UFB Stability Issues with HG659

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Scott3

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Topic # 154401 27-Oct-2014 01:04

I had my UFB installation completed on Monday, Using the Vodafone supplied HG659 router.

Performance has been really good, we slightly exceed the rated 100/50 Mbps on Ethernet speed tests, and have only a slight drop in performance when testing on wifi.

However we have been suffering wifi outages since the change, and today we have suffered from two complete outages (WiFi and Ethernet)

Restarting the router seems fixes the problems (for a few hours), hence I initially blame the HG659.

Network summary: ONT in garage cabinet, Patched into cat6 in wall cabling to the router in the office. Router has 1 laptop, a Printer, a Qnap NAS, and a Tplink 8 port gigabit switch (located in garage cabinet, connected to router via in wall cat 6). The switch has a TV and an Amazon fire on it (again via in wall cable runs).

On Wifi we have: 3x smartphones, 1x tablet, 2x Laptops (plus the wired one sometimes), the router has in its memory 4 more wifi devices from when we had guests.

All settings on the HG659 are stock, our last router (a Tplink TD-W8960N, on ADSL) was stable.

Does anybody have any ideas on how best to solve this? Would any of the following help?

Try the Vodafone help-desk.
Request New HG659 from Vodafone.
Turn off HG659 WiFi and separate access point (perhaps my old TP-Link router)
Move Ethernet devices from the router to the switch.
Replace cat5e patch leads with cat6
Get a decent high end consumer Router & Access point or All in One. (I have had lots of stability issues with the cheap routers given away with ADSL installs, and swapping in my high end (at the time) TP-Link has solved these issues in three successive dwellings. - Some of the best money I spent was on this, But I think it is now to old for UFB)

Any ideas? My partner wants her ADSL back...

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Reply # 1162685 27-Oct-2014 01:04

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If you are posting regarding DSL speeds please check that

- you have reset your modem and router

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Most of the problems with speed are likely to be related to internal wiring issues. Read this discussion to find out more about this. Your ISP is not intentionally slowing you down today (unless you are on a managed plan). Also if this is the school holidays it's likely you will notice slower than usual speed due to more users online.

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Reply # 1162700 27-Oct-2014 02:16

The HG659 is actually quite a good router but any router you get from any ISP normally are not designed to route a huge amount of traffic.

Something you can do is grab a Mikrotik, they're pretty cheap and I use this one on my 100mbit UFB connection: http://goo.gl/DznAvw and the best thing is, it is rock solid. From here just turn your HG659 into an AP.

The Mikrotiks are not the easiest to configure however once you learn (make sure you actually set up the firewall etc) you'll have no problems with it.

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Scott3

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Reply # 1162861 27-Oct-2014 11:22

Is a network with 5 wired devices, and 7-11 wifi devices pushing the limit for a Free router from an Isp?

called the help desk, and they advised to change the wifi channel to 11. Waiting to see if that helps.

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Reply # 1192199 9-Dec-2014 13:49

I have similar problems with the same router Huawei HG659 .. the UFB is a new Vodafone hookup in Forrest Hill and we have disabled the WLAN in favour of a couple of Unifi wifi access points.

Wifi clients (iPad, iPhone) appear to remain continuously connected but occasionally they suffer from no internet connectivity .. restarting the router always restores connectivity .. disabling and re-enabling the client wireless sometimes restores connectivity .. occasionally the wifi clients remain ok and the one wired client (Windows PC) suffers from no throughput and once again router restart restores connectivity.

Sky remains on throughout these perturbations .. so is this likely a router problem or a service problem? Any suggestions welcome please.

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Reply # 1192205 9-Dec-2014 14:02

Speed test result doesn't look too flash either .. 8M up and down ..

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3970228307

Scott3

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Reply # 1195341 10-Dec-2014 23:24

Foiler: I have similar problems with the same router Huawei HG659 .. the UFB is a new Vodafone hookup in Forrest Hill and we have disabled the WLAN in favour of a couple of Unifi wifi access points.

Wifi clients (iPad, iPhone) appear to remain continuously connected but occasionally they suffer from no internet connectivity .. restarting the router always restores connectivity .. disabling and re-enabling the client wireless sometimes restores connectivity .. occasionally the wifi clients remain ok and the one wired client (Windows PC) suffers from no throughput and once again router restart restores connectivity.

Sky remains on throughout these perturbations .. so is this likely a router problem or a service problem? Any suggestions welcome please.

Sounds similar to my issues. Wifi is flakey as, multiple drop outs per hour. I have moved everything critical onto the wired network so have been living with this. In addition I seem to have the entire router (both wired and wireless completely crash every couple of days).
for you the wired crash would take down your access points too.

I got Vodafone to send me a new router, and have swapped it out, exactly the same issues on the replacement router.

I have no idea what is causing the issues with the speedtest, my speedtest is as expected (when the router is working that is)

Result below is via Ethernet.

Get Vodafone to look into the speed thing. Use there call back feature (might have to call from a cell phone to get it to work), as you are likely to be on hold for 30mins +