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problems after upgrading to V1.0.9.60_10.2.60
Ever since I updated to the latest firmware I have had to reboot the router daily after loosing wi-fi. How do I solve this?
JerryPar
Go back to the .42 firmware release. .60 is troublesome for many.
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Go back to the .42 firmware release. .60 is troublesome for many.
I downloaded an earlier version as per instructions to my desktop but when I try to add this and run the router kicks it out each time.
Can anybody give me an idiots guide to show how to revert to an older version, PLEASE.
Thanks,
BP
beepee wrote:
I downloaded an earlier version as per instructions to my desktop but when I try to add this and run the router kicks it out each time.
I'd love to help you but I have no idea what happened? What does 'kicks it out' mean? Surely you can provide better details like an error or what actually you saw happen?
Which intructions did you follow? None were listed here?
Suspect you NEVER unzipped the file and didn't point the router to the proper .CHK file, but without more details I can't tell.
Thank you for your help. I did rollback to .42 so I will give this a try. I did have trouble with an earlier update, not as bad as this, but it was fixed with the update after that one. So I decided not to wait this time but will look for something later than .60 and go to it.
I thank the other repliers also, it helped not falling into the same traps.
JerryPar
I've found the issue to be with DNS. A downgrade of firmware caused all sorts of other problems with my setup and did not work as i have two r7000's with the second one as an AP.
After using google dns to locally override the router address provided by DHCP, i didn't have any issues. Set DNS manually on your client devices to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and it should work. Very didappointed in the lack of root cause analysis by Netgear, the opennes of their products to troubleshoot the issues on the devices themselves or the ability to acknowledge an issue and deliver a fix.
Thanks for your experience, it's appreciated. I was successful in falling back but it took several reboots before it was stable. Now I'm back to the old problems with this version; instead of having to reboot every day to connect the internet, I have to reboot about once a week to reconnect the USB backup drive. I'm now waiting for the next version in hopes that it will be more stable. Interesting I received an email from netgear that said a new version was available but the version that they identified is the one I fell back to. I wonder if they pulled that newer version.