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CAX80 keeps rebooting
For the past 3 days my CAX80 has been rebooting every 4 to 5 hours. I’ve tried connecting the power source directly to an outlet and that didn’t work. I did a factory reset and that also didn’t work. ...
I downgraded my firmware on my CAX80 and Comcast decided at 2:15am to automatically update the firmware without my permission. As a customer we should have the right to choose what we do with it. How did I pay an extreme amount of money for something that's worthless to me right about now. You claim to save money on modem rentals, at this point I want to rent a modem, so I wouldn't have to deal with poor company practices. Do you even test the firmware before release??? I can't even speak to someone without paying money for tech support. And its the problem you caused. Yea, I'm heading down to Comcast first thing in the morning and renting a modem now. I could care less for wifi 6. You have truly wasted my time and money trouble shooting this DOS LAND ATTACK CRASH. I hope there is a class action lawsuit on NG. No wonder why the Arlo Camera team left you guys. I will be switching everything over to Cisco business from here on out. I will reach out to all the YouTubers and give them feedback on how NG won't do anything about this firmware problem. Just like what Linus Tech did to NEWEGG.COM
I can also report that running firmware v2.1.3.5 on my CAX80 stops the DoS Attacks messages in the log. The router runs fine on .v2.1.3.5 until Netgear pushes v2.1.3.7 overnight. No ISP signal issues... my Internet speeds are better than what the ISP provisioned them for. From that point on the DoS Attacks messages return. Netgear needs to provide a firmware that fixes the DoS Attacks issue + gives the user an option to opt out of automatic firmware updates or stop the Netgear firmware server from pushing the v2.1.3.7 update as it is broken. (Netgear can put firmware v2.1.3.7 on their firmware download page for those that want to update to it)
Something to report to NG support. https://my.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx
- Please ignore my message about “A router firmware upgrade is available”. After a reboot, it’s gone now.
I was able to force the Cable Connection to a starting frequency of 405MHz. It took a couple tries: the first time the first channel still latched to 507MHz for some reason. We’ll see if that helps. PS: after you hit Apply, you get 404 Page Not Found, but the change did go through. How did you do this?
Omnitron wrote:
Please ignore my message about “A router firmware upgrade is available”. After a reboot, it’s gone now.
I was able to force the Cable Connection to a starting frequency of 405MHz. It took a couple tries: the first time the first channel still latched to 507MHz for some reason. We’ll see if that helps. PS: after you hit Apply, you get 404 Page Not Found, but the change did go through.Is there something preventing NG hardware owners from blocking the auto-update server? Maybe blocking the port number it is utilizing? Also the NG C7800 started having this exact same issue at the same time the CAX80 got its .7 update. It has gotten so bad that my C7800 finally burned itself out after thousands of reboots caused by fake DoS attacks. Which of course forces me to use up my 4 year warranty more than a full year before my warranty would have expired.
Hi @Gentleman1013,
Thank you for reaching out. We are sorry to hear about your experience with the modem. We would like to endorse you to NETGEAR Level 2 support team for a callback. Please DM us the following information:
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I've already made an insurance claim on the cable gateway at this point as I've been dealing with this issue for years and finally had enough.
Hi @Gentleman1013,
We are really sorry again for the inconvenience this has caused you. Rest assured that your feedback will help us improve our product and services in the future. We hope we can still regain your trust.
Please do not hesitate to let me know if you need further assistance.Regards,
Oliver
Community Team
