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Nighthawk X8 R8500 - wifi problems
Ok so this is my 4th R8500 router - 1 of them I have successfully working and it is great. Of the other 3, all of them have come with a wifi issues, out of the box the "first" 5ghz network will not w...
Hey. Thanks for the reply. We have nothing like that near us. In the end I went through 5 of the R8500 all of them had some sort of transmission issue. In the end I am sad to say I switched to a linksys and it has worked perfectly. I do have an R8500 at home which works flawlessly. I am guessing it was just a bad batch!
Litty wrote:
So when I first booted it up it worked amazing for about a week and then went out and so I tried to reboot it and now the wifi only shows for a split second and I can't connect in time. And it just shows red on the internet. And it'll like cycle blue led lights and go off. I punch in the password and it says unable to connect. Any thoughts?
Sounds like the is not booting fillly have you tried a reset of the router to see if the problem clears up.
Yes I have it just makes all the lights come on then goes off before I can even connect.