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Aspirant

Oct 31, 2017

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R8000P dropping wifi connection

Hello, I own a Nighthawk X6S (R8000P) and I've been having an ongoing issue where after I've been surfing via wifi for some time the wifi connection will remain active however there is no data up/dow...

DjRiDe
Jun 11, 2018
So I updated to Firmware V1.4.0.10 5 days ago. So far no internet drops :smileyhappy:

Haven't tried installing my USB hardrive to see if network storage works again. Just updating everyone.

TerryPh

Virtuoso

Jan 06, 2018

Hi. sheikh73.

Sorrry that you could not get this router back to work. In the interest of getting some light into it, I wonder:

1. Did you get to ping sucessfully 192.168.1.1 address before running tftp2 software (by command run, cmd, ipconfig, and ping)?

2. What was the DNS configuration before you ran tftp2 software?

3. Did the amber power LED still stay amber solidly even after trying tftp2?

Worst case scenerio, if you bought this router within a year, you can call customer support and elevate the case to hardware failure, and very possible that Netgear will swap you a new one.

sheikh73

Aspirant

Jan 06, 2018

Hi Terry
I don't know how but after pressing the reset button numerous times and many different other methods router restarted by itself. Tftp2 didn't flash the firmware, I was getting ping on 192.168.1.1 but after router rebooted, I got my old configuration back with 10.0.0.1 IP address and old password as well. This Netgear router is funny. I had no hopes and it came back to life by itself.
I have reflashed it and also factory defaulted as well. So far it's working as normal.
Thanks for your help.

Rashid