NETGEAR US ware R7000 wireless router out of the box experience and home network toss and share

This article has more slots, please lightly spray! Purely look at the excitement of the network white toss.

Some of the pictures were shot on mobile phones at night. They are clearly different. Please forgive me.

1, choose

Saying that a few months ago (before and after double 11 in 2016), some old and new routers from NetStone and Asustek had a big wave of deals in JD. For example: Netgear R6400 (looks like an upgraded version of R6300). 399 yuan; NETGEAR R6900 (in addition to the USB port and antenna is not removable, other parameters and R7000 almost no difference???) After the discount price of about 599 yuan; netware R7000, after the discount only 599 yuan; R8000 discount after the price only 699 yuan; ASUS AC66U B1 (parameters and AC68U almost the same) after the discount price of about 599 yuan.

I believe many people have the impression of these preferential information.

Although the landlord's home is a small network (no NAS, no boxes, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, video, web browsing, chat, and occasionally under the film), 1 year ago has entered the low-end NETGEAR R4300 (Untouched machine, there is no problem with the use so far), but this time still can not help but have entered two routers: NETGEAR R8000, NETGEAR R7000.

2, orders

1) Netgear R8000: Jingdong suddenly cut the price to 1099 yuan in the middle of the night of 2016.11.03 (it seems to be 0 o'clock) to 9:00 in the morning, and then reduced the 400 yuan network product coupon 699 yuan to hand, is the lowest price in history (to hair None of the discounts below this price appeared at the time of this posting. Orders will be paid immediately.

At the time of the discount price screenshot

Take a screenshot

order details

Later calm down and found that R8000 and R7000 ratio, although 5G speed, the parameters slightly stronger (CPU and other hardware to be better), but at the time can not brush Merlin (now out of Merlin firmware), large size, and power is the notebook that Kind, slightly worse value. The R7000 can brush Merlin, the most important thing is the price of 100 yuan cheaper, performance is enough, do not want to R8000. Because the payment has been received, do not want to reject, it intends to receive goods back away, in the QQ group to see the netizens want, together with the Jingdong packaging unopened, SF freight to pay the original price transfer (the money is only talked A few times the netizens out of trust, direct WeChat first transfer money, did not take the fish and other platforms). So there is no way to get a tan.

2), NETGEAR R7000: For users who often visit Aunt Zhang or the router forum, they are familiar with the performance parameters in the current medium, affordable, rich firmware. On the double 11th day of 2016, Jingdong offered 749 yuan, with 100 yuan online product coupons, and then 50 yuan coupons for small vaults, 599 yuan.

At the time of the offer information

3, out of the box

After receiving the goods, they always eat ash, and they are unsealed before the Spring Festival.

The packaging of net parts is still a huge box with a transparent heat shrink film on the surface.

Box side printing parameters

Origin Vietnam

By the way, the R4300 box bought at home last year is a comparison. It is only a little bit smaller than the R7000. However, the all-round machine above the R4300 should really be changed. Before 2017, the king of NETGEAR is the R8500? In 2017, the king of nets should be R9000? ? ?

Open the box

The router, network cable, and manual warranty card are on the top, and the router is equipped with an antenna and power supply.

Antennas, packed in clear plastic bags

The power supply is a little bulky.

The power supply is manufactured by a Taiwanese company and the model number is 2AAF042F. The manufacturer: Qiaowei Technology Co., Ltd. has an output of 12V 3.5A.

Power cord plug

The network cable, as if the network cable sent by the NETGEAR router has always been over 5 types, the line is very hard.


Metal shield at the plug


Installation instructions, packed in plastic bags.

Warranty Card


Warranty 1 year

Antenna, packed in plastic bags.


The router is also packed in clear plastic bags

On the plastic bag, there is no net type of blue sealing paste, but a relatively thick transparent glue! ! !

After opening it, I carefully read it and found no traces.

Positive USB3.0 port

On the back, there is a black protective cover for the antenna connector, and the protective cover must be removed to install the antenna (nonsense)


USB2.0 port, power switch, power socket

WAN port, LAN port outside the metal shield

Bottom, pads and vents

Mount the antenna



4, brush machine

R7000 online brush Meilin more tutorials, methods are the same. Aunt Zhang also mentioned several articles in the sun list. I refer directly to Aunt Zhang's sunbathing operation (see the link below).

