Umm OK, in the meantime I will ask another question, since I'm thinking of getting this router, just want to hear from others on it's range.
I have a Costco AC 1450, I believe it's similar to the R6200 anyways when I get into the Master Bedroom, which is approximately 100 ft, the signal drops quite a bit. I have tweak the TX antenna, but still to no avail.
So thus why I want to hear about the range on the Nighthawk from Costco before making the move.
I've been using the R6700 for a couple of weeks already, and mostly on wifi n (no ac devices). I get consistent good performance (10MB/s copy) with a Sony Vaio (N300) at 30 ft across 3-4 walls in the house.
100ft sounds a little too much of a distance for any router.
However this one has a power adapter of 3.5A (@12V) and that should tell something about the output power.
OK, I did finally buy this Router yesterday, so far so good.
I'm going to run stock for a few days, but would appreciate guidance direction, of which file is needed to flash and process. So I will be ready to do so, cheers.
No one can guide me ?? I saw the file link posted by Halfbit, but still unsure if it is the correct file, and the process. Guess I'll wait, thanks guys I'll check in later, cheers
about a week or so ago. Things have been working great so far with both the 2.4G and 5G radios on, using beamforming and I am normally getting ~800mb+ on the devices that support it and ~1000m+ on a macbook pro I dont have the exact numbers. also have android devices and a printer that all worked straight away.
I also used the built-in ipv6 6 in 4 tunnel configuration to get up and running with tunnelbroker again, without having to use the cron scripts etc, just configuration through the interface which is great.
It did work fine right after installation without any tweaking of configuration also.
If you have any questions let me know I can check out how i have it configured for you.
Thanks for the update, I'll have to give it a whirl, or maybe wait until the release is out of Beta, keep me posted if you run into any issues in the meantime.
crisper wrote:
I went from the stock firmware to this beta version:
about a week or so ago. Things have been working great so far with both the 2.4G and 5G radios on, using beamforming and I am normally getting ~800mb+ on the devices that support it and ~1000m+ on a macbook pro I dont have the exact numbers. also have android devices and a printer that all worked straight away.
I also used the built-in ipv6 6 in 4 tunnel configuration to get up and running with tunnelbroker again, without having to use the cron scripts etc, just configuration through the interface which is great.
It did work fine right after installation without any tweaking of configuration also.
If you have any questions let me know I can check out how i have it configured for you.
Yep, Only flashed once in my life about 3 months ago on another Netgear and just learning. I see they all say Beta, I was assuming it meant, they are still in Beta release
Loaded the new firmware yesterday on my R6700 (Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 Router from Costco). It's working admirably so far for my limited purposes (gateway for segregated vlans and opendns).
For any other novices, I used the binaries here and followed the precautions and instructions from the peacock thread.
Here are the steps that worked for me (ymmv):
1. Did a 30-30-30 reset.
2. Disabled wireless on my computer.
3. Set my computer's wired ip address to 192.168.1.8/24.
4. Connected to one of the router's LAN ports.
5. Logged in to the router (ip: 192.168.1.1, username: admin, password: password).
6. Used Netgear's web interface to upload the .chk firmware.
7. After the router had rebooted, I did another 30-30-30 reset (though I was able to connect to the DD-WRT web interface at this point).
8. Logged in to the router, setting username and password when prompted (ip: 192.168.1.1).
9. Used DD-WRT's Administration->Firmware Upgrade menu to upload the .bin firmware.
10. After the router had rebooted, I did another 30-30-30 reset (though I was able to connect to the DD-WRT web interface at this point).
