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"Turn off wireless signal by schedule" does not turn wifi BACK ON
After enabling "Turn off wireless signal by schedule", WIFI does not turn wifi BACK ON at the scheduled time. My time zone is correct. I have tried this with both 2.4Hz and 5Hz. same behavior - wifi ...
Hi tooreck,
For R8000, firmware 1.0.4.18 is the latest version. Have you tried resetting the router?
Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
UPDATE! YOU GUYS I GOT IT WORKING!
I had gotten around the problem by plugging the damn thing into a wall unit that I remote controlled and cut the power to every night before bed. That was ok but I watched this forum for better answers. found on! or really two!
One of you mentioned that the 'adjust for daylight savings time' should be checked. Did that and it was NOT checked. So I checked the box.
And I did another firmware update. (I had done this before but there was another upgrade)
One of those fixed it!
I know the daylight savings time setting is critical but Netgear may also have released a fix in the latest firmware.
Yay!
Hi lulup,
Thank you for your feedback. Glad that it's working now.
Regards,
Blanca
Community TeamI own a Nighthawk X6 R8000. THIS PROBLEM IS N-O-T FIXED. There are actually three issues here:
1. BIZZARE INTERFACE: The timezone setting for the router is hidden in the blocking scheduler. But even worse than this, the router scheduler is so hidden that one may think the blocking schedule is the router scheduler. Both should be under Administration. What is advncedabout scheduling your router to turn off so that you are not blasted with RF while trying to sleep? This is a MASSIVE interfae design issue. If any at NETGEAR is listening, I am a retired programmer who used to earn a lot of money solving interface design FAILURES such as this. MOVE IT!
2. TOTAL **bleep**DOWN. The router scheduler needs to AT THE VERY LEAST have a total software shutdown option, not just for RF. The router should be compeltely turned off by the scheduler.
3. MASSIVE BUG. How the heck does mature software like this hzve such a massive bug? The "Turn off wireless signal by schedule" unchecks iself when applying the update. I even went so far as to split my off time of 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM into two entries thinking the span across a day may be confusig the software.
I am not being critical just to hea myself speak. The truth is that when a company as large as Netgear gets this sloppy, it is indicative of problems so serious that I would divest myself of any of their stock. I challenge anyone in that company to explain to me why, even as a retired computer programmer, I must search for timezone setting and a router scheduler so that my children may sleep without 5 Ghz RF signals in the night, when they are completely unnecessary, at least in my house? Anyone? Can anyone excuse this level of sloppiness?
Just do it! Npo, I mean, Just fix it!
Corrected version....
I own a Nighthawk X6 R8000. THIS PROBLEM IS N-O-T FIXED. There are actually three issues here:
1. BIZARRE INTERFACE: The timezone setting for the router is hidden in the blocking scheduler. But even worse than this, the router scheduler is so hidden that one may think the blocking schedule IS the router scheduler. Both should be under Administration. What is advanced about scheduling your router to turn off so that you are not blasted with RF while trying to sleep? This is a MASSIVE interface design issue. If any at NETGEAR is listening, I am a retired programmer who used to earn a lot of money solving interface design FAILURES such as this. MOVE IT!
2. TOTAL SHUTDOWN. The router scheduler needs to AT THE VERY LEAST have a total software shutdown option, not just for RF. The router should be completely turned off by the scheduler.
3. MASSIVE BUG. How the heck does mature software like this have such a massive bug? The "Turn off wireless signal by schedule" unchecks itself when applying the update. I even went so far as to split my off time of 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM into two entries thinking the span across a day may be confusing the software.
I am not being critical just to hear myself speak. The truth is that when a company as large as Netgear gets this sloppy, it is indicative of problems so serious that I would divest myself of any of their stock. I challenge anyone in that company to explain to me why, even as a retired computer programmer, I must search for a timezone setting and a router scheduler so that my children may sleep without 5 Ghz RF signals in the night, when they are completely unnecessary, at least in my house? Anyone? Can anyone excuse this level of sloppiness?
Just do it! No, I mean, Just fix it!
Dear Blanca - the issue remains NOT SOLVED! See dehaven's post - very informative.
How long will you and Netgear just sit there and look the other direction, pretending you have no issue?
Please do something about it!
tooreck wrote:
Dear Blanca - the issue remains NOT SOLVED!
The OP and the post marked as solved is related to the R7000.
tooreck wrote:
See dehaven's post - very informative.
Yes - however leaving the poor usability away, he does refer to a problem that the schedule activation is not retained over the firmware update.
tooreck wrote:
How long will you and Netgear just sit there and look the other direction, pretending you have no issue?
Please do something about it!
Not sure the Netgear community people have enough power. I fear the product managers, the engineering, and the developers are living on a different planet and are working on wrong and incomplete KPIs.
