TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)

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TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2013-04-01 06:52:49
Region : Argentina

Model : TL-WR741ND

Hardware Version : V4

Firmware Version : 3.16.4 Build 130205 Rel.63090n

ISP : Fibertel


My TL-WR741ND is about 1 year and a half old, it was working fine until about 2 weeks ago. I need to reset it, times between resets is not consistent, meaning, it can take 30 minutes, or 8 hours, but it needs to be reset.

Right now, there are 2 wired connections (PS3 and Desktop PC) and 7 wireless (4 cell phones, 2 notebooks and 1 netbook). 1 of the notebooks has static IP, and it also has a VM running, with another static IP.
Also some port forwarding simply stopped working (ports 80 and 1180), the rest of the ports work flawlessly, but trying to forward the port 80 and 1180 (to the 2 static ips) won't work.

I already upgraded the firmware, and the problem persists, also changed the channel (from 6 to 1, and then from 1 to 11).

Installing dd-wrt/openwrt/gargoyle or anything like that, is not an option. The only reason why I bough t this router, was because I could use dd-wrt, I installed it 1 year and a half ago, and it simply sucked, the wireless bandwidth was non existent, and it was a headache. I installed it again last week, to see if it could be a solution, and I was not even able to save changes in the control panel.
I need a real solution, and installing a firmware that works only on chrome is not an option (specially when I use Firefox, and I needed to install chromium just to erase dd-wrt)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Marcelo
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2013-04-01 17:31:00
The problem that the wired or wireless connection from the router drops is also related to your modem..
when the connection drops from the router, did you test the internet connection only with your modem? I suggest you test to see if your modem still receives internet when the problem occurs.
As to the non-working ports 80 and 1180, you can try other two ports for those two static IPs. Still, you can try fix another two different static IPs for your devices.
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2013-04-01 18:52:06
no, is not a modem issue, the problem is in the router, if the problem was in the modem, it wouldn't be solved by resetting the router, and I would be able to connect between the pc's.
Regarding ports, I need the port 80 to redirect, I already forwarded port 1010 to port 80 in the 192.168.1.10 machine, but that is not a solution, it's merely a walk around.
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-02 02:00:29
I have same problem last two weeks. Connection randomly dropping and reset of router is needed. Direct connection to modem works fine.Today i upgraded to latest firmware ( 3.17.0 Build 150119 Rel.58600n), do a factory reset, but problem is still here. Speed is slowing to zero in sometimes 30minutes, sometimes 2 minutes. Any ideas how to solve it?
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-02 15:49:23
The speed of cable connection or wireless connection to WR741 makes no difference?
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-02 22:11:27
No, same on WiFi and cable. Now is it ok, but I know, it comes back :-)
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-04 16:27:48
Check status of local area connection and wireless network connection if the connection drops.
Try to login its web interface. If it won't work, check Status of all lights on its front panel.
When did you buy it? Did it work properly before?
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-06 00:14:14
hi, I bought it in 1.12.2013 (d.m.y) When connection drops, Windows writes me, that there is no problem. 192.168.0.1 works when connections are dropped. Problem appearing in last three weeks, but from my last post is sudenly everything ok. I really don't know, what happens.
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Re:TL-WR741ND drops all connections (wired and wireless)
2015-03-06 10:19:03
Keep testing and observing... If the problem comes back and you can still login the web interface, the system log should help to troubleshoot the problem.
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