RT-N66U upgraded to RT-AC66U: BAD move

[fcosenti]

Yeah, I don't know man. Sometimes you have to take a deep breath, swallow your pride and call a geek friend to come over and configure your router.

I have all the knowledge that I need, thank you. I work in IT, and I did for the past 25 years.

 

[RMerlin]

By the way, even if you would send absolute rubbish, conflicting IPs, invalid packets by the trillions, the router should not crash. Not that I am saying that it is happening.

Writing perfect error handling code isn't as simple as it might seem. You know the old saying about trying to make things idiot-proof, and the world will just create a better idiot

It's certainly worth trying to isolate things during troubleshooting. You said yourself you have a lot of devices on the network, which means a lot of variables. Sometimes, it can be something as silly as a bad Ethernet cable sending electrical noise, causing a switch to crash. I've seen it happen with even something as dumb as an unmanaged switch.

As I often say, Wireless is a nightmare to maintain and troubleshoot due to the high amount of interoperability that is expected out of a large array of different vendors.

 

[Marinemaster]

I agree, except that high end wireless routers such as Cisco dont have as many problems, wireless consumers routers that have to be built at a price point do have more problens. My 871 never had any issues.

 

[RMerlin]

I agree, except that high end wireless routers such as Cisco dont have as many problems

The same applies to any kind of device. You always get what you pay for.

Also, business settings are often less "noisy" than home environments, where you have more neighbours close to you.

 

[jlake]

It just comes with territory with consumer wireless routers. For example, I have been experimenting with the various firmware. I've been tinkering with the Qos on stock .276 for rt n66u. I eventually tinkered too much and screwed it up that the 2.4 ghz radio was dropping to 72 Mbps max rate (as per inssider) a few days ago. I never touched any setting on the 2.4 ghz radio. I didn't give it too much thought. Because I know it's a consumer router, and I needed to reset to factory defaults and start over and everything would be fine. And it is....fine.

And yes, you can tinker too much with Qos and mess up the 2.4 ghz radio.

 

[PrivateJoker]

I agree, except that high end wireless routers such as Cisco dont have as many problems, wireless consumers routers that have to be built at a price point do have more problens. My 871 never had any issues.

I've run Engenius equip, which I think is sort of low end enterprise, in a residential situation (and a million other things) and have to say that the current Asus h/w with the f/ws Merlin puts out (and updates frequently), at least for me, have given me the fastest routing, best range, fastest speeds, and best stability I've ever used. Not to start a hardware and/or firmware shoving match, just my $0.02.

 

[goalkeepr]

I just wanted to pop in here and add that I've been having the same rebooting issue. It just started the past couple of days, but now it's constant.

Prior to this, it had been running great for months through multiple Merlin firmware updates. I came back from a week out of town to a router that's not working anymore. I'm going to try a factory reset and go from there.