I'm sorry if I seem short and I know you're just asking the general necessary questions, but can anyone help me or not?
My issue is not with interference or options causing the wi-fi to drop, as stated the connection to the router is PERFECT, the router deciding to suddenly not allow all wireless clients to connect to the internet is not perfect, as is the DHCP reservation being completely and utterly bonked.
But anyways, I tried 20mhz, I'm on 40mhz, I'm on N only, there's no other devices within the frequency range in our house to cause interference, no houses that close to ours, I'm on manual channel 6 (with 2 being secondary) as it's the best pick out of what my neighbours are doing, WPA2/AES, 3 windows laptops, an ipad air, some android phones, a google phone, iphone 5, a ps vita and an xbox, they're all updated, and I've already looked into and messed around with the other options described.
The wi-fi is not dropping connection, the router is dropping internet access to wi-fi clients, with the fix being to disconnect/reconnect to the router, and dhcp reservation usage causes said devices to be unable to connect to the router some time after, with the only fix being a factory reset!
If I do end up replacing it, as I cannot in good conscience sell this router on, I will instead smash it to a million pieces with a hammer and then burn it, both for fun and for a nice morale release of pent up annoyance, but I'll be sure to post a video of it here (in the relevant board of course).
Adam Twomey