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NCJeepMan
Aspirant
Sep 25, 2014
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R7000 5ghz Disappearing

Seems to be a lot of independent questions/discussions on or this topic or similar topics... Looking for someone to give me a definitive answer, so here's the question: - My R7000 periodically and ...
AC1900
Nighthawk
R7000
  • bill__schroeder's avatar
    bill__schroeder
    Mar 26, 2016

    I've been running Firmware Version V1.0.6.28_1.1.83 for a few months now without any 5GHz dropping.  The big tip that helped me, was after doing the firmware update, I did a factory reset to reset all of the settings to default, and it also forces the router to get new internal drivers for itself.  Before I did this, I was always losing my 5GHz.

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Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 06, 2015
bjl95mustang, have you exchanged yet, if not what firmware version are you running?

ScottieK, what is your firmware version please?

rpoffen, please let us know how you get on with the new firmware.