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Nighthawk R8000p Wifi dropping - Any updates?
Still having lots of wifi drops on our R8000P router. I have tried everything and it will be find and just start totally dropping. Anyone have any new ideas on how to fix? Netgear when are you going ...
Greetings,
The Wi-Fi on my R8000P is 100% stable, and has been for years.
What FW revision are you running?
How did you install this FW? Automatically, manually, etc?
What troubleshooting steps have you performed? If you'd like assistance, you will need to provide more information beyond I'm having "lots of Wi-Fi drops on my R8000P"?
We'll await your reply.
Just downgraded to V1.4.0.10_1.2.14 on the firmware. Seeing if that helps. I have changed channels, and every other possible fix in the vaarious threads. This FW version I did a manual install and have turned auto update off
Devices will connect and then after an hour or so the wifi just stops working. Have to disconnect and reconnect to get it back up. The longer it goes the more frequent the drops. This seems to be a common issue for some. I have tried every possible troubleshooting option from network reset, new wifi cards and lots more.
1.4.1.68 is super stable.
1.4.2.84 is also stable, but has a serious DNS resolution issue.
Have you reset the device to defaults, set up from scratch (Making minimal changes) and observed the behavior?
I got so frustrated with it, I went back to DGND4000 temporarily.
I had that before we got our Nighthawk. Even though it's an old gig router it's stable compared to the nighthawk. I'm going to do the full reset and everything but was so frustrated with the drops yesterday I stopped before i threw it out the window.
Going to try and totally redo it later this week