[Cialug] Wireless Router Repeatedly Drops Connection

[Matt]

When 802.11n routers finally dropped the "draft n" label, I bought an expensive Linksys wireless-n router at CompUSA's going out of business sale.  It refused to keep a connection for more than ten minutes at a time right out of the box, but they didn't allow returns, so I was screwed.

A few months later I bought a new Linksys wireless-n router with similar features, but a completely different design, and it lasted about 6 months before it started doing the same thing. I hobbled it along for a couple more months by putting it on the floor over one of the central air vents (it was summer, and this kept it relatively cool, which seemed to help).

Eventually, though, no amount of cooling was helping, so I bought a third wireless-n router -- this time a D-Link dual band N300 router marketed to gamers -- and I haven't had to buy any new routers for the past four years.

Never will I ever buy anything Linksys ever again.  I've seen and heard bad things about D-Link over the years, but I haven't had a single problem out of my router other than the fact that it took 3 years to get a version of dd-wrt released for it.  I will admit that the factory firmware for it was pretty weak, but it served my consumer needs well enough.  Now that there is a version of dd-wrt for it, though, I can set up a guest network for it, and I have far more information about and control over my LAN.

-- Matt


> On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:55 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Check for a firmware update. Try turning off any remote access.
> 
> -dc
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It's possible that your signal shares a channel with other routers.  If you
>> can scan for whatever is around you, it should be relatively simple to
>> obtain the channel number/frequency that they operate on.  If you are on,
>> say, channel 11 and there are 2 or more others on channel 11, I would
>> change my configuration to reflect an unused channel.
>> 
>> Best of luck,
>> Scott
>>>> On Dec 14, 2014 8:21 PM, "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a Linksys EA6300 router (a somewhat nice home-grade router) that
>>> just won't stay up when I have wireless turned on.  With wireless turned
>> on
>>> it will drop connection, including wired, and reset once every ten
>> minutes
>>> or so.  I used to change my wireless network name and password and it
>> would
>>> stay up for a couple of hours before falling back into the ten minute
>>> pattern. But lately I can change my wireless network name and password
>> and
>>> it's back to dropping within minutes.  If I turn off wireless altogether
>> my
>>> desktop computer does just fine, never losing connection.
>>> 
>>> Could someone else in my apartment building be causing this? By scanning
>>> and trying to crack the security, perhaps?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Todd
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