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I bought a R7000 with non-removable antennas?!?
OK, I bought a used R7000 from eBay and not getting the coverage I was hoping for so, I was thinking of purchasing some larger antennas for it, but when I looked at the back of router I was shocked t...
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The latest version of the R7000 has non-removeable antennas. I would guess this is the cut production cost. Wish I would have known this before I purchased.
Thanks for the response,
Please take a look at the screenshot attached. There is no way to remove the antennas. I did not think of an ISP custom version until you mentioned it, but it is possible. I would like to get someone to confirm. The seller had 12 for sale so that would make sense. I have a Moca access point that I bought last year, which turned out was customized for Time Warner Cable, so that has happened to me before.
As far as I can tell, the serial number is legit as I get a message that it is already registered to an account. Warranty status shows that this was first registered around June of this year (2019) so it is a relatively new R7000. It's past the 90-day warranty but still showing the one-year hardware.
If anyone else can shed light on what I got, please do so.
The eBay seller was unhelpful and wanted me to pay a restocking fee to return it, so I am stuck with it. I gave him his first negative review (out of 250) which spoiled his 100% rating; oh well was not happy to do that, but he was not cooperative.
Smegtrek wrote:
Please take a look at the screenshot attached. There is no way to remove the antennas.
I cannot see the picture in enough detail to see what you can do. Not enough detail.
However, I do have an R7000P lying around and the fitting looks very similar. The difference is that the fitting where the antenna goes into the router is ridged to make it easy to grip and rotate the screw-in bit.
I assume that you have tried a gentle twist on the bit that screws into the router.