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Ongoing issues when power is lost or router is rebooted - R7000
I'm having an ongoing issue whenever I lose power at my house (not frequent) or whenever I reboot my router. Sometimes, the router will lose all of my settings and revert back to factory ssid and pa...
Firmware Version
V1.0.9.88_10.2.88
5 or 6 neighboring wifi's
traffice meter is off, armor, smart parental control not enabled
arrgghh, issues again this morning. sitting here reading email on desktop computer, while looking up stock info on laptop, take a break and go to watch tv on a Roku tv and it will not connect to internet, even though it shows excellent signal, also Ipad will not connect. So, these devices worked just fine last night before bed, and obviously with desktop and laptop, my internet is still up, very, very frustrating.
and yet another update to previous post, i left to take car to repair shop, returned home, and without turning off or changing anything, now my desktop and laptop will not connect to router, but low and behold my ipad connects and i can surf the web. this is the type of frustration i've been dealing with since i took the plunge last year and updated my firmware. arrrggghhhh. since the firmware upgrade I have installed a battery backup, swapped my router with the same model, replaced my cable modem with a newer model/version, performed a factory reset, manually entered settings and still have issues. Still researching previous versions of firmware to see what changes were introduced that could be causing so much of an issue.
As I review the firmware available on the netgear site, I see several new versions, see snapshot below. What's puzzling is that when I check via the router page it says not new firmware version available.
Anyway, from what I can determine 1.0.9.42 may be the winner for going backwards.
Not sure why last year when I finally decided to perform an update, the router pushed 1.0.9.88, it looks like there were newer versions available.
fishsteve wrote:
What's puzzling is that when I check via the router page it says not new firmware version available.
Those "self tests" are notoriously unreliable, the mobile apps are even worse. We see many erroneous reports here of "no new firmware available".
In this case it may because of the huge jump between your version and the latest. Your version, from 2019, is near on four years old. Sometimes the leap in versions is just too big.
You may have to install an intermediate version for new firmware to take.
Anyway, from what I can determine 1.0.9.42 may be the winner for going backwards.
What makes you say that? Why not go for the latest?
If that fails, by all means backtrack. But with no good reason for doing so now, you could be asking for trouble.
it looks like armor was added with 1.0.9.88, so looking for updates before armor. (The firmware I had before did not have armor and I had no issues).
So, the three most recent files before the .88 release were .64, .60. and .42.when looking at the link for .64, in addition to the fixes, it also list some known issues, this would leave me to believe these issues are known to exist in this release.
Feedback I read for .60 was not positive, but did find some messages about .42 as stable, so that's why i picked 42.
fishsteve wrote:
it looks like armor was added with 1.0.9.88, so looking for updates before armor.
Why?
Don't enable Armor and you won't know it is there.
If you have bugs in your device and you aren't prepared to instal;l the latest firmware, then there isn't much that anyone can do for you, or much point in continuing to troubleshoot your device.
New firmware doesn't just squish bugs, in memory management for example and add features, it also deals with security issues and possible changes in the ways that ISPs configure their networks.
You lose nothing by applying the latest firmware. You can always roll back.
Failing that, if you really don't want the latest firmware you might want to investigate the use of third party firmware.
