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Wifi goes OFF everytime I reboot the router
When i reboot my router the wifi network goes off (see the attached screenhot). Also network password is a 10 digit password mix of alphabets, numbers and special characters but the admin screen onl...
Ran into this when moving my router. It appears that since the 2.1 firmware on power cycle some special characters in a wireless key/password will be dropped thus with the potential for not meeting the complexity requirement for the radios to be turned on. If you are having this problem you can verify that your wireless password is displayed as being too short. If you reapply your preferred wireless password the radios will be enabled at least until power cycle as the password will again be truncated and considered invalid. Making matters worse this also appears to be true for the satellite(s).
I fixed this by downgrading to 2.0 and disabling auto upgrade via telnet but it was very time consuming since it wasn't easy to get the satellite to connect due to the above. What probably would have been easier is to change the wireless password to one that displays correctly after being applied but it didn't come to me after being almost finished with the downgrade.
IT_fooly This is exactly what is happening. The network key displayed on the admin page is shorter than what I had set. If I re-enter it and hit Apply the Wifi starts working again !
It is awful that #NETGEAR releases firmware that is so poor in quality. Sad for such an expensive product for a user to go thorugh complex troubleshooting issues.
IT_fooly wrote:Ran into this when moving my router. It appears that since the 2.1 firmware on power cycle some special characters in a wireless key/password will be dropped thus with the potential for not meeting the complexity requirement for the radios to be turned on. If you are having this problem you can verify that your wireless password is displayed as being too short. If you reapply your preferred wireless password the radios will be enabled at least until power cycle as the password will again be truncated and considered invalid. Making matters worse this also appears to be true for the satellite(s).
I fixed this by downgrading to 2.0 and disabling auto upgrade via telnet but it was very time consuming since it wasn't easy to get the satellite to connect due to the above. What probably would have been easier is to change the wireless password to one that displays correctly after being applied but it didn't come to me after being almost finished with the downgrade.