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morrijas
Feb 06, 2026Tutor
Netgear said I need to pay for premium service for my router to work
I just got off the phone with netgear, they told me since I did not pay for premium service and security which is $300 on top of what you pay for the router it will work again, they said the new firm...
morrijas
Feb 06, 2026Tutor
Never update firmware if you are running good, I did the update and the 5ghz band on the rs700s went from speeds to my media bridges from 1.3 gig connection to 400 mbps, and now I looose internet connection at least once a day, this router is 6 months old and it was all perfect until the new firmware, now I have all kinds of issues, in the log I get a dos atk-rts from port 80, i don’t know what that is, I need some teaching on that error, I do have a extra rs700s in the box never booted up just in case I still have issues I will replace with new rs700s and turn the updates off since they are harmful instead of helpful, the orange light will come on for internet instead of white, white light good orange light on internet connection bad.