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R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
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R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
Moving now to the R8000, we have been having to reboot the router at least once a week since switching to it. No rhyme or reason or specific time of it hanging up. It has become a pain as well with work and school (from home).
Anyone else had similar problems or suggestions?
The firmware we are currently running is v1.0.4.68
Edit: one important thing I forgot to mention. When it decides to have this little ‘hiccup’ issue often what will happen is the router will appear to disconnect devices. When we try to reconnect to the router (we can see its name clearly in the list to connect to) it will ask for the password for some reason and when you try typing it -
It will not accept it. The only way to get back in to the router/wifi is to reboot it at this point.
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
What modem/gateway is it connected to?
Did you ever try a factory reset and clean install (not from backup)?
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
As for your other suggestion, I had not tried that. I just attempted it a few minutes ago and reset the router (via the hole in the back) and went thru the process of redoing the settings.
It seemed fine for about an hour - I had still been tweaking things then suddenly I could no longer refresh any pages. When I tried going to Google, I was dead in the water.
I closed the browser and tried rejoining the network and got that same message as before asking for the password (getting it on all devices now) just like usual.
Just for giggles I tried putting in the password that came with my router and it isn’t working either, prior to me changing it after resetting the router.
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
Not being sarcastic but fibre doesn't turn into ethernet. There's some box the fibre is connected to that converts it to ethernet. Sometimes its a simple ont without an integrated router but sometimes it has its own routing features.
Just trying to determine that.
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I would give the firmware change a shot and see if it helps. Not all the r8000's played nicely with armor for some reason.
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
I went ahead and downloaded the .28 and am going to try a couple more things testing wise now before rolling it back just to see if that is the culprit. I guess if it is I know what my options are are at least.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
if it does fix the issues, there are 3rd party firmwares for the r8000 that might work. Again, they're 3rd party so you won't find them on here.
But you can also try newer versions of the firmware as well.
For best results, I've seen people reset the router, then manually update the firmware, then do another factory reset and clean install. Its a bit long of a process but its worked for some when they're having issues on the newer firmware.
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Re: R8000 Requiring weekly rebooting (help!)
We went with an earlier firmware and purchased a standalone Circle unit that plugs into the router with a lifetime subscription.
I have not had to reboot the router since and the whole family is happy (well, except for the kid who cannot surf after 9pm or gets filtered content now).
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