Hi,
So currently I have a Virgin Cable internet connection (30Mb/s) which comes with a Virgin SuperHub (mk1). However, this router was not giving me the range throughout the house I required so I purchased a Linksys WRT300N to use as an access point.
Having done this before, I thought I knew what I was doing...
First I entered the SuperHub's settings and enabled "modem-only" mode (which disables DHCP and all that tosh)
Next I powered up the Linksys and connected via LAN and setup as I needed:
Channel: 11 appeared to be free
SSID: mySSID
pass: myPASS
DHCP: On - (.100-.150 addresses)
This is about it.
Then I connected the router to the LAN1 port of SuperHub, restarted both units and was away.
Despite working perfectly 90% of the time however, the issues I am having is that the connection to the internet fails. This will happen for all devices connected to the network at the same moment (devices are 1 x iMac, 3 x iPhone, 2 x iPad & 1 x Netbook (win xp)). It is as if the router remains on and connectable, but forgets how to route any traffic to/from the WWW.
What happens when the connection fails is that all devices can still see the SSID and appear to be connected, however internet traffic all fails. After a minute or two of this (or if you try to disconnect and re-connect to the network manually) it will say that the password is incorrect. This can be rectified only by powering off the access point and powering on.
If you restart the router as soon as the problem happens, the connectivity is instantly restored, for this reason I don't believe it to be a modem/virgin issue.
I really dont know how else to describe this situation, but it can happen once and evening or 3 times in an evening, which gets pretty annoying.
Other info:
I have a static ip address setup on my iMac, 192.168.1.149. This is the last ip in the DHCP allowed range so shoudl not cause any issues (we dont have 50 devices connecting). I have tried without static ip and same issue arises eventually though... Also, the failure can also happed when the iMac is powered off so I dont think this is causing issue...
I also have two ports forwarded; 62000 for Transmission and also 8333 for Bitcoin-Qt. gain, I don't believe these to be the issue.
I have tried enabling logs on the router, but they are not very detailed (tbh they dont say anything at all), and I really don't know where to go from here... Have also tried resetting the router to factory defaults but this also did not help much. I have also tried using a Linksys WRT350N but I get the same problem!?
How is this happening?
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks,
Wil
So currently I have a Virgin Cable internet connection (30Mb/s) which comes with a Virgin SuperHub (mk1). However, this router was not giving me the range throughout the house I required so I purchased a Linksys WRT300N to use as an access point.
Having done this before, I thought I knew what I was doing...
First I entered the SuperHub's settings and enabled "modem-only" mode (which disables DHCP and all that tosh)
Next I powered up the Linksys and connected via LAN and setup as I needed:
Channel: 11 appeared to be free
SSID: mySSID
pass: myPASS
DHCP: On - (.100-.150 addresses)
This is about it.
Then I connected the router to the LAN1 port of SuperHub, restarted both units and was away.
Despite working perfectly 90% of the time however, the issues I am having is that the connection to the internet fails. This will happen for all devices connected to the network at the same moment (devices are 1 x iMac, 3 x iPhone, 2 x iPad & 1 x Netbook (win xp)). It is as if the router remains on and connectable, but forgets how to route any traffic to/from the WWW.
What happens when the connection fails is that all devices can still see the SSID and appear to be connected, however internet traffic all fails. After a minute or two of this (or if you try to disconnect and re-connect to the network manually) it will say that the password is incorrect. This can be rectified only by powering off the access point and powering on.
If you restart the router as soon as the problem happens, the connectivity is instantly restored, for this reason I don't believe it to be a modem/virgin issue.
I really dont know how else to describe this situation, but it can happen once and evening or 3 times in an evening, which gets pretty annoying.
Other info:
I have a static ip address setup on my iMac, 192.168.1.149. This is the last ip in the DHCP allowed range so shoudl not cause any issues (we dont have 50 devices connecting). I have tried without static ip and same issue arises eventually though... Also, the failure can also happed when the iMac is powered off so I dont think this is causing issue...
I also have two ports forwarded; 62000 for Transmission and also 8333 for Bitcoin-Qt. gain, I don't believe these to be the issue.
I have tried enabling logs on the router, but they are not very detailed (tbh they dont say anything at all), and I really don't know where to go from here... Have also tried resetting the router to factory defaults but this also did not help much. I have also tried using a Linksys WRT350N but I get the same problem!?
How is this happening?
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks,
Wil
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