Is this a repeater or main router issue?

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Grumpycat

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I just replaced my old 802.11g router with a new one supporting 802.11n, and since then these are the problems:

>whenever i changed a setting(like security) on the repeater and rebooted itself(while being connected to the main router) and then attempted to connect again wifi connection(of the main router) would drop to limited, then i have to reboot, connect the repeater once again and if i ever attempt to connect a second time connection would drop(was not like that with the old router, so i cant blame the repeater).

>wifi connection from the main router will drop to limited either way after 2-4 hours of use(or after some event that causes it to drop which i haven't identified).

What i really cant understand is why does the main router's connection is the one dropping, i would expect the repeater to be the one losing connection but since i made the settings myself and im not a network wiz i could have quite possibly configured something wrong.

Screenshots of main router's config(ADB P.RG A4100N ):
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Screenshots of repeater's config(RPD100 Wireless-N):
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DHCP is disabled on lan settings.
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Then i connect through "site survey" option to the router and its all good for a few hours.

Thanks in advance
 
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Ralston18
Do you mean reboot or reset? Reboot is just turning of the router's power. Reset usually involves pushing in a small button in the back and holding the button in for 30 seconds or so.

If you can hard reset the router then the router will go back to its original factory settings including default login and password.

Using the default login and password allows you to reconfigure the router and establish not only your settings but your own login and password.

Then you would (should?) have access to the event logs. Unless the lSP provided firmware prohibits or otherwise blocks doing so.....

Your last two screen prints of the repeater settings show the "Select" SSID as being "Root Client - CYTA095109 "and then again "Repeater AP -...
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Thanks for the fast reply,
unfortunately i do not have access to the admin options since my provider locks it and only gives a user account, googling did not help either but ill search more. In the meantime would a hard reset help at all? it seems pointless since i will just reconfigure the router the same way but im out of ideas
 
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Do you mean reboot or reset? Reboot is just turning of the router's power. Reset usually involves pushing in a small button in the back and holding the button in for 30 seconds or so.

If you can hard reset the router then the router will go back to its original factory settings including default login and password.

Using the default login and password allows you to reconfigure the router and establish not only your settings but your own login and password.

Then you would (should?) have access to the event logs. Unless the lSP provided firmware prohibits or otherwise blocks doing so.....

Your last two screen prints of the repeater settings show the "Select" SSID as being "Root Client - CYTA095109 "and then again "Repeater AP - CYTA095109" respectively. Does not seem, at least to me, to be consistent. I would expect all to be just CYTA095109. So far have not come across a user guide/manual for the RPD100.

Anyway if you had a misconfiguration then the connectivity would not work at all versus working/dropping.

Are you sure that the new router has good physical connections including power? Same question for the repeater. What about possible interference on the wireless channels you are using? Are you in a dorm or apartment where there are other wireless networks? I.e., the new router is subject to more interference than was the old router....

Get everything working, if you can, just with the new router alone. Keep the repeater out of things until the router is proven to be stable or continuing to have problems. If the router proves stable then set up the repeater just as if it were new and first being installed on your network.

Reread the User Manuals/Guides if you have them. Plan out your network in detail as best you can. Work methodically, double check everything, and keep notes. You will either find the problem or perhaps prove that the new router is buggy.

And just continue to post accordingly. Someone may spot something that has been, so far, missed.


 
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Yes the ISP has its own software installed, making a hard reset meaningless in terms of creating an admin account.

I picked the less picked channel i found on inSSIDer, only co-working with 1 network and overlapping with 1-2.

I just tried the router alone, and for about 7-9 hours internet was stable so i'm gonna blame this on the repeater, actually i feel dumb because there was a time when i used the same repeater with a bought AP i had connected to my old router, AP kept dropping its wifi to limited and always needed rebooting so i blamed that one on the AP and not the repeater.

Connected the same repeater on my old B/G router this time not dropping the wifi but disconnecting me from the internet altogether. I didn't connect those two at the time because the problem caused by the repeater was different but this is just too much to be coincidence.

All the times i followed the instructions from the repeater's manual so either something is missing from the manual or the device itself is defective.

Used my old AP which i thought of as defective as a repeater and till now the connection is stable.

Thanks a lot!
 
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