mr_kfed

They're well deserved! So, I wasn't able to apply the fix you suggested for more than a day because I have devices that come and go as well as guests staying throughout the year who will want access to my internet. That said, my internet still went down twice during that time. There's nothing in the logs besides 4-5 addresses that update their leases faster and faster, up to every second (or less), then the crash occurs. I have a feeling it's due to features like iPhones Private Wi-Fi Address. The affected IP addresses accumulate 7-50 mac addresses in the device manager fairly rapidly. To my understanding it should be 1 MAC per AP but I'm not an expert or up-to-date with iPhone technologies any longer. Another [far fetched] theory is that a user or their ISP has mistakenly turned back on the router functionality for their modem and a double NAT is somehow causing the described issue through some race condition or bug. In the end I broke down and purchased another router. An interesting note is that even though I emulated my XR500s settings, I can see each per device data via my piHole now whereas previously I'd only see my XR500s router's 192.168.1.1. Traffic data type (e.g. txt, https, ns) is being reported more accurately as well. Just an interesting observation. That said, my XR500 did pick WIFI auto settings better than my current solution. Farwell for now Fraser! All the best.

HI! I'm an XR500 owner who has been been watching this topic for a while now and has gone through 3-4 firmware updates throughout the years. I have skipped the latest official update because it's just security fixes that are likely already included in the latest beta rc14. Fraser, you've been extremely professional and knowledgeable. I know I can post a question and get a quick and informative response. But, in all honesty, you're the only good part about owning a Netgear router. This DHCP issue has existed since I first purchased this router, and every firmware update makes it worse. My internet went from dropping out every roughly 2 weeks, to every 1-2 days, requiring intervention from me. Not a problem when it's at 3am when nobody is awake, it's just an inconvenience. However, it becomes a nightmare at 7pm when everyone is home using their devices and a baby starts crying because the only 10mins TV time they get all day is taken away. I'm sure if you're a household with only a small handful of devices or no small children, it's possible that you'll never experience a problem or noticed one. But, I've been dealing with it fairly constantly for years. So, for the last time, I've done a factory reset, 'upgraded' the firmware, and increase the DHCP range to begin at 100. The DHCP is still renewing leases every 1-2mins after six hours, which is an improvement over every 1-2 seconds and the DPI class still crashes and recovers every minute or two. So, it appears like something's still quite broken and the crashes will be inevitable. I'll give it a week. Then I'm going to replace this XR500, contact Elon Musk, and have this cursed device fired into the sun where it cannot harm anyone else .

Hi Fraser, Please add me as well! I own an XR500.