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nikarsena
Jan 27, 2022Follower
Do all routers eventually just start to die (nighthawk R7000)?
Right now running a Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT. Ive been experiencing a lot of issues lately and have to reboot often. This happened to my last router a few years back as well. Do all routers ev...
FURRYe38
Jan 27, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Sonething to discuss over in the DD-WRT forums since you have there FW loaded. There FW could be doing anything thats not seen on NG stock FW.
nikarsena wrote:
Right now running a Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT. Ive been experiencing a lot of issues lately and have to reboot often. This happened to my last router a few years back as well.
Do all routers eventually start to "crap" out?
Im guessing this is pretty outdated as well - so might as well upgrade to something better. I'm not so sure I need DDWRT anymore, since the majority of the time im not home, im connected to all sorts of wifi (and use a vpn), so I guess I really dont care if I have it anymore.
Budget is around 200 - range has been fine on this, but wouldnt mind a little boost. I know new wifi standards have been released since then, so an update would be nice.
I do a lot of gaming (mostly LAN, but I have friends come over and use wifi), so any extra GAMING features i guess would be cool, but im assuming they all probably offer the same thing, just some get their prices jacked up for GAMING purposes.