Wireless

[hellgiver]

I use a WZR-HP-AG300H and every day the wireless G/N goes out, I have it set to reboot every morning at 3am and the wifi would go out around 2-6pm.  I could easily fix it by logging in, going to the wirelss tab, and then clicking apply settings.  This got annoying so I setup a cron job to quickly disable and re-enable the ath0 connection.

Just go to your Adminitration tab, make sure Cron is enabled, save this in the blank space.

Restart at 2:01pm every day.

1 14 * * * ifconfig ath0 down && ifconfig ath0 up

Restart at 10:01am, 2:01pm, and 6:01pm every day.

1 10,14,18 * * * ifconfig ath0 down && ifconfig ath0 up

Restart every hour (12:01am, 1:01am, 2:01am, ect.) every day

1 * * * * ifconfig ath0 down && ifconfig ath0 up

I have had this running for a few days and it works great, best of all the clients don't see any noticeable interuption of service because it happens so fast, even my second reouter as a client bridge.  Even while streaming a video there is no pause!

I figured I would share this since the current firmware 17798 has had this issue since release and we are just waiting for an update.

[Jotin]

The update is coming out soon. We have been working hard to resolve this issue. Thank you for posting this.

[scotty562]

Can you confirm when this update will be released? I bought a few of these routers for a production environment and they have been an embarrasement to me. I won't be buying anymore until this wifi dropping issue is fixed.

[alanbir]

Check out one of my other posts. There is a community build from BrainSlayer which solved the wifi lock up for me.

[scotty562]

I'll try it. Thanks!

Edit:

Just tried it, it says upgrade failed :(.

[alanbir]

I just re-read the post. My bad. Not sure about the AG devices. I think I had seen something else on the fourm for it. I have the G300NH. And multiple of them as well at an office and one at home. That's what i had done to fix my problems. I hope it did not accept the file.