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FVS-318N; FVS-318Gv2 and Arris
User SamirD may have found a correlation in this long saga of the FVS-318N and FVS-318Gv2 not managing a cold boot. It may have something to do with being connected to an Arris modem; one easy 'fix' ...
Very interesting that a router in between is getting these units working correctly.
And it's not the cable modem, but the configuration of the head-end equipment by the isp, typically made by Arris.
Does anyone have a Frys nearby? This $20 managed switch might be able to act as the filter and allow the 318G to work normally:
Or order it from newegg:
These managed switches should be able to 'filter' the packets even if they aren't using any other managed switch options. Cheap fix to the problem.
I didn't. It worked fine for a year. After finally getting it updated I started noticing after power failure that it would need to get rebooted multiple times. I opened a ticket with Netgear thinking I had faulty hardware. After doing another firmware update and still having it fail after power outage I stumbled upon the trick of doing a soft boot through the GUI after power failure. At that point it was noted that it was not a hardware failure do no RMA.....To this day only fix is to sign into router shortly after power failure and to do the GUI reboot in order for it too operate properly.
"To this day only fix is to sign into router shortly after power failure and to do the GUI reboot in order for it too operate properly"
So there is no firmware version that can survive a cold boot? Guess I'll just run mine behind a 'real' router (which allows the FVS-318N to cold boot), until they fix the issue.
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