I Had exactly the same issue as Dave2972, from when i first got NBN and used the same solution .. (set up my old tp-link w8960N as the wireless access point for the kogan agora 6 plus and all the other wireless bits and pieces, (3 tablets, 2 extra phones, and a couple of laptops etc) and it all worked fine.. i had the wireless switched off on the vr1600v.. No problems till about 3 days ago when suddenly the phone went into the continuous restart loop at the rainbow screen. Did a hard rest of the phone and then aftert a lot of fffing around discovered this thread about the vr1600r ... it seems something had happened to extend the issue to the w8960N.. i have another (billion) modem which i have in storage and will try as a replacement for the tplink...but it will take a week to get it out of storage (its at my parents place..200km away) But was wondering if anyone has found an alternative solution for the problem...   ... View more