I have spent hours diagnosing and re-setting up and am out of ideas.
I have an RT-AX86U set up with the latest version of merlin. It was stable for a good while, then Monday, out of the blue, while away from home, everything went offline. My VPN to home could not connect and i couldn't do anything until I got home. Once at home, I can't access the web interface. Naturally, I reboot the router. It reboots and same thing. I unplug the ethernet from WAN and reboot... I can access the web interface, nothing seems off... Plug in the ethernet cable and after a few seconds, the web interface is non-responsive. I proceed to do the nuclear reset and reconfigure the router manually with WAN unplugged. Then I plug in the WAN and boom--the web interface is non-responsive once again. At any point, I am able to connect to another device on the network, so the router is routing.
The last thing I tried was a diagnosis with Verizon's FiOS App, it took a few min, asked to check if internet was working, I rebooted router and it was back! So it seems I wasted 2.5 h for nothing and the problem was not with the router.
Then last night, I rebooted the router from web interface. When it starts back up, the symptoms are the same as Monday, except the same steps don't fix it. When diagnosing again, while watching the web interface and plugging in the ethernet to WAN, a message on the main page would say "Internet status: Your ISP's DHCP does not function properly." This led to an internet search which resulted in some suggestions of changing the WAN DHCP mode from aggressive to normal and cloning MAC (because when connecting WAN ethernet to computer, it worked fine). But that didn't work. I tried the 2.5G port as WAN and had same issue. I tried setting up an android phone as WAN source via USB to have SOME internet, but I'm not sure I set it up right.
I gave up last night and left everything unplugged. This morning, I bring up the router and it seems i can't access the web interface, even without the WAN plugged in--I was doing it from my phone, so maybe something was off with my phone.
Today, I have reset & configured again and it's not working. I need help!!! Anyone seen this? Any suggestions besides what I've done?
I have an RT-AX86U set up with the latest version of merlin. It was stable for a good while, then Monday, out of the blue, while away from home, everything went offline. My VPN to home could not connect and i couldn't do anything until I got home. Once at home, I can't access the web interface. Naturally, I reboot the router. It reboots and same thing. I unplug the ethernet from WAN and reboot... I can access the web interface, nothing seems off... Plug in the ethernet cable and after a few seconds, the web interface is non-responsive. I proceed to do the nuclear reset and reconfigure the router manually with WAN unplugged. Then I plug in the WAN and boom--the web interface is non-responsive once again. At any point, I am able to connect to another device on the network, so the router is routing.
The last thing I tried was a diagnosis with Verizon's FiOS App, it took a few min, asked to check if internet was working, I rebooted router and it was back! So it seems I wasted 2.5 h for nothing and the problem was not with the router.
Then last night, I rebooted the router from web interface. When it starts back up, the symptoms are the same as Monday, except the same steps don't fix it. When diagnosing again, while watching the web interface and plugging in the ethernet to WAN, a message on the main page would say "Internet status: Your ISP's DHCP does not function properly." This led to an internet search which resulted in some suggestions of changing the WAN DHCP mode from aggressive to normal and cloning MAC (because when connecting WAN ethernet to computer, it worked fine). But that didn't work. I tried the 2.5G port as WAN and had same issue. I tried setting up an android phone as WAN source via USB to have SOME internet, but I'm not sure I set it up right.
I gave up last night and left everything unplugged. This morning, I bring up the router and it seems i can't access the web interface, even without the WAN plugged in--I was doing it from my phone, so maybe something was off with my phone.
Today, I have reset & configured again and it's not working. I need help!!! Anyone seen this? Any suggestions besides what I've done?