frequent tethering dropouts

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frequent tethering dropouts

#1 Post by boof »

Xenialpup64-7.5 dropping tether to android fone every few minutes this morning till 0800 [gmt+8]. can't see why, but from a few days ago there has been a sustained large increase in page response times. Am I being monitored? How would I know? Someone doesn't like me?
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#2 Post by 8Geee »

It could be that the Service Provider does not allow tethering.
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Re: frequent tethering dropouts

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boof wrote:Xenialpup64-7.5 dropping tether to android fone every few minutes this morning till 0800 [gmt+8]. can't see why, but from a few days ago there has been a sustained large increase in page response times. Am I being monitored? How would I know? Someone doesn't like me?
Are you referring to cable tether or wifi tether?

Wifi tether has some timeout settings in the Android phone. Could it be those?

Or - could be that a cell tower near you is having issues and your phone is connecting to a not-so-good tower further away. Has there been any change to call quality or number of "signal bars" on display?

Any new sources of interference? My wife's new microwave has a devastating effect on our router as well as our cellphones.
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#4 Post by boof »

cable tether, worker ok before 4 months. no new devices in house, could be bad tower, no tower id on ph. optus 3g. tether from fone holds, but pc lets go and have to reconnect via usb0. seems random.
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#5 Post by greengeek »

A couple of other thoughts...

- Maybe your Android phone has automatically downloaded some updates? (I don't know how you can test this or turn it off)

- Do you have a frugal install? If so you could temporarily hide the savefile and see if the tether stays reliable without that old savefile. Maybe the savefile picked up some changes from a recently installed program or update?

(Maybe you have an older savefile backup that you could try?)
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#6 Post by drunkjedi »

When the disconnection happens could you check some logs or dmsg output?
Maybe something resets the connection.
Is it possible to have timeout to IP lease given by dhcpcd?
Or some other program reconfigures the usb0 device....
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#7 Post by boof »

think I fixed it. removed boot install of wl.ko driver. seems much better.
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