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Connection issues with FioS G3100
Pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is causing the issue here. We recently upgraded to the FiOS G3100 Gateway router and I've been able to connect my A7000 directly to the router. No...
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I jus received the same g3100, and have the same connection issues with my A7000. However, when I configured the router, I turned on guest network as well. In the netgear genie app, it shows 3 access points - the main one twice and the guest one. Looking at the details, the main one has an 'AC' and an 'N' access point, and the guest is 'N'. I cannot connect to either of the main ones. Strangely (or maybe not), if I try to connect to the main 'N' one, it uses the 'AC' anyway - and it fails with the same issue (No Internet). HOWEVER, I can connect to the guest network. Of course, this is not ideal as I can't network with other devices in the house, but this is a temporary fix until the issue is fixed.
Yeah that verizon router is way more trouble than it's worth.
So after receiving the beta drivers from Netgear, it did 'stay' connected but I was experiencing massive lag spikes, to the point I couldn't play games or even chat in Discord due to disconnects.
I ended up putting my old router back in place and still, with these beta drivers, I was getting lag spikes but not nearly as bad.
I ended up reverting the drivers back to the latest NON-beta with my old router, flawless performance and no lag spikes.
I still have not put the new verizon router back in place because I was having issues with other devices too.
What a sheer disappointment.
The beta drivers did not work at all for me. I'd install them and then it would make the router vanish from the list of devices I could use to connect online with (physical, wifi dongle 1 and the netgear dongle). I could see it in the list of Hardware devices, and whenever I rolled back the drivers it would pop back in.
I tried this a few times while attempting some different things at the time and just nothing would get it to go.
I tried the connecting to the guest method but it didn't work for me. Did you change any other settings prior to connecting?
Disable wifi 5Ghz.
I had the same issue as everyone else here - of the solutions listed here disabling the 5Gz band worked best for me. I do notice that the speed of the connection is slower now, but at least it actually works reliably.
