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I unfortunately this brand new (2021) wifi 6 Nighthawk router. I bought it because I have a four-story house with a TV and a Peloton on the top floor and TV's on the other three. My CenturyLink fiber optic works great, and on the 2nd and 3rd floors, I have no problem connecting to anything. The first and top floors are too far away from the CenturyLink modem/wifi router, so the signlal keeps having to buffer. I bought this $200 router with two satelites to fix this issue.
I can connect my computers and phones to the Netgear router and they work fine. The Peloton on the fourth floor connects just fine to the Netgear router. While all four TV's show that the Netgear wifi is connected and there is internet, not one of them will load Netflix, AppleTV or Prime, although they load YouTube just fine. The TV's all connect to these apps just fine when they are on the CenturyLink connection, although it's too weak for two of the four floors.
I have spent no less than 6 hours (honestly) with 10 or so Netgear technicians and not one of them can fix the issue. We've done everything from change all the DNS settings, to updating firmware to changing the CenturyLink modem to "bridge only mode". Netgear even sent me a brand new router which I tried to set up with them on the phone today. After another 1.5 hours, we are in exactly the same place.
Netgear has to know about this issue because people are complaining on their on "Netgear Community"! Why don't they admit they don't know how to fix it and give people their money back? I'm trying to do just that and they are being a pain in the *ss. I will never buy another Netgear router. Never had this trouble with anyother brand before.
SOLVED!! I went to Best Buy and got an eero 6 mesh router. Easiest setup ever. It took 15 minutes using the phone app. Every TV, computer, phone and BT speaker accessed the network immediately, and we've had zero problems!
Over the 6 or so hours I worked with Netgear technicians (and the hour with the CenturyLink tech) I don't believe that was one of the things we tried. I would have no idea how to do what you suggest. Why do you think the Netgear tech didn't try that? Thanks.
Thanks for the advice. You've been great! I'm on a bit of budget, ($250 that I would hate to push to $300) so any reccomendations on a specific TP-Link or Asus? I have a four story home, so do I still need satellites on the two furthest away floors? If you had my budget, what would you buy?
Hi There - I just set up a AC1900 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Router Archer A9 (which for some reason isnt an option from the model list up there) and it is lovely - my phone, tablet, computer, google home devices are all working great. However, netflix on my TCL smart TV won't work. The TV itself is connected and other channels (such as amazon prime) work. Netflix keeps giving me error codes tvq-st-103 and tvq-st-131, saying it can't connect to the network. I can watch netflix on my other devices. I've tried the obvious things like restarting the network by unplugging everything and then plugging back in one at a time, resetting the netflix login, returning the TV to factory settings... It's gotta be something with the router but I can't figure out what. Anyone here have any smart ideas?
You can try to factory default the router by holding the reset for 15 seconds. When the router is back up connect to the default Wi-Fi and test the connection. By default the router can not block specific traffic, but there might have been something adjusted which defaulting will clear out.
If the issue still happens it would be best to contact Netflix to see if there are any settings to adjust or to try since streaming services work with the router from other companies as other devices.
There could be regional differences affecting your connection. We recommend creating a thread on our global community. community.tp-link.com/en. This community, community.tp-link.com/us is only able to assist customers in the U.S. While issues may seem to be the same issue and in somecases they are its always best to interact with the team best able to handle your particular concerns.
Because i am also a consumer i do get annoyed when companies say this but in this case the first thing to do is reach out to the manufacture of the TV and troubleshoot their device first. This is because since its the only device having issues the troubleshooting would want to begin at the client and not the router. If more devices were having the same issue then it would be one thing but with just one experiancing this issue that is where you would want to start.
