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Nighthawk R800 - Firmware Control
Hi There, It's my first post so please be gentle. We recently bought a Nighthawk R800 and have been loving it, but today our router restarted due to a firmware update is there any way we can auto swit...
Suspected there was no auto-update but would claim there wasn't. The latest F/W, V1.0.4.12 did come out a long time ago, so I'd think if there was auto-update involved it would have happened maybe sometime last month if staged out over a few weeks.'
More than likely it was a modem or ISP line going down?
There's clearly misunderstanding that R8000 even has auto-update firmware. Secondly, all Nighthawks that have auto-firmware update feature has ability to opt-out through advanced setting. So I am not sure where this issue is coming from.
Suspected there was no auto-update but would claim there wasn't. The latest F/W, V1.0.4.12 did come out a long time ago, so I'd think if there was auto-update involved it would have happened maybe sometime last month if staged out over a few weeks.'
More than likely it was a modem or ISP line going down?