I was just given an upgrade from the Rev. F router to the Rev. I . Now, the strangest thing is happening to my access point.
I have long used a Hawking HD45B wireless access point to extend the wireless range of the Rev. F. I had a very simple setup and I followed the rules in the FAQ for doing this. I connected a 1 meter Cat 5e cable straight from the Hawking to the Rev. F. DHCP was disabled on the Hawking and it was given an IP of 192.168.1.2 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0. The Rev. F router's DHCP range was moved to 192.168.1.11 - 192.168.1.254 with Subnet mask 255.255.255.0. I disabled wireless on the Rev. F because the Hawking's range was longer and satisfied my needs.
This configuration worked perfectly until I got the Rev. I. When installing the Rev. I, I did a full factory reset on both the Rev. I and the Hawking. I re-entered all of the previously mentioned configuration settings. My wired PC connected to both the Hawking and the Rev. I works fine using DHCP.
Now, the big problem is the Hawking's wireless access. I set the Hawking to use wireless N with no password 2.4 ghz. I have always used these settings with my portable devices and they work fine. Now, however, when I power on the the Hawking, I can join the network and get internet connectivity on my devices for like a minute, and then the wireless stops responding and I lose connectivity. Suddenly, I can no longer join the network wirelessly. I have my laptop connected to a wired port on the Hawking and I am able to continue to get connectivity for a little while longer, but then that stops working. It takes a power cycle of the Hawking to start the process over and it just keeps doing the same thing.
This MUST be related to the Rev. I. I put the Rev. F back with the same configuration and everything works perfectly. I try and monitor the status of the Hawking by doing a continual ping of it from a PC plugged into the Rev. I. The Hawking responds fine to pings for like a minute and then promptly stops at roughly the same time the connectivity drops. It is almost as if there is some memory structure in the Hawking that quickly fills up and gets overloaded causing the whole device to freeze up.
I am truly at my wits end here. I have even tried going through a screen by screen comparison of the Rev F and the Rev I configs to see if there are any substantive differences. The only thing unusual I notice on the Rev I. is on the Port Configuration screen. The WAN port is listed as connected at 10 Half-Duplex. This doesn't make sense because I am using a MOCA coax connection. The Rev F lists the WAN port as disabled.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? I actually did find a possibly related post to this issue on the forum:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28879855?hilite=access+point+rev
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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