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R7000P with Amazon Echo/EchoSpot wifi connectivity issue
I have a R7000P with firmware version 1.3.1.26 works with Amazon Echo and EchoSpot well. However, after upgrading to the latest 1.3.1.44_10.1.23, the Echo device can connect to both 5G and 2.4G wifi ...
> Should I down grade to the previous firmware version ?
Perhaps. Before you do that, a settings reset (and manual
reconfiguration) might be worth a try.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Look for "Factory Settings".
After reseting to factory default, I found that my LAN uses the same IP subnet with my DSL router as 192.168.1.x. The auto-detect function during the setup found that and then changed to 10.0.0.x. This get my Alexa back. Thanks a lot!
> After reseting to factory default, I found that my LAN uses the same
> IP subnet with my DSL router as 192.168.1.x. The auto-detect function
> during the setup found that and then changed to 10.0.0.x. [...]
Yeah, it would do that, but if you have some (unidentified) "my DSL
router" acting as a router, then it might make more sense to configure
the R7000P as a wireless access point, so that you have only one subnet,
and not two.
Whether the R7000P firmware version would affect its behavior as a
WAP, I know not.