RT-AC68U dropping wireless clients.

[SHAH]

I've been using ac68u for almost 2 years and never faced such issue. Its dropping certain wireless clients all of a sudden and sometimes even the network disappear itself. Router itself not restarting or hanging as i've seen the system log and router uptime. what could be the issue ?

Using latest firmware by Asus and did the hard reset recently. please help.

 

[drabisan]

You didn't mentioned if router drops the clients on wired or wireless 2.4 or 5GHz.

This is a fairly common behavior for wireless interference and it's more likely to happen for 2.4GHz clients, but is not uncommon to happen in 5GHz as well - due to interference or use of DFS channels.

Do audit your wireless spectrum in both 2.4 and 5GHz and manually assign a free or less used channels. In 5GHz try to assign a channel that's our of DFS spectrum (lower channels).

If the router drops the wired clients you better start looking into hardware issues - power adapter or even a router problem.

 

[SHAH]

You didn't mentioned if router drops the clients on wired or wireless 2.4 or 5GHz.

This is a fairly common behavior for wireless interference and it's more likely to happen for 2.4GHz clients, but is not uncommon to happen in 5GHz as well - due to interference or use of DFS channels.

Do audit your wireless spectrum in both 2.4 and 5GHz and manually assign a free or less used channels. In 5GHz try to assign a channel that's our of DFS spectrum (lower channels).

If the router drops the wired clients you better start looking into hardware issues - power adapter or even a router problem.

Thanks for the reply mate.

Its dropping on 2.4 Ghz network ( only wireless clients). wired clients such as my tv and denon receiver all are working fine.

can you mention which are less cluttered channels ? previously it was auto channel .. but now i have switched to 1 channel. can you mention less cluttered channels? for both 2.4 and 5Ghz

 

[pete y testing]

to see which channel in your area the best to use get a wifi program like

inssider 3

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5936-inssider.html

this will show you who is around you and what channels are being used and at what signal strength

generally on 2.4 gig we recommend ether ch 1 , 6 or 11 depending on which has the least interference from other transmissions on it

signals of below -80db are of no consequence as they are too far away to be of bother

the same for 5 gig , just choose a clean or cleanest channel , i generally like to use the upper channels and most often use ch 153

 

[SHAH]

to see which channel in your area the best to use get a wifi program like

inssider 3

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5936-inssider.html

this will show you who is around you and what channels are being used and at what signal strength

generally on 2.4 gig we recommend ether ch 1 , 6 or 11 depending on which has the least interference from other transmissions on it

signals of below -80db are of no consequence as they are too far away to be of bother

the same for 5 gig , just choose a clean or cleanest channel , i generally like to use the upper channels and most often use ch 153

since ive changed the channel and direction of the antennas its working pretty good. but still some areas of my house has dead spot. can increasing the tx power will sort out the issue ?