First post, by jesolo
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I recently acquired my brother's older ADSL router (the D-Link 2750U), since my previous one (a D-Link DSL-2640U) was starting to exhibit strange behaviour (dropped connections, slow upload speed, etc.). Apparently, so I've been told, these routers have a certain lifespan and then they start to slowly stop functioning.
Everything seems to work fine with the DSL-2750U, except that as soon as I re-connect any LAN connection to the router, the Wi-Fi stop responding, necessitating me to restart the router.
To elaborate:
My main PC and my printer is connected via a LAN cable to the router.
I have a couple of wireless devices (mostly two cell phones, my printer as well as a Wi-Fi range extender) connected via Wi-Fi to the router.
Everything connects fine and is working without problems, but as soon as I power down my main PC (that is connected via a LAN cable) and power it up again, my Wi-Fi connection "freezes" up.
If I disconnect any of my wireless devices and try to reconnect, then I just get an error message of either "Cannot obtain IP address" or "Wireless connection to XXX did not respond".
I've been in contact with the support desk of D-Link.
They have suggested changing the channel, which had no impact.
I've tried to set up "reserved" IP addresses for all my main devices - also no change.
I've also disabled Wi-Fi Multimedia power saving mode and I've also updated the firmware to the latest version.
What am I missing? Is the router just faulty or, is there perhaps some setting buried somewhere in the setup/configuration of the router that I either need to enable or disable?
