Is C7000 v2 Carton Distinctively Marked?

Question

I would like to buy a C7000 v2 at retail in a large midwestern US city. How can I determine whether the retailer's shelf inventory is the older or newer version of the C7000?

Is there a distinctive model number for the C7000 v2 marked on the retail carton?

FURRYe38 · Answer

Contact the retailer to see if there is any v2 indication on the box.&nbsp;

antinode · Answer

&gt; Is there a distinctive model number for the C7000 v2 marked on the&gt; retail carton?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Look for a number like "C7000-100NAS" or "C7000-200NAS".&nbsp; The "-1"part denotes "v1"; the "-2", "v2".&nbsp; The letters vary with the region.(And "AZ" suggests Amazon, not Arizona or Azerbaijan.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Note that a "v2" is not always an improvement over a "v1", at leastfrom the customer point of view.&nbsp; In the case of the D7000, for example,about the best that can be said is that the D7000v2 was cheaper tomanufacture.&nbsp; (I don't count more and different firmware bugs as animprovement, and a later declaration of end-of-life matters little whenthe bugs don't get fixed ever, anyway.)

jimolson52 · Answer

I did.&nbsp; The reply from two of retailer's local stores was "I dunno...we've got whatever we've got...it doesn't matter because you can always bring it back...".

jimolson52 · Answer

Antinode, thanks for the good information. I wondered what the AZ was in the model number of Amazon units.

And your other comments about your D7000 experience were perceptively on target. Hope that Netgear execs read them, but I doubt it.

I noticed C7000 owners/posters commenting that C7000 firmware upgrades were entirely at the discretion of their cable company, and beyond the reach of the router's owner.

antinode · Answer

&gt; I noticed C7000 owners/posters commenting that C7000 firmware upgrades&gt; were entirely at the discretion of their cable company, and beyond the&gt; reach of the router's owner.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://kb.netgear.com/000036375&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You cannot manually update your NETGEAR cable modem or modem&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; router's firmware.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It's a DOCSIS requirement, not a Netgear requirement.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

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