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Draken

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If i plug my Fiber internet into my eeepc laptop from 15 years ago, and share the internet, my upload speed is fine.

If i plug my fiber internet into 'RT-AC58U V3' router, download is fine, but the up load is 0.01 ?

Is there some sort of setting on the router that needs to be changed ?
 
What else connects when you plug in the router?
When you plug in the router, how do you connect it to your laptop?
 
I dont use the laptop as a computer, its a eeepc from 20 years ago that literally takes 20mins to boot.

Nothing else connects to the router.

If the internet is through the router, the upload speed is 0.01kb/s ( 10 KB/s ).

Direct its fine. Tried 5 different routers.

Afrihost just tells me its my router, for 6 months now.
 
Draken said:
I dont use the laptop as a computer, its a eeepc from 20 years ago that literally takes 20mins to boot.

Nothing else connects to the router.

If the internet is through the router, the upload speed is 0.01kb/s ( 10 KB/s ).

Direct its fine. Tried 5 different routers.

Afrihost just tells me its my router, for 6 months now.
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Sounds like its the router then. I would check for Qos settings on the router, failing that, reset the router if its still doesn't work, replace the router.
 
xefor said:
Sounds like its the router then. I would check for Qos settings on the router, failing that, reset the router if its still doesn't work, replace the router.
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But it isnt, that is the totally insane thing.

Ive tried 5 different BRAND new routers. Ranging from dodgy local trash, to now to an Asus.

Ive tried a friends working router.

Very much seems like an issue on Afrihost/Vuma side, but that means its impossible to fix, which leaves me in a **** spot.
 
Draken said:
But it isnt, that is the totally insane thing.

Ive tried 5 different BRAND new routers. Ranging from dodgy local trash, to now to an Asus.

Ive tried a friends working router.

Very much seems like an issue on Afrihost/Vuma side, but that means its impossible to fix, which leaves me in a **** spot.
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hrmm interesting, if it works on the epc and it isn't the router, what are you using to connect to the router? a laptop or desktop computer? Might be worth trying a a computer connected to a router via cable and doing a speedtest.
 
Tried multiple devices. Two computers that have wifi and Ethernet, tried both connections to the router.

MacBook Pro, over wifi same thing.
Android cellphone over wifi, same thing.

But if i use the eeepc as a peusdo router, plug in fiber to laptop ethernet, share internet over its wifi.(ubuntu command: nmcli dev wifi hotspot ssid 'ssid_name' password 'password' ), everything works fine, besides the laptop being from 2000 and having a 25mb wireless NIC.

Almost like Afrihost is limiting my speed on thier side if they detect the MAC address on the other end is a router they dislike or something dodgy. Wouldnt put it passed them. Wouldnt put it passed any SA company tbh.
 
Draken said:
Tried multiple devices. Two computers that have wifi and Ethernet, tried both connections to the router.

MacBook Pro, over wifi same thing.
Android cellphone over wifi, same thing.

But if i use the eeepc as a peusdo router, plug in fiber to laptop ethernet, share internet over its wifi.(ubuntu command: nmcli dev wifi hotspot ssid 'ssid_name' password 'password' ), everything works fine, besides the laptop being from 2000 and having a 25mb wireless NIC.

Almost like Afrihost is limiting my speed on thier side if they detect the MAC address on the other end is a router they dislike or something dodgy. Wouldnt put it passed them. Wouldnt put it passed any SA company tbh.
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very very strange indeed. I have no idea then.
 
I am not getting the full picture here.

Ethernet/DHCP fibre (not sure what this is called) or do you need to 'dial in' with PPPOE?

ONT to eeepc using LAN = great internet? Ok.
ONT to any router using LAN (using the WAN port?) then connected to LAN/WIFI to a 3rd device is giving 0.01 upload speeds using speedtest.net? How about fast.com? Can you browse any sites?
 
ld13 said:
I am not getting the full picture here.

Ethernet/DHCP fibre (not sure what this is called) or do you need to 'dial in' with PPPOE?

