[gprentice]

The bridgebum.com and larryco.com websites fail for me intermittently. Seems to be a problem with my router. Do these websites "fail" for anyone else?


Using Archer AX1500 router 5 GHz wifi and fibre internet
I have a problem with these 3 web-sites
bridgebum
larryco
mycareshop
(last one is co nz)
they intermittently fail (timeout) on my windows 11 pc - ping and tracert also fail. tracert fails at the last hop
They either all succeed or all fail. larryco doesn't support ping


Turning wifi off and on at my PC makes it work for a while, occasionally it recovers by itself.

It never fails with a VPN running - stop the vpn and it fails

It fails on two different windows 11 PCs with different wifi hardware - but sometimes one works when the other is failing

It fails on my current machine with a tp-link USB wifi adapter instead of the in-built wifi (mediatek mt7902)
I've never seen it fail on my android samsung phone

It fails for both wifi 5 (ac) and wifi 6 (ax)
Changing a setting such as WOWLAN on the mediatek MT7902 makes it start working - i think due to the wifi card resetting itself.

I upgraded the router firmware and it still fails. I've tried a lot of suggestions from chatgpt but the failure continues. According to chatgpt, it's a state desynchronisation problem.

Any ideas for how to stop it failing or how to find out why it fails?

[pescetom]

Odd, but it does sound likely that the problem is in the router. I don't see anything unusual about the two bridge sites on my Windoze PC or my Android phone via wifi.
I assume you already verified that the problem does not appear if you wire your PC to the router.
I would try swapping router with someone else to see if the problem disappears for you and reappears for them. If so then get another router (and return this one as not fit for purpose).

[gprentice]

Thanks. Yep, I don't get the problem if I connect with ethernet but the cable is inconvenient. It's so annoying that I've bought another router, Asus this time.

[thepossum]

We had similar problems occasionally with routes or states getting out of sync with Windows 10 and a similar Archer router. Took a bit of messing around with route caches on Windows and resetting modems. Even experimenting with hard set DHCP

Who knows between Archer, Windows or some other soft settings who is responsible

And to give credit to Chat GPT it explained a bit about some caches on Windows I did not know about

Come to think of it at one stage Norton firewall was involved and no longer trusted our wifi

Something else weird happened around the sane time that I could not connect direct from PC to router but could via my mobile hotpot
Maybe not via hotspot but when I was connected to it anyway. Who knows

The issue did go away but I have permanent DHCP on our main devices now. That uses the hardware identifier. What's it called.
I find the internet of things a bit scary these days. Maybe you were connected to the neighbour's toaster
1NT and the toast popped up unexpectedly.There is a rather concerning concentration of some very important things in very few trusted entities these days

Sorry for rambing but even back in the early days of the web I used to feel anxious about the tiny probability of hardware IDs not being unique