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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-...
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.
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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