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Nighthawk R7000 "End of service" - Do I need to buy a new router?
Believe it or not I've had it for nearly 11 years. Through the ups and downs of security flaws, but never had a real issue. Been solid and always handled my connection to internet without issue. ...
Yes and up to you. Can still use the router if it is working and not seeing any problems.
My R7000 works just fine - 20ish devices and handles 680mbit connection to the internet just fine. Which is why i've had it for nearly 11 years.s
This post was asking if there will be no more firmware updates, causing potential security issues. Unfortunately seems no one can answer that. Maybe a netgear employee only since it says End of Life? At what point will my router become a security vulnerability?
end of life usually means updates are over.
Especially since that device was released in 2013. Support for that long is incredibly rare and I was impressed with how long netgear did continue to push updates to it.
You can always look to dd-wrt/tomato (3rd party firmware). Thats open source and the R7000 was easily capable of running them. Brought a lot of advanced features to it. And it still gets updates. I normally warn users it'll void your warranty and you have to go through those forums for support but you're way way past your warranty 🙂