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Arcadyan, IPv4, and general flakiness
Hi everyone, Since Christmas (idea: several new devices on wifi?) our network had been behaving oddly. It's an Arcadyan with four boosts. Also of note, the router and discs are all on timers to ...
- I suspect the high number of devices may be stretching the limits of resources somewhere on the router. While the address range for DHCP is adequate the memory for lists and tables to track 70 devices may be breaking the firmware.
The fact that the address reservation list has a max of 10 indicates the firmware developer wasn't anticipating 70 devices and therefore I doubt the router was ever tested with anywhere near that number.
If you have a large number of IoT devices or entertainment devices (TV, Blu-ray players,etc.) that don't need to connect to other devices on your LAN then consider offloading them to a separate router bridged on the Arcadyan.
Update: things for substantially more did when I stopped rebooting the main Arcadyan router daily. I've only had to reboot it a could times since, when the discs get flaky, but it's rare.
I want to blame a slow DHCP address assignment process. But who knows, there's no logs I can access.
