Nighthawk R7000

That's a Broadcom device, wifi will be shit, at best. https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r7000

Nice job repurposing old hardware, but one thing to keep in mind is security. Be very sure that the router (your interface between the internet/outside and your intranet/inside network) is still receiving firmware upgrades and is supported by the manufacturer. This ensures any exploits/bugs/etc. tha

DD-WRT is okay, the UI is not as nice but has a lot of very low level options and many service options. Doesn't have ipv6 firewall out of the box on R7000. A big problem is it's very unclear what builds are considered stable. IMO Fresh Tomato is much more polished and better for most people. It also

Great suggestion. I installed Fresh Tomato on my Netgear Nighthawk R7000 (using as wireless access point). Working well!

No, will do that, but I am surprised that the previous router Netgear R7000 on Freshtomato is beating MikroTik on wireless and now on Ethernet as I see :)

TLDR: Yes, you could use an older router as an access point with a new router. And if all the routers are from ASUS & support AiMesh you could use them in an AiMesh setup. If new router isn't ASUS, no big deal, you could just connect the other access points via ethernet to the main router. Furthermo

You’re welcome! Yeah it can be frustrating getting the smart home stuff working. I needed to hook up an old Netgear Nighthawk R7000 as a wired access point as some of my “smart” devices don’t work well with WiFi 6. the R7000 is WiFi 5 so the smart devices have no issues with that. Basically “if it a

I agree with u/msabeln - use the R7000 in Access Point mode. Yes, it requires you to to connect the Nighthawk to your router with an ethernet cable, but the performance is very good. I actually use my Nighthawk R7000 as a wired AP. My WiFi 6 mesh system (ASUS XT8) doesn’t work well with some older “

Yes, it should be possible to add the Netgear Nighthawk Router as an additional satellite (via AP/Access Point mode - connected to your network via ethernet). I have an ASUS XT8 mesh system and added a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 as a wired access point to the XT8 mesh system. Why? I have some old IoT/“

I'll chime in because I haven't seen anyone mention this. We used to have a Netgear Nighthawk router and the 5G would cut out a lot, and it's a common issue. I think one culprit I narrowed it down to years ago was a corrupted QoS table and confirmed by Netgear Technical Support. That's probably not