Guys,
I have a Netgear R7000 that has served me well the last 2 years in both my townhouse and now my bigger single family home. I get pretty good coverage throughout the house, I have the router in the kitchen on top of the cabinets, which is a pretty central location. I have wired ethernet run to all of the important rooms in the house so I am not using bridges or anything like that. The R7000 2.4GHz band no longer works reliably and won't work at all when set to Channel 1, which nobody around me is using, so I want to use that channel as it is completely empty. Tried various official Netgear firmwares and Open DDWRT to no avail. It worked breifly with Kong, but then stopped after a few hours. 5GHz band works fine.
Anyways, should I replace in kind with another R7000 or should I get something like the R7800 to be somewhat future proof. I don't need Tri-Band wifi.
Thanks!
I have a Netgear R7000 that has served me well the last 2 years in both my townhouse and now my bigger single family home. I get pretty good coverage throughout the house, I have the router in the kitchen on top of the cabinets, which is a pretty central location. I have wired ethernet run to all of the important rooms in the house so I am not using bridges or anything like that. The R7000 2.4GHz band no longer works reliably and won't work at all when set to Channel 1, which nobody around me is using, so I want to use that channel as it is completely empty. Tried various official Netgear firmwares and Open DDWRT to no avail. It worked breifly with Kong, but then stopped after a few hours. 5GHz band works fine.
Anyways, should I replace in kind with another R7000 or should I get something like the R7800 to be somewhat future proof. I don't need Tri-Band wifi.
Thanks!