nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
My fourth router has reached it's 1 year birthday. every time i have a router for a year or so they start getting mighty finnicky. this one seems to be doing the same thing. i have taken plenty of measures to unplug it during storms, bought a really expensive surge protector for it, because i lost #2 to a lightning strike, also a Netgear. This one has never gotten hot (only barely warm) and now it's doing weird things.
Almost every night the log is chock full of 'DOS ATTACK IP SPOOF' entries, and the internet is listed as 'disabled' in the status page. these Attacks are showing the MAC addresses of my computers that connect to it (my TiVo, SmartTV, Chromebook currently). there are also plenty of 'WLAN ACCESS REJECTED Incorrect Security' entries also pertaining to the same MAC addresses. this appears to be filling the log more now than in the past.
so i have to reset it each day. i also had to do a factory reset as i think it got corrupted or full of some kind of malware (even though i use WPA2/TKIP) as all the icons when i was doing diagnostics turned into little 't-rexes'. basically little 8-bit looking dinosaurs, followed by Chrome suddenly saying 'page not available' and the little 'I' light would blink off.
When i have to reset it, the little 'I' light, which is for the port that plugs into my WISP's subscriber module, is amber or red, indicating no connectivity. Amber is often a simple disconnect, but red is what it does when the status page says 'disabled' under 'internet'. it should be green when it's up and running.
A reset sometimes fixes it, but once i had to get physical with it and literally smack it before it would go from red/amber to green and resume working. when it gets back online, at first, pings are extremely slow, lookups fail off and on, but slowly get faster and faster until i'm getting normal speed again. it's like an old box fan that starts slow and gains speed a little more each minute. only this is the internet speed. i think it's dying but before i spend money on yet another disposable router, is there a way to find one that is made in the USA? one made of good enough quality that i can get more than a year from it? apparently paying a premium for some of the higher end models doesn't do much for me. i got a dual-band ASUS once that died the same night. another time i spent more on a LinkSYS dual-band that died two days later. the cheap ones at around $49-89 last around a year then quit. not sure what is happening.
EDIT: it died again as i was attempting to submit this post. Internet 'disabled' and 'WLAN ACCESS REJECTED: Incorrect Security' for my Chromebook's MAC Address. it's not incorrect and i have the right password. when that shows up it just drops the entire internet for everything and the Internet port shows '0.0.0.0' for everything. i couldn't get it to get an WAN IP without literally smacking it on the counter again.
Almost every night the log is chock full of 'DOS ATTACK IP SPOOF' entries, and the internet is listed as 'disabled' in the status page. these Attacks are showing the MAC addresses of my computers that connect to it (my TiVo, SmartTV, Chromebook currently). there are also plenty of 'WLAN ACCESS REJECTED Incorrect Security' entries also pertaining to the same MAC addresses. this appears to be filling the log more now than in the past.
so i have to reset it each day. i also had to do a factory reset as i think it got corrupted or full of some kind of malware (even though i use WPA2/TKIP) as all the icons when i was doing diagnostics turned into little 't-rexes'. basically little 8-bit looking dinosaurs, followed by Chrome suddenly saying 'page not available' and the little 'I' light would blink off.
When i have to reset it, the little 'I' light, which is for the port that plugs into my WISP's subscriber module, is amber or red, indicating no connectivity. Amber is often a simple disconnect, but red is what it does when the status page says 'disabled' under 'internet'. it should be green when it's up and running.
A reset sometimes fixes it, but once i had to get physical with it and literally smack it before it would go from red/amber to green and resume working. when it gets back online, at first, pings are extremely slow, lookups fail off and on, but slowly get faster and faster until i'm getting normal speed again. it's like an old box fan that starts slow and gains speed a little more each minute. only this is the internet speed. i think it's dying but before i spend money on yet another disposable router, is there a way to find one that is made in the USA? one made of good enough quality that i can get more than a year from it? apparently paying a premium for some of the higher end models doesn't do much for me. i got a dual-band ASUS once that died the same night. another time i spent more on a LinkSYS dual-band that died two days later. the cheap ones at around $49-89 last around a year then quit. not sure what is happening.
EDIT: it died again as i was attempting to submit this post. Internet 'disabled' and 'WLAN ACCESS REJECTED: Incorrect Security' for my Chromebook's MAC Address. it's not incorrect and i have the right password. when that shows up it just drops the entire internet for everything and the Internet port shows '0.0.0.0' for everything. i couldn't get it to get an WAN IP without literally smacking it on the counter again.
