 5G, is it a gigabit switch and are you using decent network cable?
 
Are you sure it’s a switch and not just another router?

Many people just use old routers thinking it can simply be user as the switch but this isn’t the case unless it allows for configuration to do so.
 
Kiemo said:
By the looks of it … let us see how your connection is setup the ports … From Router to the switch into the wan port … hopefully I’m right … and that should give internet to your switch
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A switch doesn’t have a WAN port.
 
A switch doesn’t have a WAN port.
True … forget to add the extra wording but please help us … I have one laying here and I was thinking on using it
 
jbroo said:
Take the switch out of the equation - do you have dropouts when connected directly to the router? Also since you might get 100mbps+ speeds on 5G, is it a gigabit switch and are you using decent network cable?
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All this factors @jbroo mentioned is very much important
 
jbroo said:
Take the switch out of the equation - do you have dropouts when connected directly to the router? Also since you might get 100mbps+ speeds on 5G, is it a gigabit switch and are you using decent network cable?
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Hi there, no dropouts when connected to the router directly. I only have the Rain 5G standard package so using an older 10/100 switch.

I was previously using a Gigabit switch which caused the same issue.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Are you sure it’s a switch and not just another router?

Many people just use old routers thinking it can simply be user as the switch but this isn’t the case unless it allows for configuration to do so.
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My first attempt was using my existing Mikrotik router as a switch, worked fine for a little while but I did not configure anything.
 
Prim0 said:
My first attempt was using my existing Mikrotik router as a switch, worked fine for a little while but I did not configure anything.
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It can be done. But the default configuration by most people who don’t understand what they are doing makes for a broken network.
 
SauRoNZA said:
It can be done. But the default configuration by most people who don’t understand what they are doing makes for a broken network.
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Continue there is something called … teaching us young kids …
 
Prim0 said:
Hi there, no dropouts when connected to the router directly. I only have the Rain 5G standard package so using an older 10/100 switch.

I was previously using a Gigabit switch which caused the same issue.
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Okay. So define dropouts - do you have packet loss to an internet server like 8.8.8.8 or to a device on your local LAN? Run some ping tests. Process of elimination. If your local hosts drop out, you have issues on your LAN. If you have packet loss to internet hosts but not those on your LAN (run concurrent tests) you internet connection is a problem.
 
Kiemo said:
Continue there is something called … teaching us young kids …
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A router by default has a DHCP server enabled where a switch doesn’t have this.

So you need to disable this first.

Router also has a NAT and firewall but these aren’t a problem as long as you don’t use the WAN port for anything but your actual internet connection.
 
jbroo said:
Okay. So define dropouts - do you have packet loss to an internet server like 8.8.8.8 or to a device on your local LAN? Run some ping tests. Process of elimination. If your local hosts drop out, you have issues on your LAN. If you have packet loss to internet hosts but not those on your LAN (run concurrent tests) you internet connection is a problem.
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Thanks man, I'll check this out.

So I should clarify that when we have these disconnections I noticed the Rain 5G ODU still has a full signal and the light is still on.
 
jbroo said:
Okay. So define dropouts - do you have packet loss to an internet server like 8.8.8.8 or to a device on your local LAN? Run some ping tests. Process of elimination. If your local hosts drop out, you have issues on your LAN. If you have packet loss to internet hosts but not those on your LAN (run concurrent tests) you internet connection is a problem.
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Just ran a test now.

It seemed pretty solid for a couple of seconds before the request timed out and came back a few seconds later. The results below were pretty much the average throughout a 3-minute test:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=114

It timed out twice during this small test.
 
Prim0 said:
Just ran a test now.

It seemed pretty solid for a couple of seconds before the request timed out and came back a few seconds later. The results below were pretty much the average throughout a 3-minute test:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=114

It timed out twice during this small test.
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Run a test for an hour (or over the period of your dropouts). Ping both the Google server (8.8.8.8) and your own host. When you end the ping tests (ctrl+c) it prints some stats about packet loss and response time. Copy the stats for each host you pinged and post them here.
 
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