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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.
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.
JerryPar wrote:
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.
Yes, they did and they didn't... I've never fully checked but I understand from some posts here they 'quietly' pulled the .60. Prior to the .60 there was a .58 release that had a lot of problems. That one was quickly pulled with an announcement I recall in some threads. Firmware is available a few ways. The FTP site, on the router Support page downloads, and via the Auto-Update on the router. From what I understand they DID pull .60 from the Auto-Update server. So no more routers would be forced into a d/l of it nor would the router state on the web GUI that an update was available. They DID leave it on the Support page for some unknown reason?