What is currently the best Netgear Nighthawk series router you recommend to use your builds?
I am moving soon and will need to purchase a router to cover about 1800 square feet.
I have used the R7000 at my current town home, but it seems to have a few low signal areas.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Getting off topic and should be a new topic....
Update... Moved to new Topic... _________________ Home Network on Telus 1Gb PureFibre - 10GbE Copper Backbone
2x R7800 - Gateway & WiFi & 3xWireGuard - DDWRT r53562 Std k4.9
Off Site 1
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi & WireGuard - DDWRT r54517 Std
E3000 - Station Bridge - DDWRT r49626 Mega K4.4
Off Site 2
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi - DDWRT r54517 Std
E2000 - Wired ISP IPTV PVR Blocker - DDWRT r35531
What is currently the best Netgear Nighthawk series router you recommend to use your builds?
I am moving soon and will need to purchase a router to cover about 1800 square feet.
I have used the R7000 at my current town home, but it seems to have a few low signal areas.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Getting off topic and should be a new topic....
The R7000 is a great WiFi router. It boils down to placement. 1800 sq.ft. doesn't mean anything. My brother has a 4000 sq.ft. home and he has full coverage with a single E3000, because of placement.
Router: Buffalo WZR-1750DHP
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Previous: DD-WRT v3.0-r31980M kongac (05/11/17)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #332 SMP Sat Jun 3 11:22:27 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: Working aside from intermittent latency spikes
Reset: No
Errors: None in logs
Uptime: 1 Day
Setup:
- WAN: DHCP
- IPv4 only
- DDNS (no-ip.org)
- Wireless: Regulatory Domain = UNITED_STATES; wl0, AP, AC/N Mixed, VHT80, lower/lower. Implicit Beamforming; wl1, AP, N-Only, 20MHz
- Port Forwarding (only for ARD at this point); netmask forwarding through iptables
- QoS (a few ports, mostly for the 2 netmasks specified in iptables)
- Westwood TCP congestion control.
- Syslogd/klogd with remote server on a laptop on the LAN to monitor in real-time.
Very basic setup. I'm still getting lag spikes over ethernet while playing *any* game. The issue is isolated to this router; if I plug the computer directly into the modem I experience no lag spikes in-game. The lag spikes last for seconds at a time and are upward of 999ms. Syslog doesn't show anything out of the ordinary when the lag spikes occur.
The OOM error the kernel was throwing seems to have disappeared again. It wasn't present in 31830M, appeared again in 31980M. I'll keep this post updated because it seems that it only appears after a few days of uptime.
EDIT:
I'm also concerned that the last couple builds, including this one, seem to maintain high load averages. While network traffic seems consistently low and stable, the load average fluctuates between .10 to .33 or so.
And the temperature, again, without very much load on the device, hovers around 78C. Looking through this thread, the average temp of an R7000 seems to be 55C or so. That's a HUGE difference in temp.
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6447 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:11 Post subject:
Router Model-Netgear R7000
Firmware Version-DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Kernel Version-Linux 4.4.70 #332 SMP Sat Jun 3 11:22:27 CEST 2017 armv7l
reset: no ddup
status: operational
errors: none so far, will report later if so....
SlasherKG wrote:
Kong,
What is currently the best Netgear Nighthawk series router you recommend to use your builds?
I am moving soon and will need to purchase a router to cover about 1800 square feet.
I have used the R7000 at my current town home, but it seems to have a few low signal areas.
Thank you for all your hard work.
get R7800, it has way better wi-fi range and CPU...and its price is very close to R7000 but consider R7800 is still one of the most powerful routers afters R9000 _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Router: Buffalo WZR-1750DHP
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Previous: DD-WRT v3.0-r31980M kongac (05/11/17)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #332 SMP Sat Jun 3 11:22:27 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: Working aside from high temperatures
Reset: No
Errors: None in logs
Uptime: 34 min (actually was up about 1 hour, then I decided to reboot - this is since reboot)
CPU Temperature CPU 73.6 °C / WL0 50.5 °C / WL1 47.0 °C
Ran stock (DD-WRT) firmware, and CPU ran at about 55 °C, then upgraded to r31980M and noticed high temperatures. Tried r32170M to see if it would run cooler.
