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Wireless turning itself off
Hi, I have searched for this on the forum already and, while other people are experiencing random loss of WiFi, none of their symptoms mach what I'm getting. I have a Netgear N150 Wireles Rou...
Is there anything in the router log which might relate to this? Perhaps the router is accessing the NTP server at these times and setting its clock, if so a scheduled time setting start of 00:00 may be the reason for the temporary loss of WiFi. If you set that start time to 00:05 for example then if it is a time related issue the problem may disappear.
Thanks. I noticed it again today at 11:38am. Just looked at the log and was puzzled at first to see that the router thinks the current time is 5am - but it's 4pm here in Melbourne! Did a few sums and realised the router's clock is set to Greenwich Mean Time (or should I say UTC). 11am here = 12 am UTC, and the log entry is...
[wireless signal schedule] The wireless signal is OFF, Tuesday, Nov 17,2015 00:00:00
So I guess that was the problem.
NB: I would not have made this mistake if either the wireless settings page or the log entries had the text 'UTC' next to the time - it looked as if it was working in local time.
Did you set the time zone on the router? The setting is under Schedule.
I have now! It was under the Advanced tab... Security... Schedule. I had set my wireless on/off times to work correctly based on GMT. When I changed the timezone and went back to Advanced Setup... Wireless settings, the on/off times had adjusted to be correct for local time. I had assumed the router knew what timezone it was in from the ISP or somewhere. All good now.
Thanks.