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R7000 5ghz Disappearing
Seems to be a lot of independent questions/discussions on or this topic or similar topics... Looking for someone to give me a definitive answer, so here's the question: - My R7000 periodically and ...
I've been running Firmware Version V1.0.6.28_1.1.83 for a few months now without any 5GHz dropping. The big tip that helped me, was after doing the firmware update, I did a factory reset to reset all of the settings to default, and it also forces the router to get new internal drivers for itself. Before I did this, I was always losing my 5GHz.
Babylon5 wrote: bjl95mustang, have you exchanged yet, if not what firmware version are you running?
rpoffen, please let us know how you get on with the new firmware.
The other day I upgraded to the latest V1.0.4.28_1.1.64 firmware. When upgrading, I first reset back to factory defaults, configured it enough to allow me to upload the new firmware, then I reset to factory defaults, and re-configured my settings. So far, it has not dropped since (keeping my fingers crossed).
One thing I did not like during the process was that the initial setup genie tries to be too smart for its own good. The first thing it says is that it detected another router on my network (which is not really true, the DSL modem that my provider uses appears to have a limited amount of smarts by default, but not truly a router), so the Genie setup limited how I could configure it. It would not take properly if I tried to manually say to set it up as a router instead of an access point, but if I left it as an AP, then I could not properly get DHCP to work as the DSL modem does not give out more than 5 IP's.
I ended up restoring a saved config backup and it worked after that.
The only other setting I changed was to force channel 6 on the 2.4G wireless rather than auto (this was something I picked up on another forum). I noticed that when I changed the channel, and clicked apply, the wireless networks went down for about 30 seconds, hmm, same amount of down time that my dropouts were taking. I wonder if when left to auto, and the router decided to change channels, this explained my dropouts? Maybe just coincidence? As I stated before, my dropouts were not as long as a full router reboot takes. But the channel change dropout appears about right.