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I’ve received a couple emails over the past couple months stating a new version of firmware is available. Checking this website it does indeed show newer firmware. I show that I am running Firmware Ve...
Okay, here we go - I have the results for this issue. I was originally at V1.2.0.22_1.0.78 of firmware for my Netgear Nighthawk R6900P router. I just manually downloaded the latest firmware release NETGEAR Router R6900P V1.3.0.8_1.0.93. The manual upgrade after downloading this release to my PC worked fine. What this means to me is that when the Netgear Router is operating in Access Point mode, it will appear to go to the Netgear server to check for the latest release, but apparent this function must be disabled like many other functions if your router is operating in AP mode. I am current using the Netgear router in AP mode since I have a Verizon Fios router in line from a recent upgrade to Verizon Fios Gigabit Internet. My plan is to eventually eliminate the Fios Router, since the Netgear WiFi coverage is far superior to the Verizon Router. I hope this helps those in similar situations where they have their router attached in AP mode to an ISP router. I guess I will just manually perform these upgrades while my router is operating in AP mode. It would be benefical if Netgear could make in known that the firmware check routine does not work in AP mode, as they have done with the other functions that do not work. As a previous responder mentioned, although they do not mention this by name, some of the functions that will not work in AP mode would make you think that the firmware check does not work. It is still not clear to me why it does not work since Internet access gets passed though the Netgear router in AP mode. Thank goodness for the Netgear emails or I would not have realized that my router was out-of-date because I have always used the firmware check procedure and it does appear to go out to the Netgear server to check and comes back no newer firmware available. CASE CLOSED. Thanks for all our your input. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of great, timely suggestions.
tkwilli wrote:
A month later, I switched to Verizon Fios in the same type of configuration. Fios Internet->Fios Router-> Netgear Router—>WiFi & Ethernet local network.
That's a very different topology that you did not mention before.
You can expect trouble if you have two routers fighting for control of your network.
The usual way to deal with that arrangement of hardware is to set the first router as the network router and the second router as an access point, which turns off its router feature. Or to set the first router as "modem only", killing its router feature, and to use the second one as the network router.
Maybe you did one of those. We don't know.
> You can expect trouble if you have two routers fighting for control of
> your network.
Unless they're connected in unusual ways, "two routers" do not "fight
for control of your network". This is, generally, not a productive way
to think about the situation.
What typically happens is that "your network" gets divided into
separate sub-networks, and that multi-subnet arrangement can cause
problems ("double NAT", missing routes, and so on). But there's
typically no "fighting" for anything, and it's not helpful to describe
the situation that way (that is, inaccurately). (But I assume that one
of us will continue to do so.)