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Nighthawk AC1900 R7000 2.4ghz wifi not working
I'm running the most recent firmware V1.0.7.6_1.1.99. So my R7000 will broadcast 2.4ghz inconsistently, until none of my devices are able to connect to it. The devices will be "No internet, secured"....
Hi kman68,
Reset the router to factory default and try to reconfigure it manually.
If two routers from different brands had the same issue, then it's very likely that the routers were not the problem. Instead, it's likely that the 2.4 GHz band is unusable in your area. You should run a Wi-Fi Analyzer program to survey what networks are around you. If you live in an apartment, for example, that would potentially be a worst case scenario.
I live in a neighbourhood in a rural town, so there are SOME other connections but the channels aren't really overcrowded. Most of them are unused in fact. It's worth noting that up until a few weeks ago when it fried, my old TP-Link duel band worked perfectly inspite of the other connections in my area.
What OS are you running? Know it is windows, that is all you've shared.
Hardly likely to be a router problem as you stated the original router (TP-Link) worked fine but the replacement and the NG do not. That sort of points back to the individual network adapters IMHO.
It could be possible the network adapters are SET to always connect to the TP-Link SSID. Not there, they give up. Are you using a different SSID than the one you had on the TP-LINK? I guess you could try changing the NG wireless properties to match the old TP-Links SSID and passphrase.
Did you MANUALLY set the desired IP Address on the wireless device properties? If so they must be on the set network, 192.168.1.1 in your case.
In Windows you CAN reset the NETWORKs. Google "reset windows xx networking" substituting you windows version for 'xx' as there are different ways to do that in different versions.
