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From my router to my wife's computer and laptop in her office is about 25 feet. I've even gone through the trouble of setting up a hardwired XR450 as an AP and it's about 15 feet from her office. No dice. But if I swap back to the XR1000, her PC works perfectly via wifi. I dont want to run any cable thru my house to bandaid the issue but I'm at wit's end. 

My DHCP is .2-.250. I have a reservation for the XR450 that's 192.168.77.2 and it keeps dropping connection and not being shown in the Device Manager. Is it a throughput or software/firmware issue?

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What is the issue your wife's PC has exactly, is it slow speeds, disconnects etc? 

The 450 won't always show on the Device Manager, it's affectively passing internet through itself to other devices, it's not getting internet itself per se, do the devices connected to it all drop and if so does the connection recover?

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4 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

What is the issue your wife's PC has exactly, is it slow speeds, disconnects etc? 

The 450 won't always show on the Device Manager, it's affectively passing internet through itself to other devices, it's not getting internet itself per se, do the devices connected to it all drop and if so does the connection recover?

Slow speeds and/or complete loss of connection. No more than 25mbps down atm. Well over 200mbps down consistently from the XR1000 so I know it's not the dongle.

I did a factory reset last night that seems to have fixed this particular issue, though. Will report back if the connection starts to drop again.

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3 hours ago, DARKNESS said:

@SpazzJust checking did you ever check if the packet loss was coming from the line? I would if you didn't at the time since sometimes it can be your ISP I recommend the following tool to diagnose network if it occurs again https://www.pingplotter.com/.

Doubtful but I didn’t check. If it were coming from the line, the XR1000 would give me similar or worse performance. I can swap back to my XR1000 and have better wifi and bufferbloat right now but I’m holding out for a FW update. I’ve factory reset this thing 9-10 times. I’m done tinkering for now. I’ve been dealing with routers for 15 years and never had one give me so many issues out of the box and I’ve bricked many over the years with 3rd party firmware and random setups for science lol. I have confidence in the Duma team but not much in the Netgear team since they seemingly are always at odds. Guess we’ll see what happens. 

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