A very unique situation

[Onlineandoffgrid]

I live 15 miles from the closest anything but luckily I can receive a cell signal from T-Mobile. I use my cell phone as a hotspot to run a small Nas device (mycloud 6Tb) 4 computers and 3 smart t.v.s as well as two Xbox Ones 1 Xbox 360 a Nintendo Wii and anything else I can think of lol. 

 

THE PROBLEM! How to get the internet signal from my phone to my router. To add and remove people from my Plex server and my cloud and also allow people to sign in to Plex. 

THE CURRENT SOLUTION:

Has been to run a Linksys router Wireless-G model WRT54G Flash the DD-WRT version 24 software to bridge the internet signal from the phone to the home network through a Netgear Nighthawk r7000 running in access point mode. 

 

THE BIG ISSUE WITH THIS SETUP!!!! And the primary reason it's not working for me even wired directly into the Netgear I'm only seeing speed of roughly 6 Megs a second and that is absolutely maxed out. I'm not looking for faster internet speeds I'm looking for faster home network speeds. HELP!!!!

 

PS. I am willing to change the entire structure of the network if need be but money as with most is an obstacle. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Best way is probably to a  4g to ethernet modem( I see one online for 160)

 

 

You can also use a old laptop with a 4g card as your router(most buiness grade laptops do), then get a seprate wifi access point. You can then use soemthing like pfsense or untange to make it a router.

[Onlineandoffgrid]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Best way is probably to a  4g to ethernet modem( I see one online for 160)

 

 

You can also use a old laptop with a 4g card as your router(most buiness grade laptops do), then get a seprate wifi access point. You can then use soemthing like pfsense or untange to make it a router.

How will that change my network speeds? Getting the internet to the devices is easy the problem is something is seriously slowing down my ability to move files from one place to another on the network there's a bottleneck somewhere and I can't find it. If your answer gives the solution to this I'm not sure how.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Onlineandoffgrid said:

How will that change my network speeds? Getting the internet to the devices is easy the problem is something is seriously slowing down my ability to move files from one place to another on the network there's a bottleneck somewhere and I can't find it. If your answer gives the solution to this I'm not sure how.

Are you using wired or wireless for the computer, switch to wired for everything then test speeds. ALso try iperf too see if its the nas thats the problem

[Onlineandoffgrid]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Are you using wired or wireless for the computer, switch to wired for everything then test speeds. ALso try iperf too see if its the nas thats the problem

Cat7 wired & it's not the Nas I gother 596m/s read and 100 les right when I tested it straight off the computer.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Onlineandoffgrid said:

Cat7 wired

So you have NAS ---> switch ---> computer?

 

 

[Onlineandoffgrid]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

So you have NAS ---> switch ---> computer?

 

 

I have everything hook directly into the access point /router and yes NAS to Nighthawk r7000 as well as computer(s) to Nighthawk r7000 wired. The Wii the TVs and one of the Xboxes are the only thing running Wireless.

[Windows7ge]

This is a cheap ghetto solution, use the phone as a hotspot and connect to it using a laptop wirelessly. Then share the wireless connection out the 1Gbit/100Mbit port on the laptop and plug that line into the WAN port of the router and then plug all devices into the LAN ports on the router. Speeds to/from the internet will be crap but local communication should be limited to 1Gbit (125MBps max theoretical) between local devices. You can increase the number of devices if you include a Gbit switch between the router and the end devices.

[Onlineandoffgrid]

14 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

This is a cheap ghetto solution, use the phone as a hotspot and connect to it using a laptop wirelessly. Then share the wireless connection out the 1Gbit/100Mbit port on the laptop and plug that line into the WAN port of the router and then plug all devices into the LAN ports on the router. Speeds to/from the internet will be crap but local communication should be limited to 1Gbit (125MBps max theoretical) between local devices. You can increase the number of devices if you include a Gbit switch between the router and the end devices.

I have tried this over and over and over again unfortunately my Nas will not accept the internet from my computer. And my router will not share it is anything else on the network either. But I will try it again as I just replaced my server computer the new Windows 10 machine. maybe that will help. 

I'll let you know as soon as I do. Thank you guys for your help

[Electronics Wizardy]

48 minutes ago, Onlineandoffgrid said:

I have everything hook directly into the access point /router and yes NAS to Nighthawk r7000 as well as computer(s) to Nighthawk r7000 wired. The Wii the TVs and one of the Xboxes are the only thing running Wireless.

Can you try iperf to see if the nas is slow? Also check that the links are running at gig. 

[Onlineandoffgrid]

21 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you try iperf to see if the nas is slow? Also check that the links are running at gig. 

I did, no issues there

[Onlineandoffgrid]

38 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you try iperf to see if the nas is slow? Also check that the links are running at gig. 

