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- Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:11 pm #89913 Judging by my experience I'd vote for the Netgear being the problem, my Netgear R8000 used to drop WiFi connections all the time or sometimes lock up completely especially when under load. Reverting back to an earlier version of the firmware helped as did moving some of the functions to dedicated servers on my LAN (e.g. DHCP, DNS etc.) Ultimately I bought a dedicated firewall appliance running PfSense and just used the Netgear as a WiFi access point which it continues to perform as pretty well now that it's not required to provide all the other services. I read online something that convinced me it's best to have a device dedicated to each job rather than one device trying to do them all. My stack of raspberry pi 4s individually doing DHCP, DNS, Email, CCTV, Web Server etc are all doing sterling work and using less power than the 2 windows pc servers they replaced.