Archer C2300 V1 Issues
Archer C2300 V1 Issues
Im having serious issues with my router. I have it put on access point mode and everything else pretty much disabled....static ip no auto dhcp....auto dhcp is dumb. but this thing seems to lock up crash or softlock or whatever you wanna call it daily and only a reboot will fix it not a soft reboot either a hard unplug.... when the unit crashes. access to my lan is not there or its extremely thin pipe and barely anything can get through. ill be lucky if a dhcp request gets through it does sometimes. and when this happens the interface is still accessible but seems to be less repsonsive very slow. I also noticed in the time dialog settings if i set it to manual give it the time and reboot the settings are saved but not the time I put in......I feel like this is buggy software tp-link.....I need this bugged firmware fixed asap.......this thing really crashes non stop if I put my wifi security cameras on it....and there not nothing crazy hardcore its a "v380" cheap china wifi camera tied to zoneminder.... ive also read alot of other people on google and this forum having issues with this exact router. I dont know if there the same bugs or what... all i know is this firmware has to go back to the drawing board..... you guys ovbiously arent perfectionists. and I dont have too many wifi devices. maybe 10-15 in total....... I have seen cheaper routers perform better. hell a raspberry pi and a external wifi dongle work better than this......
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@devlin016 Did you sort out your issues? I have had many, many tp-link routers since I began buying them in 2010. The first time I tried AP mode, which features only on a subset of the units i've had (curiously, all of those had broadcom chipsets), it was disastrous. I've never activated this mode again. Instead I've used default router mode with entering a static LAN IP address , turning dhcp off. For routing, you can't directly enter a new default route, but you can achieve it with a series of static routes to effectively redirect the gateway to your real gateway. This makes NTP and firmware update checks work successfully. I've been running the C2300 as my wireless AP , setup as described above, for 6 months now, no problems.
Regarding auto reboot, I used to do that, but now I don't do the daily automatic brute force reboot because I worry this could corrupt/degrade the router's flash chip. Sure it worked with routers in the past, but wrecks havoc on a raspi SD card and I have no way of knowing if these new routers are using men-disk to delay flash writes etc. So now I control the relay mostly manually, and have a script running on the embedded Linux device to automatically handle the situations that can be detected/automated.
Over ten years I've realized that one cannot depend on TP Link fixing firmware bugs. You have to buy the router you're considering, and immediately test it to see if you can configure it to make it work the way you need it, out of the box. When I buy one that fails this test, I immediately return it for a full refund. Unfortunately there just isn't any other way I've found that you can protect yourself, and third-party firmware flushes Wi-Fi performance straight down the toilet, without fail.
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