said by Timmn :

DIR-615 Router, Hardware Revision C1, Firmware 3.11NA

About once a month, the none of my wireless computer will connect to the router, the SSID is still being broadcast, and signal strength seems fine, just nothing can connect.

If I unplug the router from it's power supply for about 30 seconds, that will fix the problem.

The people at D-Link email support are trying to blame the problem on my computers, signal strength, windows firewall, and my anti-virus program.

Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions as to how to resolve it?

said by Timmn :

I don't know, it doesn't seem to act like a heat problem to me, I don't think that unplugging it for 30 seconds would allow it to cool down enough to make it work for another month.

Although, the timer idea sounds like a good idea, if I shut it down for about 5 minutes every night, maybe I wouldn't get my monthly failure anymore.

said by tipstir :

Well you can turn it off longer than that. I have wireless shutdown from 2am to 9am everyday to save on ECO.

said by Timmn :

I could do that as well, but, I am an insomniac, and when I can't sleep, I surf the net.

said by Aimhere To the original poster, I ask, have you tried using the "soft reboot" feature in the DIR-615's web interface? (On the Tools/System page.) If so, does it restore the wireless connectivity the way unplugging the power does, or do you still have to pull the plug anyway?

Also, what are the settings under Setup/Wireless Settings/Manual Setup? Are you using the defaults, or have you changed anything there? And are your wireless computers using D-Link adapters, or other brands? G or N, or a mix?
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I haven't tried the soft reboot yet, but in my further conversations with D-Link support, one of the things they said to try was to assign static IPs to all of the wireless devices, and I read in another forum that a few people were having problems with the DHCP server in the router.

I haven't tried that yet, too many other things need my attention at this time.

The only setting on the router that has been changed from the default, is the Channel Width setting, it's now set to Auto 20/40 Mhz.

My wireless devices are a mix of g and n, and none of them have D-Link adapters. Of the two I use most frequently, my notebook has a Broadcom chipset (BC43XX) and the other one has a TrendNet TEW-643PI Adapter.
If it makes any difference, both are running Linux.

said by tipstir :

No it's poor hardware design both the board and chipset. In time it overheats and degrades and shutdown. The only way to make a come back is to unplug it. What you could do is when you go to bed put a timer. Like those used to turn on/off your xmas llights on this router. Then have it shutdown when you're in bed or gone to work. This way it can keep on going without the need for you to step in. Right now that's the only fix for these type of issues.

said by aaronwt :

I've had no issues so far with the DIR-615 I set up at my girlfriends. And there are two TiVos always connected to it along with the occasional laptop and a couple of PC and a printer.

So far it has been on continuosly for three weeks. I have it set for WPA2 with AES encryption for the wireless.

The unit itself runs pretty cool. I have it sitting vertically with plenty of space around it. Now it doesn't give the superb performance of the DGL4300 it replaced, but for a $38 router compared to the $150 the DGL4300 cost me several years ago, the DIR 615 is well worth it.

And you metioned the power supply. After using the DGL4300 for several years of continuous operation it died. The cause was the power supply. I connected the DIR615 PS up to the DGL4300 to test it and it worked with that PS. But I saw no point in messing around with the DGL4300 since the DIR615 was so cheap and my girlfriend doesn't need any gigabit connections like I do at home.

said by tipstir :

Which hardware version is that you have?