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Do all routers eventually just start to die (nighthawk R7000)?
Right now running a Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT. Ive been experiencing a lot of issues lately and have to reboot often. This happened to my last router a few years back as well.
Do all routers eventually start to "crap" out?
Im guessing this is pretty outdated as well - so might as well upgrade to something better. I'm not so sure I need DDWRT anymore, since the majority of the time im not home, im connected to all sorts of wifi (and use a vpn), so I guess I really dont care if I have it anymore.
Budget is around 200 - range has been fine on this, but wouldnt mind a little boost. I know new wifi standards have been released since then, so an update would be nice.
I do a lot of gaming (mostly LAN, but I have friends come over and use wifi), so any extra GAMING features i guess would be cool, but im assuming they all probably offer the same thing, just some get their prices jacked up for GAMING purposes.
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nikarsena Well my 3 year old R7000 AC1900 (from actual known manufacture date) is still working ok, but as of the last 24 hours of me posting this, is now consigned to a box in the attic, probably never to be used again. Quite simply, I'd had enough of Netgear's seemingly useless firmware updates, the tragically poor browser GUI experience and the fact that it didn't make full use of my rebuilt ax compatible wifi desktop.
So I've now got myself a TP-Link AX6600 GX90, all set up and it's quite literally, dynamite! Super simple to configure, auto updated the firmware without any hitches (over ethernet) without me having to do any of the mucking about downloading firmware updates. Browser GUI is so much more intuitive and a lot more modern to look at. The WiFi range is also so much better. I stress it's early days, but if the experience I now have is anything to go by, then I think I've made the right choice. Yes it's marketed as a gaming router and I'm no gamer, but it's handling everything just as I like, so no complaints.
I guess this is me saying adios to Netgear.
Portwey84 wrote:nikarsena Well my 3 year old R7000 AC1900 (from actual known manufacture date) is still working ok, but as of the last 24 hours of me posting this, is now consigned to a box in the attic, probably never to be used again. Quite simply, I'd had enough of Netgear's seemingly useless firmware updates, the tragically poor browser GUI experience and the fact that it didn't make full use of my rebuilt ax compatible wifi desktop.
So I've now got myself a TP-Link AX6600 GX90, all set up and it's quite literally, dynamite! Super simple to configure, auto updated the firmware without any hitches (over ethernet) without me having to do any of the mucking about downloading firmware updates. Browser GUI is so much more intuitive and a lot more modern to look at. The WiFi range is also so much better. I stress it's early days, but if the experience I now have is anything to go by, then I think I've made the right choice. Yes it's marketed as a gaming router and I'm no gamer, but it's handling everything just as I like, so no complaints.
I guess this is me saying adios to Netgear.
Auto-update of firmware, regardless of manufacturer, is always a bad idea. Too many things can go wrong behind your back. Always do a manual, controlled firmware upgrade. Do not use wifi or any other method. Always use a hard-wired connecttion!
To the original post,yes routers eventually die. Sometimes the wifi radio dies, sometimes the power adapter on them dies, and sometimes the capacitors inside the routers crap out. So yes they die eventually. Just depends how much you use them, streaming, gaming all take a toll on them eventually.
nikarsena wrote:
Right now running a Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT. Ive been experiencing a lot of issues lately and have to reboot often. This happened to my last router a few years back as well.
Do all routers eventually start to "crap" out?
Hard to tell with vague references to "a lot of issues". What are they? What have you done to rule out other possibilities? Modem? ISP? Something else on the network?
But you won't get much help here with third party firmware. Netgear doesn't support it, and there aren't that many experts in third party firmware here.
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Sonething to discuss over in the DD-WRT forums since you have there FW loaded. There FW could be doing anything thats not seen on NG stock FW.
nikarsena wrote:
Right now running a Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT. Ive been experiencing a lot of issues lately and have to reboot often. This happened to my last router a few years back as well.
Do all routers eventually start to "crap" out?
Im guessing this is pretty outdated as well - so might as well upgrade to something better. I'm not so sure I need DDWRT anymore, since the majority of the time im not home, im connected to all sorts of wifi (and use a vpn), so I guess I really dont care if I have it anymore.
Budget is around 200 - range has been fine on this, but wouldnt mind a little boost. I know new wifi standards have been released since then, so an update would be nice.
I do a lot of gaming (mostly LAN, but I have friends come over and use wifi), so any extra GAMING features i guess would be cool, but im assuming they all probably offer the same thing, just some get their prices jacked up for GAMING purposes.
Another way to prolong the life of any electronic equipment is to move away from any area where lighting strikes can hit the power lines and send nasty shocks into your home.
