Wifi tethering not working

Hi,

Reposting the same message, because I announced my problem to be solved, so the topic was closed, but it isn’t solved (so in the end it wasn’t just about the connectivity check) :

I’ve a connectivity issue : My Endeavour session get perfect connection on boxes and home routers wifi, but 99% of the time (don’t why, but it seems, in some occasion it works), I’ve a yellow sign on wifi label, written “Limited connectivity” and no access to internet when I connect to phone tethering (who works perfectly on other device, and even on my laptop with an other session booted)

I’ve dig around my firewall config, unsuccessfully (but maybe it come from it, I’m sure of nothing).

So, if any has any idea of where to look to fix it, it would be awesome, ‘cause this issue is kinda pain in the *** when I’m away from proper wifi connexion.

Thanks

P.S. : My system isn’t perfectly up to date right now, but I’ve been throught several full update with this issue still being here…

Just for reference for others, the other thread I assume @jokoko is referring to:


Can you clarify this please. Do you mean that when signed in as userA, the tethering does not work, but on the same device when signed in as userB, it does?

Also, have you tried USB tethering instead, and confirmed if that does, or doesn’t work?

Hi,

Well, I only tried with only one user, the successfully try was at home, but maybe I tested it a bit quickly… Maybe your user question was about my others sessions on the same laptop : this are other OS session in dual boot (bazzite OS, based on fedora).

And the USB try was a smart idea, but it doesn’t work any better. At least it show us that it might not be about wifi config but about connexion sharing between my two devices.

Hi,

Still experiencing this issue, which is quite anoying when I’m away from home. So updating the post to check if anyone might have any idea of how to understand from where it might come and find a way to fix it.

Thx

Hi,

Problem still here, and I think it might be pretty basic about Wifi config or something, but I don’t know where and how to dig to find and fix it. This issue is sometimes very annoying, would there be anyone with some network skills to guide me?

Thanks.

Because we don’t know what your hardware is maybe you can find some information in the Arch wiki.

Also run this command in a terminal.

inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog

And post the URL so we can get more information about your system if necessary.

Ok i’ll have a look to this page.

Here his the link you asked me for : https://dpaste.com/FYSMQBWDT

Thank you.

Hi,

Still experiencing this annoying issue, if ever anyone sees anything…

run
ping 8.8.8.8
And post what you see when you have connection toubles.

Also when connection problems run
tracepath 8.8.8.8
And post log as well.

You actually having internet troubles, yes? Question not about message?

Are you 100% sure this is the case? I have slow internet and get issues from this at times due to it with brave browser and the solution is to disable shields for me. When speeds are better these sites work fine.
Ping like @Nyan said to confirm

Better:
traceroute 8.8.8.8

Ok so here are my logs :

ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) octets de données.
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 temps=40.3 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 temps=39.0 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 temps=38.0 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=4 ttl=116 temps=57.0 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=5 ttl=116 temps=35.6 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=6 ttl=116 temps=34.1 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=7 ttl=116 temps=63.7 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=8 ttl=116 temps=61.2 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=9 ttl=116 temps=39.5 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=10 ttl=116 temps=38.4 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=11 ttl=116 temps=35.8 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=12 ttl=116 temps=63.6 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=13 ttl=116 temps=42.5 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=14 ttl=116 temps=48.1 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=15 ttl=116 temps=40.3 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=16 ttl=116 temps=189 ms
64 octets de 8.8.8.8 : icmp_seq=17 ttl=116 temps=187 ms
^C
--- statistiques ping 8.8.8.8 ---
17 paquets transmis, 17 reçus, 0% packet loss, time 16024ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 34.074/61.943/189.332/47.058 ms
tracepath 8.8.8.8
 1?: [LOCALHOST]                      pmtu 1500
 1:  _gateway                                            158.501 ms 
 2 :  aucune réponse
 3:  ???                                                 269.438 ms asymm  2 
 4:  ???                                                 228.689 ms asymm  3 
 5:  ???                                                 228.848 ms asymm  4 

N.B. : “aucune réponse” means ‘no answer’

Also my terminal tells me that traceroute is an unknown command. Shall I install it?

