Wireless Router Death (Not with a Bang,, but with a Whimper)
polycounter lvl 18
Is there a way to tell if a wireless router is failing? Having many issues lately, and having spent money on items really didnt need.
It doesn't help that tm having bandwidth issues with (Broadstripe IE Millienium) recently that I cant tell if it was the introduction of my roomates getting regular cable (just had net before, but noooo, they want "TV"), adding a bridge for another roommate who systems so old it cant take an internal card. Or the fact my old wireless g card seemingly would only connect for a few minutes to the network then disconnect then reconnect then disconnect after a recent reinstall. Nevermind my new N card replacement that I have been running the past month is showing somewhat the same issue now.
Or that throwing in another N router for 5 minutes a few weeks back as a test really didnt improve performance any (again issue with Broadstripe brandwidth and timeouts). Or that the Broadstripe people have been out twice so far, and the second time replaced our old modem with one of theirs and reaching 6mpbs when could only reach 4.5 before at most. Then the next day after he leaves, it drops back down to 1.5-2mpbs at peak hours.
Anyhow, I think in all this I still might have a router going bad. Is there a way to tell easily? The wireless N I borrowed for the test has already been returned to person and not easy to get again.
With all the bells and whistles of DD-WRT, it would be cool if it had some type of self diagnostic mode.
It doesn't help that tm having bandwidth issues with (Broadstripe IE Millienium) recently that I cant tell if it was the introduction of my roomates getting regular cable (just had net before, but noooo, they want "TV"), adding a bridge for another roommate who systems so old it cant take an internal card. Or the fact my old wireless g card seemingly would only connect for a few minutes to the network then disconnect then reconnect then disconnect after a recent reinstall. Nevermind my new N card replacement that I have been running the past month is showing somewhat the same issue now.
Or that throwing in another N router for 5 minutes a few weeks back as a test really didnt improve performance any (again issue with Broadstripe brandwidth and timeouts). Or that the Broadstripe people have been out twice so far, and the second time replaced our old modem with one of theirs and reaching 6mpbs when could only reach 4.5 before at most. Then the next day after he leaves, it drops back down to 1.5-2mpbs at peak hours.
Anyhow, I think in all this I still might have a router going bad. Is there a way to tell easily? The wireless N I borrowed for the test has already been returned to person and not easy to get again.
With all the bells and whistles of DD-WRT, it would be cool if it had some type of self diagnostic mode.
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The throughput still sucks however. Again I think I have two issues going on at once so its hard to separate one from the other.
A: A shitty cable company that may or may not deal with my roomates deciding on cable TV. Or that its something on their end with their servers since I get time outs to their gateway even connected direct to the modem.
B: A shitty connection to the router, that could be caused from so many variables
-having to install a router bridge taking up badnwidth (from what I read bridges take half the available bandwidth).
-Recent Reinstall of windows that possibly went bad with network though roommate suffers issues though not as bad as me (he is much closer to router).
-Flaky router that's failing.
And there it goes again, disconnecting and reconnecting....
Wireless routers go all the time. I've had 4 in the last few years. The wireless radio inside goes first, and intermittent connection issues and slow speeds can be the first signs.
The new router doesn't support dd-wrt though