Nighthawk R7000

I've had the same router (Netgear r7000) for nearly a decade, (maybe actually longer) and it never needs anything, I even get signal like 50 yards away from my house

Thanks! This looks like the one that will finally retire my Netgear R7000. By god it's been such a workhorse! I've lost track of how many different custom firmwares I've run on it. Freshtomato is my current one, and it's absolutely amazing that I have access to pretty well every modern feature you c

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

I've had a few that stick out. Linksys WRT54G. Whatever Mikrotik model the WISP back home handed out. Netgear Nighthawk R7000. For me, all of these were absolute tanks. They just...didn't quit. I still have my Nighthawk because, you know, just in case.

I would pay a bit more for a WRT-capable router, as the other commenter recommended. Netgear, ASUS, and Eero are the best brands I've used in residential deployments. Check out Netgear's Nighthawk RAX50 (WiFi 6 capable, and costs ~$150-200). If you want WiFi 7 capability, look at the Nighthawk RS300

I have been using tomato on an old Netgear R7000 for years. Never any issues. There are so many setting on it that I'm not sure what they do. easy to connect a HD on the usb port.

Your router can probably handle more than 200 devices at the same time without sweating. And paying for 1G doesn't mean you would reach 1G exactly. You need to count for loss and everything else. If you get 800 Mbps is the right number, if you can even get 900/950 Mbps even better. I was running an

I've not had issues with my particular Router model (Netgear R7000), but I know some models behave/react differently to firmware updates. Your best bet is to still make a file backup of settings with the current firmware along with the current firmware file if you need to perform a full restore. Als

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