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    NETGEAR Nighthawk X8 AC5000 Tri-band WiFi Router, Gigabih Ethernet, MU-MIMO, Compatible with Amazon Echo/Alexa (R8300)

    • I tried multiple resets including hard resets
    • I trolled the Netgear forums, manuals and troubleshooting for every remedy possible and nothing worked; it wouldn't even accept a hard reset.
    • A hard reset fixed the LED issue for a brief moment until I started connecting my devices to it again.
    • Not even using the pin hole to do a hard reset work
    • I worked with support and got to second tier where they wanted me to downgrade which I already did as well as multiple resets (soft and hard).
    • Spent an 1 1/2 hours with Netgear Chat and they finally said send it back after having me try to shock reset and ping the router.
    • However I started to notice that it would lockup once in a while and would have to do a hard reset to get it to work again
    • You have to do a hard reset to stop it
    • No resetting worked, no troubleshooting worked.
    • Reset didn't work support for hrs and hrs and nothing
    • After resetting all of my routers and tinkering with this device, it worked again.
    • The best router I have ever owned, the setup process did take me a couple resets for some reason, but no problems ever since I bought it!
    • Reset didn't work support for hrs and hrs and nothing
    • The clear instructions of a hard reset on the NETGEAR router PLUS recommended configuration for the "Dynamic QoS" settings.
    • When hot reset is performed, e.g., changing a setting or pressing on/off button, it is stuck in the boot loop forever
    • Every time I'd configure my asus with these features I'd have to soft reset, factory reset, and cross my fingers hoping it would work but for how long
    • Today I tried all sorts of things including hard reset, the brand new one is dead
    • Tech Support, recommended flash firmware and factory reset, tried it, no change
    • A hard reset with then pen in the back, to factory settings, does not resolve (tried multiple times)
    • Also occasionally when I browse 192.168.1.1, I get a password reset page instead of a password prompt.
    • Not even a hard reset saved it.
    • A hard reset fixed the LED issue for a brief moment until I started connecting my devices to it again.
    • A hard reset was not possible because the button did not work
    • In my case, even hard reset did not work on 2 or the replacement routers Netgear sent
    • This thing visually is beautiful to look at with the LED’s in the antennae giving it a futuristic look
    • my iPads and iPhones enjoy almost 300Mb/s throughout my home on the higher bands
    • I kept MIMO on the R8500 with no issues and that could be the reason it outperformed the RT-AC5300’s broken (STILL alpha!
    • n’t have the radio issue but was getting BSoDs using their own USB-AC68 but that’s for another review.
    • I love t