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Netgear Nighthawk R9000 No Longer Broadcasting WiFi Bands
Hi all, my AD7200 Smart WiFi Router stopped broadcasting WiFi bands at all, ethernet ports are fine just no WiFi access at all.
Currently running latest firmware V1.0.5.42
Netgear Support wasn't much help past the resetting the router by pressing the reset button for a minute, which didn't resolve the issue either. The bands just never show up at all.
I've done that multiple times now, going so far as to leave the modem and/or router unplugged, sometimes for a few hours up to a couple of days. I've toggled the Wifi button, and tried setting it up from Windows and the Nighthawk app on my mobile device. I tried downgrading to V1.0.5.40 firmware, changing SSID names, and using with/without smart connect enabled.
The modem works fine (just a modem/not a combo) and the TP-link router I have will connect to the modem directly or to the R9000 and broadcast without issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Try uploading that pic again. Not sure what happened there.
Try a 30-30-30 reset on the router?
No luck on that either.
MIght try some Voxel FW over on smallnetbuilders forum.
Last ditch effort:
Trying to upload image again, attaching just in case it still fails:
I didn't see anyone mention trying to push the wifi on/off button for at least 2 seconds on here. Was that tried? I know it sounds stupid but a factory reset won't fix if the wifi on/off caused the disabling.
