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NETGEAR R8000 AC3200 Nighthawk X6 Random restart and drop all connections
Hi, I have an issue with my NETGEAR R8000 AC3200 Nighthawk X6 router. I was working fine with default firmware V1.0.3.4_1.1.2. Couple of months ago I installed the latest firmware V1.0.4.88_10.1....
- None of your solutions didn't work. I upgraded to
Firmware Version 1.0.5.88 and it becomes worse.
It looks like the issue is Netgear firmware. It fills up the memory and use all CPU cause to restart the router in heavy load. It started to over heat.
So I decided to flash the router with the Freshtomato open source firmware and everything is working smoothly. Now I can get over 800Mbps internet speed. I downloaded lot of small and big files for hours and that old issue never raised.
So I can confirm it is a Netgear firmware issues. If anyone has the same issue no point of posting here. Just flash your router with Freshtomato https://freshtomato.org/
Thank you.
Thank you for your reply. I can't see any model number in ONT. Anyway it should be re-branded model of Nokia-ONT G-010G-Q. Here is the photo of it.
ONT and router is connected with the original Cat6 cable which provided by BT Openreach.
It is still working without any issues with original BT router.
I don't use Armor, IPv6, Guest Network, Smart Parental Controls or Circle, Traffic Meter.
One thing I notice is once I upgraded to latest firmware Internet speed has dropped dramatically by 150Mbps to 200Mbps. Now I'm getting around 500Mbps to 600Mpbs on 900Mbps full fiber BT broadband connection.
I already tried everything you explained except factory rest.
Router isn't restarting when I don't use it for download large files. Router isn't over heated or anything when it restarts.
Do you think router NVRAM is full?
Thank you.
Try a factory reset and setup from scratch and see if the issue continues.
Anuruddha08 wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I can't see any model number in ONT. Anyway it should be re-branded model of Nokia-ONT G-010G-Q. Here is the photo of it.
ONT and router is connected with the original Cat6 cable which provided by BT Openreach.
It is still working without any issues with original BT router.
I don't use Armor, IPv6, Guest Network, Smart Parental Controls or Circle, Traffic Meter.
One thing I notice is once I upgraded to latest firmware Internet speed has dropped dramatically by 150Mbps to 200Mbps. Now I'm getting around 500Mbps to 600Mpbs on 900Mbps full fiber BT broadband connection.
I already tried everything you explained except factory rest.
Router isn't restarting when I don't use it for download large files. Router isn't over heated or anything when it restarts.
Do you think router NVRAM is full?
Thank you.
Can you please recommend any stable firmware? I have seen many people report the same issue everywhere with this R8000-V1.0.4.88_10.1.88_hotfix firware and others too. I can't chose which is the most stable.
Thank you.