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Chiral
Mar 11, 2016Aspirant
Nighthawk X6 R7900 Second 5ghz band low speed after FW update
Hey everyone, seems i'm having an issue with the second 5ghz band after the most recent fw update. After updating to V1.0.1.4_10.0.12, the second 5ghz band seems to have drastically reduced in sp...
- Mar 19, 2016
Hey sorry for the late response, completely forgot to post back. I ended up resetting the router using the reset method described on dd-wrt.com and this solved the problem. Only down side to this method is that the router must be setup manually. Uploading the configuration file causes the issue to return.
The problem only occurs with this version of the FW. Uploading old FW and configuration file does not cause the issue. Hope this helps anyone else that had a similar problem.
Chiral
Mar 19, 2016Aspirant
Hey sorry for the late response, completely forgot to post back. I ended up resetting the router using the reset method described on dd-wrt.com and this solved the problem. Only down side to this method is that the router must be setup manually. Uploading the configuration file causes the issue to return.
The problem only occurs with this version of the FW. Uploading old FW and configuration file does not cause the issue. Hope this helps anyone else that had a similar problem.
JamesGL
Apr 12, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Chiral,
Please check your inbox.