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Netgear WNDR3400v3 keeps dropping connection
I have a Netgear WNDR3400v3 wireless router. I've had it for a few years. Lately, it's been dropping Wifi. The network just disappears randomly, sometimes repeatedly. Most of the lights on the router go off while this happens. Seems like the router is randomly rebooting itself for no reason.
I have tried powercycling the router.
I have tried updating to the latest firmware (V1.0.1.44_1.0.71)
I have tried factory resetting the thing
Is the router itself failing, and if so I am really irritated. I paid a lot of money for this thing. However, there have been periods where this problem has stopped all together for awhile, only to start back up again. Any suggestions? As anybody would guess, it's really annoying when you're on the internet and the connection randomly drops out repeatedly. This is something I would expect from a 56k modem, not a modern wireless router, although the one the ISP provided for wireless (Until they started charging for wifi and I decided to buy my own) did the same thing.
I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. This is not a signal problem. It happens everywhere, including less than 2 feet from the router itself.
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I hope you didn't pay much for it.
that router was released in 2010 and wasn't even a gigabit router.
Its only got a 10/100mbps connection.
Unless your on a pretty slow dsl connection, that connections a limiting factor.
It was decent when it was released but not overly powerful or decent spec'd.
Not sure who sold it to you for "a lot of money" but they did a poor job if it was only a couple years ago.
You could always try a different power supply. Maybe yours is bad. Check around and see if one of your other devices has a matching power supply. (exact same voltage and polarity, needs at least the same amperage but can have more)
If that doesn't help, I'd actually be looking at a new device as that is several generations behind on technology/security and performance.
If you're on a even half decent connection, you'll notice a significan speed difference going from that router new a newer one.
I bought it new at Meijer in 2018. Says it can handle "Up to 300mbps" Cost me $85
Speed tests give me about 100mbps down on Wireless (On the 5ghz)
Haven't tried hard wiring anything to it for awhile, but it's slightly faster when I plug a computer into it using an eithernet cable, however it is slower than the actual connection, and therefore I hard wire the computers directly to the modem for the fastest possible connection on those. This unit is strictly used for wireless.
When it's not acting as I described, it seems to perform just fine. The full model is Netgear N600 WNDR3400v3
jeremy1069fm wrote:
Speed tests give me about 100mbps down on Wireless (On the 5ghz)
Wifi speeds depend on the wifi clients as much as the router.
Haven't tried hard wiring anything to it for awhile, but it's slightly faster when I plug a computer into it using an eithernet cable, however it is slower than the actual connection, and therefore I hard wire the computers directly to the modem for the fastest possible connection on those.
As plemans says the WNDR3400v3 is an aged (2014 for your version) router. According to Netgear's manual for this device, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer Internet services and most modern network hardware. It slows down whatever is going on in your local network.
Newer devices support 1000BASE-TX. Your modem probably has a gigabit LAN feeding this old router, but the traffic won't get that speed. The connection between this aged box and your unnamed modem isn't going to be faster than 100 Mbps.
You may get local wifi connections on your network to go faster than that, but Internet connections through this thing aren't to break that physical limit.
