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IS YOUR ROUTER MAC ID BOUND TO YOUR INTERNET PROVIDER?
I bought my R8000 on October 23, 2014. I've owned MANY NETGEAR ROUTERS and had a cable modem here in Anchorage, Alaska for as long as I can remember. For quite some time now I've had the strangest ...
I figured out the problem early this morning after hundreds of hours work, THE R8000 IS DEFECTIVE. How do I know this: The WPS Quit Working Long Ago, Wireless Connectivity Was Spotty At Best And Seemed To Change With Every Boot Up, MAC ID Problems NOBODY Seems Willing To Explain To Me, I HOOKED UP MY OLD NETGEAR 900 AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY!! TO BAD MY WARRANTY EXPIRED ON OCTOBER 23RD, 2015
Did you try reflashing the firmware? Perhaps something got corrupted. It can't hurt.
Just make sure to reset to factory defaults both before and after flashing then load all the setup parameters manually.
First of all, I want to Thank ALL the people at NETGEAR for helping me NOT go out and spend $300 on a new R8000. When “rpoffen” wrote in his reply: “Did you try re-flashing the firmware? Perhaps something got corrupted. It can't hurt. Just make sure to reset to factory defaults both before and after flashing then load all the setup parameters manually”. It kicked my weakened brain (because of age) into another gear. I thought sure, I used to do that all the time. I just needed to read up on the procedure. After I downloaded the procedure from The Community I performed all the required steps on my R8000 and for the most part it came back to life. My R8000 there seems to be a problem with the WPS. I don’t think I need WPS since I know every password on my network (actually I have labels partially covering my desk. . .) All 3 Wireless Networks are up and running NETGEAR17 Is Running @ 600 Mbps, NETGEAR17-5G-1 Is Running @ 1300 Mbps and NETGEAR17-5G-2 Is Running @ 1300 Mbps. Maybe if anybody reads this I’d like to know for sure: Do I Really Need WPS After All?? It might be an incompatibly between my TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Wireless Network Adapter and my R8000. I’m unable to track down the source of the WPS problem but if I don’t need it, C'est la vie.
Last Time I Checked My Internet Connection It Was Running At:
Download Speed: 279270 kbps (34908.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 45578 kbps (5697.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 8 milliseconds
Jitter: 0 milliseconds
11/19/2015, 12:50:45 AM
It’s run as high as 565 Mbps Down and 55 Mbps Up. Our cable company just rolled out their newest cable modems and doubled everyone’s internet for nothing. They say they’ll be at 1GB by December 31, 2015 and still no increase in price. I remember when I had a Hayes 300 Baud Modem. . .
Hopefully I’m through diagnosing problems. My R8000 is not 100% but it’s working. If NETGEAR hangs me out to dry just because the thing went belly up 25 DAYS AFTER THE WARRANTY EXPIRED I most likely won’t be back. Regards, MrRankDog.