So I know a tiny little bit about computers, enough to get by

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>>174701

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>>174705
It's eight lines m8

Don't make us look bad

>>174701
Get a real computer guy to look at it.

Master Browsers are used by SMB, which is the filesharing protocol that Windows uses. It doesn't matter who is the master browser, so long as there is one. SMB has nothing to do with your internet connection.

Your DHCP lease time could be 60 seconds, and your connection would still be fine, so long as you had a stable connection to the DHCP server.

You're not being methodical, and you're not understanding the symptoms, you're just cargo-culting off scary messages you're finding in event logs. Stop it before you make things worse.

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>>174701
If you've got a bad wireless connection (and it sounds like you have), your options are to:

- run your old router as an AP: disable its DHCP server, plug one of its client ports into one of the new router's client ports, make sure they're using different wifi channels. If you give them the same name, Windows will roam between them without dropping your connections.
- Buy an actually decent AP, like a Ubiquiti
- build a directional antenna (pic related)

>master browser is stopping or an election is being forced

>I imagine that that might cause problems

its not. has nothing to do with your internet connection problems

>>174721
>>174714
I have symptoms, I have event logs. Something registers as a hard error, I'll look to fix it and see if it solves the problem.

See:
>So I know a tiny little bit about computers, enough to get by doing my own tech support, but when it comes to networks I'm completely hopeless.

I have little to no idea as to what exactly it is I'm doing here, which is why I'm coming here for help. After everything I've done I haven't lost connection to the router and the wifi signal is still strong, so I've managed to fix something.

>>174717
The old router is the most stable option by far. Only problem is that it's substantially slower. I'll need to configure the DHCP and channels, and hopefully that will clear up. Will I need to change the security key to be the same to get windows to roam?

I've also gotten some DNS errors with Google's connection diagnostic tool, as well as in the event log. I've set the DNS to manually use google, but it's still timing out. Any suggestions for DNS problems beyond /flushdns?

>>175143
>I'll need to configure the DHCP and channels, and hopefully that will clear up.
Don't forget, you're bridging not routing, so connect a client port to a client port.
>Will I need to change the security key to be the same to get windows to roam?
Yes and no. If they're the same SSID, they need to be the same key and the same encryption type.

If they're not the same SSID, they don't need the same password or encryption, and Windows can roam anyway, but it will disconnect your existing connections when it does, because it doesn't know they're the same network.

>>175143
>After everything I've done I haven't lost connection to the router and the wifi signal is still strong, so I've managed to fix something.
Dude, that's the same logic as:

- those guys wave sticks about and sit in little huts talking to people that aren't there
- then the planes come with cargo
- so waving sticks about makes planes come

You need to get away from look-for-scary-message, google-scary-message, do-first-thing-that-google-says, repeat-until-fixed-or-ruined.

A good start would be trying to understand what each scary message means. Then you wouldn't waste your time fiddling with something on the application layer in an attempt to fix the physical layer.