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R7000 Firmware Version 1.0.11.130 - Just showed up Jan 6, 2022
The release notes say only: Fixes security vulnerabilities. Anyone tried this one? I am afraid... But, I always hope they fix some of the other ongoing stuff, like the Attached Devices list m...
Miked2 wrote:The release notes say only:
- Fixes security vulnerabilities.
Anyone tried this one? I am afraid...
But, I always hope they fix some of the other ongoing stuff, like the Attached Devices list missing most of the attached devices.
Thanks
Miked2 plemans Yeah well, you take your chances on updating with this model. I bought my own R7000 AC1900 router brand new v.64 out of the box. Every single firmware update was fine, no issues at all until v.128 and that completely broke my 5ghz WiFi band so I had to revert to v.126 and everything was sweet again.
From a personal perspective, I have lost faith completely in Netgear's ability to provide worthwhile updates for this model. Even at time of writing this, the Nighthawk App on my iPhone and my browser GUI states there isn't a newer firmware for the AC1900 model when clearly there is because it's on their download page. This was the same for the whole of the period of the last update from v.26 to v.28, stated there was no newer update. This has been the same situation for just about every single update they've pushed out, both the Nighthawk App and the browser GUI stating there isn't an update when there is. That just goes to show the level of interest Netgear have in my opinion. I would seriously love to know exactly what vulnerabilites Netgear believe they've fixed over so many updates in the last 2 years!
Bottom line is for me, I've now given up downloading their so called 'firmware updates' because even the attached devices list isn't showing the correct information, i.e. shows I have 5ghz WiFi devices connected to 2ghz devices when they are not.
For the most part for me, it's a decent enough router but there are clearly much better offerings out there. I keep telling myself I'm going to upgrade to a WiFi 6 router, but I've only had this Netgear R7000 for two years but I want to at least get a bit more monies worth out of it before junking it or selling it on.
This firmware is junk.....just like half of all the other levels of firmware they release. Honestly I have no idea how this place stays in business or whoever makes firmware still has a job.
As near as I can tell, the "security update" is that accessing the router now requires a 10 to 32 character password with 1 upper and 1 lower case letter. Woohoo.
Once you get into the GUI guess what? It doesn't work! The interface locks up every time I try to make a change....and then it won't let you re-connect to the GUI until you reboot the router.
OMG........if this wasn't all so incredibly ridiculous it would be funny. But I stopped laughing when every other firmware release breaks the router.
NG_Sucks I can't argue with anything you've pointed out. Indeed I'm wondering why Netgear even bother releasing firmware updates for the R7000 AC1900 because I've struggled to see over the last 9 updates exactly what it is they're supposed to have 'fixed'. Indeed many complaints about this router appear to revolve around the firmware.
At the end of the day, this model router is now almost 9 years (2013) since it was first released, literally pre-historic in respect of what is available today and there is only so much Netgear can do with this piece of kit. I mentioned in another thread I was hanging on because I wanted to get another year out of my own R7000, but I'm now actively looking at a brand new WiFi 6 router, and it won't be Netgear. I've actually only got myself to blame for buying this router, lured by the price at the time. For me, it's so far been an interesting 2 years of seemingly pointless firmware updates that have added little if any useful features other than allegedly 'fixing' security issues but as part of the update process, then goes on to break something. We live and learn!
'128 was unstable when I installed it over '126 without erasing first. But, '128 was stable when I erased before installing it. So, I'm reluctant to install '130 over '128 without erasing first. The time-consuming pain with erasing first is that it requires manual re-entry of all configuration settings which is worse if, like me, you have many reserved addresses.
Why in the world NG can't make their updates install without erasing the configuration first is beyond me. I believe this is the reason they eliminated auto-updates.
I agree with the comments above about the quality of NG's R7000 FW. As far as it being pre-historic, it uses the pre-2007 rules for Daylight savings time.
I've got two R7000's and I'm living with them until I find a compelling replacement.
Portwey84 wrote:
completely broke my 5ghz WiFi band so I had to revert to v.126>> Nighthawk R7000 Firmware Version V1.0.11.116_10.2.100
I had a Netgear R7000 that would just stop working at least once a day. The power cycles got to be annoying, so I decided to get another. I need the OpenVPN, which I know works... after a long time of being out of date.
The 5 gHz would just disappear. My phone would drop to cellular data, so I didn't notice on there. My Chromebook would just lose Internet. When I checked on either of them, the 2 gHZ router was there, but not the 5 gHz. A minute later, it would reappear, and auto-connect.
I returned it and got another. This one might be having the same problem, just faster, so I don't notice it as much. My Linux box has lots of logs about the Link coming ready, which I assume is a reconnect that I don't notice.
Is all of Netgear destined to be junk? I already bumped up to the $179 R7000 instead of the cheaper ones.
Who else has OpenVPN?Just bought the abovementioned router a few weeks ago; and am having the same @%%$# issue that you all have talked about. Will Netgear ever work this out? I have to reset the router nightly.
Sounds like I may just be grousing before trying to return it and getting a different brand...
mauryfrench wrote:Just bought the abovementioned router a few weeks ago; and am having the same @%%$# issue that you all have talked about. Will Netgear ever work this out? I have to reset the router nightly.
Sounds like I may just be grousing before trying to return it and getting a different brand...
I'll answer you with more honesty than you'll probably get from elsewhere.
First question - probably not.
Your 'grousing' isn't unreasonable and I think you've pretty much answered yourself on that. I put up with the R7000 for two years but I got rid of it because now my Wife works permanently from home, the R7000 basically just could no longer handle what it was reasonably expected to do. My Wife needs a stable WiFi connection because we don't want a fixed ethernet wire running halfway round the house. Our replacement tri-band router suffers no such issues.