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[Tekneek]

This just started yesterday, September 28. I normally have had the router supporting 802.11n and 802.11g for the mixed wireless devices for our (W)LAN. Beginning in the afternoon of September 28, the wireless became very unreliable. Upon looking at the DIR-655, I could see that every light on the device was blinking very rapidly [this is unusual, given that the devices hard-wired to the router (aside from two switches) were not even on at the time, yet the lights for their ports were going nuts]. I also noticed this activity was being reflected on the lights for two switches connected to the router. While the wireless portion of the network becomes almost useless during this, there is also some performance impact for the rest of the LAN as the router is sending packets constantly on all ports.

Through the troubleshooting process, involving resetting to factory defaults three times, upgrading the firmware, and stepping through every configuration option many times, I have discovered that the router performs just as expected only in two instances: wireless is turned off (obviously lacking any wireless option), or wireless is only in 802.11n mode (unfortunately robbing non-802.11n devices of any connectivity). If I put it into 802.11g only, or 802.11b only, the same freaking out happens as before. If I use any wireless mode other than 802.11n by itself, the router loses it's mind. This wouldn't be a problem if we did not have devices on the network that cannot make the jump to 802.11n.

Does anyone have any advice as to what I may be able to do to resolve this?

[marmoduke]

Try uncheck extra wireless protection.

[Tekneek]

I just tried that, and then lowered the modes to 802.11n and 802.11g mixed and everything seems alright so far. The network is not being flooded with constant traffic and activity more resembles what I am accustomed to seeing. I will come back and update if the situation takes a turn for the worse.

Thank you very much, marmoduke!

[marmoduke]

Best regards.  Hope it works out.  Remember there are a lot of things in and around your home or apartment that can spoil wireless.  Appliances, telephones, security systems, keyboards and mice, wireless anything.  Sometimes the wireless signal is too strong and distorts or is too weak.  All of these things can be drilled down and corrected.

In fact many of the "wireless complaint threads" in this forum could be solved just by drilling down on signal distortion, or interference problems.