VERY difficult startup
Is it just me or is it VERY difficult to boot up a Deco M9 Plus system. I have 4 units, 3 are hard wired the 4th is linked via the wireless backhaul feed. Everything in the house that can have a fixed IP address does. Most everything else an address reservation via MAC address. There are at least 69 devices, probably many more, 69 was what was showing the last time I was on the app.
It is painfully whenever I have to restart the system. It took me over a half hour this morning to get it working again. I’m not sure what is going on. I suspect that since a majority my my IP address are fixed or reserved from some reason when the system reboots it doesn’t go to my LAN IP protocol which is 192.168.1.xx. That throws everything off. There is no ryme or reason as to how to get it back up and running. Sometmes I have to restart the Deco. Sometimes I have to restart the modem with Deco’s already up. This morning I unplugged all the Decos and then brought them online one by one.
I’ve never had a router that couldn’t recover from a power outage. Power comes back on, modem and router reboot and all is well again. Not with Deco. if the power would go out and I wasn’t home my house would shut down because the house is highly automated and depends on the LAN network. Then again I’ve never had a router that you couldn’t back up your setting and reapply if catastrophe struck. The good news is that it’s a great system when it working.
It’s been doing this since day one. I had ridicules conversations tech support which lead me to believe they didn’t have a clue. I’ve changed master Decos which the same result and many other things that I can’t recall because it was almost a year ago. Then we started doing the same things over again which is why I just gave up. Fortunately I have a very stable power grid, I don’t lose power often. Recently I’ve been down a lot because I just about have a Solar Panel system up and going. Power was down on the install (took forever to get internet back up) A breaker box failed city inspection so power had to go down again to work on that (took forever to get the internet back up) The guy they sent out didn’t have the right tools for part of the job so another guy came out this morning, powered down, when back up I had to do the one by one boot up as described above to get the internet back this morning. I’ve got one more go around with the utility company before the solar panels can be turned on in about a week, hopefully they don’t have to shut the power down for that!!!!
Is this a Deco thing or is this my lucky break? If it’s me it might be time to try tech support again. Any suggestions?