Limited Wifi

Question

All the sudden the the signal strength for wifi on all our PC laptops says "Limited" and is very slow or just times out. If you run troubleshooting sometimes it says something about DCHP or bad gateway. Tried restarting and resetting to factory defaults several times.

Did something in the N450 just die? Is this unit toast?

Ethernet still works, but only after you cut off wifi and run troubleshooting on that adapter.

Thanks for any leads.

DarrenM · Answer

Hello NgearUser

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It does sound like a issue with the wifi if you have factory reset the unit and still getting that issue? also have you tried a different SSID when doing the factory reset?

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DarrenM

NGearUser · Answer

Darren,&nbsp;Thanks. I have not tried chaning the SSID. Would that make a difference?&nbsp;So should I change the SSID and then try my laptop and see if there are connection / speed issues?&nbsp;Thanks.

NGearUser · Answer

OK I changed SSID and my wireless is a good connection.

So now all I need to do is restore being able to lock down the devices to just the Allow List. When I did that before my wifi and ehternet on "allowed" devices was horrible.

When I go to turn Access Control back on to allowed devices (Advanced>Advanced Setup>Wireless>) I get "Turn access control on with empty access list does not work with WPS. WPS will be inaccessible. Do you want to continue?"

I don't know what that means. We never got that message before. Advice?

DarrenM · Answer

Hello NGearUser

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If you do not use WPS then you should be fine in clicking continue.

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DarrenM

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