R8000P dropping wifi connection

Hi DjRiDe, May I know which FW let the internet drop . v1.3.0.8 ? or v1.3.0.4 ?

You may try to rollback to v1.2.1.6 after data capture.

Thanks

Hi DjRiDe.

I do understand your decision to return and consider getting asus or linksys router, after many headaches that you went through. Btw, I am also a favorite user of asus routers in the past, but I also like Netgear due to their solid hardware and stability in the past. I think Netgear recently tries to update most of their newer router models and this cause lots of problems. I myself had many days of headaches with my R8000 router which has been stable prior to updating to new firmware in early December last year. 

Since then, I reversed back to the old stable firmware version and the router works flawlessly with some minor inconveniences.

Last straw for you, if you do not mind, is to reverse to earlier FW version, may be v1.2.1.6 or earlier v1.1.4.6 for your R8000P or any version that DOES NOT involve Disney Circle (parental control) feature, because I suspect that  this feature more likely causes the problems with USB connection, internet connection instablility and a host of other problems involving DNS server etc. 

Let me know if you really want to downgrade again and give it few days more before you return the product. And that is totally understandable..

Hi Terry,

On my R8000P I updated this morning to:
Firmware Version
V1.2.1.6_1.1.86

I'm a little skeptical in keeping it though.  This is my first netgear router - always had linksys in the past.  My house recently having more and more smart devices throughout that why I went with this router to have a stable connection for all my tv's, thermostats, doorbell, camera's and all personal devices.  I wanna say there's probably at least 30 things connected to wifi in my 3000 square foot (2 story) house.  Like I said when this router is working its amazing!  Just in the middle of the night it will hang up the internet upload or download (no internet) but network still there and connnected.  Reason for being skeptical i have probably a little over a week before I lose my return window.  I'm happy if it continues to work fine on this lower firmware but afraid that after my return window I will have issues with newer firmware releases and I'm stuck with this.  So i'm actually at a loss as to what to do.  Seen some good reviews on the linksys ea9500 and the asus 5300.   So I gotta really decide quickly whats the best thing to do as well.

Thanks for your assistance! 

Yeah. If this is the case, I would do the same, returning the router, too , because one week is too short for any hesitation.

Asus has been excellent in their routers, particularly high-end ones. Their AC routers seems to be very stable ( My other 2-story-house 

with ASUS RT-AC3200 works perfectly with covergage more than 3000 sqft).

Well, good luck for you then.

Hi DiRjDe,

Did you connect USB device ? I would like to know if uSB device let DUT crash and let sustem reboot.

System reboot let internet disconnect.....

Hi Terry,

I had to create an account access the parental side of the router settings.  I just did and when i went to it I didnt see anything about disney controls - Here's a screen shot of it.

Hi Terry,

That is correct - thats what I had to create the account for.  As of right now I'm still up and running with no issues on 

Firmware Version
V1.2.1.6_1.1.86

I put this on this morning around 9am - normally its about 48hrs to 72 hrs where I get the hang ups - will report back tomorrow (24 hrs) as well - just think its too soon to conifrm as well

Hi DjRide,

May I know your internet type? PPPoE or DHCP?

ISP is Arris ?

I had the router locking / hanging issue during the month of december. 

However, I installed the newest firmware the last few weeks and now i have no issues of needing to manually reset the router. You guys should give the new firmware a try.

It would be nice if netgear had a Router auto-reset function. Example: if the device does not respond to devices in 30 seconds, reboot the router.

Model R8000P

The best part is that this spendy little product dropped while I was typing a reply. There is *nothing* smart about a router that you have to massage the firmware version to an older, less secure version to reduce the number of drops.