I bought this router in june '13, so it's about a year and a half old.
It has always been set up in bridge mode as it's only intended to provide wireless signal to upper story of the house. It's linked to main router through GB ethernet.
Until recently this worked just fine.
A few weeks ago, it started acting strangely, not providing internet access or some such.
This is what I can observe:
1. pings to the router are extremely erratic: about 80% are <10ms (even that is all over the place), 10% are <25ms and the rest are "request timed out" or "destination host unreachable")
2. when I try to connect to http admin pages, usually that doesn't even work: I have to fully turn off the router and turn it back on to have at least some hope of establishing connection and seeing the interface. Usually such attempts register with lost pings (request timed out) for a few seconds starting with my connection attempts.
3. Wireless clients such as tablets / phones connect to it, but shortly display zero signal strength. Connectivity is flaky at best, never maintained for more than a few minutes, much more often just a few seconds.
All this on seemingly unchanged physical infrastructure. I haven't messed with any cables, nor with power delivery, it just suddenly stopped working. Firmware remains as bought, I think it's 1.0.99,
I even bought a (really cheap) ethernet cable analyzer and it says I have wires 4 and 6 reversed though visual cable inspection tells me I really don't. Besides, this condition existed for the entire 1.5 years without any issues.
Any ideas as to what may be wrong with my router?
It has always been set up in bridge mode as it's only intended to provide wireless signal to upper story of the house. It's linked to main router through GB ethernet.
Until recently this worked just fine.
A few weeks ago, it started acting strangely, not providing internet access or some such.
This is what I can observe:
1. pings to the router are extremely erratic: about 80% are <10ms (even that is all over the place), 10% are <25ms and the rest are "request timed out" or "destination host unreachable")
2. when I try to connect to http admin pages, usually that doesn't even work: I have to fully turn off the router and turn it back on to have at least some hope of establishing connection and seeing the interface. Usually such attempts register with lost pings (request timed out) for a few seconds starting with my connection attempts.
3. Wireless clients such as tablets / phones connect to it, but shortly display zero signal strength. Connectivity is flaky at best, never maintained for more than a few minutes, much more often just a few seconds.
All this on seemingly unchanged physical infrastructure. I haven't messed with any cables, nor with power delivery, it just suddenly stopped working. Firmware remains as bought, I think it's 1.0.99,
I even bought a (really cheap) ethernet cable analyzer and it says I have wires 4 and 6 reversed though visual cable inspection tells me I really don't. Besides, this condition existed for the entire 1.5 years without any issues.
Any ideas as to what may be wrong with my router?
