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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...
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 after a long time of being out of date.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.
SDan67 I bought myself a TP-Link AX6600 GX90 gaming router. I'm not a gamer, but it is a tri-band router. I've only had it a week and it's proved itself already insofar as my Wife can now work wirelessly on a separate 5ghz WiFi band without me destroying her connection when I connect via my WiFi6 enabled desktop, which is exactly what was happening with the R7000 when that was running. Yes, she could have been permanently connected via ethernet, but that would have taken some cable running and I cannot be bothered with that.
At the end of the day the R7000 was useful to a point and when it worked, it generally worked well, but sadly NG's dumb firmware updates literally seemed pointless and did in fact cause me issues in the end. The Netgear browser GUI is in my view, appalling and the Nighthawk App isn't exactly cutting edge. But what should we really expect from a now ten year old router design?