@Unnamed.m3 The swap with another AP will tell you if it's an AP hardware fault, or a cabling fault.

Ideally, yes, bridge mode would be best. That should enable the public IP assigned to the modem today, to move to the WAN port of the router. Alternatively reserver each .10 address in your modem for...

@rxdrigoquadros Port forwarding only works if you have public IPs on the router WAN ports OR you have set the private IP assigned by your modem (statically) to the WAN port as its DMZ. For clarity,...

@TWDesigns You can add credibility to the theory, if it behaves the same way with the switch powered off. At which point, if physically plugging/unplugging the cable into the switch socket causes the...

@ComPort You need to do some basic reading on NAT (network address translation). It doesn't work because all TPLink routers are NAT devices, meaning all LAN devices hide behind a single WAN IP...

@TWDesigns My guess woud be the TPlinks have some kind of electrical high pass filter for performance reasons that kills low frequency, ie audible tone, 60/50hz powerline etc.