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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.
I say that it because it was not truly behaving properly. Some devices were able to obtain a DHCP address, others did not. It appeared to stop handing out DHCP leases after the 5th device. I suppose it was possible that it was only configured for a small range of DHCP clients, but I do not have the credentials or info to login to it, that is kept secret by by internet provider. All I can do is call and request that they put it in bridged mode. I used to have it that way, because that is the only way to get port forwarding using the R7000 so I can view my security cameras remotely. A few weeks ago the internet went down completely, and I was away from the house for a couple days. The ISP said everything was fine on their end so they had my wife reset the modem back to factory which takes it out of bridged mode and connect directly (via cable) to her laptop so she could use the internet. I was unable to find anything wrong with the R7000, I just have not gone through the trouble of calling the ISP to put it back in bridged mode. I wanted to make sure it was stable with no more dropped connections.