No more luck here - also super mad + super sad face too.
Still running on one of their earliest firmware versions and the 5GhZ network still drops out multiple times every hour.
My whole household has now permanently stopped using the 5GhZ network. Which is such a waste of money - the dual band functionality is the only reason why I spent a couple of hundred dollars on this Netgear.
I'm going to call NetGear today and claim against the hardware warranty.
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After flashing with this firmware, I did a factory reset and configured it all manually.
Fingers crossed!
Now we wait....if there's been no further dropouts in another 24-48 hours, I'll happily accept your solution!
I feel sick in my stomach that I can't rely on Netgear hardware though :(
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After only about 2.5 hours, the 5ghz wifi dropped out again.
The only thing in the logs at the time (not the real MAC addresses):
[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.3, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 16:58:32\n[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.4)] to MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 16:42:44\n[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.3)] to MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 16:42:25\n[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.4)] to MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 16:40:06\n[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.3)] to MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 16:39:39\n[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.3, Thursday, Aug 13,2020 14:03:27
Do I continue to work my way backwards in firmware versions to pre-V1.3.0.20_10.1.1?
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