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Netgear Wireless N150 Access Point WN604 Losing / Forgetting Settings after Reboot
I have a NETGEAR Wireless N150 Access Point WN604 which is losing / Forgetting Settings after Reboot or power cycle.
It loses among other things the following settings:
• Access Point Name
• NTP Host Name
• IP Settings
• Wireless SSID
• Wireless Channel
• Security Settings
I have had this device for some time and it has always had this problem – only now have I had the time to look into it in detail and document the problem.
Apart from the device works but fails after every reboot or power cycle.
I suspect this is a hardware issue – can you confirm ?
Please tell me how I can resolve this.
Terry Clancy
4 Replies
- I had the same problem with two units but found a workaround. I've found the problem to be with the Netgear Registration box so you need to get this to reappear.
Connect to the unit using a wired connection, not wifi.
Take a backup of the config and reboot AP. Just reboot don't factory reset!
Log on to the AP and restore the config, wait for the unit to reboot.
Log on to the AP and this time the Netgear Registration box will appear
### IMPORTANT BIT ###
Only ever click "Remind Me Later" and the AP works fine. Click anything else and the settings get "locked"
My units have been working fine since I discovered this
Good luckI had the same problem. I did what ScubaClaude suggested but it didn't work. Eventually I restored the factory settings of the AP.
Now it is working fine :-)
Antonio.
