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Nighthawk R7000 requires constant rebooting to maintain download speeds
I have read all the posts re this router and they are not good. I have had mine since 2014 but recently it has constantly dropped speeds from 51mbps to 0,12mbps ( Yes, that's right 0.12) I r...
In response to all the replies above.
I would not have posted if I had not worked through all the many suggestions in all previous posts. I have reset, rebooted, talked to it nicely but nothing has worked.
Before posting this I did a speedtest and it was 0.28 on a 51 mbps line.
I was hoping that those nice people at netgear would have figured out that there may be a problem with this router and offered some solution. Clearly not.
I have dedided on the second option in my original post ie it is going in the bin. I have bought a new router and you will not be surprised that it is not a netgear.
Thank you for all the replies. Yjis post is now ended
2 cents
Connect to modem and use for several hours. Running a speedtest proves one thing at the time of test it worked it doesn't eliminate a possible ISP problem unless you actually use it for awhile.
In response to all the replies above.
I would not have posted if I had not worked through all the many suggestions in all previous posts. I have reset, rebooted, talked to it nicely but nothing has worked.
Before posting this I did a speedtest and it was 0.28 on a 51 mbps line.
I was hoping that those nice people at netgear would have figured out that there may be a problem with this router and offered some solution. Clearly not.
I have dedided on the second option in my original post ie it is going in the bin. I have bought a new router and you will not be surprised that it is not a netgear.
Thank you for all the replies. Yjis post is now ended