NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
BillClinternet
Apr 03, 2022Apprentice
R7000 and R8000 Drops, Loss, Jitter, and all of the above.
I have been through hell and back with these routers. I started off flashing DD WRT after having issues with dropped packets or slow connection especially after being connected overnight. Everything w...
- Apr 09, 2022New modem and the line was checked and everything was working normally. I’ve figured out what the cause of the issues is. 1. The loss is caused by interference on my 5G Wi-Fi, due to netgear not having automatic channels for 5G I have to constantly switch it myself. 2. The bad speed and loss after being connected overnight is 100 percent a software issue and has been resolved by a hard reset but will come back like it always has. My conclusion is what was said before, avoid netgear equipment unless it’s newer models but after this experience I don’t want to deal with anything netgear ever again. The only thing that’s consistent with netgear is how every support person is persistently blaming the ISP or modem, I suppose the easiest route is to blame the other person.
plemans
Apr 04, 2022Guru - Experienced User
3rd party is doing it without loss because they can restrict speeds so its not stressing the cpu and in some cases even overclock the cpu. Stock firmware doesn't allow that.
Got an old computer sitting around you could try pfsense on?
BillClinternet
Apr 04, 2022Apprentice
Pfsense sounds like a good option in the future. If third party firmware had some kind of driver to use hardware acceleration it would easily beat netgears firmware.