Refusing to connect, please help!
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Hello,
I have a very frustrating issue. I have the TP-Link Archer AX10 router which I have had for a few years now without issue and yesterday morning I found that none of my devices were able to connect to WiFi or Ethernet. I kept getting various errors like "connection failed", "Incorrect password", "unable to obtain IP address", "Can't connect to this network" etc. I rang my ISP thinking it was issue on their side however nothing came from that. I then thought that my AX10 must be bust so I went out and bought a new TP-Link Archer AX55 thinking that would fix the issue, however it hasn't, I'm still having the issue, its been more than 24 hours. After tinkering around with the router all day (restarting, resetting to factory defaults), I discovered that I could get around this by creating an address reservation in the DHCP server settings, each device that I create an address reservation for is now able to connect to the internet via WiFi/Ethernet, however I don't want to operate my network this way, I have too many devices and don't want to create reservations every time I buy a new device. I've had a look in the system logs and can't see any related to devices trying and failing to connect however I found the following logs that are being spammed again and again every few seconds, that seems a bit weird but not sure if its normal:
2024-01-20 19:45:35 DHCPC INFO [14358] receive ack from server with ip xx.xx.xx.xx, options(lease=900;subnet=255.255.240.0;serverid=xx.xx.xx.xx;router=xx.xx.xx.xx;dns=xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx;)
2024-01-20 19:45:35 DHCPC INFO [14358] send select request with options(cliid=01/5c:e9:31:00:c3:0d:;)
2024-01-20 19:45:35 DHCPC INFO [14358] 1/2 lease passed, enter renewing state
2024-01-20 19:38:01 DHCPC INFO [14358] receive ack from server with ip xx.xx.xx.xx, options(lease=900;subnet=255.255.240.0;serverid=xx.xx.xx.xx;router=xx.xx.xx.xx;dns=xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx;)
IP addresses redacted however they are from my ISP not addresses that I have assigned.
Can some one please help? Is the an issue with the firmware? I don't think it is as I've not seen any other posts with this issue and I also tried downgrading to the previous firmware but that didn't work either. I am now back on the latest firmware.
Thanks
