Joe Michaels
New Around Here
Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a Linksys EA9500 and EA8500 to replace my Apple Airport Extreme AC. I wanted the Tribands because I felt the Apple Router was not able to handle all of my devices. Anyways, I had the apple routers setup as such: One was my router and WAP and the other one sat about 20ft away as a wireless bridge. I never had issues with these in terms of having to powercycle or dropping connections. I have since setup the linksys (EA9500 as router and EA8500 as wireless Bridge with Xbox One and PS4 attached) and when I am streaming something or playing a game, the linksys will crash after a few hours and I have to powercycle. To specify, it is not the EA8500 I have to powercycle but the EA9500. After the powercycle everything clears up for a while. My only thought is possible overheating or a software bug. Any ideas as to why I need to do this?
I recently purchased a Linksys EA9500 and EA8500 to replace my Apple Airport Extreme AC. I wanted the Tribands because I felt the Apple Router was not able to handle all of my devices. Anyways, I had the apple routers setup as such: One was my router and WAP and the other one sat about 20ft away as a wireless bridge. I never had issues with these in terms of having to powercycle or dropping connections. I have since setup the linksys (EA9500 as router and EA8500 as wireless Bridge with Xbox One and PS4 attached) and when I am streaming something or playing a game, the linksys will crash after a few hours and I have to powercycle. To specify, it is not the EA8500 I have to powercycle but the EA9500. After the powercycle everything clears up for a while. My only thought is possible overheating or a software bug. Any ideas as to why I need to do this?