Just picked up my wn3000rp and hooked it up to my d-link dir-855 main router.All my wireless clients can connect to the extended network without any problems but... after 10 minutes the connection is dropped between the router and the wn3000rp.I have tried to restore it to factory defaults and reconnect it. Same thing happens every time.MAC filtering is turned off on both ends.Any ideas would be helpful. Thank you.Nicklas

I am having the same problem so any advice would be great

I have exactly the same issue...

I'm experiencing problems as well. I have a number of devices connected both wirelessly and wired through a switch to the WN3000RP. Several times a day I'll lose connectivity to the internet on devices connected to the WN3000RP. I can generally still access the WN3000RP administration page (unless my DHCP lease has expired) and it always shows a connection to the parent WIFI network and a connection status of 'connected', but pinging the router (a wndr3700v1 that works flawlessly to my knowledge) just shows timeouts. Typically unplugging the WN3000RP and plugging it back in will restore connectivity, but this is not an acceptable long term solution.

I have the same issue with my WN3000RP. Wish there was a solution.

Have an Intel iMac, Airport Extreme basestation (APX), iPad, iPad2, iPhone4 and a recently acquired WN3000RP repeater. The iMac is not on the wireless network. Although the APX works great I had a range issue and got the repeater to solve it. For the first 2 weeks it worked as expected. Now it drops its connection to my network (green connection LED blinks off) about 2-3 minutes after it's selected to be my wireless network by one of my devices. Repeated calls to tech support :( take me through the same troubleshooting steps each time despite my protests. Changing encryption, wireless channels, re-installing, resetting, etc. have resolved nothing. Problem persists. I suspect that WPS may be the problem but I've been unable to deactivate it. Green LED comes on no matter how I set up the repeater.Any suggestions?

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JJS68
Tutor
Feb 09, 2012
bummer, the WN3000RP lost connection to the router again, never reconnected, but that was a lot longer then ever before
miketyson_
Novice
Feb 09, 2012
I believe you have also another problem, after the creation of the MAC addresses list my connection is up 24/24 since 3 days. Before that I experienced a disconnection every 15-20 minutes.
miketyson_
Novice
Feb 09, 2012
The typical result of the WPS bug is if you try visit any website through a browser you are redirected to the hijack page. Is that happened with your last disconnect ?

JJS68

Tutor

Feb 09, 2012

miketyson_ wrote:
I believe you have also another problem, after the creation of the MAC addresses list my connection is up 24/24 since 3 days. Before that I experienced a disconnection every 15-20 minutes.

miketyson_ wrote:
I believe you have also another problem, after the creation of the MAC addresses list my connection is up 24/24 since 3 days. Before that I experienced a disconnection every 15-20 minutes.

that was what was happening to me before the MAC based security, maybe it was a fluke, well see, hopefully we get a firmware fix to at least try to reconnect when it loses it's connection

goneinsane
Aspirant
Feb 12, 2012
Would any of you that have tried the MAC security solution to the drop out problem be able to describe how this is achieved (or the technically challenged!). Which devices need to be given access to the extender modem/routers, adapters etc? Thanks.
Miketyson
Aspirant
Feb 12, 2012
Under 'Advanced' in 'Wireless Setting' you can find the 'Setup Access List' button. You should check 'Turn Access Control On' and add the list of all MAC Addresses of the devices allowed to access the WN3000RP (all your devices you want to use with the extender)
This way all the other devices trying to access the extender for a WPS authentication will be refused prior to try the connection.
- Shick31
  Aspirant
  Oct 12, 2015
  I'm still having this problem 6 years later! If by chance you read this help would be appreciated. I'm trying to set up the MAC list mentioned above, and have added my phone and laptop to the list, but as a test have not added my ipad. Have clicked apply, exited from settings, yet can still access internet through Ipad, even though it is not on the approved MAC list?
  - nhann
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 13, 2015
    Hi Shick31,
    
    Which router are you using with the WN3000RP?
decypher01
Novice
Feb 16, 2012
I am intrigued about this device :rolleyes: I will just have to wait if it has already a stable firmware i guess.

Its safe to assume that you guys have this problem during fresh installation right?
Miketyson
Aspirant
Feb 16, 2012
Yes this is a native problem, but it is an issue only if you have WPS devices in your neighbor and it can be solved with the MAC access list. Besides this the device works very well and is very easy to implement.
decypher01
Novice
Feb 16, 2012
How about flashing the firmware? would it work?
creeco
Novice
Feb 19, 2012
mine doenst even work at all. Never got it to connect to my network.... its funny when every other device in the world can :))) its pretty, but useless ill never buy netgear again in my life

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