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Having issues with R6080 internet/wifi connection. Wired connection still works
My AC1000 Dual Band WiFi Router, model R6080 is acting funky. All lights on the router are green except for the internet signal. When I try to connect to my 2.4G WiFi network, my phone will to try to...
green89043 wrote:
My router is still showing an amber/ orange light meaning it has a 100Mbps link, right?
Depending on which light we are talking about – there is a row of them on the router – amber certainly signifies 100 Mbps on LAN connections.
But being an basic router, the R6080 doesn't have the same diagnostic indicators as other routers.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.The manual will explain what the LEDs mean.
I tried the reset steps you outlined and my 2.4Ghz network still isn't working. The 5G network is working fine. I checked my internet service and it provides up to 100Mbps for download speed, upload speed is 5Mbps.
When my phone and computer connect to the 5G wifi, the internet connection is good. Any thoughts on why the 2.4G network isn't working?
green89043 wrote:
I tried the reset steps you outlined and my 2.4Ghz network still isn't working.
How does "isn't working" manifest itself.
It doesn't show up? You can't connect?
I checked my internet service and it provides up to 100Mbps for download speed, upload speed is 5Mbps.
You will not get that speed through this router. It claims to handle 100Mbps, but it isn't likely to get reach that to the usual overheads. More likely to max out at around the mid 90s Mbps.
When my phone and computer connect to the 5G wifi, the internet connection is good. Any thoughts on why the 2.4G network isn't working?
5 GHz devices will connect to the 5 GHz wifi.
What 2.4 GHz devices are you using?
Sorry for the confusion. By "isn't working" I mean it shows up as a WIFI network on my devices, but they're unable to connect to it. The 2.4 GHz devices I'm using are my work laptop, kindle, and smart bulbs.
green89043 wrote:
Sorry for the confusion. By "isn't working" I mean it shows up as a WIFI network on my devices, but they're unable to connect to it.
Again, it helps to have as much detail as possible. What happens when you try to connect to the wifi?
You need to pin down the problem to the router or the devices you are trying to connect. It is easy to think "router" but this is a two-way process.
There is usually some sort of error message. "Wrong password" for example.
You said earlier that you see "failed to connect to network". That sounds like a problem with the wifi client.
It can help to tell the wifi devices to forget that they ever encountered this wifi client and then to set up the connection again.
If 5 GHz devices work, but you have problems with 2.4 GHz, the router clearly manages to broadcast wifi.
Is the router still using the default SSID for the wifi, or have you changed it? The R6080 isn't fancy enough to have much in the way of "smart" wifi technology to get in the way.
The router defaults to the SSID version of the 2.4Ghz network in case a 5G netowrk setting is not the same. Th only thing I have changed regarding the default settings is the WiFi password. The password for the 5G network and 2.4 GHz network is the same.