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r6080 ac1000 wireless devices don't work after being disconnected
first off my inernet is slow at 5mbps a good chunk of me assumes this router will not function properly with my slowness. anyways let's get to what is wrong. first, wired connections seem fine and i ...
last update. i have found out that even the wired connections aren't safe and that what it seems to be doing is blocking all connections beyond the first so i can get it to do stuff if i disonnect one pc and then try to use another. since it seems to actively block anything beyond the first device that manages to use the internet i am assuming that it is indeed some kind of 'feature' of the router which makes it garbage for anyone with internet not 50mbps.
so my solution is simple, i will be returning the item, leaving my first and likely only review to vent, and never buying netgear again. i don't think my negative review or me avoiding netgear will do much of anything but maybe someone will see this or my review and not be put through desperate hours of trying to fix something they cannot and will just return it to get a different router. thanks for your attempt to help though.
Forgive me for not being able to understand all of this long message. But can you clarify this bit?
POturtle wrote:
the router is brand new and i've done various things like switching which part i was connecting to, turning off the guest or 5g, connecting to the 5g, updating firmware,
Does this mean that you updated the firmware after you got the R6080?
Did you reset the router to factory settings after the firmware flash?
New firmware can fix problems but it sometimes introduces changes that are not compatible with the old configuration.
So while it isn't guaranteed to fix problems a factory reset is the first thing to try if you have issues with new firmware.
unfourtunately this has not helped and i did make sure to hold the reset button until it powered off and did actually reset back to it's old info however unlike when i first got it i couldn't even connect once so perhaps the firmware has some odd option that is preventing me from connecting for some reason. searching the internet desperately i found mentions of something called QOS could this be my issue that it is just seeing my small amount of internet speed and entirely dedicating it to the wired connections while preventing wireless ones? it seems strange to me that i was able to connect once when new but now, even after factory restore, it is like it is actively preventing this unless on the device i am connecting with i can give it a static ip.
for reference i found that i could download old firmware for my router here and rolled it back to what it came as and still doesn't work. though now if i try to connect to the 5g one it says authentication error though the normal one still says ap unvailable or just keeps disconencting and trying again and again.
last update. i have found out that even the wired connections aren't safe and that what it seems to be doing is blocking all connections beyond the first so i can get it to do stuff if i disonnect one pc and then try to use another. since it seems to actively block anything beyond the first device that manages to use the internet i am assuming that it is indeed some kind of 'feature' of the router which makes it garbage for anyone with internet not 50mbps.
so my solution is simple, i will be returning the item, leaving my first and likely only review to vent, and never buying netgear again. i don't think my negative review or me avoiding netgear will do much of anything but maybe someone will see this or my review and not be put through desperate hours of trying to fix something they cannot and will just return it to get a different router. thanks for your attempt to help though.