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Wireless not working but ethernet is on router

dookievizion
By dookievizion
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I have a Netgear WNDR4500 that was working perfectly fine till last night all the devices that were connected to it wirelessly suddenly lost connection.  I was on my desktop which is connected through ethernet so I didn't even notice till my wife said she couldn't get on.  All the lights on the router never changed, yet I still wasn't able to connect with either of my two latops, tablets, or cell phones.  

 

I power cycled both the modem and router, and checked the netgear genie to see if any of the settings had altered and nothing was different.  It still broadcasts the SSID but when I try to connect to it nothing happens.  This morning I upgraded the routers firmware and reset my wireless settings.  Things eventually seemed to connect for an hour or so, but my wife called and let me know she was unable to connect again.  

 

Any idea of what could be the problem?

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hmm seems like a faulty router

RMA it

 

 

or u can try installing dd-wrt on it first just to see if it might fix the issue

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Well I've had a similar problem some time ago, how i had to fix it.

 

  1. Make sure NO WIFI device is connected, or trying to connect.
  2. Shut down power to both router and modem for an half an hour.
  3. Then power up modem and router, leave it just in this state for an minute or 20.
  4. Try to connect your devices now,

 This fixed it for me, it did some firmware updates in this time according to my Internet Provider. Maybe it'll work to, but it also could just be a router fail. Maybe if you can't get it to work, try an old router (if you have this around).

 

Good luck!

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I appreciate the help folks.  I came home and tried a few things, and the only thing I can gather right now is that it's somehow my wife's laptop that is causing the problem.  Whenever I try to connect it to the wifi it won't connect, and basically turns it off for the other devices.  I disabled wireless on this machine and everything is working fine now.  Going to run a variety of scans on it to see if I can determine what the issue is.  

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