New R7000 Firmware Version 1.0.11.100

Netgear's instruction for the firmware are quite clear, reboot before upgrading the firmware, nothing about erase all settings. There shouldn't be any need to complicate matters.

I'm not saying anyone should follow the method I listed in my previous post, but it worked first time for me and it's been several hours now since I carried out the firmware update and no problems whatsoever so far.

My only recommendation which I didn't mention before, is that if you have the Netgear Nighthawk App and like me you choose to upgrade the firmware via ethernet, I was prompted to sign out of my App before the firmware update actually happened.

I have to say, I've read some absolutely dire things that have apparently happened with users attempting firmware upgrades and bricking their routers or claiming that upgrading the firmware has left their R7000 unusable or unstable, but this just hasn't been the case with this update for me....so far!

The only thing that has got my back up over this update, is that afterward, I did a Bitdefender Home Scan and just as before on my previous firmware, everything came back as safe, all except for the router itself which came back highlighted as 'potentially at risk'. It is of course in my opinion, utter carp, there's nothing wrong with the router and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out why that result came back as it did. Enough said.