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Originally Posted by hometeam
So im searching for a new router to compliment my incoming gigabit internet, the r7000 seems to be a good choice for me. Any reason why I am wrong?
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With stock Netgear firmware, a lot of people are struggling to get it to be stable. Wireless dropouts seem to be a commonly-reported problem. I had an issue where the wireless and wired sides of the switch would just stop communicating with each other after a couple of days. Several others on the Netgear forums have similar issues. Basic layer 2 functionality is not a luxury, it's an expectation for any switch made in the last 25 years. Netgear failed pretty bad here.
The biggest deterrent though would be Netgear's support. They used to be the best. After 5 weeks of me basically doing all of their troubleshooting for them and them throwing darts at the problem, I finally gave up. That being said, if you like DD-WRT, people are saying great things about the R7000. It apparently is very stable with Kong's variant and performs almost as well.
However, if you have an appetite for "feature rich" firmware like DD-WRT, it might be worth your time to evaluate the Asus RT-AC68U. It's stable and fast, probably right on par with the R7000, and even though the stock firmware has a few minor bugs, Asus appears to be actively fixing them. In addition, RMerlin at Small Net Builder is sharing code with Asus and actively developing a 3rd-party firmware based on their code that focuses on stability and performance. He's doing a great job and has a veritable legion of happy followers.
For me, I'm 100% sold on the Linksys. No, it doesn't have the same breadth of features. But I've pushed well over a terabit of disk images to my NAS over the last 24 hours without a single hiccup. That's something I was never able to do with the Netgear (and never tried to do with the Asus because I never got that far). It's simple, easy, and straightforward. It just works.