Well, it finally locked up again while I was away for a couple of hours. I'm still setting up for an event that starts tomorrow that I was intending to use the router for, so nobody but me has been using it. The computers were all showing 169.254 IP addresses. I have no way of knowing how long the router was offline, but I'm not surprised to find that the computers dropped back to self assigned addresses. I power cycled the router, and was able to use it for a minute or two, and it locked up again. For the few minutes after that, the computers continued to show IP addresses that had been assigned by the router. A second power cycle failed to get it online, so I'm stopping fighting with it, and will go dig out a much older (different brand) router that was slower, but apparently more reliable.
After seeing several other discussions on these forums with similar sounding problems, and recommendations to call in for support, I had started there. Unfortunately I was told that my free year of call support (that I wasn't aware that I had) expired quite some time ago. I was directed to these forums as a place for support without paying the $75 fee to open a ticket. Rather than continue to fight with this router, I guess I'll put my money towards a new and different router. It's too bad since this one had come highly recommended to me.
Thanks for the attempts to help here.
