So, I have a T2200H with 2 lines - it's been working quite well for the past several months, until the one of the lines to the box decided to up and start dumping all kinds of noise/static and wreaked havoc with my OptikTV/Internet/landline...anyways, tech came out to fix it, and thankfully I now can actually use my phone again. I told the tech afterwards that I had a bonded line, and he swore and said "Well, I wish they would have told me that beforehand", but as my T2200H was showing both were connected fine (and my down/up was still okay) I told him to go ahead to his next call and I'd drop him a line if anything happened.
Well, three days of dropouts (on Internet only) made me pull my hair out and almost call him back (I may still do so), but it just seemed the bridge port on my T2200H just stopped working; The ASUS RT-66U I had behind it (via port1 bridge to the WAN port on the ASUS) would not forward anything at all through the Actiontec, and then it started dropping up to 87% of packets directed at it. Rebooting both routers didn't seem to help, and cycling the ASUS switches throughout the network (I had three connected in different spots in the house) ended up dropping a storm of packets on the RT-66U so badly that it would not respond to anything at all (and its not like I was torrenting or gaming while this was going on). On the ASUS side it would show a connection to the ASUS router intermittently in Network status, and would show that the WAN connection as "Connected" when I could get into the web GUI to see the WAN status..but it would not actually send anything out to the WAN port back through the Actiontec.
All in all, I ended up:
1. Resetting Telus Actiontec to defaults.
2. Resetting ASUS RT-66U to defaults.
3. Flashed latest ASUS firmware (beta)
4. Said heck with it and flashed latest Merlin beta firmware instead.
5. Reenabled port1 bridge on Actiontec.
6. Removed Asus DX-G1081 switch, replaced with Dlink DGS-1024D.
7. Plugged everything except OptikTV into the Dlink, plugged Dlink into Actiontec (non-port1). OptikTV run to separate non-port1 on Actiontec.
8. Verified that everything worked on the network through the Actiontec.
#8 took the longest. I didn't realize how many flipping devices my kids have kicking around that I had to test out.
I'm now sitting wondering if I should go on to #9 - move the Dlink from the Actiontec back to the Asus router and test again, but I'm looking at the RT-66U and wondering how stable it is. Yes, for two weeks I had horrible Internet service, but I attributed that to the noise/static on the phone line and that it was causing issues. Now, I'm not so sure it was the only cause. When I picked up the RT-66U originally to reset it, I almost burned my hand where my fingers wrapped around the top/bottom near the RJ45 jacks - I've put it and the Actiontec on top of a USB laptop cooler so that helps, but I certainly didn't expect that it would be that hot, and I'm wondering if it's not in the greatest shape right now.
I've pulled the RT-66U and let it cool down for a few hours, reset it again back to factory defaults, and then reconfigured it and dropped it onto Port1 of the Actiontec - and its working fine now. I am just leery about it having problems again.
As I'm using the bridge port, the Actiontec should grab one WAN IP, and the ASUS another WAN IP, correct? Previous to this whole waste of a day, I had the LAN IP's on both the Actiontec and the ASUS set to 192.168.1.254, with the Actiontec using an IP range of 192.168.1.64-253, while the ASUS had an IP range of 192.168.1.100-200, and it was working just fine. Should I use a different LAN IP for the ASUS side of things?
Anyone else had this (or a similar) problem? It was just odd.
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