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XR500 Lan Ports - Fatal Flaw
Ok. So I have been at this since I bought my first XR500 from Amazon on March 28, 2018. For the first few months everything was great, didn't even have to blink at the router much less reboot ...
How do i get this firmware the link says "denined access"
- The link was removed - it was just about checking for a firmware, there isn't a new one to download currently.
Thanks so much for Netgear and DumaOS for providing such bad support lets see how many more years until and if this problem would be solved
For a start disabling your firewall is not a great idea, those protections stop nasties getting through, and those packets may get dropped brieffly but will if needed make it as the router tends to be a biut paranoid but better than letting everything though as it is now. It will drop malformed packets, so when a packet with an error is received by the interface of the router, it will throw up a log entry and drop the packet. Running without a firewall is dangerous tbh.
Just a long shot but in settings Network setup, did you set connection mode to always on, and Idle time out time out to 0? If not the ports go to sleep till they are needed, which is dictated by the idle timeout. So over night with not much going on that may well happen. Just a thought.
