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RAX120 suddenly keeps turning SmartConnect ON by itself.
As of the past 5 or so days, my RAX120 has been acting really strange. It’s been working great for years so I don’t understand. My personal devices are always connected to the 5GHz band (game conso...
Has a factory reset and setup from scratch been performed since last FW update?
Nobody else has seen this behavior since NG released this version of FW.
I haven’t been able to do that, unfortunately, as there’s a house of people who would tear me apart for the connection being down for any length of time.
They’re going away on vacation in about a week or so, I’d have to do it then.
Is there a way to back up settings or would I have to remember what everything was set to? I’ve never had to factory reset a router before. I’ve been very fortunate.
They’re going away on vacation in about a week or so, I’d have to do it then.
Is there a way to back up settings or would I have to remember what everything was set to? I’ve never had to factory reset a router before. I’ve been very fortunate.
- Thank you.
Will it be effective if I reset the router and then restore from backup? Or is the possible fix in starting with fresh settings and getting everything all set up again setting by setting from a blank slate?I would FR and setup from blank slate. The back up file though maybe valid, may re-introduce the problem.
Some thing to try if you want, FR then apply your back up. If you see the problem again, then you'll need to FR then setup from blank slate or scratch.