M% main hub intermittently restarts
I have a home internet set up with Tplink Deco M5 - I have a main hub, and 4 satelites. This has been in place and working well for 2 years, for about 2 weeks now I have seen multiple internet interuptions every day. The main hub shows a white light indicating it's setting up, internet returns after about a minute.
This is set up with the main hub connected to the modem, then to a TP Link switch, the top floor Deco is connected directly to that switch, the others are through wifi.
In troubleshooting I have ruled out;
- The modem - I can ethernet directly to this and at an outage I have a steady internet connection - so it's neither modem, external connection or ISP related
- The main hub Deco - I have switched the main hub with one of the satelites and seen no change
- The switch - I have tried a different switch
- The Ethernet cables - I have switched and tested these
- Interference - the scan shows no interference detected but to be sure I've moved the main hub away from the modem
- The main hub power socket - I've tried moving it to another socket (on the same downstairs circuit)
- Firmware/reboots - Decos are on the latest firmware and I've tried multiple reboots
- Client totals - I only have about 15-20 clients on the network, well under the 50 or so upper limit or recommended 30
- I've set the DNS to 8.8.8.8 as per troubleshooting guide
The internet works for the most part but drops out frequently enough to be a real problem. When it drops the satelites show a disconnected red LED - the main hub shows the solid white light indicating its set/setting up.
I'm running out of ideas, I don't want to bin the whole Deco set up, but it seems to be Deco as the root cause with no options.