I decided to follow a variation of Daniel’s excellent suggestion.<\/p>\n
I ran ping -t for 24 continuous hours and the router behaved itself perfectly.<\/p>\n
I started to suspect that running ping -t was forcing the router to keep the connection ‘live’, so yesterday evening I terminated ping -t and went to bed.<\/p>\n
This evening I came home, booted up my laptop as usual and pootled about on the internet…<\/p>\n
For two hours.<\/p>\n
Two hours is the amount of time it took for the\u00a0Netgear\u00a0N150 WNR1000v3 Wireless Router to lock up and freeze all internet access.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
This time, with internet access locked out, I tried to ping my default gateway. Unsurprisingly I got a big fat Request Timed Out.<\/p>\n
So, leaving the router running (but locked out), I connected my laptop to the\u00a0Netgear\u00a0N150 WNR1000v3 Wireless Router with a cable.<\/p>\n
Guess what!<\/p>\n
I got instant internet.<\/p>\n
Yay!<\/p>\n
So despite my laptop ‘seeing’ an ‘Excellent’ WiFi signal strength, and despite my laptop saying the status of that WiFi is ‘Connected’, the only way I will be able to connect to the internet is by rebooting the router.<\/p>\n
Or using a cable.<\/p>\n
Which is, obviously, actionable under the trade description act – for a WiFi router.<\/p>\n
In fact, the only reason I can publish this blog post is because I’m still using the cable, directly connecting me to the\u00a0Netgear\u00a0N150 WNR1000v3 Wireless Router.<\/p>\n
As a final check, I disconnected the cable and attempted to attach – via WiFi – to the router’s admin control panel.<\/p>\n
Yep, that worked. I was able to go in, change WiFi channels and update all other router features, via WiFi.<\/p>\n
But couldn’t get to the internet, via WiFi.<\/p>\n
So this experiment also established that my laptop’s WiFi wasn’t to blame. The problem appears to be the WiFi function of the Netgear N150 WNR1000v3 Wireless Router, that locks out.<\/p>\n
On both of the routers.<\/p>\n
Hmm…<\/p>\n
How come no-one else has experienced\/found this problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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