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Nighthawk
I have had this a week and it has been fine, then suddenly an hour ago the wifi stopped working, no light on, no reason. The etehrnet connections are working fine. I have rebooted twice and still not...
- Problem eliminated - I was able through linking to my phone get a Wi-Fi connection and fiddle with the wifi settings on the app - it is now back on fine. I can only assume one of our cats had been in the router and held the wifi button down for a while which had ‘locked’ it off. There is now a cat shield on the router
What actual router do you have? You didn't put a model.
Did you push and hold the wifi on/off button for 2 seconds?
Problem eliminated - I was able through linking to my phone get a Wi-Fi connection and fiddle with the wifi settings on the app - it is now back on fine. I can only assume one of our cats had been in the router and held the wifi button down for a while which had ‘locked’ it off. There is now a cat shield on the router
Glad to hear you got it working!
Didactylos wrote:
I can only assume one of our cats had been in the router and held the wifi button down for a while which had ‘locked’ it off. There is now a cat shield on the routerThis is not the first report of feline sabotage.
They like sitting on top of warm electronics. Great for getting fur inside the electronics.
