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titanicnut
Feb 07, 2023Star
CAX80 Uploading Issues
This is our 2nd Nighthawk CAX80 … just replaced it yesterday. We are still having the same issues as before. Comcast has been out to check wiring and it’s all good. I have a main channel on smart c...
FURRYe38
Feb 08, 2023Guru - Experienced User
What is the brand and model#s of the phones and laptops?
Ok so disabling Smart Connect. Can you connect to the 2.4Ghz only SSID name and upload OK?
Do you have Airtime Fairness enabled or disabled? It's disabled on mine.
https://kb.netgear.com/23960/How-do-I-manually-update-the-firmware-on-my-NETGEAR-router
Possible. Something maybe we can get NG to stop if older version works...Worth trying if you can.
titanicnut
Feb 08, 2023Star
iPhone XR and Samsung S22
HP Laptop and MSI Creator Z16
Disabled the smart connect and still cannot upload on either the 2.4 or 5
I didn't have Airtime Fairness enabled but enabled it to see if it helped and it didn't. It's back disabled again.
I tried to roll back the firmware but the downloaded file only gave me a .bin and it's supposed to be a .img or .chk
ugh!