unable to directly connect to my nighthawk r7000.

> [...] for the router login, it says 'your not connected to the wifi
> (which of course im not, im using a direct ethernet connection)

 

   Welcome to what may be the worst error message in the world. For an
explanation, try:

 

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1365830

 

   Briefly, the idea is that "[www.]routerlogin.net" (or ".com") should
point to your own router, but that's true only if you use your own
router for DNS name resolution.  Regardless, you should be able to get
to the thing using its IP address, if you can determine (or guess) that.
Normally, that would be something like "192.168.1.1", but it could be
different.

 

> [...] 192.168.1.1 [...] for the number it just times out again and
> again, [...]

 

   Then either that's not the LAN IP address of the R7000, or its
management web server had died (possible, but unlikely).

> i have no issues connecting to my wifi etc [...]

 

   Does "etc" include a wired/Ethernet connection?

 

   What is the IP address of one of these successfully connected
devices?  What does it say that its gateway/router address is?

 

   To what did you connect the WAN/Internet port of the R7000?  That
could affect its LAN IP address, especially if you connected it to some
other router (which was already using the "192.168.1.*" subnet).