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rax120_rax80
Mar 09, 2020Apprentice
RAX120 Router Random Disconnects
Hey everyone, I know that I'm not the only one with problems on the Nighthawk WiFi 6 devices, but thought I'd post my most recent headache. My hardware consists of a Motorola MB8600 DOCS 3.1 modem w/...
a3gill
Apr 01, 2020Aspirant
I'm doing an experiment that's worked well so far -- he said with hubris... :)
Running 118, I made note of the current settings (in notepad, excel, etc.), reset to default, and then applied all the settings manually as if it were brand new. After loses DNS 4 times in the 2 hours before this, now I've gone 12+ hours with no issues.
We'll see. I'll report back.
Thanks!
a3gill
Apr 04, 2020Aspirant
a3gill wrote:I'm doing an experiment that's worked well so far -- he said with hubris... :)
Running 118, I made note of the current settings (in notepad, excel, etc.), reset to default, and then applied all the settings manually as if it were brand new. After loses DNS 4 times in the 2 hours before this, now I've gone 12+ hours with no issues.
We'll see. I'll report back.
Thanks!
OK. So, all is still well. No issues.
While annoying, it seems that a reset and then manually entering the config does the trick, at least for me. My best guess was that somewhere someone was clumsy with the firmware upgrade leaving it in a place where the settings weren't backward compatible. Here's hoping they learned from their mistake :)