Region : UnitedKingdom

Model : TL-WR1043ND

Hardware Version : v1

Firmware Version :

ISP :

Hi guys.
Since yesterday (Friday 8th DEC) certain websites couldn't be accessed on any of our devices (mixture of PC's, android and apple devices)
After trying everything I could think of and even phoning our internet provider nothing would get the sites to load (Facebook, hotmail to name but two)
A friend of mine also said he was having exactly the same problems whereas no one else I know had any problems!.

Anyway, after much scratching of head with resetting the router to factory defaults etc the only thing left to test was a direct connection with the modem where all websites worked perfectly!
So the problem is 100% the router! Even after a factory restore it still doesn't work with those websites and after talking to my friend it turns out he too has a tp-link router but a different model.

So does anyone know why they would both stop working on exactly the same day and stopping exactly the same websites?
All I could think was if they automatically updated themselves but not seen any reference to them auto updating.
Very annoyed as we have only had the router for about a month and chose this model because of the huge amount of 5 star ratings it got on amazon and because the superhub from virgin has very poor WiFi range in our house whereas the tp-link let's us get great WiFi strength all through the house.

Any info of what could be the reason would be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mark