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

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

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 “

If the RT-BE88U is within your budget and you aren't concerned by its price, you could certainly buy it and use it. Especially in a wired backhaul AiMesh setup with the RT-AX92U units, where the AX92U units serve essentially as wired access points. In that respect it doesn't matter too much that the