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Nighthawk R7000P Keeps Restarting
As the subject states, my R7000P keeps restarting. It's about a year 10months old so I don't think age is an issue? This behavior has occurred randomly with no pattern within the past year but re...
Thanks for your response!
Not sure what MFR stands for but the modem is an Arris SB6103. Modem behavior is fine - nothing happens to it when internet goes down though.
I'll try the wifi channel change and will have to follow-up in a few days if that does or doesn't change anything. Out of curiosity - how would the changing the channels affect the router restarting? From what I understand, changing channels only affects speed. Also, the two desktops are connected via ethernet but their internet still goes down when the router restarts itself so I'm not sure if the channels could be the cause. Again, I will follow-up since I did try this and didn't change include this in my troubleshooting.
We do have quite a few WiFi neighbors as we live in a townhouse but I don't think that's an issue as we haven't had any recent moves by neighbors or changes to surrounding area wifi. I think there's about 8 unique connections/WiFi I can connect to?
I didn't try reverting but that previous FW wasn't really working/I don't think that's the issue since the router was already restarting frequently on previous FW. Updating did not help.
What channels are you using? Auto? Try Auto and 48 on 5Ghz. Or try setting manual channel 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and 40 to 48 channel on 5Ghz.
Having wifi neighbors near by can cause the router to reboot to restart and find a new channel thats less congested or less interference is one cause.
Has a factory reset and setup from scratch been performed since last FW update?
I was using Auto on 5Ghz. I have tried 48, 151, 168 with no luck. I ran some command on cmd prompt to pick those upper ones since no other routers in my area were using those. Trying 40 right now.
On 2.4 I've tried 1, 6, and trying 11 right now.
I have not done a factory reset on the new FW yet so I'll give that a go if the router restarts again on those other channels.
- Restarted even after the firmware updates and channel changes.
Any other ideas?If you start getting tired of that router and about to ditch it for something else you can always try third party firmware like dd-wrt. I see on their page that you can flash it with dd-wrt for your model of router. Maybe that will make it more stable.