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CBanse
Aspirant
Oct 06, 2017
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Manually turning off wi-fi messes up turning on wireless signal by schedule.

I programmed my AC1450 to shut off wi-fi at 11pm and turn on at 6 am daily. It works as programmed...as long as I do not manually press the wi-fi on-off button on the side of the unit. If I do turn it off manually during the day, it will not turn on the next morning as programmed. My Netgear WNR1000 router never had a problem not following the programmed on-off times when I manually turned off the wi-fi.

 

Note that at the time I installed the AC1450 router, I also changed the modem from a SB-6121 to a SB-6141. However, I don't think that the modem change would affect the router. The current software version in the AC1450 is V1.0.0.36_10.0.17. According to Netgear Genie, "No new firmware version available".

 

I have two computers hard-wired to the router (a win8.1 laptop and a win 7 desktop). I tried programming on both using ethernet and wifi (on different days).  I also tried programming from my phone (Verizon Moto x w/Android 5.1).

  • Per router specs according to our engineers, pushing the WiFi button takes precedence. 

    So, the scheduling is ignored once you push the on/off WiFi button. 

     

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  • Additional info.  My issue applies only to the 2.4GHz radio.  The 5 GHZ radio is turned off as I do not have any devices that operate on 5GHz.

    • ElaineM's avatar
      ElaineM
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      Welcome to the community, CBanse

       

      Will you experience the problem if you downgrade the firmware version of the router?

      Try to downgrade the firmware to 1.0.0.34.

       

      • CBanse's avatar
        CBanse
        Aspirant
        I will try that and report back in a few days. Thanks for your response.