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Wendingo
Dec 27, 2020Follower
Three Nighthawk R7000 routers aren't working
I purchased my first Nighthawk R7000 in 2016, had lots of issues and, as per Netgear's recommendation purchased another one and then one more. The last router I bought less than a year ago but all of ...
Portwey84
Dec 27, 2020Virtuoso
I've probably said it more than a dozen times on this forum, but isn't it strange how almost all of the issues relating to the R7000 AC1900 router appear to be in the US? I'm in the UK and I've had absolutely no problems with this router model since I purchased it in February 2020. Every firmware update has been trouble free, it's never once dropped connections on 2.4 or 5ghz (except for when my ISP has suffered an outage, rare, but it happens).
I've used at least 4 different fully integrated modem ISP routers, none of which are as good as the R7000 AC1900 running alongside my Draytek Vigor modem. The range on my R7000 is better than any ISP router I've used, plus, certainly this year, it's had plenty of updates. I've also still got a very old Netgear router in a box in my loft that still works, but is now a tech dinosaur lol!
Most of the issues I read of folks in the UK who have problems with the R7000 AC1900, are those that have failed to read the technical description, i.e. the router doesn't have an integrated modem, so they try and set it up and wonder why they can't get it to work. I appreciate and accept that this undoubtedly isn't the problem for this OP, but it happens. Also these same folks don't understand that different ISP's use different settings, such as PPPoE/PPPoA etc, so the modem has to be set up to reflect those settings.
I also appreciate ISP's in the US and in other parts of the world may use different systems, but I just can't understand how this particular model of router is so widely complained about in the US, but then this is a very US centric forum, so that probably answers my own question.
And to the OP, did Netgear actually make you buy 3 routers? I would hazzard a guess they didn't in any way make you buy three routers, you did that all by yourself because they apparently suggested you buy more of their products? Why would you do that? You are a free thinking being, you're free to make your own decisions. Listening to someone who's never even been inside your apartment and doesn't know what your environmental conditions are, hasn't quite frankly, got a clue as to whether or not something is going to work for you, it's that simple!
I sincerely hope you sort your problems out, but perhaps it's time to stop blaming Netgear and look elsewhere if their equipment isn't working for you.