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Router Dropping Internet Connection
Morning,
I have owned the XR500 for about 8 months. It was running beautifully and now it continuously drops the internet. This happens to everything that is connected via wifi. (I cant connect...
What Firmware is currently loaded?
What is the size of your home? Sq Ft?
Try setting manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and any unused channel on 5Ghz.
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many?
Try enabling Beamforming and MIMO and WMM. Set 20/40Mhz Coexistence to 40Mhz only.
Possible that because of auto upgrade it's upgraded you onto a firmware that's caused the issue. Try downgrading to this firmware and see if it performs better https://kb.netgear.com/000060127/XR500-Firmware-Version-2-3-2-32
- Will give that a shot too, thank you! Will post again once I run through both of yalls suggestions.