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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 19, 2017
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Feedback for R7000 New firmware 1.0.9.18

Hi All,   Please post here for any update/issue related to the latest firmware 1.0.9.18. 
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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Mar 08, 2018

    You should review this and maybe revert back to this recommended version of FW:

    https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-1-0-9-26-Feedback-Thread/m-p/1520141#M85677

     

    Alfikwrote:

    I've looked here again after a while and I can't belive the problem is still not solved....

    Since I've flashed Tomato a few weeks ago I've forgotten that I have a router- it's working perfectly getting dust because i do not touch it at all :-)...

     

    Parental control works perfectly, 0 drops, strong signal - save your time and do a similar thing!

     

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codeflux
Aspirant
Jan 21, 2018

I'm still on 1.0.9.14 - and won't be going up to .18 or .20 because of the posts in this thread.

 

I wanted to chime in about XWRT-Vortex - I tried installing that, unfortunately it caused one of my 2 EX6100 wifi extenders to stop connecting to the router.  Either one connects or the other, but not both.  They're both configured exactly the same way (read: save settings on one, upload to the other).  They work flawlessly when R7000 is running stock Netgear firmware, but not with XWRT-Vortex.

 

Also, I have 2 Amazon Fire TVs and 1 Fire HD 7 tablet - and all 3 have been working flawlessly with 1.0.9.14.  When I switched to XWRT-Vortex, the Fire HD tablet stopped connecting to wifi after any change to the wifi configuration in the router.  I had to power-cycle the router for the tablet to start connecting.

 

So, YMMV with XWRT-Vortex.