ONT to eeepc using LAN = great internet? Ok.
ONT to any router using LAN (using the WAN port?) then connected to LAN/WIFI to a 3rd device is giving 0.01 upload speeds using speedtest.net? How about fast.com? Can you browse any sites?
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DHCP Fibre.

Ya ONT to EEEPC via Lan, shared via Wifi = Fine
ONT to any router using WAN PORT, internet via wifi or ethernet is broken upload. Multiple devices,OS`s,Sites.

Ya really makes no sense at all. :/
 
Sorry for the stupid questions,

Have you tried any other laptop/device/PC directly with ONT via LAN?
 
ld13 said:
Sorry for the stupid questions,

Have you tried any other laptop/device/PC directly with ONT via LAN?
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Ya tried it on one of the PCs direct, and it works fine. 100mb/100mb.
 
Completely random, and 100% conjecture from my side, but my mind is going to TTL. Would be interesting to see what would happen if you ONT-LAN-ROUTER-LAN-PC and tweak your TTL. With my limited knowledge that is the only difference between your PC connected via the router VS connected directly to the 'ONT', one extra hop. Some service providers in the cellular space (overseas at least) use TTL to make sure you do not hotspot your unlimited data plan.

What ONT do you have?
 
ld13 said:
Completely random, and 100% conjecture from my side, but my mind is going to TTL. Would be interesting to see what would happen if you ONT-LAN-ROUTER-LAN-PC and tweak your TTL. With my limited knowledge that is the only difference between your PC connected via the router VS connected directly to the 'ONT', one extra hop. Some service providers in the cellular space (overseas at least) use TTL to make sure you do not hotspot your unlimited data plan.

What ONT do you have?
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Huawei ONT that came from Afrihost.
 
And over the day now, its slowly came up from 0.01mb to 0.4mb.

And at random times, if i attempt an upload to google drive, it can get up to 10mb/s out of no where. And if i stop that upload when its flying, and instantly try upload the exact same file again, it will go at 0.4mb/s

I mean, is it possible the ONT is broken some how, and it just doesnt work right with a router, but for whatever reason, that issue will not effect a direct PC connection ?

With all the loadshedding and Eskom failing to keep on schedule, its possible its shorted the ONT some how.
 
That sounds like a path mtu issue. You should test that. You can see it using wireshark. Have you ever swapped out the ONT? I've see some dodge Huawei ONTs with MTU problems before and on Vodacom's fibre using a Nokia ONT.

Ubuntu is based on debian and it has an excellent default TCP/IP stack. Business class and probably a decade more advanced than the rubbish on most cheap consumer routers.

Best routers are those using Intel processor + Intel Ethernet controller. As a home user you can use this https://raspap.com with ubuntu. Else if you have an inner geek you can go for pfsense or opnsense.

I currently use an SD-WAN device with a hardened debian buster image that uses the latest v5 LTS kernel. It fixes these problems like magic. If you in Joburg around 4ways I can come over and test for you.
 
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So an update.

After load shedding last night(Where Eskom loadshedded for 4 hours, instead of the scheduled 2 hours, fun ! ) , for no good reason, the internet was 100/100 through the router.

Today i wake up, and it looks like Eskom had loadshedded me again at 8am, even though i only had 8am on stage 4. (Eskom literally doesnt know their arse from their elbow it seems ), and now its back to broken upload.

@AfriNatic It uses a Ubuntu Install disk, in TEST MODE(USB)
 
@r00igev@@r Nope ONT has always been the same once since the start. But this all use to be fine.

Pretty much one month, my afrihost monthly cost increased and i wasnt informed, and thus ended up not paying the full amount for that month. Got cut off, paid, got put back on.

And ever since that day, my internet has been like this. And ive gone through multiple router replacements now sadly :/

Its just crazy. This EEEPC is so old, and littreally takes 15mins to boot into cmdline ubuntu. Just blows me away it could pull off anything, let alone outperform hardware made for a reason, with a simple terminal cmd.
 
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