Can someone explain why this happened? My Wyze v4 camera is connected to the guest network on my Asus tuf 3000 router with a wpa2 62 special characters password. I went to the store, and when I came back, I saw that the camera was not connected to the internet. First, I unplugged the camera from the power outlet, but the connection did not restore. Then, I restarted the router, and the connection was restored. What could have caused this? What happened to the router? Why didn’t it allow the camera to reconnect after I unplugged it? ( In another topic, we were just discussing that the router doesn’t allow device to connect to the network when using WPA3 and the guest network.)
Experiment with a non-guest network to see if you encounter the same issues.
I haven’t seen these issues on my mesh, but wpa3 is not a concern of mine.
I am only concerned with wpa3 on my phone.
Anyway, never mind, I restarted the router and it worked. Something was wrong with the router.
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People don’t believe that routers need to be rebooted regularly. I used to have a router that took months before being rebooted out of necessity. These current crop of routers have much more complicated firmware that suffer from bugs (mostly memory leaks) and rebooting is the only way to recover.
Unfortunately true with many CONSUMER grade routers. I don’t run a consumer grade router at home. Just looked and it’s uptime is 265 days 2 hours. Only reason it was rebooted was a firmware update.
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Don’t ever remember having router issues, but I repower quarterly.
I have. I ended up ditching the consumer routers I was using because they were far too unreliable. Far more capability in the small office routers too.
I guess you do work on yours. I just use routers for YouTube, email, cam and occasional TeamViewer support. I use Roku a lot, but I wouldn’t consider it work. I don’t see any buffering with 100MB.
I analyzed the router log files, which indicate that both my Eufy and Wyze cameras are under constant attack! I haven’t figured out who is behind it yet. Should I enable VPN protection on the router? Does it provide better security for the devices?
May 5, 07:05:33 - Successful authentication occurred, followed immediately by two deauthentications in succession.
• Possible deauthentication attack
• Could be caused by a malicious attacker or network instability
Conclusion:
• Suspicious behavior observed for one of the checked MAC addresses (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx), which may indicate a deauthentication attack.
• If you notice your devices frequently being dropped from the network, it’s advisable to switch to WPA3 or implement MAC filtering.
• If there’s suspicion of a Wi-Fi-based MitM attack, it’s recommended to use wired-only connections for critical devices.
I would like to mention that this is not one-time incident; both the Wyze v4 and Eufy cameras are continuously being targeted. I have analyzed multiple log files, but I do not know who is behind these attacks.
The folks over at security might be someone to contact here.
Thank you very much for the link! I will contact the security department because it’s not okay that my devices are constantly being attacked, and I don’t even know who is behind it. I will save all the router log files and send them to them via email for analysis. WPA3 encryption could be a solution, but for some reason, the Wyze v4 is not compatible with the ASUS tuf 3000v2 guest network—only when connected to the main network, which is not ideal because it would be better to keep it isolated.
This looks like a wish list that you may want to support.
Did you enable the DOS protection feature of Asus routers?
Yes, of course this protection is turned on!
For this post, I am separating the router function from the access point (even though for most people, it’s the same physical box - but it is two TOTALLY separate functions).
If you are having deauthentication attacks, there is NOTHING you can do about that in the router. Deauthentication is entirely on the WiFi. So things like router firewalls, VPN, DOS protection have no ability to deal with a deauthentication.
About the only thing that MIGHT help with a deauthentication attack is changing to WPA3. Unfortunately, so far Wyze has very limited WPA3 support. It has been requested as Omgitstony mentioned.
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