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NTP Settings / Time Zone Setting Ignored / Reverts Back
So now that I managed to get my new Nighthawk R8000 working on my Sky Ultrafast connection... I'm having an issue whereby the internet connection is dropping precisely every 24 hours. I'm at a semi-l...
So my optimism was short-lived... 24 hours on and the same issue - internet disconnected. This time, I left the mac address as it was (clearly not important), and what restored the connection was a change of IPv6 mode. I am fairly confident that the same thing will fix it again tomorrow. Anyone any ideas why changing IPv6 mode to something different works for 24 hours, then stops working again until it is again changed to a different mode? To me it's just bizarre...
So I spent a full week trying different settings every 24 hours to see if I could figure it out. I even left it overnight to see if it would reconnect on it's own, but alas it would not. So I have now reluctantly abandoned efforts to get it working standalone and instead have resolved the problem by using it in AP mode, alongside the ISP's router. At some point in the future I'll likely switch to an ISP that will allow me to use it properly.