No its not. I'll try putting one on it. If it goes a week it will be a strong indication that's it.
Will have to leave the question open for a while. Hope that's ok. In the meantime, welcome any other comments.
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Access point keeps needing reset
I have a small wireless network at a hotel containing a Buffalo whr-hp-g54 router and two more whr-hp-g54 set up as access points (w/out dhcp server) wired to a LAN port on the router. Setup:
Buffalo1: 192.168.11.1 (router)
BuffaloAP2: 192.168.11.2
BuffaloAP3: 192.168.11.3
The IP pool : 192.168.11.10-254 Lease time is 24 hours.
Each AP is attached to a large directional antenna to serve a different hall of the hotel and each AP (and router) uses a different wireless channel. (1-6-11). They all broadcast the same SSID.
The problem is that every few days I have to reset BuffaloAP3. The settings are identical to AP2. Is this an indication of a faulty router or is there something else I can do?
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I forgot to mention that the firmware has all been updated. I have been meaning to try the dd-wrt firmware on it for a while, if for no other reason than to program a reset. I think dd-wrt allows me to do that if I recall.
I think I would have made it more of a priority to change to the dd-wrt firmware if it were the router, but as an access point, I don't know how much difference it will make. Its job is just to send traffic to the router isn't it?
BTW, what are your thoughts on beta (which is recommended on the site) or the last stable version?
Well I have run the ap on a ups for over a week now but have still had to re-set it - once just a couple of days in. Thought I would give it a second chance but just had to reset again yesterday. Tried upgrading firmware to dd-wrt but upgrade failed each time. Tried both beta and stable versions. I'll try "Tomato" and see if that helps, otherwise I guess if no other suggestions, will try replacing.
I upgraded the firmware to Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com
Good idea. I didn't think of trying that. A daily reboot isn't a "fix" as such but it should work nicely as a work around. I don't know if Tomato has it but I've started programming our routers with watchdog ping commands so they reboot whenever their connectivity goes down for more than "x" seconds. Whether that would work depends on what part of the router is failing.
Yes, I was referring to a script or application that runs on the device. The radios we usually use have them built in so I don't have anything really ready to share.
I'd use something like this http://tomclegg.net/smalld
The problem on this network seems to be limited to WIRELESS access through this one AP. Network traffic is fine on the rest of the network when this access point locks up and I can access it via its IP address so I assumed it was still functional within the network from a wired standpoint, just the wireless not working. I should have tried pinging from the router when it lost its wireless ability or hooked a computer directly to it and tested connectivity. I suppose this script might help diagnose and certainly could be modified to use in addition to scheduled resets.
Question: I assume the first 2 addresses in this string are addresses to be pinged on the network. Is this correct and can you tell me what the third address is?
"for ip in 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 172.16.88.132 "
thanks again for your patience and help
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by: dkwiebePosted on 2009-10-17 at 21:49:57ID: 25598724
It is quite possibly a faulty router. However, I've also run into quite a few routers of that class that really don't like small power "blips". Is it protected by a UPS?