Netgear Mr60 has been doing a boot loop/power cycling thing for past two days. Solutions?

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eloor wrote:

I have a mr60 and 2 ms60 sats. The main issue seems to be with the mr60.

Or the modem.

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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.

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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