Question RT-N16 has started losing it's settings

[barrelrider]

I have a 12 year old asus RT-N16 router that has seemingly lost it's settings, or something of that order, twice in the last 24 hrs. No power events or network traumas that I know of. What happens is that I can no longer connect to it via wired connection or wifi. Twice I've done a reset and reconfigure and it comes back.
Is there anything else to conclude other than it's time to retire this unit?

 

[Lutfij]

I have a 12 year old asus RT-N16 router
If the router is acting/behaving weird, generally it's time for a firmware update(if there are any pending) or the router needs to be replaced.

That being said, have you checked to see that firmware updates aren't pending for the router?

 

[barrelrider]

Thanks Luftji, you provided the only reply to the other recent thread I have here at TH.
Its a very old router and as a result there haven't been any firmware updates for a long time. It does have the most recent from ASUS. I used to use 3rd party firmware on it but had to switch back to ASUS firmware about a year ago.
Sounds like I have to replace it.