NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

mchensky's avatar
mchensky
Aspirant
Oct 31, 2017
Solved

R8000P dropping wifi connection

Hello, I own a Nighthawk X6S (R8000P) and I've been having an ongoing issue where after I've been surfing via wifi for some time the wifi connection will remain active however there is no data up/dow...
  • DjRiDe's avatar
    DjRiDe
    Jun 11, 2018

    So I updated to Firmware V1.4.0.10 5 days ago.  So far no internet drops :smileyhappy:

    Haven't tried installing my USB hardrive to see if network storage works again.  Just updating everyone.

StarwoodZero's avatar
StarwoodZero
Aspirant
Jul 18, 2018
Copy Link
That is a very interesting post. Thank you. So you are saying that this might be occurring by design and by fixing the channels to a non-DFS channel, it may stay up. I will need to check when I go home, what the netgear software will let me choose. If I can specify the channel, I will try what you proposed. Hopefully I configure it properly.