Desert Rat
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Greetings. Long time lurker, first time poster.
After reading many reviews on this and other sites I finally decided to replace my 5 year old WRT-54GL with a new N66U. The router was purchased at the beginning of July from Amazon but was not taken out of the box until the beginning of August (kinda regretting that decision now.) I set up the router in the same location as the 54GL, mounted with the antennas facing up on a wall in my bedroom. The bedroom is cooled by refrigerated air and there is a ceiling fan running all the time.
While setting up the router I noticed that I was unable to get a connection to the router using an Ethernet cable (same cat5e cable that I had used on the 54 GL) and I had to connect wirelessly to the router using the default Admin login. I thought that was weird but didn't think much about it. The router came with 3.0.0.4.270 right out of the box.
I had a PS3, Kindle Fire HD, two android phones, an Android tablet and two Laptops connecting to the router with no problems for about 3 weeks and recently we added a 360 Slim to the network . Yesterday my wife tried going online and the 360 told her that there was no internet connection to the 360. She tried scanning for the SSID and it did not show up. I checked the laptop and it didnt find the SSID as well but it did find our neghoobors wifi. Went to the bedroom and Power cycled the router. No improvement. When placing the laptop about 5 ft from the router I did get 2 bars and got a slow internet connection wirelessly. Tried a wired connection to the router and it seems to connect my laptop to the internet fine. inSSIDer for home gives me a signal strength of -80 to -85 for the wireless connection. Before, it was more like in the low 30's I tried upgrading the firmware (3.0.0.4.374.257) and I tried Merlin's newest custom firmware. The wireless signal was still bad. With merlins firmware I did notice that the router temperature was at 50 and 60 degrees celcius. Right now I'm using the old 54Gl to connect wirelessly.
Before I give Asus a call I was wondering if there was anything i could do to fix the sudden loss of signal strength. I have a feeling that something must have shorted out in the router and its the cause of the bad signal. Also I'm using WPA2 aes encryption, tried setting channels 1,6, and 11, turned of 5ghz radio entirely. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
After reading many reviews on this and other sites I finally decided to replace my 5 year old WRT-54GL with a new N66U. The router was purchased at the beginning of July from Amazon but was not taken out of the box until the beginning of August (kinda regretting that decision now.) I set up the router in the same location as the 54GL, mounted with the antennas facing up on a wall in my bedroom. The bedroom is cooled by refrigerated air and there is a ceiling fan running all the time.
While setting up the router I noticed that I was unable to get a connection to the router using an Ethernet cable (same cat5e cable that I had used on the 54 GL) and I had to connect wirelessly to the router using the default Admin login. I thought that was weird but didn't think much about it. The router came with 3.0.0.4.270 right out of the box.
I had a PS3, Kindle Fire HD, two android phones, an Android tablet and two Laptops connecting to the router with no problems for about 3 weeks and recently we added a 360 Slim to the network . Yesterday my wife tried going online and the 360 told her that there was no internet connection to the 360. She tried scanning for the SSID and it did not show up. I checked the laptop and it didnt find the SSID as well but it did find our neghoobors wifi. Went to the bedroom and Power cycled the router. No improvement. When placing the laptop about 5 ft from the router I did get 2 bars and got a slow internet connection wirelessly. Tried a wired connection to the router and it seems to connect my laptop to the internet fine. inSSIDer for home gives me a signal strength of -80 to -85 for the wireless connection. Before, it was more like in the low 30's I tried upgrading the firmware (3.0.0.4.374.257) and I tried Merlin's newest custom firmware. The wireless signal was still bad. With merlins firmware I did notice that the router temperature was at 50 and 60 degrees celcius. Right now I'm using the old 54Gl to connect wirelessly.
Before I give Asus a call I was wondering if there was anything i could do to fix the sudden loss of signal strength. I have a feeling that something must have shorted out in the router and its the cause of the bad signal. Also I'm using WPA2 aes encryption, tried setting channels 1,6, and 11, turned of 5ghz radio entirely. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
