Gargoyle Forum

I have read several topics about WR1043ND wireless problems, but I didn't find symptoms similar to mine. My laptop drops wireless connection about every half an hour or even more often. Simple reconnecting (disabling/enabling WiFi) is enough to get the connection back, no need to restart the router like other people reported.
I guessed the signal is weak, but then I have installed another WR-1043ND right next to the laptop and connected them in Wireless Bridge/Repeater configuration, but the problem is still there. It drops connection from time to time and I have to reconnect (now just switch between the routers).
Netgear WNDR3300 that I used before (same house, same location) for three years didn't have this problem at all. I tried WR-1043ND with DD-WRT, OpenWRT and now with Gargoyle, but the symptoms are exactly the same.
Routers are:
- TP-Link WR1043ND v1.10 Gargoyle 1.5.9 (A) (I bought it from gargoyle-router.com)
- TP-Link WR1043ND v1.8 Gargoyle 1.5.9 (I flashed it myself just today)
Any ideas? Should I give up with TP-Link and install OpenWRT/Gargoyle on the Netgear? I really like the software and don't want to go back to factory firmware!

I would try one of the builds in the show/tell forum, 1.5.9 official was pretty nasty for ar71xx. The 089 build I posted there works quite nicely.

Beware of the v1.10, though, I remember people posting about WAN port issues and I don't know if it was resolved, since I have a 1.7.

Looks like we're due for another official release soon, too.

do you have any idea if there is another version of gargoyle that wifi is working stable without disconnects? it's really annoying issue, i installed 1.4.7

Wait for 1.5.10 - that should improve wireless for many routers.

See the News

and after this version is release, can i upgrade directly from 1.4.7? without preserve settings, or i will need the factory firmware?

Yes, you can upgrade from 1.4.7 -> 1.5.10

NO YOU CANNOT keep your settings - you have to restore to defaults
and reconfigure all your settings manually

DO NOT load an old config - it won't work.

God dammit. Ver. 1.5.10 is droping connection on my WR1043ND HW 1.10

Looks like DD-WRT ver. 21286 all over again.

Yeah, mine's doing this on 1.5.9. I was going to update to 1.5.10 but if it's doing it too, no point.

It seems to know when I'm in bed using my phone/tablet, as far away from the router as possible, and not in the mood for getting out of bed to reboot the router.

I found a fix maybe for this.

What I did was change my tx and rx antennas to 1+3 and 1+2, and everything has been working so far. If anyone else can try this out and confirm, please PM me.

I have 1 day of uptime so far. I have had this router for 3 years and it's been bad for the last 3 months or so.

How did it go?

If you're still experiencing the problem have a look here:

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... =11&t=4667

and try the disassoc_low_ack setting described in the post.

Cheers,

GMick