WIFI Repeater problem or me?

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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I got a cheesy but sweet WIFI Repeater from a cheap food store that also seels these toys now and then.

When I firts got it, it seemed to work just fine, but at the same time, I found it a gimmick that was not really necessary, but now I am in a much bigger house, I could certainly do with it.

Its a Maginon WLR-510 and I just cannot get access to its homepage to do any thing with it?

I have tried resetting it but it does not help.

I get its info with ipconfig but a web page simply hangs when I try loggin on?

Im half thinking it might be broken, but half not.

Anyone care to offer anything?
 
Did you do a factory reset? Holding the reset button for 20 seconds?

It looks like the default IP is 192.168.10.1 once you connected to the repeaters wifi, is this the IP it's coming up with in ip config?

Dose the page Load at all or cannot be displayed?

Can you ping the IP?
 
Yes, factory reset.

192.168.10.1 - yes, I think so... I will have to check... I kind of did think that there might be some conflict with my current LAN, however, the Modem is 192.168.0.x and the Router is 1.x and so with this being 10.1 it should not be a problem.

No, the page does not come up at all???
I use Firefox, and when I loadup a page, the circle spins clockwise when data is coming through and anticlockwise when its not, and it kind of stays on anticlockwise, but it then sort of gives up... It does NOT say page unavailable, it just fails to bring it up.

PING - not tried it to be honest, hang on, I will have another play about in a bit...

Im using a Laptop to play with it... Using its ethernet port by the way... Not even using WIFI. It has 3 modes... Access point, Repeater, and Client. Im unable to do anything with it.

Oh, one other thing...

My LAN has a seperate Modem ( Vodafone ) and Router ( asus ) plus, I have 3 switches, as well as a handful of HomePlugs... Could this WIFI thingy possibly be having issues because I am using HomePlugs?

I know its not, but there is still a nag at the back on my mind.
 
If you've just plugged the pc in to the back of the repeaters ethernet or connect to its wifi then you should be able to connect, just make sure the pc is not connected to your existing LAN ( wired or wifi) this will keep it isolated for testing so it won't conflict with anything on the LAN.

If you are connected to the LAN and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 then it won't be able to see the 192.168.10.x network unless your router is aware of it.
 
pepp77 said:
Are you assigning yourself a 192.168.10.x ip address when trying to connect to set it up?
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LOL Im not that ... Ok I am, but Nol, each device has its own IP.
I suppose you had to make sure of course.

Voicon said:
If you've just plugged the pc in to the back of the repeaters ethernet or connect to its wifi then you should be able to connect, just make sure the pc is not connected to your existing LAN ( wired or wifi) this will keep it isolated for testing so it won't conflict with anything on the LAN.

If you are connected to the LAN and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 then it won't be able to see the 192.168.10.x network unless your router is aware of it.
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Yes, I should be able to, but its just not happening?

As I said, I am using a Laptop that is physically seperate from my LAN apart from the Ehternet cable that connects to the port in the WIFI Repeater, and the Repeater is connected to the mains, which in turn also has the HOMEPLUGS connected to it.

( I have now physically disconnected the homeplugs and its make no difference )


Voicon said:
If you are connected to the LAN and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 then it won't be able to see the 192.168.10.x network unless your router is aware of it.
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WHAT?
I dont expect to see the 10.? network if Iam connected to the 1,? network - of course Im not.
The Laptop is NOT connected to ANY network, and I have disabled the WIFI so it wont accidentally connect to my current network, and I am ONLY connecting it to the WIFI repeater, but as is the case, even though its physcially conecting and the repeater seems to be giving me an IP, it simply will not connect to its homepage so I can do anything with it?
 
Try giving your laptop a static IP with the IP 192.168.10.2 (so it's 1 above the repeater) and then try accessing it.

Or another option is to directly connect it to the router via ethernet, and check on the router to see what IP it's getting, then try accessing that.
 
Ah... It works, just not on the laptop.

I saw it with a tablet and tried connecting and after a few shots, I got the password and it talked to the internet without issues.

The Laptop still fails to connect but I have tried others and they are fine.

Its the laptop then. Bloody heck.
 
I've had two of these WiFi repeaters for a while now. I've had intermittent problems as devices move from room to room and as they switch APs.

Seems the problem may have been related to time drifting on these devices as I haven't found a way to configure NTP on them.

As a workaround, I set a CRON job to reset the time early in the morning.
#!/bin/bash
#BASH script to reset the time on a Aldi / Magninon / Supra WL-510 access point
#add this as a cron job to reset the time daily as it tends to drift

## crontab -e
##
## # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
## #
## # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
## # indicating with different fields when the task will be run
## # and what command to run for the task
## #
## # To define the time you can provide concrete values for
## # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
## # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
## # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
## # daemon's notion of time and timezones.
## #
## # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
## # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
## #
## # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
## # at 5 a.m every week with:
## # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
## #
## # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
## #
## # m h dom mon dow command
## 0 4 * * * /bin/bash /full/path/to/script/setaptime URL PASSWORD
##

if [ -z $1 ] || [ -z $2 ]
then
printf "Usage: %s AP-Address (eg., 192.168.1.1, or ap.home) Password\n" ${0##*/}
exit 1
fi

URL='http://'$1
PASSWORD=$2


#====================
#login
RESPONSE=$( curl -s -X POST \
-w "\n%{http_code}\n" \
--header 'Accept: */*' \
-H 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-d 'submit-value=Login&username=admin&password='${PASSWORD}'&lang_select=0' \
${URL}'/boafrm/formLoginHtm' )

RC=${RESPONSE:${#RESPONSE}-3}
if [ "${RC}" = "200" ]
then
if [ "${RESPONSE:0:13}" = "login_success" ]
then
printf "%s %s\n" ${RC} "OK"
else
printf "%s Failed to login - ::%s::. Exiting...\n" "${RC}" "${RESPONSE}"
exit 1
fi
else
printf "%s Failed to login. Exiting...\n" ${RC}
exit 1
fi


#get the current system time - hope this is synched with an NTP service
#if it isn't you could always get it from a reputable source here...

FORMAT="+%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S"
TIMESTAMP=$( date "${FORMAT}" )

#set time
printf "Setting time to: %s\n" ${TIMESTAMP}
RESPONSE=$( curl -s -X POST \
-w "\n%{http_code}\n" \
--header 'Accept: */*' \
-H 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
-d 'submit-url=/countdown.htm?bp=man_tz.htm' \
-d 'submit-value=time' \
-d 'year='${TIMESTAMP:0:4} \
-d 'month='${TIMESTAMP:5:2} \
-d 'day='${TIMESTAMP:8:2} \
-d 'hour='${TIMESTAMP:11:2} \
-d 'minute='${TIMESTAMP:14:2} \
-d 'second='${TIMESTAMP:17:2} \
${URL}'/boafrm/formNtp' )

RC=${RESPONSE:${#RESPONSE}-3}
if [ "${RC}" = "302" ]
then
printf "%s %s\n" ${RC} "OK"
else
printf "%s Failed to set the time. Exiting...\n" ${RC}
exit 1
fi​


Hope others find this script useful - been running this for a month or two now and it seems stable
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