NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
R6900 locking up
After I power off my Oculus 2 VR headset, the router locks up.
I am unable to re-connect to the router (wired and wireless). I am at firmware 1.0.2.16_10.0.42
Has anyone else experienced this?
I usually have to power cycle the router. The other work around is to just not power off the VR headset but that's not ideal.
I believe the R6900 had some hardware issue. I am not sure. If I get really motivated I might do more probing.
But after replacing it with a different router, I have not had any issues for the past two days, even with the Oculus 2 being
powered off. The R6900 only lasted for 2 - 3 years. I bought it from Costco.
I'm going to mark this as resolved.
4 Replies
I suspect that the router is having hardware issues. In addition to the router being unavailable after using Oculus 2, the router has started intermittently dropping all devices and within a few seconds or so coming back. This results in a minute or more of interrupted video conference calls, etc. The interruptions have been gradually getting worse from infrequent, to more than once per day. I don't think the Oculus 2 VR headset had anything to do with the outages. Yesterday, I swapped out the router for another one and will see how things look today.
I believe the R6900 had some hardware issue. I am not sure. If I get really motivated I might do more probing.
But after replacing it with a different router, I have not had any issues for the past two days, even with the Oculus 2 being
powered off. The R6900 only lasted for 2 - 3 years. I bought it from Costco.
I'm going to mark this as resolved.
I also get the intermittent drops and it is beyond frustrating as it causes me to completely disconnect from various applications. The ethernet ports on mine are also locked to 100mbps no matter what I try, and I've tried just about everything under the sun. There is definitely something inherently flawed with this thing's design. Everything about this router is sus and I definitely won't be purchasing Netgear again.