Media Bridge Dropouts

[v1k0d3n]

This may be the wrong place, but it's the first place I'm going to try and start (because of the technical level of folks on this sub-forum, as compared to others).

I seem to be having some wireless media bridge dropouts between two AC1750 devices. I have one set up to be 192.168.1.1 (master, running 5GHz/2.4GHz) and a media bridge at 192.168.1.2 (over the 5GHz channel). What I'm experiencing is after a while, as in usually a few days or so, devices seem to disappear off of the network until I reboot the media bridge. Then everything comes back miraculously...

This is pretty important in my environment, because my setup is a little more complex than most. The master (z.x.c.1) is in a place where all the inside wiring resides. Makes sense, right? My MB (z.x.c.2) is in my office where I could not run wiring. I have the MB connected to a cisco 8 port GE switch, and then I have a couple VMWare ESXi servers running on Mac Mini hardware. One of my VMWare servers is also my local DHCP/DNS server (and there's the importance).

Can someone tell me where to start troubleshooting this issue and what logs I should look at to figure this out? There are no interfering networks at all around this place. One would imagine that if there is a dropout, the wireless should/would restart or at least attempt to reconnect to the master. It's leaving me scratching my head...

Thanks for any help or advice!

 

[v1k0d3n]

Ok, so changing the channel bandwidth to 20MHz seemed to solve the issue with the dropouts/lockups. Can anyone explain why this would would be, and if this is the case, why even use the 40/80MHz options?

 

[v1k0d3n]

nevermind...just seemed to do it again. i'm so frustrated with this issue...can anyone help or have you had the same experience?

the routers are both AC66U/R running in router/media bridged mode.

 

[Junky321]

Router model and firmware version?

 

[v1k0d3n]

sorry, edited the model (thinking one thing, typing another). AC66R/U. one of each because one was an amazon purchase, other was a best buy purchase.

anyway, i'm on the latest firmware (merlin just released it recently), but this has been occurring for a few versions now.

 

[nagle3092]

nevermind...just seemed to do it again. i'm so frustrated with this issue...can anyone help or have you had the same experience?

the routers are both AC1750U/R running in router/media bridged mode.

Factory reset and leave everything regarding your 5ghz channel on defaults. I noticed when I changed band settings I would have various issues with it. Leave them both on default (changes you make to the bridge stick with whatever they were prior to I believe) and retest. Since leaving them alone I havent had any issues with my bridges.

 

[v1k0d3n]

it's a strange issue though...if i keep an icmp packet running at all times, it seems to work just fine and stay up.