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Recent content by Gary B. Garland

  1. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    L&LD, and the others - THANK YOU. my confusion - 1) 88 is a higher number than 86. seriously - to me the 88 should be better and newer. then i run into the AC3100 vs. 5300 dual band versus tri band - it's a lot. range - my frustrating netgear r7000 was able to reach the corner of the pool...
  2. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    again, many thanks. i'm looking for a router more as an end user than a power user - i want solid reliable performance with good range, and good streaming. the few times i game on a console i'll usually have wired connections so it's really streaming, downloading, kids doing homework, etc...
  3. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    Hi - many thanks for the reply - i thought tri band and the other goodies were supposed to be selling points and not quite ready for prime time? (i may be mistaken - probably am!) - i wouldn't mind terribly to pay and get a top of the line device now, and leave it alone for a few years, but...
  4. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    and i'm back with the same issue. I tried (and am using ) DD-WRT with the 7800 - not something i wanted to do. seems far more stable than the native firmware, but i'm still occasionally losing cameras - i'd get it if the cameras were at the edge of the property and far away - but they are...
  5. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    thanks - i love my ipad, but ios isn't as friendly with sniffing but my android phone is like a bloodhound - so i used a sniffer (as i had in the past) and there is a bunch of traffic in my area - i ultimately set the 5ghz band to 60 which i think has (DFS?) next to it - and a warning that radar...
  6. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    RM, i too am in NJ - maybe per Netgear it's only a New Jersey thing? i do tend to get under the hood more than most - but unless i'm running a firmware where i can broadcast at 120% power, etc. - i just want to set and forget. Can you imagine a Keurig working this way - either 1/2 a cup of...
  7. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    thanks. for me .62 was still greyed out for speedtest, and clicking didn't seem to do anything - i've read where with decent internet speed QoS isn't as beneficial and can slow things down - during peak my cable is probably 50Mbs at home; at night (last night 6:30 with agent, eastern time) it...
  8. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    I wrote a bunch above, but I believe .62 still is no good, and yeah, speedtest still doesn't work (QoS), etc. - how does this company let this stuff out the door?
  9. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    ...and i'm back. yesterday L2 from netgear reached out to me - i think because i wrote them from a forum i saw on newegg - anyway, the upshot is, the L2 tech was a very nice woman (that part doesn't matter, just interesting) - she was competent but didn't know .62 was out for the R7800 (and...
  10. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    thanks - at this point i can wait until .63 or .64 or .99 - just wish they'd get it right - otherwise i'll go third party but again, i'm not a router power user - nor should we NEED to be (i get it if we want to tweak, etc.) but for core functionality you'd think the manufacturer would, i don't...
  11. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    thanks, i've oft relied on rotten tomatoes :) i'm not even sure what i'd do with the r7000 at this point - my house isn't as wired as i'd like or i'd use it as a bridge or access point - maybe blasting using my MoCA setup, otherwise just curiosity. do you think keep using the R7800 with .52...
  12. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    i'm convinced it's the firmware - i THINK the hardware is fine on my R7000 (not sure) - if i roll back the firmware maybe that will resolve what was going on -- but i mean, i don't want to go through the hassles of losing connectivity to equipment - i was calling it wifi whack-a-mole - where...
  13. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    Yippie! The questi9n becomes how long to wait to hear it’s stable versus being a beta tester...thanks, I didn’t know it came out, how do I track that,and r7000 upgrades (if I reuse the r7000...
  14. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    Thanks, had a ton of problems with the 7800 as well. Rolled back firmware to .52 and has been rock solid since. I wonder if I rolled back my 7000 if the problems would have disappeared. Bad netgear, bad bad bad!
  15. Gary B. Garland

    Looking for quality home router, not sure about ax, and is netgear safe?

    thanks - i may fiddle with DD-WRT - it's a shame that an end user needs to - i'm not a power user when it comes to home networking - it SHOULD be setup once, set and forget and ignore - but alas it's not. i thought i saw some folks posting on other sites that they were having issues with the...
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