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Ok came into work today expecting it to be an easy enough night, started at 7pm and was asked to check a router i installed in the backstage area as people were having difficulties connecting to it.. So fair enough, went down and checked the signal in the area using “Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector” everything seemed grand.. then i tried connecting.. No such luck. Following this there was a firmware update, a router address change, multiple Settings tweaks.. Nothing..

At this point i was ready to just throw the router out the window till i saw that the “Routing Information Protocol” was disabled for some random reason, now RIP isn’t essential for most home routers so i suppose that might be a reason for it to be off as a default but upon changing the selection to “RIP_2M” it all worked fine.. good old NetGear.. how i despise your routers.. (Love your switches though)