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pacdave
Oct 03, 2018Guide
EX7000 internet issues after firmware upgrade
I received an email to upgrade my wifi extender firmware to V1.0.1.78_1.0.140. Installation went fine. Now I cannot connect to most websites. Google I can connect to. Netgear, among many others, I sim...
- Oct 03, 2018
Yep... MANY people are having same problem .... downgrade the firmware by downloading it from netgear and applying ... looks like newest release is borked
JMW001
Oct 09, 2018Star
Seemingly not at present. And i've found that rolling back hasn't resolved the instability ... i have effectively decommisioned my EX7000 because of this which is really annoying.
StephenB
Oct 09, 2018Guru - Experienced User
JMW001 wrote:
Seemingly not at present. And i've found that rolling back hasn't resolved the instability ... i have effectively decommisioned my EX7000 because of this which is really annoying.
You might try one more factory reset of the extender, and reconfigure. When the format of the settings file changes, they convert it when upgrading, but they can't back-convert it when downgrading. So you can end up with some bogus settings (not always visible in the UI).