Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14219 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 21:06 Post subject:
Mine is an expensive ethernet-only router as all of the wifi refuses to come up. I haven't done any command-line tinkering to see if I can force it to work. Mine was second-hand, so it was probably already flaking out.
Send it back to Netgear for repair or replacement (I know you are out of warranty).
Do you have an idea of what that would cost? We have the money to buy something better if there is such a thing. Not that I'm looking to waste money but if I'm going to have to shell out cash anyway, I might as well go the extra 10 yards and upgrade while I'm at it.
Thank you guys for the support and I apologize for my slow responses. This is a problem I've had for years and am trying to finally slay once and for all so this means a lot. This board is great.
Send it back to Netgear for repair or replacement (I know you are out of warranty).
Do you have an idea of what that would cost? We have the money to buy something better if there is such a thing. Not that I'm looking to waste money but if I'm going to have to shell out cash anyway, I might as well go the extra 10 yards and upgrade while I'm at it.
Thank you guys for the support and I apologize for my slow responses. This is a problem I've had for years and am trying to finally slay once and for all so this means a lot. This board is great.
Try changing the SSID to something straight aplha characters with no spaces or numbers and make both radios the same name and follow the wifi settings guide for beacon interval and see what that yields. Your SSID is suspect for possible issues. Keep it simple... "SilenceOftheLan" _________________ FORUM RULES
Don't take this as me disregarding any advice given but how likely is it that the name or another setting will be the fix for this?
I only ask because I'm extremely weary to change the SSID again. It was a nightmare setting up my smart home stuff again after going to DD-WRT. I still have a few things I haven't set back up actually.
Joined: 21 Jan 2017 Posts: 1783 Location: Illinois Moderator
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 22:08 Post subject:
Based on the pictures, only 4 clients were on the 5ghz radio and your channel selection was funky for sure showing 157+155.... you should either be using 149+UU or 161+LL. Using the middle channels for the main carrier pose a lot of problems on clients.
5ghz signals need lots of open air to work well. If you have the router near lots of metal and walls...it's no wonder wifi works wonky.
Location of the router is key.
Then the settings...using auto rate on 2.4ghz is asking for trouble.
you really need to do some homework and read about the settings to use again.
I am not convinced you have a hardware issue... sorry to be so blunt...but time and time again people say one thing and do another thing and then are surprised.... The best wifi settings is based off the R9000 I use as a daily driver and it never misses a beat with the settings in the pictures. Albeit, I don't have any ancient clients with buggy/old drivers. _________________ FORUM RULES
The only way to prove it is not a hardware problem is to relocate and/or start over.
It was fine in the first week of dd-wrt then something happened, a settings change?
All we can do is give advice, and for troubleshooting mine is to go slow and simple.
That includes SSID and my previous post.
This is exactly why I asked to clarify.
No, no settings changes. It was similar to how it was when I first bought the router. Worked AMAZINGLY. A wireless connection was almost exactly on par with my wired connections when comparing data transfer rates, everyone had solid reliable signals and it felt like over a month+ the signal got worse and worse until we realized no one can stay connected reliably anymore. Initially rebooting the router helped it, but now that has almost no effect.
msoengineer wrote:
Based on the pictures, only 4 clients were on the 5ghz radio and your channel selection was funky for sure showing 157+155.... you should either be using 149+UU or 161+LL. Using the middle channels for the main carrier pose a lot of problems on clients.
5ghz signals need lots of open air to work well. If you have the router near lots of metal and walls...it's no wonder wifi works wonky.
Location of the router is key.
Then the settings...using auto rate on 2.4ghz is asking for trouble.
you really need to do some homework and read about the settings to use again.
I am not convinced you have a hardware issue... sorry to be so blunt...but time and time again people say one thing and do another thing and then are surprised.... The best wifi settings is based off the R9000 I use as a daily driver and it never misses a beat with the settings in the pictures. Albeit, I don't have any ancient clients with buggy/old drivers.
No need to be sorry. I appreciate blunt, direct communication. Tomorrow I will go over the settings and recommendations for how I should have this set up properly.
Some back story
Router is over 3 years old and we've had it set up on two different floors of the house with the exact same results.
Back in February I said hardware failure, but also looked around for recovery methods and bookmarked FAQ
for (modified stock) voxel firmware addon with a section for recovery troubleshooting commands. Since then,
the FAQ has been updated and expanded and this document may be useful to others or simply waste of time.
If already flashed a known working DD-WRT build for R9000, then nvram erase && reboot from Telnet as root,
and still have problems with the most basic wifi configuration this is essentially all you can do aside from going
to voxel modified stock firmware to further troubleshoot from command line or maybe ttl serial u-boot prompt.
