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sewsable's avatar
Aug 14, 2020
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Nighthawk AX8 losing connectivity since yesterday's update

Ok, did the upgrade of the firmware that I got the email for yesterday and since then it's been losing the DNS and failing to refind it.  A reboot fixes it, but I don't want to keep doing that.  Is t...
  • sewsable's avatar
    Aug 24, 2020

    Well, I managed to find out how to roll back the update.  On the Support section if you put in the model number it'll bring up the download options, at the bottom is an option for previous versions.  You download that, extract the files and then you can go via your router management to reinstall the older version.  It'll warn you it's older but click to install anyway.  Mine hasn't fallen over in the last few days since I've done this.