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Thornado
Apr 02, 2020Apprentice
New R7000 Firmware Version 1.0.11.100
It's been a while but finally NG has released a new firmware for R7000! :smileyhappy: R7000 Firmware V1.0.11.100_10.2.100 Download: https://kb.netgear.com/000061805/R7000-Firmware-Version-1-0...
iFrog
Apr 11, 2020Guide
I wanted to let you know, I've gone back to my 2013 Airport Extreme for the time being. I encountered some very strange issues with the R7000 which I never had with either the earlier stock firmware, or DD-WRT, so i'm leaning between failing hardware since it's just sat collecting dust not use, or bad wireless drivers in the latest firmware, or a conflict between the wireless chipset in my iPhone and the router.
Either way, what happened was this:
the iPhone 7 plus would only get about 40 Mbps down on the speedtest app, and my connection is 400 Mbps down. The funny thing is, initally when i first had the issue, i was able to simply toggle wifi off in the settings for the phon, then the speed came back normal when toggling back on, and reconnecting. The other thing I noticed was the speedtest app was sluggish on LTE as well, so there could be an issue with the phone, since all other wireless devices were working. The problem(s) I observed were:
Turning on the guest network seem to have introduced the second problem, at least it looks that way.
The second problem was after using the phone, my other devices such as Google Home, and Alexa were no longer able to access the internet.
So, either the guest networking feature has a bug, or there is something wrong with the iphone wifi chipset that's crashing the router. Since it's the only wireless device I observed problems with. Other than that, the router seems to work normally. I went back to the Airport and the iphone no longer has Wifi issues. I wonder if it's an apple thing. I've heard more so years ago from now, but apple devices don't always play with third party routers in the nicest way at times.
The other people here reporting 5Ghz issues diesn't seem to suggest they had only certain devices fail, but rather the whole network was gone, while I experienced problems with specfrici devices, or in this case, the phone seems to have triggered the problems here.
FYI, i haven't used my iphone with the R7000 since it's been on ios 13, the last time i had the R7000 in use was when ios 12 was still the current public release, so that should tell you how long I haven't used the R7000, and have been relying on the Airport Extreme.
Portwey84
Apr 12, 2020Virtuoso
iFrog Sorry to read you've had so many issues. I wish I had your download speeds lol! My max download speed on fibre, is just 37mbps and an upload of just 9mbps and I have no issues with it, more than fast enough for Netflix etc.
As for compatibility issues with Apple, my Wife and I both have iPhone XR's both on the latest iOs update and they both work absolutely fine on 5g wireless. Currently, I have 10 devices utilising 5g band, 4 Amazon Echo/Dots, 2 iPhones, 1 Android phone and 3 media streamers, one of which is a now rather ancient Apple TV I recently brought out of retirement. Those 10 devices are split so some are utilizing the 5g Guest network, i.e the media streamers.
Anyway, here I am, 8 days in on the new firmware and no problems, i.e no wireless drop outs of any description. Maybe I'm just lucky?