How did you go about connecting your router to an xfinitywifi hotspot? by wifi repeater/ client bridge mode?
More generally, where are you that requires you to use the xfinitywifi hotspot and not a modem hooked up to the router for internet access?
Don't know what the difference is but it i have it set as "client" not "client bridge"
I'm on a small apartment with 2 floors, shouldn't be much congestion, the the amount of ssid's around me also suggest they have their own internet.
MDA400 wrote:
The xfinitywifi hotspots usually are timed access and you need to re-login every so often since anyone in public with a cable account can use them... This is probably the reason for your disconnection issue and is not an ideal way to get internet access.
The hotspot offers 1 hour trial like every month to people without an account, I've had an account and the connection has been constant for the past 8+ months aside from these DHCP issues.
I assume somehow dd-wrt doesn't handle these hotspots perfectly, cause having to go to the dd-wrt page to renew the dhcp once or twice a day and connection being back up in an instant doesn't seem like something i'd have to do manually.
Also a few days ago i started noticing the disconnects happening at roughly the same time so i started recording when and it would go up by exactly +3 mins every 24 hours (would dc at 8:05,8:08,8:11..etc i only had a chance to record the evening one), maybe it has something to do with lease? i tried setting it to a year but the 2 dhcp disconnects still happen daily, maybe the hotspot is forced to 24 hours but still don't know why it would disconnect me instead of renewing itself when it happens.
(it does renew itself but after the "remaining lease time" on WAN expires. which is set to every 5 mins, so i have to wait 1-5 mins with no internet if i don't renew it myself) _________________ Asus RT-N66U
So yeah i recorded the morning disconnect this time and it happened at 9:54am and then again as expected 12 hours later, same thing the next day. Definitely not random, any way to circumvent this? _________________ Asus RT-N66U
I am having the same issue. Did you find a solution?
Sorry to say i did not, I gave up and just looked for the fastest way to renew the dhcp automatically so i don't have to manually go to the interface anymore.
I couldn't figure out how to make the script that detects when your connection drops and do a dhcp renew work so i just made it hit renew every second lol...[put in admin->command>save startup script below.](has a small chance to not work on startup, reset till it does)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
while [ true ]
do
killall -SIGUSR1 udhcpc
sleep 1
done
Might not be the most efficient thing but it's something. _________________ Asus RT-N66U
