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Windows 10 laptop causes WNDR4500v3 to crash/restart every couple of minutes
I've been using a WNDR4500v3 (current firmware is 1.0.0.32) for over a year with no issues. Our cellphones, Ipads, apple TV, a 2007 iMac, and two laptops running Windows 8.1 all work fine. I just bou...
For the benefit of others who are reading this, there's a beta fw that may resolve this issue.
Feel free to send me a PM should you have the same concern with WNDR4500v3 only.
Issue same as OP. Been using the WNDR4500v3 (current firmware is 1.0.0.32 - which is the latest version according to Netgear) for at least a year with no issues, really pleased with the router. I have an Alienware 17 R4 with a Killer Wireless 1435 that has been dropping my router everytime it has to do any heavy lifting (gaming downloads, Office 2016 install, hitting multiple web pages in one go). I am using Windows 10 Pro.
Contacted Alienware help first - they updated BIOs and Killer driver to latest and greatest. Later in that day, no luck, wifi dropped. What is strange is that I can sometimes download large games (Steam) in half an hour but when I go to 3 websites at the same time, it gets dropped more or less randomly. Pretty frustrating to say the least. Alienware tells me it's an incompatibility between Router + Windows 10 (Anniversary Update) but online there are plenty of forum posts where users with different routers are having the same issue with Killer Wireless 1535/1435. Ethernet will absolutely work fine but that isn't the point of a laptop.
I have already tried different versions of the Killer driver, including completely uninstalling it for the base Windows driver. Nothing has consistently worked so far. PM'ed ElaineM for the Beta Firmware in hopes that will help.