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Nighthawk Mesh Wifi 6 Router MR60 losing connection to 2.4 devices
I have a Nighthawk Mesh MR60 with the Satelite. About once a day, it loses connection to all the 2.4 devices on my network. It remains connected to the 5.0 devices. I have to reboot the router and...
30minutes after my post. I got the dreaded messages on my phone's. So my current conclusion is memory leak. In my case i need to reboot once a week. Sigh
After implementing some of the changes in my earlier posts, I've now gone for a few weeks with no disconnects. There is a downside of course in that my wifi speeds are easily half of what they were prior. This becomes pretty bad via the satellite where my upstairs computers are now chugging along at less than 80Mbs or what I was getting with a decade old wifi router prior to purchasing the Netgear. Great job Netgear, great job!
A few weeks after installing the latest firmware that supposedly fixes the WiFi disconnect problem, it started to happen again. Just not as frequently. In addition my satellite has not had a 5Ghz access point for almost two months. I have spent that time trying to get Netgear to replace defective hardrware.
I gave up.
On Friday 9/4, my non-Netgear WiFI Mesh system was delivered. On Saturday morning, I installed the system. There has not been a single disconnect and the mesh system is approximately 30% faster than the Netgear system.
UPDATE:
This will be my final post on any Netgear forum. I am removing all Netgear equipment and will never purchase another product from them again.
I wish the everyone luck, you are going to need it.
- Yup. I just gave up trying to get one of the satellites back online. I’ve reset everything multiple times and it just won’t sync. I’ve removed it and re-installed my old extender for now. Luckily I’m within the 90 day Costco return window.
I was hoping that the firmware issue would have been taken care of by now. That's why I took the risk of going with Netgear, especially because I have always been a Netgear user. However, disconnects have been the norm, handover from one satellite to the other is not done smoothly and the wrong bandwidth is chosen more often than not when that happens, sticking to the 2.4GHz rather than staying with 5GHz.
If there is no firmware update within this week I will go back to Costco and return it. Good thing the 90-days policy is generous there.