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asphaltdragon
Jun 12, 2016Aspirant
Netgear R7000 Nighthawk has spotty connection.
I just recently purchased an R7000 router, and it's working great... if you're on LAN. Any Wifi connections seem to have incredibly spotty connections. It'll load about 15 seconds of a Youtube video,...
- Jun 13, 2016
I think I'm just going to go back to my DGL-5500. I know that works. Only reason I picked up the Nighthawk is because my moronic ISP thought my router was bad. And then it turned out to be their modem. At least I'll get the $200 I spent on the Nighthawk back. Thanks for all your help, Ether.
asphaltdragon
Jun 12, 2016Aspirant
Yes, tried both. I've set the channel on 2.4 to 7 from Auto, and 5 is on 153, which was the default. It's doing it on both of them. QoS is also turned off, not sure I answered you on that earlier.
asphaltdragon
Jun 13, 2016Aspirant
I think I'm just going to go back to my DGL-5500. I know that works. Only reason I picked up the Nighthawk is because my moronic ISP thought my router was bad. And then it turned out to be their modem. At least I'll get the $200 I spent on the Nighthawk back. Thanks for all your help, Ether.