wifi goes a little wtf
February 26, 2006 1:24 PM Subscribe
My D-link wireless router keeps resetting... sometimes as much as once a minute. What's going on?
Model# DI-524. I haven't changed settings or anything recently, and I share my connection with neighbors (for pittance). Once last week, they said that they couldn't get online, so I just forced a reset, powered down and up and that was that. Some weird DNS thiny maybe? Here's the most recent log, which seems to also reset between events. I've hadfour six disconnect/reconnect events which occured while typing this:
Access point: h****** started at channel 6
AP 2.4GHz mode Ready. Channel : 11 TxRate : best SSID : h******
DHCP Discover
System started
Wireless PC connected 00-13-CE-37-C0-B1
Wireless PC connected 00-15-00-48-57-07
DHCP Discover
DHCP Request
DHCP Request success
DHCP lease IP 192.168.0.101 to A******
This occured over a 15 second period.
After the last disconnect/reset event while typing this, the date on the log went back to Apr. 1 2002. WTF?
Model# DI-524. I haven't changed settings or anything recently, and I share my connection with neighbors (for pittance). Once last week, they said that they couldn't get online, so I just forced a reset, powered down and up and that was that. Some weird DNS thiny maybe? Here's the most recent log, which seems to also reset between events. I've had
Access point: h****** started at channel 6
AP 2.4GHz mode Ready. Channel : 11 TxRate : best SSID : h******
DHCP Discover
System started
Wireless PC connected 00-13-CE-37-C0-B1
Wireless PC connected 00-15-00-48-57-07
DHCP Discover
DHCP Request
DHCP Request success
DHCP lease IP 192.168.0.101 to A******
This occured over a 15 second period.
After the last disconnect/reset event while typing this, the date on the log went back to Apr. 1 2002. WTF?
I was having wierd reset problems with my DI-624 and cured it with a firmware flash from D-Link's website... who knows what bugs lurk at the heart of hardware revision A...
posted by anthill at 1:56 PM on February 26, 2006
posted by anthill at 1:56 PM on February 26, 2006
See if someone is running a Bittorrent client. Some of the clients try to open a whole bunch of connections, thus bitchslapping many routers into reboot-o-rama. If someone is using bittorrent, lower the "Max connections" parameter. I'm using Tomato Torrent, so I can't tell you where it is on others. But it's something to look into.
posted by drstein at 6:48 PM on February 26, 2006
posted by drstein at 6:48 PM on February 26, 2006
Yeah I've had the same problems with the 524.
Basically just try the different firmwares from the D-link site until you find one that works.
Different firmwares seem to work for different people .
I can't tell you the number of times I've cursed that damn router
posted by grex at 6:56 PM on February 26, 2006
Basically just try the different firmwares from the D-link site until you find one that works.
Different firmwares seem to work for different people .
I can't tell you the number of times I've cursed that damn router
posted by grex at 6:56 PM on February 26, 2006
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posted by moonbird at 1:26 PM on February 26, 2006