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pablofm9
Aspirant
Jan 30, 2019

Flashing R7800 firmware on XR500

Hello,   I have the XR500 router and have been experimenting with DumaOS.  While I can appreciate the OS, I actually prefer the regular Netgear Firmware that I have used in the past.  Is it possi...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 30, 2019

Why not by a actual R7800 router then compare the two. 

NG doesn't support cross platform FW on these routers. Thre are differences in the FW and HW that would not work anyways. 

 

pablofm9 wrote:

Hello,

 

I have the XR500 router and have been experimenting with DumaOS.  While I can appreciate the OS, I actually prefer the regular Netgear Firmware that I have used in the past.  Is it possible to flash the R7800 router's firmware on the XR500, which is supposed to have identical hardware specs?

Thank you.

 

  • Netduma_Jack's avatar
    Netduma_Jack
    NetDuma Partner
    Jan 31, 2019

    You know 95% of the NETGEAR standard firmware is in the settings section right?! The only things not there are settings that are superseded by DumaOS features e.g. QoS.