R7000 Firmware Version 1.0.11.130 - Just showed up Jan 6, 2022

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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

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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.