Our Linksys router died recently. After not making it more than about 2 years on our last two Linksys routers, I decided to come back and give Netgear a try. I'd had good luck with them in the past. I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 Wireless Router. For the most part I am very pleased with our new router. Wired connections are fast and stable. Wi-Fi is fast and stable on either network with one exception. I cannot get Netflix to work consistently over Wi-Fi on our Samsung tablets. Every device that is wired works well and Netflix has no issues. If we use our Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablets to connect, the app will start and, when switching to the library/selection screen, we get the little swirling busy icon for about ten seconds, then the app crashes back to the home screen. We have no issues whatsoever if we turn our phones into mobile hotspots and connect to them. We have no issues on any other Wi-Fi networks that we have attempted to use. The only time we have this problem is on our home Wi-Fi network administered by our R7000 router.
I called tech support a few weeks ago, and they walked me through performing a factory reset on our router, thinking maybe something didn't take quite right during our initial setup. They walked me through initial setup again. Once we were done, bam!, Netflix was back and was working well. However, within a couple of days, the same problem started. The Android Netflix app was crashing on our home network. Again, no problems over mobile data and no problems on any other Wi-Fi network we checked. The problem was only exhibited through our home network. If I reset the network and perform initial setup again, Netflix will work fine again, for a limited time; anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days. Since installing our new router, I have not been able to make it more than three or four days without this problem arising and requiring a factory reset to "fix" it.
It definitely looks like it is a Linksys issue. The funny thing is, until my Linksys router died, we had no issues whatsoever. Everything worked fine with the range extender on our network. It took that router dying and setting up our new Netgear for the issue to manifest. Now though, our issues sound exactly like everyone on that thread.
On the off-chance that this could help with my issue, I looked at the link you provided and followed the instructions there. I came up with with an optimum MTU of 1500. When I check my router settings, MTU Size is already set at 1500.
Ok, it was a stab in the dark. I can't think of any reason why the R7000 could cause your Netflix app to crash. The only thing it does to the traffic is NAT. Most of the time that should be transparent to applications.
Thank you anyway for the suggestion. It was worth a shot. I'm just hoping someone may see the post and it will sound familiar to an issue they had or something and maybe they'll have a suggestion that works. I'll give it a few days and then call tech support again.
The only problem with that is that they want to ask 50 bajillion questions about things not related to the router, seemingly in hopes of steering towards the problem being something other than their equipment. I know they have to rule out certain things to get at the issue and they have a flow chart to follow, but it gets frustrating.
Well, I spent about an hour on the phone with tech support. They were very nice and didn't take me through too many insanely basic steps. They listened to what else I had tried and basically took off from there with very little back-tracking. Even though I was at the most recent firmware version, they had me manually update it. Then we reset to factory defaults and went through initial setup again. After that, they had me change the DNS servers to the Google DNS servers, which didn't help before when I first tried it. Then they took me to QoS Setup to adjust Downstream QoS. We enabled that to prioritize video streaming.
After all of that, the Netflix app starts just fine on our Samsung tablets and videos play and everything works great. Of course, it always did after I performed factory reset and ran setup again. We changed so many things that I don't know if any one of them or the combination of changes fixed it. All I know is that it's working now and I'm good with that, assuming the problem doesn't return in a few days. If it does, I'll post here for anyone that may be having similar issues in the future. If you don't see a reply from me within a few days, maybe a week, you'll know we're still good and that this fixed our problem. If you're experiencing similar issues, I'd give all of this a try and see if it helps you.
OK, well, as hopeful as I was, the last fix didn't take care of my problem. As a matter of fact, my problem only remained "fixed" for approximately 15 minutes before returning. I went on to make two more phone calls to tech support that lasted almost two full hours altogether. They had me changing all sorts of strange and obscure settings and, each successive time, the "fix" lasted for less and less time. To me, it definitely appeared to be a hardware issue that was getting worse and worse. And let's face it, to use Netflix over wi-fi shouldn't take a bunch of jumping through flaming hoops just to get it to work. I mean, I know there may be settings and parameters that can improve performance, but we're talking just getting and keeping it working at all, and it really shouldn't take all that. It should work right out of the box.
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