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mchensky
Aspirant
Oct 31, 2017
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R8000P dropping wifi connection

Hello, I own a Nighthawk X6S (R8000P) and I've been having an ongoing issue where after I've been surfing via wifi for some time the wifi connection will remain active however there is no data up/dow...
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Dropping Connection
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  • DjRiDe's avatar
    DjRiDe
    Jun 11, 2018

    So I updated to Firmware V1.4.0.10 5 days ago.  So far no internet drops :smileyhappy:

    Haven't tried installing my USB hardrive to see if network storage works again.  Just updating everyone.

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windsaga
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 10, 2018

Hi Stan,

May I know the FW version and USB device model name ?

 

Let me help you~

 

 

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stan21
Guide
Jan 10, 2018

Hi, the firmware version i use is 1.3.0.8_1.2.1. The hard drive i used was Western Digital WDBKUZ0040BBK-UA Easystore 4TB Portable Backup.