Hi All, Since a week ago my Archer VR1600v router is resetting itself continuously.   It works normally for about 1 minute 45 seconds, then resets itself and goes through the power-up cycle taking about 48 seconds: that is, all lights for a second, then flashing power light, then after a while (depending on what's connected) WAN, LAN wifi, phone, internet lights then the power light stays steady on. Continuously. Repeats this every 2 m 33 s (1:45 + 0:48). 24 hours a day. Doesn't seem to be an NBN modem problem (Arris CM8200) or a problem with any devices attached to it, it keeps exactly the same on/off cycle with only a single connection - the power. No modem connected, nothing on wifi, nothing on LAN, no phone handset. Tried a different power supply from another old router, rated 12 V 2.5 A. Exactly the same on/off cycle.   Has my router died, time to upgrade to a decent one? Or is this a known and fixable problem with the Archer VR1600v? As simple as overheating now summer has arrived (never done this before in 3-odd years of service)?   Thanks in anticipation, Rob   ... View more

Hi All, Decided to set up Open VPN on my router, but I see it's been disabled by TPG for "security reasons". That's annoying, but...   My router seems to be sitting unprotected on the internet accessible to everbody. Where's its security, TPG?   I have NBN, Arris cable modem which I know nothing about and can't seem to access, Archer VR1600V V1 wifi router, dynamic IP. Tried to set up NOIP.org dynamic DNS in the router, and almost succeeded.   Now when I manually update the Dynamic DNS with NOIP DUC and go to "myadress.noip.org" I get the login screen for the router, which I wasn't expecting. Not only that but it's an insecure HTTP connection, not HTTPS. Out of interest I found out my IP address 194.555.12.12 and typed that into the browser - same insecure login page.   Note I'd never changed the login name from the original "admin" and only had a nine-letter password, so it seems anyone on the internet for any of the past few years could have brute-forced and remotely logged in to my router? Doesn't seem a particularly sensible or secure way to set things up. Certainly not what I expected, or I would have changed username/password.   So: today changed a few things: Username & password. Enabled HTTPS secure login. Unable to disable HTTP insecure login... why?   Tried to log in: Insecure login page still works, even from the internet. Secure login page fails!!! Because it's NOT secure!!! Both my antivirus (Bitdefender) and my browser (Firefox) won't let me access the page because it uses insecure TLS1.0, way behind the minimum necessary TLS1.2 that Firefox & Bitdefender want.   Why is the router firmware so insecure and backward and out of date, if these routers are sitting unprotected on the internet accessible to anyone?   Am I missing something obvious?   Regards, Rob ... View more

Hi All, In Perth with TPG NBN via cable and Archer modem, router, cat5 cable to desktop PC, Windows 7. All working fine up until earlier.   Switched on PC, windows taskbar icon says internet connected, but try to open google.com.au and Firefox says, "Hmm, we can't find that site" while Chrome says "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN". (First thought: google pissed off at govt. and stopped their website in Australia, but tried other websites also didn't work.) Some websites did work though... very strange.   Looked up the error, tried some fixes:renew DNS connection, flush DNS cache, restart DNS client service, all made no difference.   Tried changing from default DNS servers (nothing filled in) to Cloudflare DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 and now it works normally.   Checked TPG website, no outages listed fro Perth.   What does it mean? Am I missing something obvious? Why does it suddenly stop working? Yours in puzzlement, Rob ... View more