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R7000 firmware updates not being announced or detected by Nighthawk app or routerlogin.net
I bought an R7000 in 2015 and for many years received regular email updates from Netgear announcing new firmware versions. Also, if I logged in at routerlogin.net or used the Nighthawk app to check f...
pollo_peligroso wrote:...........I have manually downloaded and installed 1.0.11.130 (the latest listed on the Netgear site), but it is extremely worrisome that I am no longer receiving email updates of new firmware, and that routerlogin and the app do not know that updates are available. Does anyone know what is going on here?
Put bluntly, no, and as you probably won't get any official explanation from Netgear through this forum, I wouldn't feel worrisome about what you've highlighted. All of us who own this model of router are in the same boat. Whether this is an issue across all of the Netgear router range, I have no idea.
At the end of the day, the R7000 AC1900 is in tech terms, old tech, a relic probably designed and conceived 10 years ago which probably is no longer worthy of any serious support, hence why you don't get any more emails. From personal experience, the firmware updates are questionable in their usefulness or what it is Netgear are supposed to have 'fixed' and of course you'll never know if you're running the latest firmware unless you are bothered to look at the relevant support page.
Question you need to ask yourself is, do you bother to put up with Netgear errr 'support'? or do you invest in a new bit of kit? I know what my own decision is.