I've been using netgear router for 12 years now and my last one was R8500. After automatic install of the firmware I noticed a degrading performance of the router.the first release it worked flawlessly and then worked like 1 to 1\2 year it became a piece of crap. I

always have a fight with the internet providers. What a waste of money because I'm not buying cheap ones its their latest ones! On my RAX AX120, the first release firmware out of the box worked fine. The auto update is making it worse as I observed, this is just MY OBSERVATION!!!! No offense to whoever this KillerHippie is saying. So tired of seeing a very expensive router will just go down the drain, I decided to revert it the original firmware as if out of the box and hard reset it 30-30-30 like use before on old netgear routers of mine. MY EXPERIENCE after I used the nighthawk app with netgear armor on the last week of my trial because I dont want to buy it, my Iphone was

disabled for no reason that I cant open and have reset. I turned of my router and walla I was able to turn it OFF and do reset.

I reset everything (what a waste of time) I have 32 loT connected to it like garage, switches and CCTV my house is fully automated.

So on the consumer end this is not a joke! Im just an ordinary netgear user and if this situation happens it cost me a lot of time and effort to connect all of them. What I did was to disconnect if from my at&t IP passthrough gateway, hard reset it to 30-30-30sec and reconnect all of my devices changed my password.This is my current firmware that you can download from the website. Im not suggesting you also do this,

this is just my experience and currently I have no more problems. Mind you I'm pretty happy with my lifelock coverage! if they get my info.

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