I did, no issues there

[Onlineandoffgrid]

Also I cannot get my computer to share internet I don't care what I do

[Onlineandoffgrid]

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

This is a cheap ghetto solution, use the phone as a hotspot and connect to it using a laptop wirelessly. Then share the wireless connection out the 1Gbit/100Mbit port on the laptop and plug that line into the WAN port of the router and then plug all devices into the LAN ports on the router. Speeds to/from the internet will be crap but local communication should be limited to 1Gbit (125MBps max theoretical) between local devices. You can increase the number of devices if you include a Gbit switch between the router and the end devices.

Need your help to make my windows 10 comp share it's internet 

[brwainer]

I just want to make sure - your only issue is with transfers to/from the NAS being slow, and you are just looking for a solution where everything can get online *and* you have good transfer speeds right?

 

Edit: and also, is this how things are connected?

Phone to WRT54G WAN

WRT45G LAN to R7000 WAN

R7000 LAN to NAS, comouter, and anything else that is wired

[Extwofour]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

This is a cheap ghetto solution, use the phone as a hotspot and connect to it using a laptop wirelessly. Then share the wireless connection out the 1Gbit/100Mbit port on the laptop and plug that line into the WAN port of the router and then plug all devices into the LAN ports on the router. Speeds to/from the internet will be crap but local communication should be limited to 1Gbit (125MBps max theoretical) between local devices. You can increase the number of devices if you include a Gbit switch between the router and the end devices.

I remember this from the old Xbox 360 days. It works well enough! Not as fast as other, higher end solutions but it will work as described.

[Onlineandoffgrid]

18 minutes ago, brwainer said:

I just want to make sure - your only issue is with transfers to/from the NAS being slow, and you are just looking for a solution where everything can get online *and* you have good transfer speeds right?

 

Edit: and also, is this how things are connected?

Phone to WRT54G WAN

WRT45G LAN to R7000 WAN

R7000 LAN to NAS, comouter, and anything else that is wired

Yes that is/was the setup. Now I'm trying to get my Windows 7 machine to serve internet I got the windows 10 machine to do it but that's also my server and it ruined everything the server couldn't see the network Plex couldn't get to the media all manner of things went to hell so now I have an old Windows 7 computer that I'm trying to get to surf the Internet but now there's an issue with my router and my Windows 10 computer not communicating properly

[Onlineandoffgrid]

Okay new issue the Windows 10 computer the land connection is marked as ethernet and is giving me all sorts of problems anyone know how to change it I now have internet Through the Windows 7 computer

[Windows7ge]

2 hours ago, Onlineandoffgrid said:

Need your help to make my windows 10 comp share it's internet 

If the computer accesses the internet via a wireless card sharing that connection out the Gbit port is easy:

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections > (Right Click Your Wireless Adapter) > Properties > (At the top) Sharing > (check the box) Allow other users to connect through this computer's Internet connection.

[brwainer]

Once you get into the position of sharing internet access through a computer, I stop providing support personally. It can be made to work, but the person setting it up really needs to understand routing, switching, and what really goes on with bridging and ICS. I have set it up and used it myself but I find it hard to help others with it because it is nit straightforward.

 

If you want to set this up more properly (without any computer serving internet to anything else) then I will happily offer suggestions and guidance.

[AshleyAshes]

Guys... You know you can just buy routers that natively support USB 3G/4G modems and Android phones in modem mode, right...?

 

I mean, all these crazy solutions are... Cute, but even my older Asus RT-AC66U would just let me jack my Nexus 5X into it's USB port and use the phone as a modem.  Why not just get a router that has this function?

[Onlineandoffgrid]

5 hours ago, brwainer said:

Once you get into the position of sharing internet access through a computer, I stop providing support personally. It can be made to work, but the person setting it up really needs to understand routing, switching, and what really goes on with bridging and ICS. I have set it up and used it myself but I find it hard to help others with it because it is nit straightforward.

 

If you want to set this up more properly (without any computer serving internet to anything else) then I will happily offer suggestions and guidance.

Sure would be grate. I'm 36 miles from the closest available fiber and all the satellite  connections are used in our area. So if you have another option let me know. my issue was never net it was LAN speed. now I'm on the net and pushing 116MB/s, please help if you know something better.

[Onlineandoffgrid]

3 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

Guys... You know you can just buy routers that natively support USB 3G/4G modems and Android phones in modem mode, right...?

 

I mean, all these crazy solutions are... Cute, but even my older Asus RT-AC66U would just let me jack my Nexus 5X into it's USB port and use the phone as a modem.  Why not just get a router that has this function?

Wow really? is it a gigabit router?  this would be awesome thx.

[Onlineandoffgrid]

6 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

If the computer accesses the internet via a wireless card sharing that connection out the Gbit port is easy:

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections > (Right Click Your Wireless Adapter) > Properties > (At the top) Sharing > (check the box) Allow other users to connect through this computer's Internet connection.

This didn't work for me. I have to bridge them no  sharing. 

[AshleyAshes]

7 hours ago, Onlineandoffgrid said:

Wow really? is it a gigabit router?  this would be awesome thx.

Yeah.  There's a lot of routers with this function.