Because of DNS issues in the latest revision, I am trying to downgrade my firmware from V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 to R7900P-V1.4.1.62_1.3.22.I select the .chk file but after a few seconds of uploading it says connection reset and nothing else happens. What am I doing incorrectly?Regards,Rob

WEll with all thats been going on in the world, things change and development and test have been impacted. NG is aware of the issues. May take time for them to get things fixed. Be patient. Glad you got it working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed. https://kb.netgear.com/24231/How-do-I-back-up-the-router-configuration-settings-on-my-Nighthawk-routerEnjoy. 📡

Where on earth is Netgear in this debacle? This has been an issue for months. I still get "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN".Now it is not only impacting webrowsing but I suspect another application that uses DNS.It is hard to believe that a company for whom this is core business has not fixed this yet.

So you'll need to downgrade to prior FW version or what worked for you. Robwuk wrote: Where on earth is Netgear in this debacle? This has been an issue for months. I still get "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN".Now it is not only impacting webrowsing but I suspect another application that uses DNS. It is hard to believe that a company for whom this is core business has not fixed this yet.

I did downgrade to V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 with the help of netgear support. But I am now still getting the issue.

v.84 is the recent version of FW so you'll need to downgrade to something older then this version. Try v.62? Robwuk wrote: I did downgrade to V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 with the help of netgear support. But I am now still getting the issue.

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Robwuk
Tutor
Mar 28, 2022
Where on earth is Netgear in this debacle? This has been an issue for months. I still get "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN".
Now it is not only impacting webrowsing but I suspect another application that uses DNS.
It is hard to believe that a company for whom this is core business has not fixed this yet.
- FURRYe38
  Guru - Experienced User
  Mar 28, 2022
  So you'll need to downgrade to prior FW version or what worked for you.
  
  Robwuk wrote:
  
  Where on earth is Netgear in this debacle? This has been an issue for months. I still get "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN".
  Now it is not only impacting webrowsing but I suspect another application that uses DNS.
  
  It is hard to believe that a company for whom this is core business has not fixed this yet.
- Robwuk
  Tutor
  Mar 28, 2022
  I did downgrade to V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 with the help of netgear support. But I am now still getting the issue.
  - FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Mar 28, 2022
    v.84 is the recent version of FW so you'll need to downgrade to something older then this version. Try v.62?
    
    Robwuk wrote:
    
    I did downgrade to V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 with the help of netgear support. But I am now still getting the issue.

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