Hello Collin,
I have connected the the cable direct to PC.
1.Cloned MAC address to the router with colons.
2. Entered all the addresses (IP, gateway, DNS) manually to the router.
3. Connected to the router via Wifi
4. CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!
5. For unknown reasons after an hour internet connection disappears.
6. Again plug in the ethernet cable to the directly to the PC to check the connections.
7. PC gets quickly the same address via dhcp.
8. Internet is accessible.
9. Plug in the cable back to the router
10. Internet is working again.
Two main problems:
1) Why router doesn't get IP via dhcp?
If it is set to 'Acquire an IP Address Automatically from a DHCP Server' , the connection status is "Querying" all the time and nothing happens. Even if you trey "RELEASE -> RENEW " several times with timeouts between the actions.
It seems that router doesn't understand dhcp messages sent from the provider.
2) If the IP address is set manually, anyway the connection is being lost after an hour and recovers only after :
a) plugging the cable directly to the PC
b) Enter any website to check the connection.
c) put back ethernet cable to the router.
Also it is strange that firmware version in section Admin config-> update->
Firmware
Version
is different from diagnostic-> model -> WHR-G300N Ver.1.70 (R4.02/B1.00)
Does anyone else get the same problem?