My router's dying?

[ShawnTRD]

So over the past couple months we have been getting disconnected from the router (ASUS RT-AC87U). No one in the house can see it in the list of available wifi. When I look at the router all the lights was working normally. I tried switching from the Merlin firmware back to the lastest ASUS version and it still did the same thing. I would say this happens once or twice a week. This time it did it while downloading a 2GB file. If it is bad what router do you recommend?


Oct 30 15:02:58 rc_service: ntp 798:notify_rc restart_upnp
Oct 30 15:02:58 miniupnpd[799]: shutting down MiniUPnPd
Oct 30 15:02:58 miniupnpd[815]: version 1.9 started
Oct 30 15:02:58 miniupnpd[815]: HTTP listening on port 45147
Oct 30 15:02:58 miniupnpd[815]: Listening for NAT-PMP/PCP traffic on port 5351
Oct 30 15:02:59 kernel: * Make sure sizeof(struct sw_struct)=160 is consistent
Oct 30 15:02:59 rc_service: ntp 798:notify_rc restart_diskmon
Oct 30 15:02:59 disk_monitor: Finish
Oct 30 15:03:01 syslog: Generating SSL certificate...
Oct 30 15:03:01 syslog: Generating SSL certificate...
Oct 30 15:03:02 disk monitor: be idle
Oct 30 15:03:02 kernel: sizeof forward param = 160
Oct 30 15:03:06 rc_service: udhcpc 540:notify_rc start_firewall
Oct 30 15:03:06 dhcp client: bound 173.45.180.134 via 173.45.180.1 during 2100 seconds.
Oct 30 15:03:07 miniupnpd[815]: shutting down MiniUPnPd
Oct 30 15:03:07 start_nat_rules: apply the nat_rules(/tmp/nat_rules_eth0_eth0)!
Oct 30 15:03:09 miniupnpd[943]: version 1.9 started
Oct 30 15:03:09 miniupnpd[943]: HTTP listening on port 58569
Oct 30 15:03:09 miniupnpd[943]: Listening for NAT-PMP/PCP traffic on port 5351
Oct 30 15:03:20 qtn: bootcfg.tgz exists
Oct 30 15:03:26 crond[463]: time disparity of 1183443 minutes detected
Oct 30 15:03:27 dfs: start dfs scan
Oct 30 15:03:27 nodfs_scan: complete
Oct 30 15:04:23 rc_service: rc 1320:notify_rc restart_wrs
Oct 30 15:04:47 hour monitor: ntp sync fail, will retry after 120 sec

 

[Trikein]

Oct 30 15:03:26 crond[463]: time disparity of 1183443 minutes detected
Oct 30 15:03:27 dfs: start dfs scan
Oct 30 15:03:27 nodfs_scan: complete
Oct 30 15:04:23 rc_service: rc 1320:notify_rc restart_wrs
Oct 30 15:04:47 hour monitor: ntp sync fail, will retry after 120 sec

Looks like NTP isn't working. See here to check if NTP is working and also make sure your time region is correct. Also, are you outside the US using a non US locale by any chance? If so which, and what channel do you have your wireless set to?

Also, are there a lot of other wifi networks around you? It might help to see a scan of those networks and what channels they use. I assume when the wireless goes does, wired devices work fine. If so, and wireless devices can't see the SSID at all, it's probably a issue with some other network broadcasting on that channel. If both of the routers are using channel scan then they might be fighting back and forth over the same channel space, and that's why the problem comes and goes. See here for instructions.