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R8000P WiFi dead
I'm dealing with my second (third actually- second was brick that Netgear replaced) R8000P and it has been quite a challenge. I bought my second router back in August of 2020 to help extend WiFi to t...
Ok, I figured it out. Since the AP mode router worked after I disabled the wireless on the main router via the setup process I looked to see what settings were in place. The only difference was the that the AP mode router was set up to as a DHCP server with a range of .2 - .254, gobbling up all of the IPs, so the main router could not serve up any. Since the AP mode router got .28 from during the setup, I alloted it .29 - .254 and the primary has .2 - .27. Now both routers have the same SSID and there's a slightly weak signal inbetween routers.
Did Netgear advanced support bother to give me this crucial bit of information regarding DHCP allocations? No, which further leads me to believe that they want to cash in on selling their premium support.
Are the wifi 2.4ghz and 5ghz led's on?
Did the wifi on/off button get hit? Push and hold it for 2 seconds.
My little bugger eaters have pushed mine before.
Plemans- This is a good idea and didn't think of it initially, since my son uses the LED on/off switch on the back of the router to turn off all of the lights... so it doesn't bother him when he goes to bed at night ;-)
But, yes, I checked to make sure that all of the WiFi lights were on and functioning. I also checked all three bands to make sure that their channels were not colliding, the same as the primary router.