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Nighthawk R7000 Problems
need some help here and i wanted to turn to the community. i've gone through the posts and it seems like this router just isn't very good, but i wanted to check to see if i'm doing anything wrong. ...
here's a screenshot of my settings. i've obfuscated the network names and passwords of course.
Crashed again a few minutes ago.. guess the 1.0.11.100 isnt happy either... Going to try and find an older firmware version and see what happens..
JG08 diavolos antinode So JG08, what's the latest?
You know, the one thing I've not seen mentioned in any thread regarding 5ghz WiFi dropouts, is the fact that WiFi power standards do differ between countries. Clearly this Netgear Community is pretty exclusively USA centric, i.e. by comparison, there doesn't seem to be anywhere near the same level of input from UK or European users. The fact is, TX power on WiFi does vary from Country to Country and I'm beginning to wonder if this is part of the problem with the R7000 AC1900.
There is no option to change the TX power on the R7000, well at least I don't have that option. If it was an option previously available in a different firmware, I have no idea. So what about altering the Region on your router instead? So obviously if you are in the USA, try altering your region to Europe and see if that has an effect. It could be, that although there is no option to change TX power as a feature on the R7000, perhaps the TX power standards are 'hidden' within the router region settings and are auto applied when a particular region is selected?
This is obviously just out loud thinking on my part, but might be worth a shot to see if it has any effect on WiFi. It still strikes me as bloody odd that here in the UK, I'm not having any issues and yet across the Pond there appear to be constant issues with 5ghz WiFi band. My question is, why?