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Random disconnects.
I bought an R7000 about a week ago now. My other router kept going wonky on me, could not take any load for any amount of time and was generally a miserable experience. Now, for my problem with th...
I'm having the same problems. Router keeps randomly dropping my internet at various times. Sometimes it's just the 2.4ghz... Sometimes it's the 5ghz and other times it's the entire network (wired and wireless).
It seems to be a little better since upgrading to the latest firmware, but still very unreliable (my gf's son just lost his homework progress online tonight because of this crap). I really like this router and would love to keep it but it seems like it's going to be an uphill battle given the problems each firmware tends to bring.
I might give DD-WRT a try and see if that works better. If not, I'm returning this thing and getting an ASUS. This has been, hands down, the most problematic router I've used since an old D-Link and my patience is wearing pretty thin. Just want something that works, which is unfortunate because 'when' it works, it works really well.
Netgear, on behalf of the countless frustrated R7000 users, please get your **** together
It seems to be a little better since upgrading to the latest firmware, but still very unreliable (my gf's son just lost his homework progress online tonight because of this crap). I really like this router and would love to keep it but it seems like it's going to be an uphill battle given the problems each firmware tends to bring.
I might give DD-WRT a try and see if that works better. If not, I'm returning this thing and getting an ASUS. This has been, hands down, the most problematic router I've used since an old D-Link and my patience is wearing pretty thin. Just want something that works, which is unfortunate because 'when' it works, it works really well.
Netgear, on behalf of the countless frustrated R7000 users, please get your **** together