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blind33
Guide
Apr 24, 2020

XR 500

I have an XR 500 router and my internet cuts out every 4 hours. I have contacted my internet provider and they have not had any drops in internet shown on the modem. The firmware is up to date and I ...
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Netduma-Fraser
NetDuma Partner
Apr 26, 2020
Did you give them the same IP they had already i.e. what device manager already showed that they had? If you didn't then you would've needed to reboot those devices at the very least to renew their IP address.
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blind33
Guide
Apr 26, 2020

I did do that. In LAN setup, I hit add then clicked on the device in the reservation table and hit apply. I tried it again just now so I'll have to wait and see if it works or not.