Nighthawk R7000

Read the wiki entry. But you can see in firmware-selector the hw used, on a high level, in this case bxm53xx. https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=bcm53xx%2Fgeneric&id=netgear_r7000 Might want to have a look at dd-wrt instead.

You can't put an R7000 online on the original firmware without it being almost immediately compromised. That's not hyperbole, that's a fact. If you're not willing to upgrade to something like FreshTomato then walk your ass to the store and get a current-gen supported router. Your whole home network

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

Happy users often forget not every case matches theirs. It took seconds to find many posts confirming performance issues. I'm new to Tomato so I'm studying how it may serve me after flashing it to my demoted R6700v3 (close kin to R7000) as a backup so I'm never "one deep" on routers. The horrid bugg

I’ve learned you have to put Netgear routers on a ups, no if ands or butts. lol simple power surge at your house if your neighborhood goes off will kill it. Ask me how I know. I’ve had nighthawk AC1900 (R7000): Initially released in 2013. Died from power surge no power. X4S (D7800/R7800 series): Rel

Well, that's why I got the RT-AX86U after hearing about the potential TP-Link ban. After the airport went out of support, my first router was a Nighthawk R7000, and Netgear's firmware was so buggy I put DD-WRT on it, and then eventually got a Tp-Link to try. That's when I found out about the lack of