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Nighthawk R7000, V1.0.9.88_10.2.88, wifi drops
There are numerous posts on these issues. My R7000 has begun developing more frequent internet outages over the last 6 months. Now the frequency is about every 10 days. The topology picture fo...
yeah... the stable version you mentioned has been identified as a fix for some. Like many other WFHome-ers, I'm my own on-site IT tech. We have a security system, cameras, IOT stuff and the network just needs to work. With UPS on every access point/extender, my devices should have theoretically been pampered. After going thru the recommended "reset to factory defaults" action, and spending 4 hours getting everything stably back on a network, and another 3 hours getting the smart power switch set up and tested; I'm very happy to have a watchdog on the R7k. This is suitable for the semi-monthly outages I have. I really feel for those going thru daily outages, whatever of the cause.
As a followup, the smart power switches are probably something everyone should consider. Mine is set up and I really appreciate the features. I havent set up remote (away from home) access as of yet, but the automatic operation is valuable. I suspect that most smart switches are similar in opereation: I've set up a series of external sites (google, yahoo, etc...) as ping targets such that if all sites are unpingable, the switch resets power to the Nighthawk. Ping timeout and Power restoration timing is programmable. I can also set up internal (home IOT) tagets as ping sites for the same purpose. The smart switch sits on a wired lan port of the Nighthawk and there are possibilities for undetectable outages, such as if for example wired connections can reach both internally and externally, but wifi connections have problems. In the aforementioned, the smart switch would be unaware of of a wifi connectivity issue. In any event, with the smart switch in place, I'll be able to experiment and determine how to best set ping targets for best recovery operation with the smart switch.
IF I can succeed setting up the cloud access function for remote operation, these smart power switches offer a real attribute for important home IOT operations.
As a reminder, obviously have a smart power switch on UPS.