RUTX10 Installation problems

NETWORKING SOLUTIONS
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Hi, I hope there is someone here who can help me:
I am starting to cross the Mediterranean and the North Atlantik on a sailing boat. For my communication I use StarLink Gen.2, which works just fine. Only problem: It is very expensive!
I bought a RUTX10 and feed the Starlink signal to it via the Starlink router which is deactivated. The aim of the installation is to measure the data throughput PER USER via Hotspot in order to debit it to my crew.
Now I have major problems to install the stuff, because all manuals I found are not very helpful for my level of knowledge. Local suppert is impossible, because there is none on the Atlantic!
At this point in time I see three major problems:

  1. the Internet connection via the RUTX10 is way slower than the direct connection via the StarLink router
  2. I have created various local users. How is the Hotspot landing page assessed? - sometime it works, sometime not.
  3. were and how can I analyze the traffic volumes of these users? (That is the main reason I bought the stuff).

I do hope there is somebody out there to help me
Regards Wolf (www.segelwolf.com)

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Hello,

Install darkstat:

opkg -e /etc/opkg/openwrt/distfeeds.conf update
opkg -e /etc/opkg/openwrt/distfeeds.conf install darkstat

Statistics are available at http://ip-or-name-of-the-rutx:667

There could be many reasons.
1- Have you activated the ‘Routing/NAT offloading’ options in Network->Firewall->General Setting ?
2- If you use darkstat to analyze volumes you won’t need the hotspot functionalities anymore, just use the base wifi interfaces instead. It will be much faster anyway.

Regards,

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Hi, thank you for your tips. Question: Does Darkstat contain a user administration, or how do I see the data traffic per user?

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You’ll have IN and OUT bytes per IP address / hostname shown on the darkstat interface at port 667.

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I am still halfway helpless. I have resetted the router to factory values and started from the very beginning.
Status now is:

  1. Basic configuration and Hotspot configuration done. I can connect via WLAN and get the landing page. The Hotspot clients can log in. Fine. But:
  2. Since then I am unable to login as admin.192.168.1.1/login => admin. Neither per WLAN nor per cable.
  3. When I call http://192.168.1.1/ -I get to the StarLink landing page!!
    All other problems are to be solved when that is solved. I do hope that somebody can help me, on a boat I don’t have any other chance.

Info: RUTX10, newest firmware, Direct connection to StarLink thru the StarLink router (disabled) into the RUTX. Notebook is WIN10Pro

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Oops. Unplug the RUTX from the box, connect your PC directly to the Starlink box directly and check your IP address (use ipconfig for example).
If it is in 192.168.1.0/24 then there is a conflict with the default RUTX range. Plug the PC in the RUTX, recheck your IP address. If you still have a 192.168.1.0/24 bingo the conflict is there.
From the UI of the RUTX go to Network->Lan section edit it and change the “IPv4 address” field to something else (192.168.2.1 will do). Unplug and replug the PC recheck the IP address it should have changed.
You can then replug the RUTX wan interface into the Starlink box.
Check your login at 192.168.2.1 it should work.

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Success, at least partially. I have switched the RUTX Network to 192.168.2.1 and now I can access the UI, but:
I cannot activate HOTSPOT, because the UI says “Hotspot network subnet is already being used by network interface”. I do not dare to mingle with those IPs without exactly knowing, what I do. So help is very much appreciated.

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Then don’t use 192.168.2.0/24 for the lan, set it to 192.168.3.0/24 or any other value except 1 and 2.

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