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Getting DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE error on R8000
In about the last month and a half, I have started noticing two things: * pings spike every 5 minutes, from about 8-9ms, to over 1000ms, for 5-10 seconds (this messes up Remote Desktop) * DNS_PR...
"I rolled back from 76 to 68 and the problems went away."
Carcathian wrote:
I too am having this issue and it's frustrating to do anything when you have to refresh your web pages or applications most of the time, Especially now that I and many others work remote from home. I know a lot more people must be getting this issue but won't know the root of the issue since everything online points people to just release, refresh and renew DNS. The common user usually does not know toubleshooting with process of elimination to pinpoint it to the router.
Is there anyone from the customer support or dev team seeing this?
I just hate having to get a new router and to review Netgear routers badly becasue of something simple as a firmware issue.
I agree, it seems not okay that this is still an issue after all this time. FreshTomato is working well for me, but it's not trivial and the product should work without having to do that. I will caution that FreshTomato once rebooted and reverted back to factory settings. Should you go that route, back up your config, particularly if you use QOS. Which, btw, QOS is awesome, but takes some tweaking. Very useful.
Users are encouraged to contact NG support and let them know what here seeing. https://my.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx
Good Luck.