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R7000 goes offline frequently
My R7000 bought a year ago is the most unreliable router I have ever had. Sometimes most devices go offline, sometimes just a few. Tonight I have done 2 resets. Google nest working but TV streaming ha...
Richardat54 So I've owned my R7000 AC1900 router since Feb 2020 and up until the last update that Netgear pushed out, v.128, everything had been working just fine for me. Unfortunately, v.128 absolutely broke my 5ghz WiFi and so I rolled back to v.126 and everything has been just fine since. I will not be updating the firmware for future firmware releases. Netgear gets one chance with me and that's it. I just don't trust their firmware updates anymore and I've only had one bad experience out of six firmware updates.
As for your situation, well I'm assuming like me, you're in the UK? Who's your ISP? Why not just use your ISP router? I'm with BT and on FTTP and BT sent me their latest Hub and it's still in the box, never even took the sellophane off it. I don't use the BT router because I have literally zero control over it, but for most people, using the ISP provided router is ultimately the best option because they tend to be relatively trouble free. Plus you don't have to purchase a separate modem if you're on FTTC or ADSL because the ISP routers tend to have the modem built into the router anyway. As it happens, I have a 'As new' Draytek Vigor 130k modem sat in the box doing absolutely nothing which I really should stick on the auction site.
Besides, I've now completely upgraded my desktop with a new motherboard/CPU and it has WiFi 6 built in, so I'm currently looking for a good reliable WiFi 6 router. It won't be Netgear for me this time.