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RS700 pinging Google DND every 4-5 secs on AP Mode
I am currently using my RS700S in AP mode behind a pfSense firewall. I noticed the router is pinging 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 every 4-5 secs showing up in block alerts, more of nuisance than anything with it flooding the logs rather than any connectivity. I assume it's trying to check for an internet connection, but there needs to be a way to block/stop the RS700S when in AP mode. I assume this is not just the RS700 but other models probably doing the same as a lot of them share similar core firmware.
Nighthawk RS100 vs RS300 - IoT devices
Hello! My goal is to have all of my IoT devices on a separate network. I've been googling and searching on this forum on whether or not nighthawk RS100 or RS300 can set up IoT devices on a separate network. So far what I've been learning is that RS100 - you can have IoT devices set up in the guest wifi network but no guarantee all IoT devices would work properly. RS300 - I've got mixed search results on whether RS300 has a separate IoT wifi network. some post/site say yes, others say no. my questions is if RS100 and RS300 both can only have IoT devices on the guest wifi network, then why should I spend more on the RS300 (I don't have faster speed and wider wifi range coverage). I would spend more on the RS300 if it has a IoT wifi network feature. Can anyone pls confirm which is which? which wifi router should I get? Thank you for your time! TateRouter dropping internet frequently
RS280 running v1.0.1.90 The problems I'm having are frequent (typically daily) but are often different so it's a little hard to troubleshoot. Here are the types of issues I encounter: Users (2 of us) lose all internet but retain a wifi connection. Netgear modem shows internet and Xfinity confirms no outages. Reboot router and internet restored. One user device loses internet but not wifi. Usually one of our Windows 11 laptops. Only way to restore it is to reboot laptop and sometimes reboot router also. Users lose wifi and internet. When I check the Netgear app I get a msg that it can't find the router. Rebooting router works about half the time, and if it doesn't, than I unplug the modem and the router and reboot both which works 98% of the time. Sometimes I have to repeat the steps to get it working. This is a daily occurrence. The old Netgear router in this same house rarely had these problems. When it died I replaced it with this router and these problems started, but not right away. I do have a lot of devices connected (phones, ipads, appliances, etc.) I currently have 28 devices showing a green dot on the app. Is the router defective?Cannot remove/block devices from admin web UI [RS300]
I just installed a Nighthawk RS300 wireless router. I enabled "Access Control" and I was able to put the MAC address + name in the list of allowed devices, however, with the admin web UI, I cannot remove any devices that are not already connected, and the other lists are extremely truncated. The firemware is "Router Firmware Version V1.0.5.22". I've entert 60 devices. Of those devices, 10 show as connected, only 2 show up as "allowed and not connected" and only 2 show as "blocked and not connected". There are 46 entries that are totally missing.
BE9300 Broken With 4kQAM Rate Set On BE200
So this is an interesting and very specific phenomenon I've narrowed down. The BE200 from intel and the BE9300 from Netgear completely bomb out their rate set negotiation when the signal is perfect. Yup, this means what you think. Moving the antenna further away or in a suboptimal position to force a lower RSSI so that 1024 QAM or lower is negotiated gives the expected bandwidth. It appears that one of the devices gets confused or "stuck" on properly allocating the available resource units or doesn't have 4kQAM properly mapped into a rate setting table. I've checked this repeatedly with spare wifi antennas, moving the PC around, and overzealous usage of iperf 3.2.0 against a wired PC also connected to the BE9300 as well as iperf on an iphone 16. The iphone 16's themselves appear fine under all conditions, but that's seemingly because they only support 160mhz wide connections and 1024QAM. Yup... apple runs their newer iphone 16s and 17s at 6E speeds, and it's on their official website as per https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/wi-fi-ethernet-specifications-apple-devices-dep268652e6c/web. This is what it looks like when it's working and forced to a slightly weaker signal around 53db. This is what it looks like when the signal is stronger and 4kQAM is utilized on the link. As you can see the rate set for the uplink swaps to a 4kQAM mode while the downlink crashes and almost appears to be using the BPSK-DCM and BPSK-DCM-DUP rate sets listed as MCS indices 14 and 15 in the rate-set table for wifi7, instead of 12 or 13 as it should be. Either that or my other guess is the RU allocation "gets stuck" or confused under this specific scenario for some unknown reason. The BE9300 is using the latest 1.0.6.16 firmware, and the BE200 has been updated to the 24.20.2 drivers, although this has been an ongoing situation across multiple driver versions.
