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RAX80 randomly disconnects LAN
Hello,
Haven't checked back in this thread in a long time. After I did my workaround of putting a switch in front of the router I had serious disconnects. I stopped upgrading the firmware on the ro...
I don't care what anyone says, this is a known problem and has been a known problem for a long time. I have tried all the firmware since COVID started, and none of them fixed the problem. Before someone asks, yes, I do a factory reset and reenter setting from scratch after each firmware update. I suspect this is a hardware issue since Netgear has been unable (or willing) to fix it.
I have had to do the same thing you did, put a wired router between my modem and RAX80. I am not sure if I would ever buy another Router from Netgear given how much this thing cost, and the lack of support for a real and serious problem.
For a while, there was someone posting about getting beta firmware which stopped the lan drops but slowed down his speed. Nothing seemed to come of it.