r/NETGEAR

Hello all.

I have a R6250 router that's connected to the modem via a couple hundred feet of ethernet cord (supplying internet to a workshop, cord is buried).

Normally, when the power flickers, the internet will come back within a day or so, but it's been a week now with no results.

Having done the standard power cycles and resets, I'm now asking the experts.

What can I do to fix my problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I'm about to buy a used Netgear Nighthawk 5G MR5100. It was used on AT&T network and I don't have any account at AT&T. In this case, how can I possibly unlock this router? I want to be able to use it with a sim card from other carrier.

For those of you who purchased the RS700S when it first came out 2 years ago. How are you feeling about the router in general?

I purchased the RS700S and I don't regret it. There are some who say nothing works with WiFi 7. My Google Pixel phone does.

Just purchased the combo yesterday setup with spectrum, utilizing GIG speed internet so my lan ports are shooting the GIG speed but for WiFi it is terrible you have to place your phone literally next to the modem for it to even reach half a gig speed. Could anyone point me to any solutions?

so i got my hands on old RN42800, 8 bay NAS, i want to install truenas on there, it seems fine but i wanted to ask about the m.2 can i just plot disk there and is ti 2242 or 2260? and boot usb connect via serial console and just install truenas? or how does it work? is it possible ?

is it worth upgrading ram too? for zfs cache ? , did somebody try this ?

Hoping someone has some advice for me, as I've looked around the web and on Reddit, but nothing has worked for me so far.

I bought an 8TB USB hard drive (not SSD) to use as a network drive to plug into my router. The drive has its own power cable.

I found an article that said formatting to ExFat should work fine, so I did that and it would not show up in Readyshare. After research, I found that Readyshare doesn't recognize drives over 2TB. Well, that kind of defeats the purpose of this drive, but I partitioned it into 4 2TB partitions. Still wouldn't read them. After more research I found something that said the drive needs to be formatted as NTFS. I have an old iMac that I installed Windows 10 bootcamp on and used that to format the drive for NTFS. It still would not show up in the Readyshare panel of my Netgear admin. Additionally, I cannot use NTFS, as I want to be able to both read and write from my Mac, which was not possible when I plugged it into my Mac. It became read-only.

Ultimately, I want to use this for backups, but I also want to store movies I rip from my DVDs and play them through my AppleTV. So far, I have not been able to get the drive to show up for Readyshare at all.

Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide to get this type of setup to work?

My Netgear router's firmware is V1.2.10.56. I've rebooted it several times and reformatted this drive several times.

Also, I'm not sure why these limitations of plugging a USB device into the router are in place? Why isn't it able to read something over 2TB?

Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to set up a RS700 router for PC VR and i can't figure it out for the life of me. the router 192.168.1.1 and routerlogin.net don't work. The former looks like it would work until I got a 404 error. The latter won't display the router login page literally saying: Router login page cannot be displayed. me and the ChatGPT/Gemini dream team have failed. I've had this router for more than a year of trying to figure this out. I don't have a modem for it and I can't fine the AP mode for it either. I'm trying to use my PC for the modem. literally any help will be appreciated, I'll be active for a while.

Hi,

We have an M4350-40X4C that has been updated to the latest firmware and factory reset.

However, when we connect a PoE-enabled Dante speakers, it powers up (so PoE works) but it won't get any IP address.

Connecting my laptop to the same port, it gets an IP address (DHCP works) and was able to browse the configurator page.

Connecting the same Dante speakers to an unmanaged PoE switch (Netgear brand) then connecting that said unmanaged switch to the M4350-40X4C, the speakers were able to get an IP address.

We also tried connecting another unmanaged non-PoE switch (non-Netgear) but it fails to get recognized too.

To summarize:

• Dante speakers -> M4350-40X4C -> NG. Powers up but no IP
• Laptop -> M4350-40X4C -> OK. Receives IP address
• Dante speakers -> unmanaged PoE switch -> M4350-40X4C -> OK. Receives IP address
• unmanaged non-PoE switch -> M4350-40X4C -> NG. Link LEDs do not lit up

Any one has any idea what's happening here?
No configuration changes done after factory reset.
Thank you.

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My Netgear CM3000 is failing to lock onto upstream OFDMA and is stuck on ATDMA, causing a 6 Mbps upload throttle. I need a Digital Care team member to check my account's rate codes and manually push the Next-Gen bootfile. Can a Digital Care team member please assist me?

I’m looking for recommendations on the best mesh WiFi system. Our home is about 2300 sq ft but our new gateway router from AT&T still has dead zones. Any recommendations? I have an Orbi now but it’s now past it’s useful life. I have looked at the Orbi 770. Thank you!

I work from home every day and one day my cable modem router just stopped out of nowhere. Everything is plugged in, and the buttons are all green. I checked with the nighthawk app it said that it needs to get the firmware updated, but HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO UPDATE IT WITHOUT WIFI? I tried calling the customer service but I’ve been on hold for 40 mins. This is outrageous

So I have a net gear r7000 nighthawk that I upgraded to fresh tomato, I seem to sorta figured it out but not fully because I can’t get the wifi to actually work and yes I’ve tried a lot of troubleshooting steps (but I still wanna hear from you guys) on how to fix this because I want to move forward with this peice of shit so I can install vpn on it and game so pls help me out because I’m a beginner and you guys are experts at this. Thank you.

Hi! Like the title says my NETGEAR wifi adapter I use for my pc just won’t give connection anymore! It’s still on and in my usb port and will give connection for like 2 seconds before just stopping, I’ve had it for like two years now and it literally started acting up like two days ago

I've tried everything to get it working again, but the firmware upgrade seems to have completely busted it. Does anyone know the latest firmware version that actually works correctly?

I've gone to routerlogin[.]net, routerlogin[.]com, and the standard 192[.]168[.]1[.]1

I can get to the site, enter my login details, however *the only* thing I see is the option to reset my password. I'm not trying to reset my password though, I'm trying to access advanced settings. I've also tried using google (Brave is my primary browser) and I just can't seem to get an actual UI to mess with advanced settings or anything. It's quite frustrating.

Anyone know why that is, and what I need to do instead.

So I have the Orbi mesh system I bought two years ago. (Don’t know the model). And my security score is low. I have the armor security applied but still says security low. I also red that the firmware has reached the EOL back in 2025. My question is should I just keep the router for another year or should I buy a new one now. I was looking at the NETGEAR nighthawk BE 6500 dual band WiFi 7. Side note not really sure what the NETGEAR Armor does. Is it still worth renewing/buying?