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Nighthawk R7000 Problems
need some help here and i wanted to turn to the community. i've gone through the posts and it seems like this router just isn't very good, but i wanted to check to see if i'm doing anything wrong. ...
here's a screenshot of my settings. i've obfuscated the network names and passwords of course.
JG08 diavolos antinode So JG08, what's the latest?
You know, the one thing I've not seen mentioned in any thread regarding 5ghz WiFi dropouts, is the fact that WiFi power standards do differ between countries. Clearly this Netgear Community is pretty exclusively USA centric, i.e. by comparison, there doesn't seem to be anywhere near the same level of input from UK or European users. The fact is, TX power on WiFi does vary from Country to Country and I'm beginning to wonder if this is part of the problem with the R7000 AC1900.
There is no option to change the TX power on the R7000, well at least I don't have that option. If it was an option previously available in a different firmware, I have no idea. So what about altering the Region on your router instead? So obviously if you are in the USA, try altering your region to Europe and see if that has an effect. It could be, that although there is no option to change TX power as a feature on the R7000, perhaps the TX power standards are 'hidden' within the router region settings and are auto applied when a particular region is selected?
This is obviously just out loud thinking on my part, but might be worth a shot to see if it has any effect on WiFi. It still strikes me as bloody odd that here in the UK, I'm not having any issues and yet across the Pond there appear to be constant issues with 5ghz WiFi band. My question is, why?
howdy.
sorry i have not responded lately because i wanted to give a little more time, but now is as good of a time as any to give an update.
to recap what i chose to do, i turned off smart connect and i turned off enable 20/40
the two options i unchecked.
Enable Smart Connect - Let the router intelligently select the best WiFi band 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz for your WiFi connections. Smart Connect requires the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks to use the same WiFi network name (SSID), security options and password.
Enable 20/40 MHz Coexistence
and now what i do is depending on the situation i connect to either the 2.4ghz or 5ghz. for instance, if i'm just working like normal and i'm around my router, i just use the 5g network. but for some reason if i have to take a call and move to a farther away and to a quieter location, i just use the 2.4g network, because while the speed is less the coverage is better.
finally, i'm home working all day, so is my wife and my kids are on the internet all day. we would notice at least one drop-out per day, most of the time multiple drop-outs and sometimes needed to reboot the router.
anyhow....
stability is vastly improved. since i've made my configuration changes i think i've had two problems total. and i think one was related to a dos attack (from the logs) and the other was related to my internet actually going out. but aside from those two drop-outs, so far so good.
this was getting very frustrating for me, because like the rest of the world, i'm trying to be productive from home. it seems that not letting the router decide which network and and not enabling the 20/40 coexistence (in effect, making the router do less work) has stabilized the product some.
holding out hope that this fixes it, but will try to give another status later.