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Is My Router Too Old & Slowing Me Down?
We have a Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 Smart WiFi Route Model R6700v2 which I bought in January, 2018, and I'm just checking to see if it's now too old and out of date and thus possibly slowing things do...
As microchip8 says, if it works why change it?
You could, though, check that you have the latest firmware on the router. And that does not mean using the onboard test to check. That can miss updates,
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
That page will also have any software, firmware and drivers for your device, if they exist.
Or follow this:
How do I manually upgrade firmware to my NETGEAR router? | Answer | NETGEAR Support