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R9000 dropping LAN connection entirely after a while
I am having a similar problem to this thread but I can't reply there for some reason, so I'm starting a new thread. I have the R9000 X10 with the 1.0.2.40 firmware (latest from Netgear site as of th...
Netgear,
The issue most certainly lies within your firmware and you need to have your team work on addressing it. I couldn’t go a few days much less week without my wired connections dropping. I’ve been running a third party firmware, DD-WRT to be exact, and I’ve had no random drops going on 11 days now. It’s extremely poor publicity for a corporation such as Netgear, which is one of the leading networking manufacturers out there, to have an issue such as this exist for so long and yet they can’t or don’t want to fix it.
At this point, unless the issue is addressed at Netgear, it’s safe to say your option is to either deal with it or flash a third party firmware onto your router.
The issue most certainly lies within your firmware and you need to have your team work on addressing it. I couldn’t go a few days much less week without my wired connections dropping. I’ve been running a third party firmware, DD-WRT to be exact, and I’ve had no random drops going on 11 days now. It’s extremely poor publicity for a corporation such as Netgear, which is one of the leading networking manufacturers out there, to have an issue such as this exist for so long and yet they can’t or don’t want to fix it.
At this point, unless the issue is addressed at Netgear, it’s safe to say your option is to either deal with it or flash a third party firmware onto your router.
I think it could possibly be related to the power electronics inside the router... either poor filtering of the input power, or poor filtering of the signal from the Ethernet cables.
Not 100% sure, but when I switched my R9000 over from a bog standard power strip to being plugged into my R9000, most of my problems went away. Now, with the 1.0.3 firmware that was released recently, it seems to finally be stable.
- But a third party firmware eliminated all of my issues so how is it power related? I’m genuinely curious because simply removing the default Netgear firmware did the trick for me. Hell, even my download speeds seem more consistent.