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XR700: devices disconnect after installed smart light switches
Hello, I'm need of help with my router. I enjoy this router and I have no issues with this router until recently. I recently purchased 9 smart switches and installed. I connected each to my 2.4g wifi....
- Okay I think I figured it out. I changed to guest network and it did not work. The light switches are connecting all at the same time and I mean exactly at the sametime. So I hit the breaker for all the light switches and noticed everything connected. I waited 1 to 2 minutes to let everything connect. After that I turned on the breaker for the switches and they connected and everything else stayed connected. So i restarted the router and noticed it happened again so i repeated the process and it worked. So i think the router has an issue with too many devices connecting at the exact moment which these light switches are probably retrying to connect at the exact moment over and over. My light switches are iotty smart light switches.
Have you changed any LAN Settings at all? Do you know if you use an Internet login (PPPoE) in Internet Setup or VLAN?
No login required, it's like I connect 20 devices after factory reset and after that the router wants to limit 5 per SSID
- This is really peculiar, so you haven't changed any LAN Settings? Have you tried the guest WiFi?
- Okay now I got home from work and all the switches were connected and so is everything else. Never touched the router when I got home but all is working. I dont know what's going on but everything connected.
- Very strange, glad it is working! If it happens again try the guest network and let us know.
- Woke up this morning and it is doing again, went to device manager and saw 80% of my devices disconnected. Did not add anything or change anything. All light switches, my phone and xbox's disconnected for no reason. Its again limiting 5 devices for each SSID. Attached is what I'm seeing.
- I'm really not sure why this could be happening. First try the guest network, if it's still an issue then put the router in AP mode - that will disable DumaOS features and help to determine if it is one for us to look into or for Netgear.
- I tried AP mode and that did not go well at all, my hardwired connections would not connect and the other devices were still disconnected. I did some researching online and found someone with same exact problem here is the url
https://forum.netduma.com/topic/30744-xr700-failed-to-obtain-ip-address-uanble-to-connect-with-wifi-devices/#comments
Edit: I'm on my 8th factory reset, I like this router but something is causing this - It's very confusing, we'll be looking into it but likely won't be a quick resolution. I'd suggest you make a ticket with Netgear as they may have seen this issue before and sounds like it may be an issue on their end http://support.netgear.com/
- Okay I think I figured it out. I changed to guest network and it did not work. The light switches are connecting all at the same time and I mean exactly at the sametime. So I hit the breaker for all the light switches and noticed everything connected. I waited 1 to 2 minutes to let everything connect. After that I turned on the breaker for the switches and they connected and everything else stayed connected. So i restarted the router and noticed it happened again so i repeated the process and it worked. So i think the router has an issue with too many devices connecting at the exact moment which these light switches are probably retrying to connect at the exact moment over and over. My light switches are iotty smart light switches.
- Wow, well done for figuring that out, it helps us narrow it down. Ill pass this onto the team.
- Yeah please send it to the teams, I have a lot of devices connecting and it takes pretty much the whole day to reset everything after a factory reset. Everytime I decide do a factory reset I'm pretty much dedicated to running around the whole house connecting everything. I love the router making gaming experience super but I want it to also handle all my smart technology at the sametime
