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FVS336GV3 Services Have Dropped (HTTPS admin interface, DHCP)
We have a FVS336Gv3 at work. We have been having a very hard time getting people's devices connected over wifi as well as a hard line. It may take 5 minutes to acquire an IP, or as long as half an hour or several hours. Basically, people can't do work from the office sometimes. We use the built-in DHCP server, and recently expanded the top of our DHCP IP range from 10.10.0.255 to 10.10.1.255 (please forgive me if I'm off by one). Today I resorted to going around and setting static IPs on people's laptops just so that they could work. We're an 80-seat office, which means that on top of network devices, printers, and smart TVs, if each chairr has wifi, eth0, a phone and another device, we'll have ~350 devices connected. I've noticed that sometimes the admin interface won't load at all. If the login page doesn't time out, it won't always get past authentication. It almost seems like the device can't handle the traffic. Packet captures using Wireshark show that devices send multiple DCHP Discover requests and Request requests repeatedly. I copied the config over to a brand new identical FBS336v3 last night, and made sure that the firmware was upgraded, so I know that the issue is not limited to just that one piece of hardware. Are we maxing-out this firewall/router? Is there another reason that this device would have terrible response times for HTTPS and DHCP requests? Does this sound like something in the confg. is jacked up?