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Author Topic: How to avoid power cycle?  (Read 16508 times)

Scuttle

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How to avoid power cycle?
« on: January 16, 2009, 05:13:36 PM »
Hi,

I have Wireless G before and always have connection. My iPHone automatically sync my emails once I come home from the office. Now, I upgraded my router to DIR615, but I noticed, once the router is idle for more tha 10 minutes, I need to power off the router and power on again just to have connection.

Is there a way to avoid this?
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smlunatick

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 11:39:03 AM »
More details like router's hardware version and firmware might be helpful to guide you further.

Have you checked for a new firmware version?
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Scuttle

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2009, 03:57:20 PM »
Hi,

My 615 router is DIR-615_revC with firmware version 3.1. Bought from BestBuy lastweek of December 2008
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djwalker01

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2009, 08:22:08 PM »
Yes I too have the same hardware and firmware version and have to constantly power cycle to get the router to connect to my varied devices.

Also all the DHCP Client expiration dates are "Wed Oct 3 1934"

Strange...

I have not found any info on how to resolve these issues...

DJW
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djwalker01

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009, 09:16:45 AM »
it seems this the only way to resolve the issue...

Power cycle every time there is no activity for a while (like overnight)

I have to do it 3-4 times a day

Does anybody have a fix to this?
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QuixRhyno

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 09:21:37 AM »
I though it was cause I was running two macs and the DIR-615 vC1 was not happy with it.  Its there a firmware issue?

Please advise
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koreth

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2009, 08:12:14 PM »
Oh good. I was afraid this was just me. I too have to power cycle repeatedly. I don't think it has anything to do with inactivity, though; I frequently see the wireless connection go dead while I'm in the middle of doing something online (e.g., watching a streaming video, which is about as non-idle as you can get.) This happens to all my devices: two MacBook Pros, a ThinkPad, a Wii, a wireless webcam, etc.

Wired connections are not affected. The router seems to be able to get to the Internet just fine; it's just the wireless that drops out.

When I look at the TCP/IP settings on the computers after they lose connectivity, I see they no longer have IP addresses. And if I reset one of the computers' wireless interfaces, the router never assigns it an IP address. So maybe it has something to do with DHCP lease renewal? My lease period is set to several days.

The only suspicious thing I see in my logs is the following, which happens a LOT (hundreds of times a day):

Wireless system with Mac address 00:22:b0:c6:b4:61 deauthenticate reason 7

That is the router's own MAC address, which is strange; why is it trying to connect to itself?

Hardware revision C1, firmware 3.01.
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arod

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2009, 08:40:15 AM »
Try changing you wireless channel to specific channel. I would also try using DHCP reservation and if you have any cordless phones in house try turning off the base and see if it makes a difference as cordless phone will cause interference.
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alan3885

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2009, 06:44:25 PM »
Quote from: Ru-Fi-Oh on February 18, 2009, 08:40:15 AM
Try changing you wireless channel to specific channel. I would also try using DHCP reservation and if you have any cordless phones in house try turning off the base and see if it makes a difference as cordless phone will cause interference.

Hello guys I don’t know how anyone can just avoid this issue and I strongly doubt this is a cordless phone interference issue and power cycling the units more frequently is not a solution and sadly my aunt has the DIR-615 router Rev_C is also experiencing this issue (which I did not know at the time of purchase and I believed D-Link improved on a solid product with this new hardware revision C) and its unacceptable and annoying since we have to power cycle the router like once or twice a week and changing the channel won’t fix this because I have already tried that option as suggested and D-Link look at how many people have responded and complained so much D-Link this is not normal behavior its buggy in firmware version 3.01. D-Link please fix this D-Link I honestly prefer Rev_B or C and it seems buggy and slow when having the power cycle the unit and I have a Rev_B and never had this or really any issues at all the time spent on trying to wait for a long time on a new and improved firmware is really annoying especially one other hand the "Auto Channel Scan" feature is enabled.
« Last Edit: February 20, 2009, 07:10:07 PM by alan3885 »
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Scuttle

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2009, 07:46:25 PM »
Is there any updates on this issue? Hope DLINK will release a fix on this issue. It it not about the cordless phone, I don;t have cordless phone and very far to any interference, but I need to powercycle my router every 30 minutes.
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melo

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2009, 09:09:45 AM »
Very ODD??  I have the 615 Rev 3 Firmware and have "not" had to power cycle one time??
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inztinct11

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2009, 09:43:28 PM »
Hey Guys, I recently got the DIR-615 (Hardware Version: C1  Firmware Version: 3.01 )and I am also having the same issue of having to power cycle my router every day.

Here is my setup:

I have a desktop wired to the router and I have 2 laptops, an Iphone that connect to this router wirelessly (WPA-TKIP , SSID Visible CH-8)

The desktop never has an issue even when the wifi is down, it always seems to be with the wireless connection. I have been monitoring my router for about a week now to try to come to the root of this and I suspect that either the Iphone might be behind the problem or it might be a DHCP issue or a combination of both.

When a regular laptop disconnects, I can see the following message on my router's log:
Mar  8 23:29:54     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:18:de:2d:cf:99 disassociate reason 3

However, when my Iphone disconnects, I see the following message in my log:
Mar  8 23:26:01     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3

This is the first difference I have noticed. Anybody knows the difference between disassociate and deauthenticate ? And what is reason 3 ?

Also, I have noticed that when the wireless connection issue starts, if I look at my logs, I see the message from my Iphone hit the router continuously (deauth reason 3 ..) every 3-4 mins. Does anyone else having the same problem with an iphone see this ?

Mar  3 20:26:42     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3
Mar  3 20:26:15     debug     UDHCPD sending ACK to 192.168.0.101
Mar  3 20:21:41     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3
Mar  3 20:21:15     debug     UDHCPD sending ACK to 192.168.0.101
Mar  3 20:16:40     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3
Mar  3 20:16:15     debug     UDHCPD sending ACK to 192.168.0.101
Mar  3 20:11:39     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3
Mar  3 20:11:14     debug     UDHCPD sending ACK to 192.168.0.101
Mar  3 20:06:38     notice     Wireless system with Mac address 00:1e:c2:20:66:e0 deauthenticate reason 3

I have talked to some wireless experts about my issue and they have mentioned that an excessive amount of deauth message could cause a wireless AP to shut down or go in an error state and thus only a power cycle can bring it back to a working state. I'm still not sure if this is the source of the problem we are all seeing but if everyone can share more about their setup and what devices are connecting and what log messages you are seeing, we might hopefully come to the bottom of this.

I am also curious to see how many people seeing this problem have an iphone that connect to their wifi. I am hoping that it isnt the iphone, but right now that is the only lead I have. Hope this gets resolved soon...

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smlunatick

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2009, 08:15:27 AM »
For the Deauthentication problem, check in your Internet security software.  My Norton was forcing the deauthentication because the SSID was not listed as a trusted network.  Once Norton was told to trust the SSID, deauthentication messages stopped being too frequent.
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Scuttle

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Re: How to avoid power cycle?
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2009, 10:58:36 PM »
Do we have update to solve this kind of issue?
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