@Kevin_Z I did all of those and no change. Fyi, my repeater is about 150 ft from the house connected via uni-directional 2.4 ghz antennas. over the weekend I replaced the v.2 WA801N with a version 1...

I've got a TL-WA801N set up in our garage as Universal Repeater, connected via 2.4ghz to a Linksys range extender in the home with a fixed IP on the same subnet. Firmware Version: 3.16.9 Build 150422...