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Netgear Mr60 has been doing a boot loop/power cycling thing for past two days. Solutions?
I have a mr60 and 2 ms60 sats. The main issue seems to be with the mr60.
The modem lights cycle from dark to amber, to flashing white/solid white, then blue. It will stay blue and work normally for...
eloor wrote:
I have a mr60 and 2 ms60 sats. The main issue seems to be with the mr60.
Or the modem.
eloor wrote:
The modem lights cycle from dark to amber, to flashing white/solid white, then blue. It will stay blue and work normally for 10-15 minutes, and then start the process over again.
I have seen that sort of behaviour associated with plugging a router into a modem/router. The two devices can argue over which should be in charge.
The freaky thing is that they can play nicely for months until something puts a spanner in the works.
Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.
This explains some of the other drawbacks.
What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Unless you have specific reasons for using two routers – to create two separate networks for example – it is often easier to use just one router and then to set up the second router as a wifi access point. Netgear advises this, as does just about every site you will visit.
It may be possible to put the modem/router into modem only (bridge) mode and then to use the second device as the router. Sometimes it is easier to put the second router into AP mode. But that has its own drawbacks:
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
You aren't in one of those "hot spots" where the weather is mad and overheating everything?
- No, it's all pretty normal here.
- My setup is a bit strange, hopefully I'm explaining this right. I live in a rural area. Our local ISP uses a dish system, micro dotting? Or micro dishes? Maybe... dish on the house has power to it and a small box in the house my lan cable comes off of. Its not really a modem exactly, just internet piped in the house.
Either way it's worked since February just fine. And now all of a sudden not (like you stated above)
If I unplug the mr60 unit and let it set for a few hours plug it back in, it works fine for several hours, then its back to the boot loop scenario.
Frustrating...
Partyfaul wrote:
My setup is a bit strange, hopefully I'm explaining this right. I live in a rural area. Our local ISP uses a dish system, micro dotting? Or micro dishes? Maybe... dish on the house has power to it and a small box in the house my lan cable comes off of. Its not really a modem exactly, just internet piped in the house.Sounds like a satellite or mobile (cell) system.
They can be hard to diagnose, but not something that should create the symptoms you see, especially in a system that has worked as expected for some time.
Have you tried messing around in the router's logs?
View and manage logs of router activity in the manual.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.