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Netgear Nighthawk R8000P - Wireless OFF error!
Please Help!
I have recently installed a Netgear Nighthawk R8000P into my network.
After a few hiccups I eventually got everything to move over from the old Wi-Fi Network and had everything working fine until today.
Today I upgraded the firmware - no issues.
I checked the "Update Daylight Saving Time Automatically" setting and the router goes down.
Once rebooted the router tells me that "Wireless" is "Off" on the Home menu, yellow warning sign and yellow background behind "off".
Since it has gone off, I have not been able to get the router to transmit the Wi-Fi. I have so far tried; power cycling the router (many times), turning the wifi on/off via the physical button on the router, turning the wifi on/off via the "wireless router radio" in settings, enable/disable SSID broadcasting and factory restoring the router.
On top of all this whilst I’m trying to edit the wireless radio settings, half the time I’m getting the error regarding the DFS radar detection on EVERY DFS channel on the 5GHz-2 band, even when I try to disable this particular radio it gives me the DFS radar detection error.
Nothings working and I’m pulling my hair out, I have a lot of devices relying on the Wi-Fi and need a solution ASAP, before I just go and buy another router lol
have you tried downgrading the firmware? I'd recommend doing it in this order for the best success.
1. Do this all over ethernet.
2. reset the router
3. manually downgrade firmware. You can get it from the +view previous version of the support page
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/R8000P.aspx
the release notes page has how to manually update.
4. Factory reset it after the update.
sounds like a lot of factory resetting but whenever I've had issues with routers, this tends to work the best.
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have you tried downgrading the firmware? I'd recommend doing it in this order for the best success.
1. Do this all over ethernet.
2. reset the router
3. manually downgrade firmware. You can get it from the +view previous version of the support page
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/R8000P.aspx
the release notes page has how to manually update.
4. Factory reset it after the update.
sounds like a lot of factory resetting but whenever I've had issues with routers, this tends to work the best.