Another frustrating morning with COVR here. When I first got up today, I logged on with my work laptop and checked in on my phone just fine. When the kids tried to log on for school with their Chromebooks (less than 10 active devices on the network in total, all devices that had previously joined the network), the network went down. The B point seemed to crash—blinking orange. The A point couldn’t be joined by any devices, though the color was white and it was broadcasting its SSID.
I unpowered A, the Ethernet switch, and B, and then restarted the fiber modem, then A, the switch, and B. Now everything is back up and running, but it’s really frustrating to have the system keel over every other week. Sometimes it happens at the start of day. (It often takes the laptop several minutes to connect, and it’s using Ethernet connected to point B.) And sometimes it happens at the end of the workday. I don’t know if it’s the complexity of a two-point system or D-Link’s build quality or software, but the reliability of this system is really disappointing. I’m about ready to plug my old ASUS N-66U back in. It would run for months without needing a restart. I was trying to buy a router, but it seems I’ve bought a pet instead.
