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xnav
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Jan 13, 2017
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NETGEAR C3700 allowing a 'Denial of Service' attack?

Often early in the morning I experience hangs while using Safari on my Macs and iPads.  The hang doesn't last more than 5 minutes,  but I've discovered that during that time the router admin 'Attache...
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  • xnav's avatar
    xnav
    Mar 10, 2017

    I solved the problem by replacing the Netgear modem/router with a Motorola modem/router.

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TheEther
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Mar 11, 2017

This likely worked because you got a new IP address, not because the Netgear had a problem.

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xnav
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Mar 11, 2017

No, Netgear's own logs and displays show that there is a bug  in their code that causes the problem.