DIR 655 Constant Wireless Restart

I am experiencing an interesting problem with my wireless router: It constantly performs a wireless reset every minute or so. While it doesn't actually seem to be causing problems for general internet use, I think it is causing lag spikes during my gaming.

LOGS:

[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:17:53 2011 <Network Name>: Wireless system with MAC address XXXXXXXXXX associated
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:17:53 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:17:46 2011 Wireless restart
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:17:34 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:16:51 2011 <Network Name>: Wireless system with MAC address XXXXXXXXXX associated
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:16:51 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:16:43 2011 Administrator logout
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:16:40 2011 Wireless restart
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:15:41 2011 <Network Name>: Wireless system with MAC address XXXXXXXXXX associated
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:15:41 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:15:30 2011 Wireless restart
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:15:07 2011 <Network Name>: Wireless system with MAC address XXXXXXXXXX associated
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:15:07 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:14:56 2011 Wireless restart
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:11:43 2011 Log viewed by IP address <My Computer>
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:04:50 2011 Above message repeated 1 times
[INFO] Thu Apr 07 22:04:47 2011 Allowed configuration authentication by IP address <My Computer>

I am at a loss on what causes it. It is periodic, and is clearly recognized by my router.

The Firmware is up to date, I am using wireless channel 2.462 GHz (Ch11) in Mixed 802.11n and 802.11g mode.

I have no idea what the problem may be, but a lot of these small devices are filled w/ bugs. It’s not like these consumer-grade routers are built w/ the highest quality standards. So every once in a while you can trigger one of these bugs as you change the configuration, and end up w/ some bizarre behavior as a result. For example, one of my D-Link routers years ago had no protection against buffer overflow on edited fields. If I made a data entry that was too long (and I had no idea what too long would be), it would overflow the buffer and corrupt the router!

So as a starting point, I would just do a factory reset on the router and know you're working from a clean slate. See if it starts up again.

I purchased the same router 1 month ago to go with a new Win7 build. I could never keep a wireless connection going for more than 4-6 hrs and tried numerous suggestions from various forums to disable DNS Relay and many other things, nothing worked, no improvement whatsoever. I then changed from "Auto Channel " to selecting a fixed channel and for the last 5 days everything is fine, not one dropped connection. I chose Channel 1 but I'm sure others would work as well. I have since reset every other suggested option to default and left the "Auto Channel" disabled and forced to Channel 1, still perfect. If you're still having trouble give the forced channel a try. I was at the point where I was going to return the 655 and now I couldn't be happier.

John

Vearo,

I've now had solid service for more than 10 days and the only change of settings to the 655 is forcing a channel instead of "auto". I also found the following free and useful app that lets me see any other routers in my area that could cause conflicts. I hope you can work it out because now that the 655 is reliable it's a great router as advertised. Here's the link.


http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/


John