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Feedback for R7000 New firmware 1.0.9.18
Hi All,
Please post here for any update/issue related to the latest firmware 1.0.9.18.
You should review this and maybe revert back to this recommended version of FW:
Alfikwrote:I've looked here again after a while and I can't belive the problem is still not solved....
Since I've flashed Tomato a few weeks ago I've forgotten that I have a router- it's working perfectly getting dust because i do not touch it at all :-)...
Parental control works perfectly, 0 drops, strong signal - save your time and do a similar thing!
As promissed, I am back here with the result. After flashing the router with Advanced Tomato and let it run for 12 days straight, I am a happy camper. The speeds on both channel are pretty stable. 2.4Ghz has been solid 300Mbps and 5Ghz. has been around 480-560Mbps measuring from 30 ft distance (mind you, it's not as fast as Netgear has advertized even before I flashed the firmware anyway) Wi-Fi dropping has been a talk in the past and my sons are extremly graceful for what I have done LOL. You will have much more advance features in Advanced Tomato and the GUI is responding way faster. I've seen people hear asking if you still can do NATing and the answer is yes you can NAT up to 5 IP addresses. My advice, flash your Netgear router with either Advanced Tomato or DD WRT and dump the Netgear brand entirely. Trust me, you would be much happier. This will be my last post. Signning off.
One last question.. will flashing the firmware with a third party version cause issues for my wife's work VPN?
ryanvellia wrote:One last question.. will flashing the firmware with a third party version cause issues for my wife's work VPN?
I am on the XWRT-Vortex firmware and use several different VPNs with no issues at all. I am a consultant so I have different customer VPN clients.
The firmware problem is still not fixed yet..?
I read nothing but negative here.
I could not take the dropouts any longer and it was also affecting my LAN speeds and one wired printer was constantly dropping.
I am now on xWRT-Vortex v.380 and It is night and day, I didnt even bother to factory reset before going to it as i knew my memory was good as i rebooted before flashing the .chk and it went off without a hitch. I now have all my devices stable for over 48 hours and my dropping printer and zycel extender just showed up instantly. On the stock FW I would have to reboot my printer to get it to even be pingable again let alone show up then it would just drop off after about 30 minutes. The extender took a few hours each time. My family has seen consitent and improved speed on the wifi throughput as well. I also like it's just barebones what you need or don't and no disney crap or other stuff. At this point if your going to ditch the device and don't want to be on a lower stock FW then give this a try first. I will be letting the comanpies (around 25) that have been asking me about their dropouts to go to this FW and not touch stock again for the time being.
Good luck to all still hanging onto Neatgears slow and very had handling of this issue going forward. To the ones running Debug firmware I hope you can help them resolve this.
Malcolm
EDIT: also wanted to say that I have the same setup as before for comparison on the stability:
2.4 and 5ghz bands with seperate SSIDS and passes both with ACL on and two guest networks.
When installing Tomato firmware, I forgot to follow the instuctions to first do a factory reset.
It was unreachable. I thought OH NO, I bricked my router. But doing a reset afterward alowed me in.
It is nice when logging in to see the status page showing the tempetature of the cpu and the radios.
AaronB483 wrote:When installing Tomato firmware, I forgot to follow the instuctions to first do a factory reset.
It was unreachable. I thought OH NO, I bricked my router. But doing a reset afterward alowed me in.
It is nice when logging in to see the status page showing the tempetature of the cpu and the radios.
It's hard to brick a R7000, that's also one of the reasons I love the R7000 hardware. If you really screwed up you can flash in recovery mode of the router.
