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Nighthawk R7000P, to stream movies/Apps, I need to shut on/off this two to three times daily!
SUBJECT : Nighthawk R7000P, to stream movies/Apps, need to shut on/off two to three times daily!! Last June of 2020, I replaced my ARRIS Motorola router with my current Netgear Nighthawk R7000P....
Can you boil that long saga down to a brief description of the problem you have? Stick to technical issues.
Is this it?
NettyJim17 wrote:
SUBJECT : Nighthawk R7000P, to stream movies/Apps, need to shut on/off two to three times daily!!
Why do you think you have to turn the router on/off? You see some symptom or other?
NettyJim17 wrote:
To be clear, when someone streams a movie on their smart TV'S, do they need BOTH the WIFI and, HARDWIRED connection....?
No.
One or the other, preferably the wired connection. It is more reliable and almost certainly faster.
NettyJim17 wrote:
I might need to update the firmware on my netgear, but ran into problems trying to update my EX6100 Extender. Ive downloaded the latest version, but need to find out how to upgrade to, 1.3.2.134 version.
Not sure that I understand that. What has the firmware for the R7000P got to do with your EX6100?
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You said, "One or the other, preferably the wired connection. It is more reliable and almost certainly faster." This was why I need to see if any router settings are misconfigured. if I choose WIRED CONNECTION, an error pops up telling me, "FAILED, I am connected to the Internet, but not to my network."
trust me, the only way I can get to the internet to watch a darn streaming Youtube, or Netflix, I need to go into my Internet Settings, then I need to DO BOTH, (WIRED AND WIFI) in order for this to work. Spectrum said they are not to blame, that my router must be configured properly, and if you tell me that I do not need BOTH WIRED and WIFI, then it must be my router settings.
But I can not get beyond those two nagging questions like which netgear product did you buy? EXT6100, then another only answer to the second question, and I never changed these, so why does netgear feel the need to change these for me?