My ISP is Xfinity and I haven't had problems with them since moving in 3 years ago. 3/21 I purchased an MR60 + 1 satellite device to utilize the mesh network feature. Conveniently, the tech support expired 6/21 for the product, so thank you Netgear for never earning my money again.
The last couple weeks I've been getting disconnects from internet here and there, it originally wasn't that often or that long and I assumed it was Xfinity naturally as I have a great modem and router. In the last two days it has gotten to the point of having no internet for the majority of the days.
Getting into the system logs I noticed there were several "DoS Attack ACK Scan" events listed. After quick research this has led me to realize Netgear sucks and has had a regular problem with false events like such on their devices. I visit Amazon and get:
This completely stops my internet on both wired and wireless devices for significant stretches of time before maybe starting to work again. I found if I bypassed the router and plugged my computer in from the modem, I had internet again.
I'm rusty on all this tech stuff and don't know what else to do besides I manually updated the Firmware version to V1.0.6.112 since then I have spoken with Xfinity and they did their thing and it's working for the moment but I'm still getting more
Getting into the system logs I noticed there were several "DoS Attack ACK Scan" events listed. After quick research this has led me to realize Netgear sucks and has had a regular problem with false events like such on their devices. I visit Amazon and get:
If these events are slowing down your router, that may be because it is using up processor time as it writes the events to your logs. Anything that uses processor power – event logging, QoS management, traffic metering – may cause slowdowns. Disable logging of DoS attacks and see if that reduces the problem. This does not prevent the router from protecting you from the outside world.
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