Well I'm getting frustrated here.

I've had the above standalone M4 for about a year. Until now I'd been using it solely in AP mode for a particular area of the house where it had light use and performed admirably.

This weekend I decided to reorganise my home network and promoted the Deco to be the core router. It is now at the heart of a widely connected home with around 25-30 live client devices attached at peak, although only a handful of these are direct wireless connections to the Deco.

But it is alarmingly unstable. Twice in the past 48 hours Deco has crashed completely and without warning, showing a solid red light with all radios and routing dead. All I can do to resurrect matters is reboot, at which point connectivity is restored. I cannot discern anything from the system logs as these are wiped upon reboot, so there are no clues available as to what is going wrong. If it happens once more I fear I will have to abandon the Deco and invest in an alternate model or brand, a frustrating situation given the high regard in which Deco devices are held in the online community.

Network map:

Virgin Media Modem > Deco > Edimax Switch > Study LAN

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