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ZTE MF286D - UI doesn't load

istredd

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Few months ago I bought renewed (Amazon Renew) ex "Three" router. It was working usually fine (except easily getting overloaded, so I off WiFi on it and additional router in home is making the job). However I am still using ZTE router as DHCP server. Now few weeks ago it started weird behaviour - every few minutes after restart UI seems to be breaking up - and it is not accessible - getting connection refused errors. Does anyone had similar issues? I recently flashed it with Nordic B11 firmware and thought it will get better. I was really hoping to fix bands, as I am living in rural area and getting good B1+B3 is a hard task to do, but without UI I will not be able to do much. Does anyone has any ideas what's happening? Can it be number of devices connected to router overloading ZTE - as it is about 20-25 all the time?

I also recently bought B535-232 to test if this will bring any difference - I locked bands with HuaCtrl Pro, but no significant difference to be honest. Greatest speeds are 25Mb on speedtest, but reality is much worse. And due to my work I am on 2 separate VPNs making any additional connection impossible - even SIP call is breaking up.
 
To give a little bit more info about low network quality - I am surrounded with couple of masts, most of them offering B3 and B20 only, but there is one around with B1 as well (Hastings, Rye area). This mast is about 6km from my home and external antenna is already looking into this mast. Unfortunately, some hills are making signal isn't great anyway

RSRP - 104-110dBm
SINR - 4-8dB

Speedtest on both routers are usually 20-30Mb on Download and 4-5Mb on upload - but cloudflare tests which usually are more detailed doesn't bring good results (and speeds are very inconsistent)

Thanks
 

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