NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Talon2020
Dec 02, 2020Aspirant
CAX80 LAN disconnecting on firmware 2.1.1.4 — Never had an issue before this update.
Ever since this firmware update was pushed to my device late Nov. my CAX80 has begun dropping connection and LAN almost hourly or more often. It seems to be getting worse day by day. I’ve tried resets...
Talon2020
Dec 04, 2020Aspirant
So I did a factory reset by unplugging the coxial cable, and hitting the reset button with a paperclip for 15 seconds. It forced me to do a complete reconfigure of the modem/router. It definitely seems to have helped, the disconencts went away for awhile about a day, but I am again still getting them radomly, just far less often (a few a day). Unfortuantely it just disconnected for a second, and then immediately reconnected. It's very frustrating that this is now happening after 5 months of 100% no issues and it only started after that firmware was pushed to my device.
plemans
Dec 04, 2020Guru - Experienced User
If you've only had it for 5 months, you should be able to rma it if its applicable.
do you have screen snip of the cable connections page to check signal? Take those and post them back here.
If you have any splitters, amplifiers, or attenuators in line, I'd remove them.
Potentially even vkdelta could help
- plemansDec 04, 2020Guru - Experienced UserYou don't happen to be on Cox do you?
That's tended to be where I've seen the most issues with the CAX device.- Talon2020Dec 05, 2020Aspirant
I'm on Comcast/Xfinity.
- Talon2020Dec 05, 2020Aspirant
Here is a snip of the cable connection. I cannot enable that "Enable Extended Upstream Transmit Power". I click apply but it just turns off when the page refreshes. I figured I would try it and see if it helps since I'm getting continual disconnections again.
- plemansDec 05, 2020Guru - Experienced User
You've only got a single downstream channel locked.
And only 1 even showing. Even when mine haven't been locked, they still usually show.
that's unusual.
Have you opened a support case with netgear?
- Talon2020Dec 05, 2020Aspirant
I will do that. I might also have to give Comcast a call since this problem doesn't seem to be resolving on it's own over time as intermittent connections issues seem to in the past.