[SOLVED] WiFi goes out every few days

[dshodson]

I have a tp link 5400 and many devices hardwired through switches. Every few days the WiFi doesn’t work properly. The wired seems to be fine but all wireless devices do t work. If I select one of the WiFi either 2.4 or 5, I get a variety of errors like it says password is wrong and putting in the password doesn’t solve it, or it fails to connect, or supposedly connects but no internet. Can anyone give me some advice on what’s wrong. I assume that even though it was a more expensive router purchased a few years ago that it’s gone bad but before I plop down another good chunk of change, I wanted to see if anyone has other ideas.

thanks

 

[kanewolf]

If you have the channel on the router set to "auto" it is possible that the router is picking a channel above 11. Manually set the channel to 1, 6, 11. See if that makes any difference.

 

[dshodson]

Thank you for the response. I’ll try that but can you tell me why that would make a difference.

 

[kanewolf]

Thank you for the response. I’ll try that but can you tell me why that would make a difference.

Channels above 11 are not valid in every country. Many devices won't work with them.