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New R7000 Firmware Version 1.0.11.100
It's been a while but finally NG has released a new firmware for R7000! :smileyhappy: R7000 Firmware V1.0.11.100_10.2.100 Download: https://kb.netgear.com/000061805/R7000-Firmware-Version-1-0...
iFrog Pleased to read things went well. The issue about the update not being found on the router has been mentioned before in other threads and it was the same for me. I downloaded the update directly from the Netgear site to my desktop and uploaded the file from there directly to the router.
I'd recommend disabling the auto update feature if you haven't already done so.
You cannot uncheck the 'Enable Routers PIN' in Wireless settings. Well you can uncheck the box, but when you hit the apply button, it just checks itself again, so a bug there.
If the NTP server loses sync, you'll get a warning in red at the top of the admin page, it's got typos in it and looks sloppy. Needs sorting.
I split my networks up and I run Guest Networks on both 2.4 and 5g. Keeps things in order for me.
I find the Nighthawk App useful, but I won't be carrying out any firmware updates using it.
Hope things go well with the new firmware.
I wanted to let you know, I've gone back to my 2013 Airport Extreme for the time being. I encountered some very strange issues with the R7000 which I never had with either the earlier stock firmware, or DD-WRT, so i'm leaning between failing hardware since it's just sat collecting dust not use, or bad wireless drivers in the latest firmware, or a conflict between the wireless chipset in my iPhone and the router.
Either way, what happened was this:
the iPhone 7 plus would only get about 40 Mbps down on the speedtest app, and my connection is 400 Mbps down. The funny thing is, initally when i first had the issue, i was able to simply toggle wifi off in the settings for the phon, then the speed came back normal when toggling back on, and reconnecting. The other thing I noticed was the speedtest app was sluggish on LTE as well, so there could be an issue with the phone, since all other wireless devices were working. The problem(s) I observed were:
Turning on the guest network seem to have introduced the second problem, at least it looks that way.
The second problem was after using the phone, my other devices such as Google Home, and Alexa were no longer able to access the internet.
So, either the guest networking feature has a bug, or there is something wrong with the iphone wifi chipset that's crashing the router. Since it's the only wireless device I observed problems with. Other than that, the router seems to work normally. I went back to the Airport and the iphone no longer has Wifi issues. I wonder if it's an apple thing. I've heard more so years ago from now, but apple devices don't always play with third party routers in the nicest way at times.
The other people here reporting 5Ghz issues diesn't seem to suggest they had only certain devices fail, but rather the whole network was gone, while I experienced problems with specfrici devices, or in this case, the phone seems to have triggered the problems here.
FYI, i haven't used my iphone with the R7000 since it's been on ios 13, the last time i had the R7000 in use was when ios 12 was still the current public release, so that should tell you how long I haven't used the R7000, and have been relying on the Airport Extreme.
iFrog Sorry to read you've had so many issues. I wish I had your download speeds lol! My max download speed on fibre, is just 37mbps and an upload of just 9mbps and I have no issues with it, more than fast enough for Netflix etc.
As for compatibility issues with Apple, my Wife and I both have iPhone XR's both on the latest iOs update and they both work absolutely fine on 5g wireless. Currently, I have 10 devices utilising 5g band, 4 Amazon Echo/Dots, 2 iPhones, 1 Android phone and 3 media streamers, one of which is a now rather ancient Apple TV I recently brought out of retirement. Those 10 devices are split so some are utilizing the 5g Guest network, i.e the media streamers.
Anyway, here I am, 8 days in on the new firmware and no problems, i.e no wireless drop outs of any description. Maybe I'm just lucky?
Portwey84 wrote:iFrog Sorry to read you've had so many issues. I wish I had your download speeds lol! My max download speed on fibre, is just 37mbps and an upload of just 9mbps and I have no issues with it, more than fast enough for Netflix etc.
As for compatibility issues with Apple, my Wife and I both have iPhone XR's both on the latest iOs update and they both work absolutely fine on 5g wireless. Currently, I have 10 devices utilising 5g band, 4 Amazon Echo/Dots, 2 iPhones, 1 Android phone and 3 media streamers, one of which is a now rather ancient Apple TV I recently brought out of retirement. Those 10 devices are split so some are utilizing the 5g Guest network, i.e the media streamers.
Anyway, here I am, 8 days in on the new firmware and no problems, i.e no wireless drop outs of any description. Maybe I'm just lucky?
I know, it's really strange, From day one, the Router has usually been stable as far as performance. As I've mentioned before, it was more a matter of software for me, when it comes to options, and features (hence why I switched from Netgear's stock firmware to DD-WRT) last year for a bit. To give you an idea of how long the R7000 sat unused was probably since May, or June of 2019, and I only fired it up again a couple days ago to try the new firmware. In years past before deciding to stick with AirPort products, most of the third party consumer routers I would get, would either have really bad firmware, or if they worked, they would eventually overheat and die. My first airport extreme lasted about 7 years without any problems. Then I got the 2013 Airport Extreme, that I have now, and it's been rock solid, I got the R7000 mainly because I wasn't sure if Apple was going to still provide frimware updates, and thought Netgear would have better support than actually turned out to be the case. Now I'm considering a Synology Router, it looks to be more of the prosumer product I'm looking for, and people have said good trhings about both their routers and NAS units. Has anyone here had experience?
Anyway, maybe this is just a bad firmware, or at worst case the hardware has finally failed. The good news is, when I plugged the Airport back in, and power cycled the modem and airport, everything is stable again.