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Wifi disconnection
Hello all. For about the past 2 months my modem/router has lost connection/restarted itself every night. The problem has gotten progressively worse as now it does it between 5-10 times a night sometim...
Well after all this time spent trying to figure out why I was dropping connection so frequently and randomly, I recontacted Comcast. They came out and inspected their line which they say was fine as it was rerun just before I moved in. I ended up changing my wifi plan (better plan) and renting the ISP’s modem/router (totaling only $4 more than I spent on my previous internet per month). As of having the new unit and wifi for nearly a month I have not had a single drop in connection and speeds are much higher and more stable (obviously I upgraded from 400-800 mbps). My guess is that somehow my Netgear unit had an issue. Unfortunately after a lot of trouble shooting and no fix I can’t say for sure what it was though. All I can say is with the new unit I have had no drops.
Netgear like all stereo compaines have very poor instructions. I was finally able to fix mine, thanks to Super User Fury. I had already tried a similar fix but I followed the instuctions on their web site which were inaccurate, his instructions however, worked the first time, every time like a champ. I can happily say that my speeds, coverage, wifi, are great, no droped devices (ever), no disconnects (ever), I could never say that with Comcast, and I've had top tier speed, and upgraded to their new modem each and every time and it never fixed a thing, and always had disconnections especially during Mon-Fri afternoon business peak hours.