Router: Netgear R8000
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #332 SMP Sat Jun 3 11:22:27 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: Working
Reset: No, used "ddup --flash-latest"
Previous: DD-WRT v3.0-r31980M kongac (05/11/17)
Errors: Not really. Few observations.
CPU Clock: 1200 MHz
1) CPU Temperature : CPU 64.1 °C / Not available (about consistently 4°C higher than r31980M immediately after update)
2) VERY minor cosmetic issue. See attached screenshot. Data display for VPN Server status when a client is connected is not displayed in the correct column (issue was also seen in r31980M). Did I mention VERY minor?!?
3) The VPN log is back! VPN config still missing, but understood to have been removed a couple of stable releases ago.
Working well so far:
OpenVPN Client, Policy based routing to route all LAN/WLAN through VPN except one WLAN.
OpenVPN Server
wl0, wl0.1, wl1, wl1.1, wl1.2, wl2
DHCP, DNSMasq, static addresses
user defined cron jobs
USB stick, multiple partitions based on Kong instructions
Host file based ad blocking
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Kong and Brain Slayer.
Joined: 09 Nov 2014 Posts: 314 Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 15:03 Post subject:
LiloBzH wrote:
I updated my R7000 with "ddup --flash-latest" for the first time.
Someone can know what are differences between :
dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk
AND
dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin
?
Previously, i updated in WEB GUI and i used dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk file but DDUP use dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin !
Thank's
dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk is the file you initially flash to go from stock firmware to DD-WRT on a R7000. dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin is the file you flash after you're already on DD-WRT firmware on the R7000 (and others, check "Supported Models" file on the ftp). _________________ Deployed Routers:
Netgear R7800 - 1x build 46979
- Gateway (USB /w Entware, CAKE QoS)
Netgear R7000 - 3x build 46979
I updated my R7000 with "ddup --flash-latest" for the first time.
Someone can know what are differences between :
dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk
AND
dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin
?
Previously, i updated in WEB GUI and i used dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk file but DDUP use dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin !
Thank's
dd-wrt.K3_R7000.chk is the file you initially flash to go from stock firmware to DD-WRT on a R7000. dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_ARM_STD.bin is the file you flash after you're already on DD-WRT firmware on the R7000 (and others, check "Supported Models" file on the ftp).
ah ok ^^ Thank you _________________ Netgear R7000 :
#1 - DD-WRT v3.0-r50551 std (10/19/22) - running since 11/28/22 - DHCP Off / IPv4 only / VAP Off & Wifi 2.4 / 5Ghz #2 - DD-WRT v3.0-r50551 std (10/19/22) - running since 11/28/22 - DHCP On / IPv4 & IPv6 / VAP On & Wifi 2.4 / 5Ghz & Isolated Guest Network
Router: Netgear R6900 (Costco version of R7000)
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Previous: DD-WRT v3.0-r31870M kongac (04/16/17)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #338 SMP Sun Jun 11 00:36:49 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: Working
Reset: No
Errors: No
Manual Update : ddup--flash-latest
CPU 61.4 °C / WL0 48.7 °C / WL1 51.0 °C
Setup:
A. PRIVATE Network: (PIA vpn)
1. All DHCP client with lease IP pass through VPN.
2. Some DHCP client with fixed IP bypass VPN.
3. Some DHCP client with fixed IP pass through VPN.
B. GUEST Network:
1. Bypass VPN for all Guest Network.
2. Block access between Private Network and Guest Network.
3. Block access from guest network to router WEBif.
Few Other features enabled:
1. NAS, Filesharing -- Access USB3.0 external HDD with 2 partition connected to the router
2. DLNA
a. Play music from router connected external HDD on Bose SoundTouch 30.
b. Play videos from router connected external HDD on Ipads and other mobile devices
Fyi Kong has a new build 06/11 (same number r32170M) that implemented a different baseline dd-wrt security (now use routers' factory wifi pw at reset).
You all should give that a try to make sure it work moving forward.
