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I am having intermittent wifi loss of my TP link TL-WA901ND.




I have had the above device working well for a couple of months, however as indicated above connection with other devices is now intermittent, Is it possible that I have a faulty unit? Many thanks in anticipation.
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If you're experiencing more than one device on your wireless network that 'drop' at the same time, then yes your wireless router could be the culprit.
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You could try a factory reset on the device and reconfigure it as a first troubleshooting step.
I have tried every mode except multiple ssid. The same thing happens in each mode.....tplink ap sees and connects to Huewai modem, and modem is seeing tplink ap. A ping test from tplink ap to Huewai modem results in 100% package loss. Clear as mud? Cheers!
Coincidently, I had a Linksys RE9000, a range extender, that had been intermittent for the past few weeks. Its status light would turn red and if I left it too long connections would just fail. A reboot brought it back but I was just a matter of time till it started all over again. Friday I bit the bullet and bought a Velop mesh node (My router support either type) and the issues have just gone away. As long as you did your best to troubleshoot, sometimes you gotta cry uncle and replace ...
Sadly these TPLink units do fail and die. I've had many over the years. Their new up to date ones AC1750s etc...seem much better. Generally TPLink network gear is good...but their older access points not so.
I was having the same issue for a bit. What I found is that Fingbox had a trusted gateway which, in reality, was a TV. I removed the trusted gateway and everything started to work again. You might have a similar issue.
BTW - I have a TP-Link mesh network using the Decos. Works very well.
The new TPLink ones are more expensive but a dream to set up and so far work well. Love the simple guest network tick box facility too...