I'm glad to see the responsiveness of the community. My router is beyond the 90 day warranty, so I doubt they will replace mine without having me spend additional $$$ and time to "troubleshoot".
Wish I just gone with two R7000s. That one's been rock solid. And to have paid more for their newest router (just for the troubles)....what was I thinking???
My rebooting problem is a little different. The Nighthawk X6 R8000, firmware V1.0.2.46_1.0.97, purrrs right along for most of the devices I have connected to it on my home network. I have various cellphones, PCs-laptop, tablets, Blu-ray player, Panasonic TV, ooma phone box all connected and work great.
However, I also have a Roku 3 box on the network and this combination seems to sometimes cause problems. The Roku has a dozen, or so, apps installed and most of them work flawlessly. The 2 apps that I have noticed causing the router to reboot are CNET and TWIT. And it doesn't reboot for any and all episodes, just a few.
My rebooting problem is a little different. The Nighthawk X6 R8000, firmware V1.0.2.46_1.0.97, purrrs right along for most of the devices I have connected to it on my home network. I have various cellphones, PCs-laptop, tablets, Blu-ray player, Panasonic TV, ooma phone box all connected and work great.
However, I also have a Roku 3 box on the network and this combination seems to sometimes cause problems. The Roku has a dozen, or so, apps installed and most of them work flawlessly. The 2 apps that I have noticed causing the router to reboot are CNET and TWIT. And it doesn't reboot for any and all episodes, just a few.
Any ideas?
Certainly weird. With most manufacturers, that's considered a defect, a major one at that. Having external content trigger a reset on the router is a major software failure. I hope Netgear gets there act together quickly to address their consumers needs and growing fustration.
So, please explain, exactly, how this update is to fix the random reboot issue? Because as I expected, the release information for this update do not mention any such fix. And after trying this several times, even with all the Wi-Fi switched off, with only one PC connect, the R8000 still randomly reboots.
So I logged a support call in early December - heard nothing, Called to find that this case had mysteriously been close. The help desk lady in the Philippines, quoted my email address correctly and said she was sending me return info & instructions and gave me an RMA number 7 days ago. (This is going to be predictable...) ...I never received the email. L I will never, ever, ever, buy another NetGear product again. This is after having owned many Netgears over many years. Such shockingly appalling customer experience. Completely wasted countless hours of my time.
In December 2015, I received a pm from JamesGL asking for my contact information which I provided. I was really hoping that there would be a santa at netgear to take away my woes...but alas, now in Feburary, I have yet to receive any follow-up.
Why ask for my contact information if there's no intention to follow-up? At the very least, I thought they would be interested in the very reproducible effects of my r8000 rebooting.
I have the same issue with a ROKU3, though it is more complicated than that. When using Roku3 connecting on 5G network through an N600 Range Extender, 4 out of 5 times it brings R8000 into a reboot. Turning off the extender and connecting via 2.4G network is working well when connecting and not rebooting.
Good News! So far so good. Resetting the router by using a paperclip to push the reset button the back of the router worked! I have not tried to figure out what setting might have created the original issue, but when I have a free weekend I may try to get to the bottom of it.
I have model R8000 AC3200
BTW - Support requested that I go back to an earlier version of the firmware then reset the router using a pin on the button on the back of the router. I went ahead and tried the reset with the current most recent version of the firmware I already had on the router, and right now, it appears to be working!
I had tried unplugging the power and then powering back up the router, but that didn't work. The reset is working so far, but of course a pain to reset everything. I didn't reload the cfg file as I am guessing it would over write something that the reset fixed.
