Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply.

A1) Light status can vary. Sometimes the indicators remain illuminated. other times the wifi lights and or WAN lights may be off. Almost suggesting perhaps there is a point where some services start to drop right before device locks up. 

A2) Nope, unable to access web interface. Device stops responding to all network traffic including ping until power cycled.

A3) See A2

A4) 0.2.0 0.9.1 v0074.0 Build 170504 Rel.68210n

A5) It's not just the WAN connection that simply drops. the enture device stops responding even to LAN traffic. It wont even operate as a simple LAN switch no traffic will go through the device when it has this issue.

Just to add, between the VR600 v1  failing and purchasing the VR600 v2 I was using an older BT Openrach modem and router. No where near as nice, but it was robust for the few weeks it was un use.  the VR600's are much faster all round but sadly my recent expereince hasn't been reliable.  If i can't get a reason/solution to this curreny issue I'll be forced to switch back to it for reliability :(

However it's been almost 2 days and it hasn't crashed yet! (I suspect it will at somepoint) It was about 2 crashes a day for the past couple of weeks.  Recently I setup a ping monitor to check it to log when it dies on me.

Thanks,

Alan

Hi Kevin,

Interenet service provider is plusnet (UK)

Fibre package

Up 20 MBbit

Down 80 Mbit

Currently syncing at 60Mbit which is bit annoying as when I was using my ole V1 VR600 I was 70+ Mbit. But may also be issues with unreliable router causing it to drop.

See attached screenshot from router. Note DSL uptime is low because I changed bitswap setting ealier to see if it makes any difference on my line speed, trying to squeeze a bit more out of it. Little or no difference sadly. Will keep it up and running at this to test reliability.. 

So far the router has remained up and running since Sunday, although the User Interface feels quite laggy at times, often taking up to a minute to load a page.

Little frustration that since reporting the issue here it seems to be heaving, apart from the slow UI. (Typical IT fault, mysteriously resolves once issue is reported :) )

@Kevin_Z 

Hi, I just got my vr600 v2 2 weeks ago and every night it would crash, till I read somewhere about the lan leasing so I then set a few static IP addresses and set the lease time to the max, so now it crashes every 2 days instead. My previous talk talk router was utter slow garbage but it never crashed :(

To give a little more details. I'm with talk talk, 35mb down, 10mb up. Latest firmware.

There's an option to reset the router every 3 days but it never lasts that long. I was also hoping to try a different firmware but I can't seem to find one from dd-wrt. 

Anyway, it's went down again. Lights are normal, devices see the WiFi signal but can't get an IP address. Can't log in externally either. It's dead Dave... Till I switch it off and on again... 

@scouk Hi, I recently bought the same router and was surprised to have the same firmware and the same issue.

Was this issue resolved?

I could not find a newer firmware, despise its age.

Regards,

Daniel

Hi,

Unfortunately not a complete solution.

I tried disabling the 5Ghz wireless and the router appears to respond better.

Although some days it would have good days and bad. Sometimes respond ok others it's slo, but at least it's not locking up ths same as it used to!

Fibre connection remained up all the time with no slowdown in bandwidth throughput but just the online portal was one day ok and next slow. No reboots or any updates in between. Almost like a buffer or cache somewhere get's filled up on the router and flushed every so often. (logging is disabled in case it's is that)

A few weeks ago I tried enabling the 5Ghz Wifi again but giving it a different SSID.

Reuter is responding better than it did a few months back.. But still one day ok next slow..

I'm living with it just now as connection remains stable. and I'm not getting timeouts or lockups I used to.on it, just takes a few mins to get the admin pages I need rather than a few seconds.

Not great but I do think it's better since disabling 5Ghz wifi or at least giving the 5Ghz SSID a different name to the 2.4Ghz WIfi.

@scouk 

I had a similar problem but not the same, the WiFi part would crash but my wired PC could still use the internet.  No wireless device could connect to the router though and also I couldn't log into the admin page from my wired PC!  Had to power cycle it to get wireless working again.  I only use 2.4ghz so haven't had much experience using 5ghz.

Setting WiFi to channel 1, 6 or 11, 20mhz and medium power helps a bit, it lasted longer but when it did it again I sent it back to Amazon and got a replacement, I had tried factory reset and various other things.

I set the WiFi to the above as soon as I got it (thought the WiFi chip may be overheating) and it had some odd problems with disconnections but then the exact same problem happened again a few weeks in.  I changed to g/n mixed then put transmit power to low, but had to put it back to middle when I could hardly get any signal.  Then I thought I would take out my USB drive (samsung 128gb fit) from the router and it has been up nearly 10 days so far.

If you get yours stable get in contact with plusnet (my ISP too) and they can unlock your line profile for a faster sync speed.

@scouk I am facing same problem. router freezes any time and no solution but to restart. Is there a solution to this problem?