Can't reach every Website with Repeater

[rudibroo]

Hey everyone,

so I installed Linux Mint 20.1 yesterday again and upgraded to Kernel 5.10. I updated everything and everything seems to work fine, besides the network.

At first I thought it's a general issue with my wifi-card, that I can't reach certain websites (while being connected with my repeater wifi).
Then i connected to my router wifi and now I can reach every website, but obviously very slow. So I guess the Problem is somehow only connected to my repeater, or maybe not.
I already tried disabling ipv6 and using dns "1.1.1.1" and "8.8.8.8", didn't work.

I'm using the "TP-Link RE200 WLAN Repeater".

I hope someone can help me using my repeater wifi in order to have a fast connection AND reach every website.

Thanks!

inxi -Fxz output:

System:
Kernel: 5.10.0-1008-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81YQ v: IdeaPad 5 15ARE05
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
v: E7CN26WW date: 06/22/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.2 Wh condition: 70.7/70.0 Wh (101%)
model: LGC L19L4PF1 status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 50304
Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1398 2: 1397
3: 1398 4: 1396 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1395 11: 1400
12: 1396
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus ID: 03:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-1008-oem LLVM 11.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 03:00.1
Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 03:00.5
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-1008-oem
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 133.70 GiB used: 9.79 GiB (7.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZALQ128HBHQ-000L2
size: 119.24 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Intenso model: Rainbow Line
size: 14.45 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 34.98 GiB used: 9.76 GiB (27.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 45 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 326 Uptime: 15m Memory: 15.07 GiB used: 1.32 GiB (8.8%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17
inxi: 3.0.38

[senjoz]

Welcome to the Forum, rudibroo!

Kernel: 5.10.0-1008-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A

It looks like you are running an unsupported kernel. You will hardly get help here.

Regards, Jože

[mintcub]

Not being an expert on this matter, I might misread your problem. If not, this is my solution (after days if not weeks of trial). I am running Linux Mint 20.1 Xfce and WiFi connect to the net over a repeater which connects to my router:

*** 1 ***
My problem was: I could ping and connect with firefox to, say, google.com and others, but not to, say, brother.com and others WHEN I USED MY REPEATER. Using my router alone, no problem. And, this connection problem with repeater occured only with Linux Mint 20.1 and Debian 11 Buster/sid (Mint 20 is based on Buster/sid anyway); Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 10 were faultless in this respect.

*** 2 ***
So, I a) apt installed connman, connman-ui, connman-gtk and cmst (maybe some not necessary, I don't know), b) purged network-manager and network-manager-gnome, and c) made sure that /etc/network/interfaces only contained this:
/etc/network/interfaces

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

nothing more, and d) put conmman-ui-gtk into "Setting > Session and Startup > Autostart", and rebooted

*** 3 ***
After rebooting, eveything was fine with connman, I could not only connect with my router, but also with my repeater to every website Don't ask me why.

Hope, this helps,

mintcub

P.S. In a different forum, they found that all internet portals I could connect to were IPv6. and those I could not connect to with the repeater and network-manager were IPv4. But they could not explain why connman worked, and not why Debian 10 and dependend distros were ok with my repeater (TP-Link TL-WA850RE WLAN Repeater) and network-manager.

[mintcub]

...

Kernel: 5.10.0-1008-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A

It looks like you are running an unsupported kernel. You will hardly get help here.

I am running a supported kernel, i.e., Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic x86_64 bits, that was installed by my Linux Mint 20.1 without my doing. And I have the same problem, see my post above.

[Joe2Shoe]

I have the RE220. Update the firmware.

[mintcub]

Update the firmware.

Thanks, will do. I cannot tackle the repeater right now. But why would connman have nor problem with the present firmware, while the new NetworkManager does?

[Joe2Shoe]

Check your RE200 to see which hardware version you have? Hardware version 1, 2, 3, or 4? Hardware version is on the label on the unit.
Update the firmware according to your hardware version.
Updating the wrong firmware version may brick your repeater.
Good luck.

[mintcub]

"brick"? Sounds horrible, I think I'll stick to connman and forget about network-manager. But thanks, anyway.

[mintcub]

According to the manufacturer I had an older repeater version (v5). Using the new improved version (v7) of the same make there is no problem at all with network-manager
EDIT: My repeater is TP-Link TL-WA850RE

[Larry78723]

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