XR700 Unacceptable Wifi issues

This past weekend I finally gave up with the xr700. I put back the R8500 and boy what a difference. And I mean for the better. The R8500 was my back up so all I needed to do was unplug the xr700 and drop the r8500 in its place. I cannot believe how stable things are. Also, speeds have increased, go figure. For example, I have Roku boxes. They have a network connection test built in. I used to get in the 60’s on an ISP providing 100 down. With this r8500 I know get 80’s and sometimes 90’s. Being the wireless setup is the same between the 2 routers, once the r8500 was in place, all my wireless devices connected with out me needing to redo any of them.

I wanted to try something out one more time with the xr700 so I removed the r8500 and put back the xr700. Again, nothing has changed between routers. I could barely get my wireless stuff to work. Only stuff working was the wired connections. To get my wireless devices working I had to redo the connection setup which I only did on the ones I wanted to test. When done, I put the r8500 back in play and everything was back online. Did not have to do a thing to fix anything.

Overall, this xr700 is a bad idea. At this point I really doubt the new 3.0 is going to have any affect on the device performance. I will say thou, with my experience with Netgear devices, this has been the only one that really was disappointing.