All of my devices can continually access the WN2000RPT device and access the local network as well as the internet. However, after some time, the internet connection drops for the repeater only - I can still access the local network but not the internet.Is there a timeout or something that would cause it to lose it's connection? Seems that bouncing the repeater works, albeit temporarily.thanks.Ryan

I've done that but it didn't seem to help. I have put an old AP (WG102) on the router and am using that until NEtgear comes out with new firmware.

Yea!! This is getting annoying. I was watching the football game today and watched it cycle through the wifi lights every 5 min. Meaning it goes from green, to red, to orange and back to green. I can't figure it out. Can a mod maybe chime in here with a solution. I might return it since it hasn't been 30 days yet.

I've installed DD-WRT on this router (alternative firmware for those who don't know) and I still have a problem with internet access dropping. Usually after a day of stable connection.Specifically, the router completely freezes for about a minute at a time (completely unresponsive, even the configuration page/pings hang). Eventually it'll unfreeze and internet connectivity will resume. Until it freezes again. Usually physically rebooting the router staves off disconnection problems for about a day til it starts hanging again. And once it starts doing that, it'll continue to do it every 5 minutes or so until I physically restart it. Sometimes (but not always), soft rebooting (through the firmware) fixes the problem too. I'm guessing that netgear's firmware deals with this apparent freezing by automatically rebooting the router (which is why the lights flash for most of you when this happens).Turns out that DD-WRT developers have had trouble with this "bug" for YEARS and they still haven't figured it out, in addition to a few other Netgear routers. This leads me to believe that the problem is hardware and not software.

I have the same kind of problem. Check to see if there are duplicate ip or MAC addresses of devices connected to your router and WN2000RPT ? In my configuration, it does not seem to be a wi-fi link problem between the router and the WN2000RPT but rather some kind of conflict with the addresses the connected devices are getting. Netgear should really look into this problem and release firmware that passes on the MAC addresses properly.

agree on the need for a fix - it's basically a brick until they fix this.Is there a simple way to check? Assuming a reset of the repeater gets fresh IP's for all connected devices therefore leaving no conflicts until hours or days later when other devices come online.

WN2000RPT - Internet Access Keeps Dropping

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macpunc
Novice
Mar 12, 2012
vinceroebuck wrote:
dont give up yet, netgear has put out firmware 1.01.24na for the wn2000rpt. have had it for two days and no dropped internet connections. seems to be running ok now.

Hi vinceroebuck, I would like to know where I could get my hands on this version of the firmware?

Cheers
vinceroebuck
Apprentice
Mar 12, 2012
You can find the update on either the netgear web site or in your routers login page -good luck
mw49827
Aspirant
Mar 13, 2012
Hi - I had the same issues with the repeater frequently getting stuck showing the amber light and stopping access to the Internet. I was able to prevent this from happening by switching the device off and on at once a day.

A few days ago, as I logged into the web admin tool of the repeater it offered me to download the 1.0.1.24 firmware update. Before accepting I thought I'd check the Netgear support site for my WN2000RPTv1 but there was no mention of this new firmware. I installed it anyway and since then I noticed 2 things:

1. It doesn't get stuck any more
2. It does still drop the connection every so often, sometimes showing the amber light, but it does recover and reconnect

So it's a vast improvement, albeit not perfect yet and I haven't had to switch the device off for 4 days now.

Cheers
Michael
vinceroebuck
Apprentice
Mar 13, 2012
hey michael. after the update did you restart the wn200rpt?? i did and i have not seen anything but green lights on the front! its been 5 days since i updated and have had zero problems... hope it stays that way. let me know how it works. maybe this thread will come back to life! take care...
mw49827
Aspirant
Mar 13, 2012
Hi vinceroebuck - the repeater restarted as part of the upgrade process; I didn't switch it off/on nor restarted it explicitly.
vinceroebuck
Apprentice
Mar 13, 2012
hey michael. i unplugged mine for about 30 sec plugged back in and its been all green since. just keep ur eye on it and it should be better than i was before.i got my directv plugged in to it and a wii and using two laptops on it and seems to be ok. i am thinking about all those people who gave up on the wn2000rpt and got something else! hope your works as good as mine right now.
mw49827
Aspirant
Mar 13, 2012
Ok - I've switched mine off for a minute or so and back on. Let's see how it goes...
macpunc
Novice
Mar 13, 2012
mw49827 wrote:
Hi vinceroebuck - the repeater restarted as part of the upgrade process; I didn't switch it off/on nor restarted it explicitly.

Well I have applied the update 1.0.24 and noticed that my network speed is now 54mbs it was always 130mbs. This is proving to be a pointless exercise as I purchased the thing to get 130 mbs speeds.

vinceroebuck wrote:
dont give up yet, netgear has put out firmware 1.01.24na for the wn2000rpt. have had it for two days and no dropped internet connections. seems to be running ok now.

mw49827 wrote:
Hi vinceroebuck - the repeater restarted as part of the upgrade process; I didn't switch it off/on nor restarted it explicitly.

vinceroebuck

Apprentice

Mar 13, 2012

macpunc wrote:
Well I have applied the update 1.0.24 and noticed that my network speed is now 54mbs it was always 130mbs. This is proving to be a pointless exercise as I purchased the thing to get 130 mbs speeds.

macpunc wrote:
Well I have applied the update 1.0.24 and noticed that my network speed is now 54mbs it was always 130mbs. This is proving to be a pointless exercise as I purchased the thing to get 130 mbs speeds.

hey macpunc, what is the speed of the main router. i have a wndr3400 and its wireless n at 150 mbs. the wnr2000rpt is also running at 150mbs. these are all theoretical speeds, but it seems to me that the repeater will not go faster than the main router. something to check out. like i said earlier, all green lights on the front and hope it stays that way:D good luck

hyiothesia
Aspirant
Mar 14, 2012
I've updated to 1.01.24na. What I've noticed is that it still drops out but instead of having to reset the router it seems to auto recover. Problem is that it terminates the connection in the meantime of course. Here is what I did:

Connect to LAN port on WN2000RTP that is connected to my home network via WNR2000 wireless router. I have a laptop on the home network with a shared folder. I tried to copy 24.6 GB of files over to the shared folder. The connection dropped after about 2 GB of data. But I did not have to reset the repeater. However, because of the dropped connection I did have to tell the file transfer to retry, which is just as bad. The connection dropped again after about 300 MB of data. Again it reconnected.

Oh well, got excited that this might finally have been fixed.

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