SFT1200 Repeater Mode is OFF randomly after reboots

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Hi there, I'll describe my setup:

GL-SFT1200 in Repeater Mode, connected to the building's WiFi.
Several devices connected WIFI
One device connected through Ethernet

Often after the router reboots, it does not re-enter Repeater Mode. Navigating to 192.168.8.1 shows the Repeater is OFF.

Can this please be addressed? That setting is extremely important to be retained across reboots, as it can take an entire network down for a really silly reason.

Thank you!

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It should reconnect if you don't disable manually.

Sometimes it just takes a little time. Sometimes it may failed to reconnect for some reason.

So pls get me the log when this happens.

4

What channel is the building WiFi broadcasting on?

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Thanks, it doesn't reconnect. I went out of town, the router reset itself and never came back online for the entire week I was away. Upon return, Repeater Mode was disabled.

Happy to provide a log, but the default log length is tiny and only goes back an hour. How do I set the log length to be unrestricted?

Thank you!

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When the router failed to connect to one wifi for many times, or if it get key error messages, it will disable the SSID.

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If this is the issue, I'm open to scripting the Repeater to re-enable once per hour, or whatever fixes this situation.

It's really disruptive to lose access to my network when I'm working remotely, and have literally no way to reboot/re-enable the Repeater from afar. At least if I added a command to cron to simply "re-enable Repeater" every x minutes, the network would at least eventually come back online.

Any ideas how to do that?