RE305 very hot after 30~ minutes losing connection completely
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Just bought and installed this repeater from amazon. It connects to a Vodafone Station (1 gbps FTTH) right away both to the 2.4 and 5 ghz wifi bands.
Connection and speed look stable (just a slight ping increase on both bands).
Positioning of the repeater is good.
After some time (1 hour after first install, 30-10 min after first reset) every device gets disconnected from the extender which, in the meantime, is very hot and the 5Ghz led shuts down while the remaining 3 are lit and stable.
I can't connect to the repeater with any of the devices (nor on the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz). The only time I managed to connect to it with my laptop internet was not working and I couldn't even get to the repeater access page (tplinkrepeater.net) even when connected to it. Internet is working normally when connecting directly to the modem.
Also, I tried a different outlet but the same thing happens.
A temporary solution is to manually disconnect and reconnect the extender from the wall outlet (which is very cold in contrast to the extender) but you can clearly see that this is very inconvenient and only works for 15 minutes or so.
What should I do now? Is this a heat related issue? Did I get a defective unit?
While waiting for your response I thank you for your time.
