QUOTE(sakurazaka @ Apr 24 2012, 11:27 AM)
@ckboon, have you tried doing a hard reset and then try to flash with this:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.0...hfs-factory.bin instead of using the upgrade version?
Is BTU still working properly when you're suffering from all these disconnection? In any case, it doesn't explain why you're unable to access the router webgui after some time. So irregardless of whether you're using OEM firmware or OpenWRT, these same problems will arise but OpenWRT only seem to solve the router webgui issue?
It's weird seeing that you're having issues using a direct connection while there are many users complaining about wifi dropouts when connecting wirelessly. I figure you're attaching the NAS to the usb port of the router? Ever tried running the router without using anything on the USB port?
err... I think you get some of the stuff wrong here.. Let me start from the scratch...
there's actually 1 problem arise that made me switch to Openwrt, which is I can't access to my unit URL after a certain period of time which is very inconsistent whereas it can range from 30mins to 3 days(the max i get). For the forum it seem like it's a command problem for tplink firmware (UNIFI ver only?) since they are some members getting the same effect, and I got 2 unit of 1043 which runs on different location too facing this problem. Hence I switch to Openwrt. I've install the stock from blindbox first trunk edition, and it's working like a charm for more than 2 months, and i can access to my unit URL whenever I want even after 1 months or 2 months running it 24/7. Only recently the disconnection from WAN (PPPoE) keep arising. Once it's disconnected, I can't do anything as you can see from my previous post, it shows a (?) sign. I need to pull and re-connected back the WAN to get the link up. It's very annoying when this happen so many times when I was gaming. So the next thing I do is upgrade to backfire. *** I only know that I can upgrade from openwrt firmware to openwrt and not install the full, so i just upgraded it, but I still faced the same problem, and I switch to blindbox latest trunk and still the same.
I got no choice but to revert back my firmware to tplink stock, and just within 2 hrs the connection drop again. But then i rebooted my whole units and the connection is up till now which is 2 days with the same IP without any problem, but I am suspecting a disconnection very very soon

my tplink is just pure router switch wireless usage. I don't plug in usb and setup a print server. I got a hw NAS which is configure with transmission and can support Raid0/1 and running on giga speed.
just in-case u cant find the image.. i will just repost it with the log on Openwrt

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Added on April 24, 2012, 12:20 pmApr 18 00:09:10 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2358]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 10.12.25.26 00:13:d4:3d:41:f8
Apr 18 00:09:10 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2358]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 10.12.25.26 00:13:d4:3d:41:f8 cKboon
Apr 18 00:09:39 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2358]: DHCPINFORM(br-lan) 10.12.25.26 00:13:d4:3d:41:f8
Apr 18 00:09:39 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2358]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 10.12.25.26 00:13:d4:3d:41:f8 cKboon
Apr 18 00:09:47 Boon-tplink daemon.info pppd[518]: No response to 5 echo-requests
Apr 18 00:09:47 Boon-tplink daemon.notice pppd[518]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
Apr 18 00:09:47 Boon-tplink daemon.info pppd[518]: Connect time 264.8 minutes.
Apr 18 00:09:47 Boon-tplink daemon.info pppd[518]: Sent 1946273157 bytes, received 202530524 bytes.
Apr 18 00:09:48 Boon-tplink user.info firewall: removing wan (pppoe-wan) from zone wan
Apr 18 00:09:53 Boon-tplink daemon.notice pppd[518]: Connection terminated.
Apr 18 00:09:54 Boon-tplink daemon.notice pppd[518]: Modem hangup
Apr 18 00:10:39 Boon-tplink daemon.warn pppd[518]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Apr 18 00:10:39 Boon-tplink daemon.err pppd[518]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info firewall: removing lan (br-lan) from zone lan
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink daemon.warn dnsmasq[2358]: failed to access /tmp/resolv.conf.auto: No such file or directory
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0.1 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:11 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:18 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-iptv: port 1(eth0.600) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:18 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:18 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0.600 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:18 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-iptv: port 1(eth0.600) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:19 Boon-tplink user.notice ifup: Enabling Router Solicitations on loopback (lo)
Apr 18 00:11:19 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:19 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:19 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entering forwarding state
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.info pppd[11333]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 208.67.222.222#53
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 208.67.220.220#53
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Apr 18 00:11:20 Boon-tplink daemon.notice pppd[11333]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Apr 18 00:11:21 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device eth0.600 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:21 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-iptv: port 1(eth0.600) entering forwarding state
Apr 18 00:11:21 Boon-tplink user.notice ifup: Enabling Router Solicitations on lan (br-lan)
Apr 18 00:11:22 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:22 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink user.info firewall: adding lan (br-lan) to zone lan
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 202.188.1.5#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 202.188.0.133#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 8.8.4.4#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 8.8.8.8#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 208.67.222.222#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using nameserver 208.67.220.220#53
Apr 18 00:11:23 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Apr 18 00:11:24 Boon-tplink user.notice ifup: Enabling Router Solicitations on iptv (br-iptv)
Apr 18 00:11:24 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:24 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering disabled state
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.info kernel: br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[2358]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.notice dnsmasq: DNS rebinding protection is active, will discard upstream RFC1918 responses!
Apr 18 00:11:28 Boon-tplink user.notice dnsmasq: Allowing 127.0.0.0/8 responses
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: started, version 2.55 cachesize 150
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-I18N DHCP TFTP
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[12094]: DHCP, IP range 10.12.25.22 -- 10.12.25.30, lease time 2h
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 202.188.1.5#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 202.188.0.133#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 8.8.4.4#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 8.8.8.8#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 208.67.222.222#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using nameserver 208.67.220.220#53
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq[12094]: read /etc/hosts - 1 addresses
Apr 18 00:11:31 Boon-tplink daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[12094]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Apr 18 00:11:35 Boon-tplink daemon.warn pppd[11333]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Apr 18 00:11:35 Boon-tplink daemon.err pppd[11333]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Apr 18 00:11:36 Boon-tplink user.info firewall: adding lan (br-lan) to zone lan
**** the image shown is before i unplug the WAN connection..
The link just drop like tat.. and look at the log..
Seem like my unit cannot find any active link and just terminate the whole connection
This post has been edited by ckboon: Apr 24 2012, 12:23 PM