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Weak Wireless Connection Crashes Entire Network
My R6100 wireless router works well so long as connected devices recieve a strong signal. If a device's wireless connection receives a weak signal by moving too far away from the router for a few sec...
Well I finally got it to work.
They've made such a F***fest out of the internet here in Australia.
What I had to do was put the MAC adress as the router ones. So manually put that in.
Set it to PPoE. Put in your Account name. No passwords.
Connection mode is 'always on'.
Put the settings for IP adress as 'Dynamic Ask from prodiver'.
Adress domainserver is 'Ask automatically from Provider'.
And here's the trick what it was all about.
Go to advanced settings.
Go to VLAN/Bridge settings.
Check the box of VLAN Tags.
and depending on your internet provider you have to set the Vlan ID and the Priority.
In my case with Internode is was VLAN tag to 2. and Priority to 0.
It didn't work because my Internet Provider told me to put Priority on 2.
So do all that. Unplug the power from your Router and Modem. Do a Power Cycle. Not a Reset. That worked for me. Hopefully it could help someone else. Cheers!
I held down the reset button for longer this time and I noticed the router was successfully reset to factory settings. It still kept the newest firmware version after resetting though. If my issue persists I will explore my options in terms of potentially resetting to the original firmware. Maybe everything is fixed now. Thank you very much for your help.
> [...] It still kept the newest firmware version after resetting
> though. [...]
To be expected. "factory reset" is a misnomer. It's a _settings_
reset, and has no effect on the firmware.
> [...] potentially resetting to the original firmware. [...]
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Downloads. (For older versions, under Firmware and Software
Downloads, look for "View Previous Versions".) Find the kit(s).
Download the kit(s) you want. Read the "Release Notes" file for
instructions. (In the User Manual, look for "firmware", and,
especially, for a topic like "Manually Upload Firmware to the Router".)
When that fails because of a deficient User Manual, try: