R7000 dropping 5Ghz randomly

Eric1213  I hear what you say. The problem is though, not all of us are having the issues that some of you state you are having. I can sit here all day long and tell you that I'm not having any issues at all with my R7000 AC1900, no 5ghz WiFi dropouts, there just isn't a problem, for me, it isn't broke.

And this is still the crux of the problem isn't it? Why are some of R7000 owners having issues and some of us are not? The Guru's on here don't even know the answer to that one. Their standard answer to it all is, downgrade to v.42 because quite simply, they've got no other answer. So people take the 'advice' and downgrade to a  2 year old + firmware which may or may not be security safe but bizarrely, downgrading seemingly suddenly works! So, is it flawed firmware? is it flawed hardware, either routers or modems? is it a regional issue? environmental issues? No one knows.

I do accept there must be an issue somewhere. Clearly something is going wrong for people to keep telling others on this forum that Netgear's firmware is 'broken'. The trouble is whilst you've still got people like me who aren't having issues, what are Netgear supposed to do? The fact is, they don't even monitor this forum do they?

As far as my own setup is concerned, well I'd clearly love to know what it is that makes my situation so different from others who are continually having problems when I am not. I'm not using Smart Connect, I've less than 20 WiFi devices connected at any one time, I've disabled Logs, UPnP, auto update, I don't use Netgears default NTP, I split my WiFi networks into standard and Guest bands, I don't have parental controls set up, I use Google Open DNS. All this on 37mbps fibre broadband using Cat7 cabling on a router that was manufactured in Vietnam on 1st March 2019. No problems at all since I updated the firmware on 4th April 2020. Maybe, I'm just lucky.

I can absolutely assure everyone though, if I were having the problems that some of you state you are having, I'd have dumped my R7000 by now. It would have gone back to the place I bought it and I'd have bought something else or gone back to using my ISP provided router. The trouble is, as I've already stated, my R7000 works exactly as it's supposed to, as long as Logs are disabled, because when Logs are enabled, they keep telling me my R7000 is getting DoS attacks when it clearly isn't. That aside, for me, the R7000 is a great router, it's just a shame it isn't working out for others the same way as it has for me.