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We have a GS108Ev3 and a Nighthawk X6 R8000.

GS108Ev3 has this famous 80-port 10Mbps issue, completely useless.

Today our X6 R8000 broke down. I factory reset it, then the 192.168.1.1 web page keeps redir to https://www.routerlogin.com/start.htm, which is 404. now it is a electricity wasting brick. hopeless crap.

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I’ll fire any employee buys netgear again.

  • @TroubledSoul79BEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    I had the same issue with my ageing r8000p, just before I got rid if it. The firmware has been broken for that unit for years and they never bothered to fix it. Just pushed out a beta which I refuse to use especially on a Internet gateway.

    I got around the dns failure by setting the IP on the laptop it was hardwired to.

    IP 192.168.1.100 Subnet 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.1.1

    Dns1 8.8.8.8 Dns2 8.8.4.4

    I then pushed the hardware reset button with a paperclip at the back of the router.

    As soon as the led showed a lan wire connection, I punched 192.168.1.1 in a browser bypassed the wizard and selected manual setup this got me back into the GUI, I went straight to WAN setup and saved the dns settings (above) into the router.

    For some reason, the factory reset blanked them out entirely. Then, it was just a case of entering the isp username and pass (which I didn’t bother with as after a firmware downgrade then upgrade I decided… I, too, was done with netgear)

    I bought an Asus gt-axe16000 to replace it with. The only netgear thing I own now is an unmanged network switch lol.

    Best of luck. I hope you get it sorted