This is a dual-band router. The problem is that once every couple of days the 5GHz network becomes non-functional. Doing a settings change/apply or a router reboot will solve it. The 2.4GHz network does not have a problem.
I have set the firmware to reboot daily, and this does not solve it. The problem does not seem to be related to uptime. It has happened only a couple of hours after a scheduled reboot during a low-load period.
I have tried various settings tweaks on the 5GHz radio: band widths, channels, N-only, mixed. Currently trying lowing the TX power from 20 to 18 to see if that seems to help.
Are there any other settings tweaks that may help me reliably work around this problem?
This is a dual-band router. The problem is that once every couple of days the 5GHz network becomes non-functional. Doing a settings change/apply or a router reboot will solve it. The 2.4GHz network does not have a problem.
I have set the firmware to reboot daily, and this does not solve it. The problem does not seem to be related to uptime. It has happened only a couple of hours after a scheduled reboot during a low-load period.
I have tried various settings tweaks on the 5GHz radio: band widths, channels, N-only, mixed. Currently trying lowing the TX power from 20 to 18 to see if that seems to help.
Are there any other settings tweaks that may help me reliably work around this problem?
Thanks
WDR3600 has the same specs as DLINK DIR-835 A1.
You might want to downgrade your version to r22118 and set the settings:
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 20:53 Post subject: Re: Settings tweaks to make this router more reliable?
Thanks for the info. Is r22118 noteworthy as a particularly stable release, or does it just happen to be the one that you run successfully? At this point I think it is about 90% likely that the problem is due to hardware, but willing to downgrade if it is considered generally to be more stable for the hardware.
tou.manokat@gmail.com wrote:
You might want to downgrade your version to r22118 and set the settings:
These work well for my 5GHz. I use 3 DIR-835's. 1 AP and 2 client repeater (routed). Connection from clients to AP is at 450M (goes down to 405M sometimes) but connection never gets dropped.
You might want to try r22118 on your WDR3600.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 22:08 Post subject: Re: Settings tweaks to make this router more reliable?
nelluk wrote:
Thanks for the info. Is r22118 noteworthy as a particularly stable release, or does it just happen to be the one that you run successfully? At this point I think it is about 90% likely that the problem is due to hardware, but willing to downgrade if it is considered generally to be more stable for the hardware.
tou.manokat@gmail.com wrote:
You might want to downgrade your version to r22118 and set the settings:
These work well for my 5GHz. I use 3 DIR-835's. 1 AP and 2 client repeater (routed). Connection from clients to AP is at 450M (goes down to 405M sometimes) but connection never gets dropped.
You might want to try r22118 on your WDR3600.
If you are using VHT 80, the recommended channels are 36, 100, or 149....
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 22:57 Post subject: Re: Settings tweaks to make this router more reliable?
Currently using 'full' width 20 MHz since wider widths caused problems.. but will try some of those channels. I've tried quite a few channel/width combos.
jwoods wrote:
nelluk wrote:
Thanks for the info. Is r22118 noteworthy as a particularly stable release, or does it just happen to be the one that you run successfully? At this point I think it is about 90% likely that the problem is due to hardware, but willing to downgrade if it is considered generally to be more stable for the hardware.
tou.manokat@gmail.com wrote:
You might want to downgrade your version to r22118 and set the settings:
These work well for my 5GHz. I use 3 DIR-835's. 1 AP and 2 client repeater (routed). Connection from clients to AP is at 450M (goes down to 405M sometimes) but connection never gets dropped.
You might want to try r22118 on your WDR3600.
If you are using VHT 80, the recommended channels are 36, 100, or 149....
Another data point, changing to Wide HT40 on channel 149 made the 5ghz point totally and immediately inaccessible from any device. The 2.4 still working fine.
