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Internet connected / Time synchronized every 6hrs drops connections
Greetings to one and all, Been happening for months now, I can time it to the second as to when my IPTV locks up lol I've checked logs and seen that I had an intruder through the Upnp (so disabled...
IP address renewal happens all the time on networks. A renewal of IP address of the WAN interface on the router should not cause a pause in the IPTV. I would look at the router and specifically the router firmware. It might be worth the effort to go to an older version of the firmware. Do you know of a version that seemed to work for you? If so I would reinstall that. You could try a hard reset, but not really sure what that would accomplish in this case, but who knows?
Thank you for the reply,
| Lease Obtained | 0 days,12 Hours,0 Minutes |
| Lease Expires | 0 days,6 Hours,59 Minutes |
okay, i understand the lease renewal at half time, that fits what's happening here but my problem still exists that at every 6hr interval my iptv will freeze on my 5G (high end android boxes) and its annoying as heck! I was hoping for an uninterupted experience, is there anyway to fix this so it doesnt interupt my IPTV? I mean a router shouldn't freeze devices while doing an ip renewal.
If only IPTV freezes, and no other devices, then the problem is probably with IPTV.
This appears to be a common problem when I Google'd "iptv will freeze"? Might want to look at some of those.
There is a difference also between freezing and buffering. First one mean it completely stops and doesn't change, the other it stops and then starts again. Those are two different problems. Freezing is locking up and you have to reboot or restart, the other pauses and then jumps ahead and usually indicates either slow internet that can't fill up the buffer and then starts when new frames come in until it happens again.
Possible QoS could help here IF Internet speed is slow, or hurt if Internet speed is 2-300Mbps or higher.
Download - 43.50Mbps
Upload - 10.98Mbps
Qos is enabled. I've had the R7000 and never had issues with streaming with the same IPTV service that i've had for years now. Same speed I've always had from ISP. I've never had issues streaming/multiple devices on my network all running at once, ever, till now.
I'm personally thinking that the router as robust as the AC3200 R8000 should be able to handle an IP address renewal at HALF interval without loss of any connection before it fully expires and actually loses connection without IP renewal period. I mean nothing is actually changing since the IP address isnt actually running out for another 6hrs AFTER the half way renewal. IF anything, it should be once a day IF my ip addy changed but it doesn't.IP address renewal happens all the time on networks. A renewal of IP address of the WAN interface on the router should not cause a pause in the IPTV. I would look at the router and specifically the router firmware. It might be worth the effort to go to an older version of the firmware. Do you know of a version that seemed to work for you? If so I would reinstall that. You could try a hard reset, but not really sure what that would accomplish in this case, but who knows?
myersw wrote:
IP address renewal happens all the time on networks. A renewal of IP address of the WAN interface on the router should not cause a pause in the IPTV. I would look at the router and specifically the router firmware. It might be worth the effort to go to an older version of the firmware. Do you know of a version that seemed to work for you? If so I would reinstall that. You could try a hard reset, but not really sure what that would accomplish in this case, but who knows?
Come on Bill... on your 'crap firmware' kick yet again?
If this were a F/W problem then ALL devices would suffer. It appears it is ONLY IPTV. He did say though it work before with an R7000.
We don't even KNOW if this KB article was followed setting IPTV up, https://kb.netgear.com/29911/Configuring-VLAN-IPTV-setup-on-your-Nighthawk-router?
Try and help solve the problem before blaming the F/W please.