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Gateway shuts down spontaneously

Hi, I have 3 eero pros in my house.  Had them for  a couple of years. No problems... until about 2 months ago. My gateway eero will spontaneously shut itself down. Happens about once each day, usually around 8pm. Not sure why ~8pm.. the timing is not correlated to anything happening at my house or on my network.  Fortunately, this issue has not manifested during business hours. 
When the shutdown occurs, the gateway is still physically connected to electric power, but the LED is off and the unit is cool to the touch as if it is not plugged in to the outlet at all. 
Interestingly, if I unplug the Ethernet cable connecting the gateway to my Xfinity modem, the eero’s LED will light back up (blinking white). 
I was in communication with eero support about this problem, and support suggested trying a number of things, including getting a new Xfinity modem, swapping my gateway with another one of the eeros in my house, and using a different electric outlet.  I also tried deleting my eero network, resetting the eeros to factory  configuration and creating a whole new network from scratch with the same equipment. None of it worked, and I never heard from eero support again. Support said they have never seen this issue before. Maybe they ran out of suggestions for me. 
Any help the community can offer would be greatly appreciated!  Thank you!
 

11 replies

    • cMoo92
    • 4 yrs ago
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    Wow, that is a strange issue. Did you try all the things eero support suggested, including a different xfinity modem? If it’s happening even on a different eero unit, that would seem to indicate the issue is “upstream”. Have you also tried using a different network cable between the modem and gateway eero?

      • Katz321
      • 4 yrs ago
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      cMoo92 yes, I tried using a different Ethernet cable and I swapped out the Xfinity modem for a brand new one. The problem persists. 
      If the problem is upstream, meaning some kind of problem with the signal that I am getting from Xfinity feeding into my eero... how in the world would I diagnose/fix it?  
      if course, I’ve called Xfinity and they say the signal to my equipment is fine. And then they caution me against using a 3rd party router instead of their equipment, because they can’t support third party networking hardware. 

      • cMoo92
      • 4 yrs ago
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      Katz321 By "upstream" I mean something from your eero to your modem. I don't think there's any way that the signal coming into the modem could impact the eero, but rather something the modem is doing. 

      Have you enabled bridge mode on your Xfinity gateway? https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wireless-gateway-enable-disable-bridge-mode

      • Katz321
      • 4 yrs ago
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      cMoo92 Yes, the modem is in bridge mode.  I thought that the modem being in bridge mode was a requirement for the eero network to function at all.  So the modem has always been setup that way.   

    • mlbuckner
    • 4 yrs ago
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    I am having the same issue with one of my units, the unit is shutting completely off and cool to the touch. Have to unplug, wait 7-10 seconds and plug it back in to power it back on. I suspect overheating issue which is causing the unit to shut down. My issue started in April after the most recent firmware version. Have been working with support for the last couple of weeks and have yet to get a resolution.I was able to move that unit to secondary instead of gateway primary so i don't loose my network connectivity overall

    • NW_Traveler
    • 4 yrs ago
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    I am having this same issue. I have two Eero Pros and a beacon and 700mbs Inteernet. It usually happens when all five of us are online for work or school. It is extremely disruptive. I haven't not been able to resolve it. I thought it might be related to a poor signal, but relocating my Eeros has not resolved it. I have also checked the modern when the gateway goes down and the cable modem is fine, no drop in connection. The Eeros are well ventilated. Does anyone know how I can pull logs and try to see why this is happening? Support has been slow to respond.

      • cMoo92
      • 4 yrs ago
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      NW_Traveler You can’t view the logs yourself. Only support can do that.

      • NW_Traveler
      • 4 yrs ago
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      cMoo92 Ugh. That seems dumb. My wife pointed out that the Eeros were very stable and reliable without the daily disconnects up until about a month or two ago. I bet this is related to a sw update. Unfortunately, the Eero also does not tell me the date of the update.

       

      Does anyone know if any of the Land features could be causing the disconnects? I have band steering and Conferencing enabled.

      • cMoo92
      • 4 yrs ago
      • Reported - view

      NW_Traveler disabling the beta features would be my first recommendation to try. Especially band steering. Band steering in general can cause wonky issues (not just an issue with eero devices).

    • Blaired79
    • 4 yrs ago
    • Reported - view

    I’m having exactly the same issue. I had one beta feature switched on (optimised for conference and gaming) which I have disabled. I’ve logged a support ticket too. The past week my eero gateway has been off at least four times.
     

    I’ll report back any updates. 

    • Massimo23
    • 3 yrs ago
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    Hi I am having this problem every five minutes with the Eero 6 Pro. Working fine for the last 6 months now giving me this problem. I have my broadband modem on modem mode. What I did to test: I swapped the Eero for a brand new one and I get the same problem. Swapped the ethernet cable, the power adapter , the power outlet, reset the broadband modem, reset the Eero, disabled ipv6, have band steering off.

    Next thing to do is get the modem swapped from Virgin Media. If that doesn't fix it then I don't know what else to do....

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