R7000P firmware 1.3.1.44 breaks Access Control and Attached Devices

My issue is worse. I'm losing almost all but not every single wirelss device on reboots/power failures including LAN devices. Wireless clients can see SSID but nothing is connecting. Factory reset and re-config is the only fix for me and this is now its 3rd failure same exact failure mode. Last night after it happened again due to a power failure (im in NE US getting all the rain) i factory reset it but only turned Circle back on. I usually use Dynamic QoS as well but i didn't have time and wanted to start to triage settings that may be an issue.

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JeffHWI wrote:

I had the same experience. Both wired and wireless devices were all able to connect, just not visible on Attached Devices page. And they were also shown as offline on the Access Control page. Rebooting router and devices did not change anything.

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From another thread:

In the Chinese section, I learned that the customer service told some people that the problem is a firmware issue.
Downgrading or turning on Dynamic QoS can solve this problem.

 

Reverting the firmware does fix the "Attached Devices" issue but you end up losing Armor.  For me, Armor was one of the reasons I purchased this router.  There are more issues with this version (V1.3.1.44_10.1.23) as well.  Under DHCP, I set a reserved address for each of my always connected devices.  After resets, or "applies", many times they do not get their assigned address.  I hope they fix this soon.  Was on the Phone with them today for 40 minutes and I may be given a Beta version.  Hopefully, this indicates that they are aware of the issues and are working to resolve them.  It is disconcerting that it's been since June 2018 and it has not been fixed yet.  

My network isn't that complicated.  My old r6300v2 always work flawlessly.

Due to the issues with this router (R7000P) I have now removed it and it sits in the "for sale" bin in my office.  I replaced it with the:

Which so far appears to work fine.

I'm a fan of netgear, just wished they'd stop playing around with ARLO and get back to high end routers for the rest of us.

Rick

pekbo .. does that product support bridged mode?

Yes

My attached devices list was just fine on R7000P V1.3.1.44_10.1.23, no access control, no QoS.

I swapped out a wired Netgear WNR1000v3 router that I was using in bridge mode downstream in another room.

I replaced it with a wireless EX7000 which has five ports, and works beautifully, faster than my 100BaseT wired.

One of the wired devices downstream of that EX7000 stopped working.  I could see it get an IP address in the logs, but it didn't respond to ping, and didn't work for the IoT application to its host.

I was fussing with that IoT device, and recabling here and there, with an occasional R7000P reboot.

The attached devices went to 0.

I tried setting QoS on, as suggested above.  No difference.  I still have 0 devices.

I don't know if there is any association between the lost list and the IoT device that isn't working when not attached to the WNR1000v3.
I now have the R7000P, the EX7000 wireless, and the WNR1000v3, with the IOT and a printer.

Everything is happy, except the Attached Devices list.

Someone else noted that all of the wired ports are "down".  That has been true for quite a while.  I think on many releases of firmware.