I too am having issues setting Vr160 v2 as a wireless access point   Thing is, I got it working so wifi clients can get an IP and access internet but then after a while, it will fail and say no internet and no ip to the wireless client   Here is my setup:    I am going LAN port to LAN port to the vr1600v. I deleted all the DSL connected and ewan set to dynamic, disable VLAN, I went into advanced settings and disbaled NAT and set the MTU to match my main modem (1480)   Still I dont think it matters becase this router doesnt think its connected to the internet anway   in LAN settings, I set static IP to one in my same subnet as my main router, now I have tried both setting DHCP tio disabled and setting it to enabled but then setting it as DHCP relay and putting my main router as the remote server   I have tried disabling IGMP snooping   In security, I disabled all the firewalls and Dos Protection (I read another thread someone trying to have the same setup and reckons wifi would work for a while like me then stop and his fix was to disable DoS as he reckons his device was showing in the logs as being blocked)   So anyway whether I set DHCP to off or on with Relay option, no worries for other LAN clients being able to connect, and as I said briefly I am able to get wifi clients connected and I have even verified this by setting a different SSID and I can connect to it fine, and then also after I set the same SSID as my modem I confirmed my wifi was connected to the MAC address as this one being used as the access point   but then as I said after a while, it will just give up and wifi will go back to having no internet!   At this point I have given up but I do have to ask you all, are you making sure you set the wifi channels manually and setting them to a different channel than you rmain modem/router? You need to do this otherwise you could end up with two modems broadcasting on the same channel. Each access points needs to have it owns channel   Hope this can get sorted its been doing my head in for weeks.    Also to note I found when I plugged into the vr1600x on LAN port 1 my speeds were abysmal! As in 5 mbps. Plugged into lan port 4 and got full speed..something else to try   EDIT: Found this post https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2717311   This isnt exactly the same setup as they are connecting the WAN port of the main modem to a LAN port on the Archer, whereas we are going LAN to LAN   Anyway I did what they said and added a DSL connection in Bridge mode and did the interface grouping thing. I was able to get it work still connecting via wifi and being able to get internet so not sure if it made a difference.. But I will again monitor it and see   Some other points.. I set archer to port 8083 for access and while I can access the router locally, I cannot access it externally even if I port forward 8083 to it from my main router. And even when I turn on remote management   Also I discovered something else yesterday in that while my phone could connect to this wifi my PC had the same issue about no ip address. I found my phone was using randomised MAC so I turned this on for my PC and it seemed to fix it so not sure if this is something to consider to get the wifi to work. I am not sure what randomising MAC is doing or why it seems to work though   Another UPDATE: So even though I confirmed I had WIFI working few miniutes later its broken again. I was definitely connected to the WIFI with the different SSID and working and switch back to same SSID and broken...   I am going to try leaving it on a different SSID this time for a lot longer and see if that maintains connection ... View more

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Hello TPG,   In light of the many logged incidents of our modems being factory reset the other night outside our control, coupled with the fact that we are unable to backup and restore settings causing all of us to have to re configure our modems from scratch:   Please enable the backup and restore settings function in our firmware! The ability is there in the router firmware but it seems in our customised firmware you have disabled the option   This option should have always been enabled regardless of the incident that occurred the other night as it is just a basic function of any router to be able to do this.   Please join with me others to upvote this thread to show your support for TPG to enable this function. TPG can you please provide us with a legitmiate reason why this functiuonality is disabled? And if the reason is to protect users from accidents, shouldnt a factory restore still override everything anyway if they accidently restore an invalid configuration they can always get back to the default config anyway?   Thanks ... View more

I have just come across this page... What year is this? My Netgear routers from early 2000's could auto update their own firmwares by letting it search for the latest, download and install it. Even gave you a notification when a new firmware was available. Ok so this system of needing your ISP to push the firmware out for you is not new or unheard of but why should you have to manually request it? If a new firmware comes out which could fix bugs or improve services why wouldn't it be pushed out automatically? I am stunned. I have sent a support request to have my firmware pushed out as I too am on an older one 0.1.0 0.9.1 v5006.0 Build 190228 Rel.72265n Can someone please look into it. Thanks ... View more