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Hindmarsh
May 10, 2017Initiate
Nighthawk M1 Ethernet Port Timeout
Hi, We have a M1 Router which we are testing before purchasing more. Everything that we use if for seems ok with one exception. The Ethernet port seems to go in to some standby mode after reboot o...
Hindmarsh
Feb 08, 2018Initiate
I kind of abandoned this question a while back as we didn't get much of a response for a few months. Glad to see people are getting some benefit out of it.
We ended up instructing our site guys to press the button twice during startup. From this point forward the port remained up until the connected firewall was restarted.
At some point during last year (Aug 2017), version 10.16.04.04 was released to Telstra customers. This meant the port came online during the initial power on and the button no longer needed to be pressed during startup. We could also reboot our firewalls without having the port go down. The port will still, however, timeout after a period of time when nothing is connected to the LAN port. I checked a couple of spare routers we have sitting here for later versions but they still doesn't get anything beyond this point. So, the fact that people are saying there are newer versions, I assume that some have been withdrawn or the update process doesn't really work properly...
Logging in now, I realised that I was contacted by Netgear in Dec 2017 with an offer to beta test via PM. From the comments it looks like the full release is about to come out anyway, so I'll wait to see what happens.
I hope this post helps some people understand what our experience across about 10 devices. If you are in urgent need of a fix, perhaps contact Netgear support as there is a beta available.
PerthPhil
Feb 09, 2018Tutor
Very helpful Hindmarsh - and explains why I am still intermittently getting Ethernet port shutdowns afterI am running 10.16.04.04
I have the MR1100 patched into a Draytek Vigor3220 (WAN Aggregator) and have noted that whilst the port shuts down, it maintains link status (in at least some cases) and Draytek doesn't know what to do with it. Interestingly I have had HUGE success and almost no adverse speed difference using the cheaper Netgear LB2120 modem which has no battery and a completely stable Ethernet Port. The LB2120 is a better fit for Optus SIMs as it also supports LTE Band 40 which has faster download but slower upload than Optus LTE B3/7/28. This is a particularly good fit when the two are used together (MR1100 settled on B28 and LB2120 settles on B40 meaning the session-based load sharing on V3220 prefers LB2120 for sessions that are heavily upload and LB2120 for sessions heavier download)
Cheers