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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...
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.