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TheEther
Guru
Mar 28, 2016
Status:
Reviewed

Additional DNS support

Two requests: Add an option to toggle whether the router advertises its own IP address as a DNS server.  Advanced users don't need routerlogin.net. Allow a private IP address to be specified as a ...
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lolcocks
Aspirant
Mar 01, 2019

schumaku and AbhayB 

It is actually causing an issue for me and all the devices connected to the R7000.

 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-sometimes-pages-not-loading-need-to-reload-them-to-get/m-p/1714101

 

I fixed it by manually setting the DNS on my computer's IPv4 settings.

And I used the same DNS (Cloudflare DNS) on both the router and the computer.

Yet, if I don't set the DNS on my computer (and use the router as the DNS), websites will not load every 2 - 3 minutes.

It's a temporary work around but I cannot ask every single person connceted to my router to manually set their DNS. 95% of them don't even know what a DNS is. They are just an average Joe.