WNR2000 has rebooted twice today

Bricktop · 13-10-2009, 10:27

Only had this router from VM for a week and so far Ive had 4 reboots. Should I be concerned about this. The power light goes to orange and the green ethernet lights shut off. Then after a minute they all come back on.

Is this router make problematic.

Druchii · 13-10-2009, 10:51

Sounds like a faulty router to me

What are you doing when this happens? Always heavy downloading or?

Bricktop · 13-10-2009, 10:54

just surfing. I put the latest firmware on a couple of days ago. Im gonna see how it goes. Maybe give it a few weeks to settle in.

pabscars · 13-10-2009, 11:19

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Originally Posted by Bricktop

just surfing. I put the latest firmware on a couple of days ago. Im gonna see how it goes. Maybe give it a few weeks to settle in.

Excuse me for barging in, but can I ask you why you needed to update the firmware.

The only reason I,m asking is that I too have the same VM supplied router and each time I log in to it, it automatically searches for new firmware.

So far it has never indicated that new firmware was present, or has this just recently become available.

For what its worth, mine has occasionally dropped connection to the modem, and the only way to resolve is via a reboot.

Finally did you keep a back up of the old firmware just so you could try reverting back to original speck if you so wished.

Bricktop · 13-10-2009, 11:29

Well the automatic checking of the firmware was giving one that was earlier than on the website. I think I had v1.1 when I got my router, ]my current firmware now is 1.2.3.7 though the automatic search was giving me 1.2.08 as the latest before I upgraded.

I upgraded as I found browsing the different sections of the router to be very slow responsive.

I did a backup which gave me a file called NETGEAR_WNR2000.cfg

buckleb · 13-10-2009, 11:42

If you go to this Netgear Page:

http://kb.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2614

Click the 'Downloads' tab, and then tick the 'Show All Versions' box, you can download a complete set of firmware backups.

pabscars · 13-10-2009, 11:50

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Originally Posted by Bricktop

Well the automatic checking of the firmware was giving one that was earlier than on the website. I think I had v1.1 when I got my router, ]my current firmware now is 1.2.3.7 though the automatic search was giving me 1.2.08 as the latest before I upgraded.

I upgraded as I found browsing the different sections of the router to be very slow responsive.

I did a backup which gave me a file called NETGEAR_WNR2000.cfg

Thanks for info, I will have a look into this myself now I know there is newer FW,

Have you had a look in the logs to see if it sheds any light on the situation.

Druchii · 13-10-2009, 12:05

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Originally Posted by Bricktop

Well the automatic checking of the firmware was giving one that was earlier than on the website. I think I had v1.1 when I got my router, ]my current firmware now is 1.2.3.7 though the automatic search was giving me 1.2.08 as the latest before I upgraded.

I upgraded as I found browsing the different sections of the router to be very slow responsive.

I did a backup which gave me a file called NETGEAR_WNR2000.cfg

The CFG is short for Config. It is not the firmware.

Bricktop · 13-10-2009, 15:15

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Originally Posted by Druchii

The CFG is short for Config. It is not the firmware.

so i wont be able to downgrade now.

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Originally Posted by pabscars

Thanks for info, I will have a look into this myself now I know there is newer FW,

Have you had a look in the logs to see if it sheds any light on the situation.

I will see how it goes as the last router I had was a Belkin 54g and for a few weeks it would lock up reguarly, but after that it became stable.

buckleb · 13-10-2009, 15:26

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Originally Posted by Bricktop

so i wont be able to downgrade now.

Yes you will, if you follow the link I posted above. Save the file to your Hard Drive and choose the path where it is from the router's upgrade screen.

die5el · 13-10-2009, 15:36

Having the same problems myself with the wnr 2000 router also in the end i put my old wgr614v6 in line Saturday evening it has been stable since no droputs as of yet getting my full 50 meg now with no dropouts

buckleb · 13-10-2009, 15:42

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Originally Posted by die5el

Having the same problems myself with the wnr 2000 router also in the end i put my old wgr614v6 in line it has been stable since the weekend also getting my full 50 meg now with no dropouts

I've also gone back to my previous router (a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 running DD-WRT) and it does seem to be much more stable than the WNR2000.