Flipmode11
Regular Contributor
Hey SNB members, I hope you are all well during this time.
I have used Asus routers for a long time. My current and backup router have failed - so I did some research and found that the R7800 was meant to be "really" good from several sources.
I drove a couple hours to catch up with a mate and I'd pickup his unused R7800. Now, I thought I was getting the R7800 but no, what he gave me was a D7800.
When I logged in, the GUI was terrible. I was thinking how can people recommend or even like this? I could not even get the device into Router-only mode! No setting and the device was very unstable.
Firmware was ~1.0.0.42 (or thereabouts). So I found newest firmware on Netgear and updated - Error! "Not compatible with router model". So I went for 2019, 2018, 2017 f/w, etc. Finally the OLD firmware from Netgear worked. At this stage I am thinking "What the F&*#&$)@ kind of POS device is this???" Finally after getting 2018 firmware I could switch to Router mode. Enabled auto-updates and finally got the latest firmware automatically (1.0.1.58).
How do people seriously use these R7800 / D7800 devices?? Plus the "pop-up" authentication! Not ability to remember password or auto-login w/ own password mgr!
I am less than impressed with the R7800 and even less with Netgear. I am ready to Frisbee the router out the window!!
Q: How do you even set-up a VPN client? It seems like it only supports VPN pass-thru w/ the Netgear VPN app?? (obviously and all other VyprVPN, NordVPN, etc clients).
Q: Is there any firmware I can use, despite having the DSL modem function? I really don't care if the DSL function does not work....
Will I need to offset the firmware, or is everything else the same between them?
Q: Maybe it is worthwhile just doing a backup, doing a complete reset and wipe. Then re-configuring from scratch, instead of data migrated between several versions....?
Q: Parental control - just redirects to a page and doesn't even mention "Netgear Genie". Is this even worth using?
Q: WiFi signal is very poor. 2 rooms away I would get 4 bars with AC86U, and with this I get 1-2 of 5G and 2 bars of 2G wireless... I think the antenna on the 7800 are MUCH LOWER DBI than that of other routers. NB. I will try swapping the antenna over w/ other reverse-SMA antenna.
Q: BIGGEST issue that annoys me with this device - my MSI notebook cannot even PING the router (you would think the "Block ICMP packets" would only apply to the WAN, right??? Geezus Kryst these devices are NOT user-friendly!! I have tried changing router subnets, manual config of IP, manual DNS, disabling IPv6, netsh IP/TCP/UDP/Winsock reset, /displaydns, /flushdns, driver uninstall, driver uninstall + delete, updating Killer Wireless drivers + s/w, enabling/disabling associated settings, but have no idea why I cannot PING 192.168.1.1 (General Failure) or access the UI???
I even tried doing a system restore to 3 days prior - but that failed thanks to it complaining about OneDrive in my documents folder! Bloody hell!
I have had a few frustrating days! At this stage I would have preferred to have thrown $60 on a TP-Link AC1900! Although, who knows if that supports OpenVPN clients....
Can someone please share the "optimal" configuration, best firmware (stable) and recommended configu set-up for this device? And, also so the MSI notebook can access the UI without error.....
Thank you!
I have used Asus routers for a long time. My current and backup router have failed - so I did some research and found that the R7800 was meant to be "really" good from several sources.
I drove a couple hours to catch up with a mate and I'd pickup his unused R7800. Now, I thought I was getting the R7800 but no, what he gave me was a D7800.
When I logged in, the GUI was terrible. I was thinking how can people recommend or even like this? I could not even get the device into Router-only mode! No setting and the device was very unstable.
Firmware was ~1.0.0.42 (or thereabouts). So I found newest firmware on Netgear and updated - Error! "Not compatible with router model". So I went for 2019, 2018, 2017 f/w, etc. Finally the OLD firmware from Netgear worked. At this stage I am thinking "What the F&*#&$)@ kind of POS device is this???" Finally after getting 2018 firmware I could switch to Router mode. Enabled auto-updates and finally got the latest firmware automatically (1.0.1.58).
How do people seriously use these R7800 / D7800 devices?? Plus the "pop-up" authentication! Not ability to remember password or auto-login w/ own password mgr!
I am less than impressed with the R7800 and even less with Netgear. I am ready to Frisbee the router out the window!!
Q: How do you even set-up a VPN client? It seems like it only supports VPN pass-thru w/ the Netgear VPN app?? (obviously and all other VyprVPN, NordVPN, etc clients).
Q: Is there any firmware I can use, despite having the DSL modem function? I really don't care if the DSL function does not work....
Will I need to offset the firmware, or is everything else the same between them?
Q: Maybe it is worthwhile just doing a backup, doing a complete reset and wipe. Then re-configuring from scratch, instead of data migrated between several versions....?
Q: Parental control - just redirects to a page and doesn't even mention "Netgear Genie". Is this even worth using?
Q: WiFi signal is very poor. 2 rooms away I would get 4 bars with AC86U, and with this I get 1-2 of 5G and 2 bars of 2G wireless... I think the antenna on the 7800 are MUCH LOWER DBI than that of other routers. NB. I will try swapping the antenna over w/ other reverse-SMA antenna.
Q: BIGGEST issue that annoys me with this device - my MSI notebook cannot even PING the router (you would think the "Block ICMP packets" would only apply to the WAN, right??? Geezus Kryst these devices are NOT user-friendly!! I have tried changing router subnets, manual config of IP, manual DNS, disabling IPv6, netsh IP/TCP/UDP/Winsock reset, /displaydns, /flushdns, driver uninstall, driver uninstall + delete, updating Killer Wireless drivers + s/w, enabling/disabling associated settings, but have no idea why I cannot PING 192.168.1.1 (General Failure) or access the UI???
I even tried doing a system restore to 3 days prior - but that failed thanks to it complaining about OneDrive in my documents folder! Bloody hell!
I have had a few frustrating days! At this stage I would have preferred to have thrown $60 on a TP-Link AC1900! Although, who knows if that supports OpenVPN clients....
Can someone please share the "optimal" configuration, best firmware (stable) and recommended configu set-up for this device? And, also so the MSI notebook can access the UI without error.....
Thank you!
** FIREFOX **
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.1.
etc. . . . . . .
** YANDEX **
Your Internet access has been blocked.
Firewall or antivirus software may have blocked the connection.
etc. . . . . . .
ERR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED
C:\Users\Aether>nslookup yahoo.com 192.168.1.1
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1
etc. . . . . . .
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
C:\Users\Aether>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.
etc. . . . . . .
C:\Users\Aether>tracert 192.168.1.1
Tracing route to 192.168.1.1 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 General failure.
Trace complete.