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MR80 Router constantly reboots
My Netgear MR80 router is constantly and randomly rebooting. I currently have it setup in a Wireless AP mode behind my AT&T Internet router. I have disabled the wireless settings on the AT&T router...
Have you tried a simple factory reset/reinstall (not from a backup)?
sometimes old settings can cause issues.
Does it do the reboot cycle in router mode?
I probably should have said so, but I have done a factory reset - several times. I'll try it again with the new firmware updated and see if that helps. I'm hesitant to put it in router mode because I don't want it to mess up my current LAN. I have a lot of devices using the 192.168.1.0/24 network and I don't want to create a new network using the default 10.0.0.0/24 with it in router mode. My ISP router is fiber so I have to use it or I would let the MR80 be the default router.
If you've factory reset a few times, probably isn't going to help.
You can set your ISP gateway to router mode and put whatever IP address you want for it. then simply put the netgears IP address into the ISP gateway's dmz.
Its just to test if its an issue of the AP mode or if router mode works fine
That didn't work. I tried to put my ISP router into IP Passthrough and no matter what I tried the Netgear MR80 wouldn't grab the WAN address. I did a factory reset on both devices and it still wouldn't grab it. I did another factory reset on the MR80 and put it back in AP mode and now it just constantly reboots. It stays up maybe a few minutes and then crashes/ reboots.