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cybot
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Nov 17, 2022

RAXE500 using readyshare cause router to malfunction and causes PC net adapter to give weird errors

firmware version: Firmware Version V1.0.10.86_2.0.40   I have a new RAXE500 that i have hooked a USB 3.0 4Tb drive upto for use in backing up my PC. I am able to access the drive over the network t...
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cybot
Luminary
Nov 19, 2022

the drive itself had no issues, it was the router that was misbehaving, and then only when readyshare was in use. the drive i am using is essentially a 3.5 sata HDD put into an enclosure by Seagate, and the dock portion of the unit provides the sata to usb. Seagate had various connection docks that could be purchased for the drive such as firewire, thunderbolt, etc. the USB 3.0 dock it came with was always enough for me. 

 

now that the ipv6 issues i was having have been corrected, the router seems to be behaving itself. I spent the day hooked up to the router via ethernet, which meant stringing a cable half way across the house. I can't keep it that way because it presents a trip hazard. my mom keeps complaing that if she trips she will break her hip, so i am going to call the current round of tests done. the wifi portion of the router seems to have stabilized as well. no more of the weirdness described in my op.

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cybot
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Nov 26, 2022

it has been several weeks now, and the readyshare seems to be stable as well as the router. no issues to report. switching/correcting the ipv6 tunnel settings seems to have solved all of my issues.

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      cybot
      Luminary
      Jan 13, 2023

      i switched the ipv6 setting from 6to4 to 6rD. the settings needing to be entered are a little different, but luckily i had a working example of what was needed from an obscure blog post that i stumbled across. fortunately, hurricane tunnels support 6rd or i would be SOL

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      cybot
      Luminary
      Jan 13, 2023

      tonight, suddenly the router started wigging out again. was not able to get the router webpage to come up long enough to inspect my router settings. i discovered that during the 'wigging out' of the router all status lights EXCEPT the power light would go out. this was accompanied by loss of internet connection to the router, during which the router reported there was no cable connected. this is not correct, and there is nothing wrong with either the modem or cable. also, the wifi radios (access points, whatever you want to call it) would cycle on and off. both the 2ghz and 5ghz would resist allowing a connection. everytime it looked like i was successfully connected, and i would proceed to the router web page, the radios would turn off then on again. rebooting the router with the external HDD disconnected and then waiting 10 Minutes till after the router was fully 'booted up' before plugging it in again seems to have calmed the router down for now. I just wish i knew what had precipitated the whole incident. all that was going on internet wise was watching hulu.

       

      OH. one last thing. the weird errors i was seeing coming from the net adapters on my system were unrelated to this issue. turns out the cause of that was the Epson drivers not using windows 11's new preferred way of sending printer traffic to PC. i had to do a registry hack to re-enable the old way of doing things for the network printer communications. Epson needs to get their a$$ in gear and send out drivers that use the new method. i spent countless hair pulling and head banging while searching for the answer. which i eventually found on the M$ site in an obscure article describing printer stack changes in win11 22h2. never would i have guessed a weird error like that was caused by a printer.