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Is C7000 v2 Carton Distinctively Marked?
I would like to buy a C7000 v2 at retail in a large midwestern US city. How can I determine whether the retailer's shelf inventory is the older or newer version of the C7000? Is there a distincti...
Antinode, thanks for the good information. I wondered what the AZ was in the model number of Amazon units.
And your other comments about your D7000 experience were perceptively on target. Hope that Netgear execs read them, but I doubt it.
I noticed C7000 owners/posters commenting that C7000 firmware upgrades were entirely at the discretion of their cable company, and beyond the reach of the router's owner.
> I noticed C7000 owners/posters commenting that C7000 firmware upgrades
> were entirely at the discretion of their cable company, and beyond the
> reach of the router's owner.
https://kb.netgear.com/000036375
You cannot manually update your NETGEAR cable modem or modem
router's firmware.
It's a DOCSIS requirement, not a Netgear requirement.