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Vivienne
Sep 06, 2015Follower
N450 WiFi keeps disconnecting
Hello, So I bought my Netgear N450 WiFi cable modem router on April 30, 2015 and in the past month I've been having WiFi connection problems. The internet works just fine, but for some reason the...
johnnyBrandom
Dec 04, 2016Aspirant
I've been experiencing the wifi disconnect issue as well. Noticed the issue after receiving the firmware upgrade (V3.01.06). I tried resetting the modem as suggested in the other post on this issue that reports resetting the modem as the fix. It seemed to improve a bit afterward but I may not have been paying close enough attention as it now has disconnected all devices again today.
However, there is another disturbing issue that I've noticed in my logs, I'm seeing remote access to my modem on the SNMP port (161) from IP's emanating from Russia, Sweden, Israel, and the like. This is extremely troubling as it points to a remote vulnerability in the firmware that is probably being exploited by hackers. I suspect that my modem may be geting commandeered for a botnet or worse. Not sure if this is related to the wifi issue but it may be. For those of you experiencing the dropped wifi - can you please check your logs to see if your modem is being remotely accessed on port 161? If so, please report back. Thanks.
If there is a vulnerability in the SNMP stack of the N450 Netgear needs to fix this asap as owners have no control over the WAN facing side of the N450 (which I'm not happy about) so we are vulnerable as long as they don't address this.
BTW - if you see foreign IP's remoting into your modem, you can check there country of origin by doing an IP lookup (google that) on them. Hope this helps.
- RobnHDec 04, 2016Aspirant
Hi Johnny,
I'm having this problem too. I posted about it a couple days ago, but got no response. Here's the post.
N450-CG3000dv2 "LAN access from remote"
Hopefully this will get resolved soon.
Robin