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bigmickjeans
May 18, 2020Aspirant
Xr500 drops connection A LOT like, holy crap
I've been searching the forums for an answer and trying all sorts of stuff but this thing just cannot keep a connection, sometimes going in and out half a dozen times in a hour. Sometimes stays on for...
bigmickjeans
May 21, 2020Aspirant
I have disconnected most of the devices in my home like smart TVs cameras and smart thermostat. Only computers and phones, then I went into up setting and set each to have a reserved up, I didn't change the IPs on the devices just had the router reserve one. It's been 2 days with no drops so I think this weekend it will slowly add on devices and reserve ips for them as I do. Fingers crossed it works, if not I will try for a replacement. Eventually I would like to turn some of the setting back one and would really prefer to not have to reserve every device or have issues, we will see.
bigmickjeans
May 21, 2020Aspirant
Damn autocorrect, up = ip. Yeesh.
- Netduma-FraserMay 21, 2020NetDuma PartnerThat's usually one of our suggestions for an issue like this so fingers crossed it continues to work fine and would agree to seek a replacement if it doesn't.