WRT160N V3 only allows 2 devices at once

We can only connect two devices to the internet at once. I have no idea why its being this way considering everything else is running fine.
Is this something i can change in basic options inside the router, or is this a hardware issue?

Many thing can cause this:
IP Address conflicts with static IP settings on devices
A rogue DHCP server on the network
DHCP range for only two computers
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At a guess you have cable internet connection.. please confirm exactly what you have.. two public IPs are allowed by some ISP.. once you use up the two IPs, there are no more..
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You can deauthorize all computers from iTunes. All you have to do is click iTunes Store, click your account name in the upper right corner of iTunes, then deauthorize all.

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When I first installed my new time capsule, everything worked beautifully. I had multiple devices connected to the AirPort and life was good.
A few weeks ago, I swapped my cable modem and everything went bad from there. Now I can only connect one device wirelessly at a time.
After lots of back and forth with Time Warner, a swap of the modem and may hours with tech support, it has been determined that my Time capsule is not assigning the 2nd, 3rd... devices a proper IP address. Instead, the IP addresses all begin with 169.
What advice do you have. Is there a way to reset the whole darn thing? At this point, I am okay if I lose all of my backups.
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What is the cable modem?? Make and model please.
What model is your TC.. A1xxx from the base please??
I suspect the issue is the TC is bridged and you have a pure modem.. you need to change it over to router mode..
Here is what you need to do to setup the TC..
The list is over long perhaps but is based on best network practice for Yosemite which is rather more than problematic.
You don't say what OS you are running.
Once you do this.. you also need to power down the modem if it is pure modem type (which is all that makes sense here). Leave it off for 20min while you do the setup of the TC and then power up the modem wait a couple of min and power up the TC..
Expect serious issues if the modem is SB something.. 6121 or 6141 for example. And your TC is AC model.
Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 for basestation and and TCwifi wireless name.
If the issue is wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round. ie plan on a first and second round of changes to fix this.. hopefully.. I will point out other steps that can be round2.
2. Use all passwords that also comply with 1. but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. If the TC is main router you can skip this point. This is only an issue when the TC is bridged.
Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
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Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
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So far no one even at Apple Care has been able to solve this problem.
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Don't know what an Orange livebox is, but I will treat it as a DSL modem and assume the ISP uses a DHCP server. Make sure you have connected the modem to the TC WAN port.
Open AirPort Utility, select the TC, click on Manual Setup, click on the Internet tab.
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