System and techniques for gateway assisted diagnostics and repair are described herein. A request for assistance may be received from a client device at a gateway device attached to a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN). The request for assistance may include an indication of an event experienced by the client device. The request for assistance may be forwarded to a management controller of the gateway device. Instructions may be transmitted to the client device via the LAN for resolving the event experienced by the client device.