Can a defective wireless router cause the cable modem to indicate an error?
I'm asking, because we had many 2 to 3 minutes long outages over the last days. This morning, after the n-th restart of the equipment, I disconnected the wifi router and used a network cable to connect my laptop directly to the cable modem. So far no outage. This leaves two possible explanations:
(1) The last of many restarts made the outages go away.
(2) The wifi router is defective in a way that causes the cable modem to indicate an outage.
ISP: Comcast Xfinity
Bandwidth: 60/5
Cable modem: Arris CM820A
Wifi router: Linksys WRT54GL
City: Seattle, WA
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