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xr500 LAN ports sometime will stop working
hi i need some help sometime my netgear nighthawk xr500 LAN ports stops working.wifi work fine not sure how to fix it. can anybody help me
- I've sent you a PM with firmware that may resolve the issue.
Can we have any ETA on a possible firmware update on this?
By the way, I think the whole issue with this router is from DHCP. I cannot find any DHCP settings on the router to increase lease time (unless I'm blind and I'm missing it) so what I did last night was set a reservation for my PC before going to sleep. Woke up this morning and my PC had its connection still intact! So I'm happy about that, but still, for a consumer router, most people would return this thing before trying to fix it themselves or waiting for the OS company to fix their issue with it.
So I posted in the other thread but looks like I've narrowed it down to LAN ports for me as well. Both Xbox One and PC are connected to LAN ports and won't have internet accessbility after 24 hours..wireless works fine.
I agree with this comment above, how is this still a thing? No urgency?
XR500, latest firmware.
Looks like I was wrong, setting the DHCP reservation for my PC did not work. Still an issue apparently. Guess I'll return this router for another one.
Funny enough, just had the LAN ports stop working on me right now. So not even, 24 hours after a reboot this time, more like 6. Wi-Fi still worked fine.
Oddly, last night I got this problem too. The router was pretty much unused. There was only one PC connected and it wasn't doing anything. The wireless was manually switched off. I left it like that for about eight hours or so, then when I switched on my gaming PC, nothing. No internet, no local lan, nothing. I assume though without the router working the local lan won't either becuase nothing has an ip. Anyway, the router looked fine, no orange lights, but I couldn't contact the router ( not responding on 192.168.1.1) and it and it needed a reset to get it working again.
Honestly this is actually a very worrying development. Bugs like this are notoriously difficult to locate.