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Any advice on a newer alternative to R7000 (25 devices wired/Wi-Fi and gaming) ISP 500dl and 23ul?
I figure i may have to reset my current R7000 anyway (which seems throttled by a QoS bug). I'm still going to update firmware and reset it but If I have to go through set up again with that many devi...
Answers to that sort of question are bound to be all over the place. We are all fans of different routers, with the R7800 popular with some of us old diehards who refuse to buy into the stuff with go-fast stripes down the side.
Try plugging your needs into the filters on the product pages:
Wireless Routers for Home | NETGEAR
and
Orbi: Whole Home WiFi System for Better WiFi Everywhere | NETGEAR
Then check back here for reports on the things you are considering, but remember that people turn up in this community with problems, not compliments. So look at reviews on Amazon, for example.
mcinturf wrote:
I reliably get about 500down and 23up when i connect (wired) a laptop or series x directly to modem. My speeds with R7000 using older fw 1.09....88 are not even half that anymore after screwing with QoS.
With that Internet service you should avoid any use of QoS. It is a waste of time and will only slow down your network as the processor tries to manage the traffic.
The general advice is that anyone with a speed much above 200 Mbps will gain nothing from QoS. Even Netgear says as much.
Serious gamers known that other factors beyond QoS get in their way and will pay huge amounts for a router that runs the DumaOS firmware. Some of there are built around the same hardware that runs more conventional firmware. (The XR500 is an R7800 in sheep's clothing.) They just come in cases that are ugly as sin.