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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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    DjRiDe
    Apprentice
    Jun 06, 2018
    Please let us know if you tried and how’ve it goes in a few days. Thank you in advance!
    • TerryPh's avatar
      TerryPh
      Virtuoso
      Jun 06, 2018
      Welcome back in town DjRiDe
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        DjRiDe
        Apprentice
        Jun 06, 2018
        Thank you sir! I’m still on that old stable firmware. I hope we get good news that the issues are fixed and maybe get to use a network storage drive again and no internet drops. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