After 3+ months of having a nice stable router in my A+ after I removed all the HA from it ,I just had to go and screw things up and upgrade to 083. Now for the past 4 days since I updated the firmware from 080 to 083 all the connections issues that disappeared when I removed all the HA have suddenly returned. Connections even over cat6 are sketchy , connections to IP cameras time out even on LAN, streaming movies at 720 is mostly okay, but at 1080 there is constant buffering.
Here we are at 2 PM and I have had to reboot the A+ no less than 6 times so far today because it loses its WAN connection to the modem. I finally gave up and decided to do a hard factory reset to see if maybe I can clear it out and get it to stabilize itself again.
Even doing the hard reset was an adventure in itself, since I had not backed up my settings in 3 months ( no need to when it was actually working). It took 5 tries to get desktop to stay connected to A+ on LAN long enough to go through WRT and make a fresh backup so all my static IP addresses, network settings didn't have to all be entered manually again. Well that trick didn't work , ( well it worked for about 30 seconds ) I sat here with the status window up on LCD watching it cycle internet connected, internet disconnected, internet connected internet disconnected . I rebooted the A+ 2 more times to get it to stay connected to the modem long enough to actually make this forum post. Maybe my internet actually was going out, but I doubt it. When I lose WAN connection through A+ , my modem still shows a connection and even shows traffic to A+, yet I can't even get into the modem's IP address through A+. I finally gave up up took the Cat6 jumper from desktop to A+ and plugged it directly into the modem.
I am quickly regretting NOT getting myself a new router for Christmas because A+ had been behaving. I regret even more screwing myself by actually updating the firmware when A+ had been behaving and performing so well for 3 months. I think BB is open until 6 tonight. As much as I hate their over inflated prices, I can't go into/ through a holiday weekend with all the people coming over with NOTHING in my house working because I was stupid and updated A+ firmware that took 6 months to be stable enough to be released . I've been saying I need to go through and organize everything better with all the new toys I keep adding that need static IP addresses. I just wasn't planning on spending my Christmas Eve doing it.
