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FVS318N firmware 4.3.3-6 not allowing more than 8 wireless connections
Back in 2015 users reported that no more than 8 devices could connect on FVS318N. You can find the old discussion here https://community.netgear.com/t5/Business-Wireless/FVS318N-firmware-4-3-3-5-not-allowing-more-than-8-wireless/td-p/983199
Did you solve this problem with a firmware upgrade or something else? We have Firmware version 4.3.3-6 and I see now that the firmware is on 4.3.5-3.
On the previous discussions the moderators recommended to factory reset the rebuild the router from scratch.
Since we are a company I really do not want to configure the router again please let us know if this problem was fixed on a later firmware upgrade.
Thank you.
At the end pressing the reset button for so much time factory reset everything and even the firmware upgarde worked after that.
Instead of doing all the configurations all again I gave it a go and restore my configurations and I now have 11 devices connected which seems the problem is now resolved.
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Hi blackbox,
Welcome to the community! :)
The issue about no more than 8 devices could connect on the FVS318N using firmware v4.3.3-5 way back year 2015 was already fixed by upgrading the firmware to a later version. With regard to your concern, I advise you to upgrade the firmware of your FVS318N to the latest firmware version 4.3.5-3. You can download firmware v4.3.5-3 here.
Be reminded to perform a factory reset on the FVS318N after upgrading the firmware then reconfigure it from scratch in order to start clean using the latest firmware version.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team- The problem is not updating the firmware but the scratch part. We are a company and we have our port forwards Mac addresses static ips. This will cause a lot of time until we set everything back...
No, like I said the problem is because you are asking us to factory reset the router and set it again from scratch. Doing that it means we wont have internet for hours which is a big problem for us. If I could fix the problem with just the firmware upgrade then we could spare a few mins of downtime...
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