Weird USB issue with Linux Mint

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Installed Mint on an HP desktop PC.

Everything looks and feels fine. Except for USB.

Whenever I download updates (either via USB wifi dongle or USB router (8ta)) I notice that ping times will go up.

This causes the USB router to become nonresponsive, I have to physically unplug them (two, an E220 and E1820) and back again to be able to reconnect. On a Windows PC (different hardware) everything's just peachy.

The USB wifi dongle works even though I get pings in excess of 43000ms.

Anybody had such an issue before?

edit : USB wifi dongle issue was poor signal. Put it on an USB extension lead, lifted it up, and issue went away.
 
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The_Librarian said:
After some tests :

Running the E1820 on Windows - router does not get that hot.
Running it under Mint, it tend to get very hot. Perhaps the wrong driver?
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Sounds like an USB driver issue?
 
The_Librarian said:
After some tests :

Running the E1820 on Windows - router does not get that hot.
Running it under Mint, it tend to get very hot. Perhaps the wrong driver?
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Are you still testing on different hardware?
 
ginggs said:
Are you still testing on different hardware?
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Yes. It is stable when running under Windows on a laptop... and the E220 is also 100% stable as well, no sudden drops, disconnects etc. I will run the same tests but with Mint on the laptop (dual-boot) tonight and see what happens.

I'm thinking of getting a Mikrotik and use that as the gateway, but I'm not in the mood for a double-NAT setup... but if it comes to that, will have to do that.

Aim is to get pihole up and running and block some stuff.
 
The_Librarian said:
Yes. It is stable when running under Windows on a laptop... and the E220 is also 100% stable as well, no sudden drops, disconnects etc. I will run the same tests but with Mint on the laptop (dual-boot) tonight and see what happens.
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Try a powered USB hub.
 
USB issues in Mint were one of the principle things that forced me back to windows.
When I tried to copy to or from any USB connected device, the copy would literally take hours (but minutes on the same pc in windows) and I just had to give up on using the pc while the copying was going on: Which, as I say, could take hours. CPU usage shot to 100% for the whole time it was copying. I just gave up trying to troubleshoot it and went back to windows.
I tried to love Mint, I really did, but this and other issues just got the better of me.
 
Grouter said:
USB issues in Mint were one of the principle things that forced me back to windows.
When I tried to copy to or from any USB connected device, the copy would literally take hours (but minutes on the same pc in windows) and I just had to give up on using the pc while the copying was going on: Which, as I say, could take hours. CPU usage shot to 100% for the whole time it was copying. I just gave up trying to troubleshoot it and went back to windows.
I tried to love Mint, I really did, but this and other issues just got the better of me.
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Use Debian or Ubuntu. Why use a distro based on a distro based on a distro?
 
Ok, further testing reveals :
E1820 is stable on the laptop's Mint install.

Next step is to get a Windows install on the HP desktop PC and see if the issue persists there. If so, then it's a hardware issue.

Will have to go find a Windows10 ISO then...
 
Ok. So.

It is not a hardware issue. Installed win7, router does its thing properly and without issues.

Installed OpenSuSE SLES, and it does the same thing.

I noticed that when I set it up, it loads the driver for the Huawei E815.

So off we go to find how to force the correct driver then.
 
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