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My RAX40 won't allow connections to some TV services
Netgear Device: AX3000 WiFi Router (RAX40) R1.05 V1.0.5.104_1.0.1 Connected device is a Samsung 55" TU8000 So immediately upon getting this router I had an issue with connecting to the Samsung T...
Sorry for the late reply, I missed the first email notifying me of a post.
The router is connected to a EN2251 provided by Spectrum and I use Google's DNS rather than Spectrum's default one.
I don't think the modem is the issue though because, uh, flow chart
Modem ➡️ Router ➡️ TV: can't connect to certain services
Modem ➡️ Router ➡️ Smartphone ➡️ TV: Everything works fine.
It the Modem was the issue I think that would block the services universally.
1. if you're phone is hotspotted, its using your cellular data and not from the modem.
2. Are you using any parental controls, access controls, armor on the router?
1. WiFi tethering is a thing. If I was using my data connection nothing would be happening. I don't have that good of service in my apartment (I can barely make calls without wifi in my apartment).
2. No parental or access controls or armor. This started happening the moment we moved in and it was a new router with default settings other than a new password. If there's a setting in the router admin I can check I will, but I swear most of them are still set to default and I wouldn't need to set access control.
Edit: So I'm looking at the logs in the router, and it has many instances of
"Thu,Jan 12,2023 20:23:15
[DoS attack:ACK Scan] from source: [[TV IP Address]], port 43124,"Is it possible that the TV is attempting to connect to Samsung/etc but the router is registering it as DoS attacks?