Router: Buffalo WZR-1750DHP
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/11/17)
Previous: DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/03/17)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #338 SMP Sun Jun 11 00:36:49 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: Working aside from high temperature
Reset: No
Errors: None in logs
CPU Temperature CPU 74.7 °C / WL0 50.8 °C / WL1 47.9 °C
Router: 3x R7000
Firmware: 31870M -> 32170M
Kernel: Linux Linux 4.4.61 #300 SMP -> Linux 4.4.70 #332 SMP Sat Jun 3 11:22:27 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: All 3 Working & Monitoring
Reset: Erase NVRAM & Manual Configure
Errors: None so far
UpTime: +3H
#1 R7000 (WAN + OpenVPN Client#1)
- IPv4 Only
- USB Custom Startup Script for Route Tables, OpenVPN Client & Cron Scripts
- GUI Firewall & Startup Scripts
- WiFi Disabled
- SPI with non-filtered Multicast
- WAN port -> Cable Modem
- DNSCrpyt with Cisco OpenDNS
- NTP with Static IP
- Cron Job - Monitor WAN & OpenVPN Connections
- QoS HFSC/FQ_CODEL
- DDNS Custom with DNSoMatic
- 6 BRs, 8 VLANS & 6 Assignments
- SSH (WAN Access), Telnet & Syslog
- WAN Traffic Disabled
- USB Storage with Auto Mount
- YaMON 3.1
#2 R7000 (WiFi + OpenVPN Client#2)
- IPv4 Only
- USB Custom Startup Script for OpenVPN Client
- GUI Firewall Script
- 2.4Ghz Radio with 3 SSIDs (BW 40Mhz)
- 5Ghz Radio with 2 SSIDs (BW 80Mhz)
- SPI with non-filtered Multicast
- WAN Port (static IP) Assignment to vlan8 -> Vlan Switch
- DNSSEC via GUI
- NTP with Static IP
- Cron Job - Monitor OpenVPN Connection
- 5 BRs, 7 VLANS & 11 Assignments
- SSH (local only), Telnet & Syslog
- WAN Traffic Disabled
- USB Storage with Auto Mount
#3 R7000 (HE IPv6)
- IPv6 Only (with Limited IPv4)
- 6in4 Static Tunnel with HE
- IPv6 via DNSMasq
- GUI Firewall & Startup Scripts
- WiFi Disabled
- SPI with non-filtered Multicast
- WAN Port -> #1 R7000 LAN Port
- DNSCrypt with Cisco OpenDNS IPv6
- 4 BRs, 4 VLANS & 4 Assignments
- SSH (local only), Telnet & Syslog
- WAN Traffic Disabled
UPDATE....
Quickly Rolled Back to my last working configuration with Build 31870M, No Time to troubleshoot....
Quick-up update: I was having intermittent Internet connect issues which became a big problem at home. I know that OpenVPN video streaming would cause pausing (not buffering) every couple of minutes. Also problems with DNSCypt which caused sites to be down.
As stated earlier Kong released an updated June 11 32170M build.
I have update all three R7000s....
Firmware: 31870M -> 32170M
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #340 SMP Sun Jun 11 12:38:55 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: All 3 Working & Monitoring
Reset: Erase NVRAM & Manual Configure
Errors: None so far
UpTime: +3H _________________ Home Network on Telus 1Gb PureFibre - 10GbE Copper Backbone
2x R7800 - Gateway & WiFi & 3xWireGuard - DDWRT r53562 Std k4.9
Off Site 1
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi & WireGuard - DDWRT r54517 Std
E3000 - Station Bridge - DDWRT r49626 Mega K4.4
Off Site 2
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi - DDWRT r54517 Std
E2000 - Wired ISP IPTV PVR Blocker - DDWRT r35531
As stated earlier Kong released an updated June 11 32170M build.
I have update all three R7000s....
Firmware: 31870M -> 32170M
Kernel: Linux 4.4.70 #340 SMP Sun Jun 11 12:38:55 CEST 2017 armv7l
Status: All 3 Working & Monitoring
Reset: Erase NVRAM & Manual Configure
Errors: None so far
UpTime: +3H
June 11 Build of 32170M has been running great so far on all THREE R7000s. Over 30 hours uptime. _________________ Home Network on Telus 1Gb PureFibre - 10GbE Copper Backbone
2x R7800 - Gateway & WiFi & 3xWireGuard - DDWRT r53562 Std k4.9
Off Site 1
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi & WireGuard - DDWRT r54517 Std
E3000 - Station Bridge - DDWRT r49626 Mega K4.4
Off Site 2
R7000 - Gateway & WiFi - DDWRT r54517 Std
E2000 - Wired ISP IPTV PVR Blocker - DDWRT r35531
