Nighthawk RAXE300 randomly stopped working... help!

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AndyUK wrote:
plemans

I'll give that a try this evening and see what happens. I'll report back with how it goes. Cheers

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I'd give plemans advice a go. That would be the easiest option, but it does raise this:

Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support

Check that to see if it kills something that is important to you.

In my case, I have just had to deal with BT's aggressive insistence that I use its Homehub before it will even consider fixing its own network problem. (BT is widening the gap between it and OpenReach.) BT refused to do anything with my original modem.

The bottom line is that I eventually worked out how to use a web browser and the graphical user interface (GUI) to get everything to work with my BT modem/router and the Netgear router.

If the Virgin modem/router is anything like the BT box try this:

• Use the GUI to assign the modem/router an IP address (192.168.2.1) that does not clash with my Netgear default (192.168.1.1), with all of its reserved IP addresses
• Reboot modem/router to connect network
• Set Netgear to router mode with IP address 192.168.1.1
• Connect Netgear router WAN port to LAN port on modem/router
• Reboot Netgear router 
• Reboot whole network
• Get into GUI for modem/router with GUI and 192.168.2.1
• Look for DMZ setting and enter IP address that modem/router has allocated to Netgear router
• Reboot again if necessary (it wasn't here)

The main reason why I persisted in this rather than putting my old modem back is that BT is threatening to abandon the old telephone connection and replace it with Digital Voice, which needs BT's horrible thing to work.