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R7000 v1.0.5.48 breaks 5G in Operation Mode:Access Point
Updated firmware to latest version (R7000-V1.0.5.48_1.1.79) and the 5Ghz radio was no longer working for main and guest networks. The 2.4 GHz radios seemed to still be working properly. I did not spend the time to see why it wasn't broadcasting for a longer period of time by running Kismet with a WiFi card in monitor mode. However, I have several devices that could no longer see anything in the 802.11ac / 5GHz spectrum that in my configuration, was normaly being broadcasted from the R7000 router which is running in AP mode.
On a hunch, as I was pretty sure the firmware upgrade broke the 5G radio, I then downgraded back to the firmware version I was running prior to upgrade (R7000_V1.0.4.30_1.1.67) and all was well again. Again, I am running in Access Point mode so I am not sure if other modes have this same bug. This was very frustrating, but I was glad I could roll back this update and regain my previous functionality despite not being able to keep current with the firmware.
After the factory reset, make sure to re-enter the setup parameters manually, do NOT restore from backup, that appears to be incompatible as well.
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Sorry if this is old news for some folks and for going off topic in this thread. At least in this router version it appears to have prevented the local backdoor access using those netgear default credentials. Your own local admin creds do work.
