Desperately need help with D-Link DIR-601 Router

Alexander Verrette

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The last few days I have been experiencing trouble with my router. I have cable internet with a sister company of Rogers called Destributel. The modem I have from them is a Huwaei MT30U. I'm not sure if the ISP and modem have anything to do with my issue, I thought it might be useful to mention it just in case. Anyway, the number of devices I have connected to my router daily is 5 and sometimes 6. What I have connected is an iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S4, Nintendo Wii U and My Asus laptop. My 6th device is occasionally a Nintendo 3DS. So the problem i'm having is that my router is kicking my Wii U and S4 off the connection even though it is still visible from those devices and still connected and perfectly functional on the rest of my devices. I have tried resetting my modem and router several times, unplugging them, resetting my router to factory settings and updating the firmware on my router to the latest version. After all that and waiting a few days hoping the problem might fix itself nothing has changed and do not know where to go from here.

All help would be appreciated, thanks
 
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check to see how many devices are allowed on the router in DHCP. Sometimes the limit is too low.

It sounds like the router will not give IP addresses out except for the 5 that you can connect.

You might want to:

1) update the router firmware
2) do a factory reset and set it up again

or both of the above :)

If you have the A1 hardware version, you could flash it with DD-WRT and get a lot more functionality out of it too:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DIR-601

g90814

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check to see how many devices are allowed on the router in DHCP. Sometimes the limit is too low.

It sounds like the router will not give IP addresses out except for the 5 that you can connect.

You might want to:

1) update the router firmware
2) do a factory reset and set it up again

or both of the above :)

If you have the A1 hardware version, you could flash it with DD-WRT and get a lot more functionality out of it too:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DIR-601
 
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