Thanks

Yes.
sudo pacman -S traceroute

It will show the truth.

But ping do not shows nothing extra for mobile internet. Internet itself obviously working.

Alright, here it is traceroute on my home router connection :

traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  _gateway (192.168.1.1)  3.564 ms  3.468 ms  3.508 ms
 2  * * *
 3  10.5.0.121 (10.5.0.121)  27.494 ms  26.269 ms  26.654 ms
 4  10.202.11.1 (10.202.11.1)  29.148 ms  27.859 ms  42.832 ms
 5  82.4.118.80.rev.sfr.net (80.118.4.82)  43.309 ms 86.4.118.80.rev.sfr.net (80.118.4.86)  42.962 ms 82.4.118.80.rev.sfr.net (80.118.4.82)  43.486 ms
 6  49.146.6.194.rev.sfr.net (194.6.146.49)  45.189 ms  38.405 ms  39.667 ms
 7  57.44.65.81.rev.sfr.net (81.65.44.57)  38.123 ms  22.694 ms 61.11.128.77.rev.sfr.net (77.128.11.61)  22.138 ms
 8  * * 74.125.252.255 (74.125.252.255)  29.337 ms
 9  142.251.49.131 (142.251.49.131)  31.908 ms dns.google (8.8.8.8)  34.254 ms  29.732 ms

And on my phone tethering :

traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  _gateway (192.168.51.225)  42.960 ms  45.026 ms  46.276 ms
 2  * * *
 3  10.3.4.111 (10.3.4.111)  94.172 ms  101.973 ms *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * 194.6.146.49 (194.6.146.49)  57.418 ms  58.278 ms
 7  * * *
 8  * * 74.125.252.255 (74.125.252.255)  97.951 ms
 9  8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8)  96.231 ms  96.551 ms  96.515 ms

It looks normal altho a bit slow to reach your phone.
It may bee wifi shinanigams, so try to look into hotspot settings ans set there to use 2.4GHz frequency imstead on 5. Or. If it setted to 2.4 try to swith to 5Ghz.

But ping and traceroute shows that internet works.

As you mention you use it outside on the go, it may be just poor mobile internet.

Unfortunately I don’t have any option allowing me to change the frequency. But I doubt it might come from the wifi in itself as I have the very same problem in USB tethering (BTW, here is my traceroute with USB tethering) :

traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  * _gateway (192.168.16.212)  1.165 ms *
 2  * * *
 3  10.3.4.111 (10.3.4.111)  41.878 ms  42.136 ms  42.675 ms
 4  10.205.66.1 (10.205.66.1)  42.645 ms  42.620 ms  42.765 ms
 5  194.6.142.253 (194.6.142.253)  43.905 ms 194.6.142.249 (194.6.142.249)  42.578 ms 194.6.142.255 (194.6.142.255)  42.708 ms
 6  194.6.146.49 (194.6.146.49)  43.885 ms 194.6.146.51 (194.6.146.51)  43.083 ms 194.6.146.49 (194.6.146.49)  34.449 ms
 7  * * 77.128.11.61 (77.128.11.61)  23.285 ms
 8  108.170.235.235 (108.170.235.235)  29.654 ms  34.810 ms *
 9  8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8)  28.758 ms  34.663 ms  28.598 ms

Also, It doesn’t work any better on any other phone device sharing his connection with my laptop (on endeavourOS, because, as said before, on the same laptop but with another OS boot -bazziteOS based on fedora- it runs perfectly fine -with any phone devices, mine included).

traceroute shows that you have no connection problem whatsoever.

Internet is working.
So, what sites exactly you having problems acessing?

Do you have any weird vpn stuff maybe?

I found culprit: