N66R in Bridge Mode, randomly get bad packet loss intermittently

[Moopus]

Hello all,

I current own an N66R as a media bridge, so that my Desktop can connect to the internet gateway in my house (it's a NETGEAR R7000). It gives me maximum speeds (140mbits/35mbits) consistently and pings are great. Reason being why I use the bridge is so that it can be used on the 5GHz band, because I live in a congested neighborhood. I play League of Legends a lot, and I can play for hours with consistent 34ms ping. Then, out of the blue, I get huge packet loss and the game becomes unresponsive. The issue doesn't go away unless I've rebooted the N66R, or I pull the ethernet cable out of the N66R and plug it back in, which is really weird. Anybody else have this issue? Or any possible solutions? I enjoy this N66R a lot, I wouldn't want to replace it.

 

[MichaelCG]

This is a similar issue I had with one of my N66 boxes. I had two, one Media Bridge, one AP. I blamed my Media Bridge for months and had to power cycle it initially once a month which eventually came to be once or twice a week. Turns out it wasn't the Media Bridge, it was the AP. Something in the AP was causing the 5GHz radio to just stop forwarding traffic. Sometimes it would recover on its own, sometimes a client disconnect/reconnect would recover it, other times it needed to be rebooted.

Either way, I wrote it off as failing hard ware and demoted it to be just a router (no WiFi) at my in-laws house and installed new Ubiquiti UniFi APs to replace it. I still use my other N66 as a media bridge which after multiple years is still "mostly" stable. I have only had it go down once in the past few months and I was doing large file transfers across the bridge. Not sure if it is heat or a software issue.

There are gobs of threads on here talking about 5GHz radio oddities in various Asus devices that mysteriously get moody over time. Some are guessing failing hardware, others say it is software related, while others say it is the power supply getting weak.