I ran the 1100a as traditionally for months, no issues. At the beginning of December, I configured it in Transparent bridging, for all the right reasons, and it ran great for several weeks. I started getting dropping of the internet for 10-15 seconds at at time HUNDREDS of times per day. (Verified this using opendns, which tracks your external IP. I was loosing authentication, and then would end up reconnecting, which would give me a new external IP)
Trying not to be THAT guy, that doesn't rule thing out for the right way, I checked external connection box, my dedicated wires, etc, because i was confident that this was problem with copper problem to my house. Everything check out great. Good SNR etc. In frustration, I just put the 1100a back into routing mode.....and everything was perfect again.
So now I've convinced myself that the authentication TO the 1100a is causing the drops, and that it is because i have not configured the detection of a live link correctly in the Asus AC68U. I of course had my username and password in correctly, but left everything else as default. (1492, etc.) I noticed that there are three methods giving to me to detect if the connection is up. (Disable / PPP Echo / DNS Probe) Default is PPP Echo. If use that it gives me two additional settings; PPP Echo Interval and PPP Echo Max Failures. Those defaults are 6 seconds and 10, which I was using.
Does anyone have similar in their router, and want to give me some tips? I searched everywhere to see if I could figure out what the Zyxel uses for these setting, so I could emulate, to no avail.
Should i Just disable detection all together, or run DNS Probe?
If I run PPP Echo detection do i need to stretch the time out?
I really want to get past double NAT, and I must be right on the edge of one of these settings. If I let the 1100a do the authentication.....no IP changes for weeks. If I put it into bridging mode, I start getting external IP changes several times a hour.
TIA
↧