Wireless Joint

I've been using a GL.iNet AR750s as a travel router for about 8 months now, doing USB tether from a phone plugged into it.

I tried Visible (terrible speeds where I was. Like dial-up bad). I moved to a 100GB Cricket data-only plan, which was great, but I would run out of data every month so it was kinda crappy. I did a 100GB T-Mobile data-only plan, and it was pretty meh. Speeds weren't great, but what I've finally settled on was an Unlimited Cricket plan (the $60/month) one and changing the TTL.

I just setup a custom firewall rule to do this: This has gotten me the best speeds and no data caps (I use about 125GB-180GB month), but I have some really random issues with it. It seems like the more devices are using the WiFi from the router, the more issues I have. The biggest issue is that randomly sites will just fail to load because the DNS couldn't resolve. It's totally random and refreshing about 10-20 times will eventually make it work. It never happened on any of my other plans, so I'm wondering if it's an issue of the TTL being modified or something? Do I need to play with MTU as well?

I am on Cricket data only plan (20gb/mo) and will occasionally notice that some sites refuse to load or stall out loading. This can be corrected by doing a modem restart. I do not use wifi so it is just one device via ethernet at a time. I just chalk it up to the fact my LTE connection strength is at the edge of usable. I am just happy to have a faster intenet option at my location than the one using the telephone line which also was not terribly reliable.

BTW: Cricket now has the 100gb plan for $55/mo versus the previous $90.

For whatever reason if I connect to my Wireguard VPN from my server at home or my work VPN, the issue disappears. So I'm not sure why that is.

Sounds like the carrier is doing something goofy with their proxies, if you're avoiding the issue with a VPN.