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R6900 V1.0.1.14_1.0.14 0 USB drive not recognized
I have a USB 3.0 drive plugged into the port on this router, which before the update was working fine with the built in DLNA server and as a shared drive on the network. Since I installed the beta fi...
So... I returned the R6900 thinking that it was defective. Bought an R7000 instead for a number of reasons. Long story short, the problem persisted with not being able to visit the admin page. Readyshare also wouldn't work. However, I connected a laptop up (wired) and was able to reach the admin page.
I then went through a whole host of troubleshooting on my original PC that I wanted to use to configure the router, since that was the problem. I deleted temp files in the browser, tried other browsers, reset the network connection, turned off firewall and antivirus, reset winsock, and a few other things I can't remember. Nothing allowed me to bring up the admin page on the server on the router. Many hours later, inspiration struck, and I changed the LAN address on the router to 192.168.3.1 - and that did the trick (and readyshare works now too). What a PAIN. Anyway, I hope this saves someone else's afternoon. I still don't know what the problem is with the PC I'm using for admin tasks, and that bothers me, but at least there is a work around.
Also, the disk that I had been using with the old R6900 (Sandisk 256G) does not work with the R7000 either... It used to work on the R6900 before the firmware upgrade. I tried reformatting with NTFS, and then back to exFAT, but neither worked. So something broke there between the previous and current firmware versions. OBTW, using V1.0.7.6_1.1.99 on the R7000.
Bob
Hi JamesGL,
I did so, and now I can't reach the admin page (or internet for that matter) either by wired or wireless. Not a good thing. All diagnostic LEDs are normal, and the routers IP shows when I run ipconfig (as default gateway).
The beta firmware update was done over a wired connection BTW.
Bob
So... I returned the R6900 thinking that it was defective. Bought an R7000 instead for a number of reasons. Long story short, the problem persisted with not being able to visit the admin page. Readyshare also wouldn't work. However, I connected a laptop up (wired) and was able to reach the admin page.
I then went through a whole host of troubleshooting on my original PC that I wanted to use to configure the router, since that was the problem. I deleted temp files in the browser, tried other browsers, reset the network connection, turned off firewall and antivirus, reset winsock, and a few other things I can't remember. Nothing allowed me to bring up the admin page on the server on the router. Many hours later, inspiration struck, and I changed the LAN address on the router to 192.168.3.1 - and that did the trick (and readyshare works now too). What a PAIN. Anyway, I hope this saves someone else's afternoon. I still don't know what the problem is with the PC I'm using for admin tasks, and that bothers me, but at least there is a work around.
Also, the disk that I had been using with the old R6900 (Sandisk 256G) does not work with the R7000 either... It used to work on the R6900 before the firmware upgrade. I tried reformatting with NTFS, and then back to exFAT, but neither worked. So something broke there between the previous and current firmware versions. OBTW, using V1.0.7.6_1.1.99 on the R7000.
Bob