NETGEAR Netgear R7000 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router Unpacking Brush Merlin Group SS Experience Tutorial Foreword: Hello everyone, I have come again, why should I say again, because the recent double eleven routers often have activities, and nets R6400 Routers often do low prices for 399, so many people need to refer to, and then discovered the original post of my R6400. Original link: NETGEAR US NETGEAR R64001750M dual-band Gigabit wireless router out of the box experience NETGEAR US Netgear... Wolf Story | Like 1k Comments 1k Favorite 7k View Details


Before the flashing machine, it was still a simple experience with the netware official firmware, and the router smoothly went online without problems. The official firmware of R7000 is still the same as a lot of people spit, and the response is slow (but the basic functions are all there is to users who don't care about it).


Next is the Brush: Netware official firmware to restore the factory settings (such as the new machine is not set to skip this step) --- brush transition firmware --- brush MEILIN firmware --- simple set. The landlord clicks this step once to get a smooth connection to the Internet. There is no problem in the brush machine. The version of the brush is MEILIN7.2 (the latest 7.4 version has been released).



Brush firmware interface, the home page can see the basic information, network connection, the number of connected users, network speed, CPU / RAM / ROM usage, boot time temperature and so on. Seeing this, I feel tall.

The next step is the rich application of MEILIN firmware.

In fact, the landlord is the most important to advertising, there are scientific Internet access and more dial. At present, only two softwares for advertising and scientific Internet access are installed in the software center.

To advertising plug-ins: According to the tutorial set up successfully used, often visited Youku advertising gone, but Tencent and other video sites advertising can not go, some regrets.

Science Internet: Because of the account, only installed unused.

Double-dial: Because before using a brush to brush Pandora K1 has tried, failed. This time again on the R7000 tried many times still failed. Explain that the home network (radio and television 20M small water pipes) does not support multiple dialing.

In addition, according to the introduction on the Internet, ASUS ROUTER and Aicloud have been released under the two ASUS mobile phones.

ASUS ROUTER is the management router. After the installation is opened, the default display is the ASUS AC68U, but the name can be changed.

Through it you can see real-time traffic, number of user connections, WIFI switches, etc. but it seems like you can't change passwords and add guest visitor networks.

Aicloud: Manage files shared on the router via the USB port or files on a computer or device in the LAN. It is also convenient to see the files on the phone.

5, family network toss

Here I say that under the home network situation, many people may say that I am tossing, dan hurts, teasing 13.

The home use is the broadcasting and TV 20M network (the actual display is Unicom's), through coaxial cable transmission, the outside of the coaxial cable and all the 1F / 2F room all the cable / coaxial cable converge to the second floor weak box: external coaxial cable ---- 2nd floor weak box cat --- 2nd floor weak box R7000 router dialing and WIFI --- room network cable and 1st floor R4300 router WIFI.

Thanks to regular visits to Auntie Zhang, before the renovation, it was determined that a gigabit intranet must be installed (even if it was temporarily unavailable), so all the rooms in the house were wired (2 TV stands); cable, crystal head There are six kinds of network heads; weak boxes are large (400*350 specifications). However, because of the keel of the six types of cable, it is thick and hard, so many lines can not put equipment in the weak box, and the router can not put inside, otherwise WIFI can not be used. Had to buy a Flat Cable and a network connector, and it would look like the following.

Before the Spring Festival, the landlord entered the following equipment ---- 0.6 meters cabinet! ! ! In order to install a router + a cat, is not tossing?

Each toss

By the way, take a photo of home network equipment.


The order is netware R7000, netware R4300, netware TPLINK841, ​​Fiji K1, DLINK DIR615

Most are low-end (junk) products.

The sad reminder is that during the use of tossing, it was discovered that some of the Internet ports in the home were actually 100M. You know, I'm 6 network cable + 6 network header + 6 crystal head + Gigabit LAN port, which is connected to a Gigabit port terminal. Later, after checking all eight Internet ports at home, only three network ports displayed Gigabit intranets (the desktop and the 1F living room and three bedrooms), and the other five ports were all 100Mbits. Explain that somewhere may not be connected.

Actually, when I checked in after my home renovation, I used my notebook to test whether each network port was connected and normally accessed through the network cable. However, Ignored the fact that it is not the Gigabit intranet that happens to be the only computer (desktop) that is connected to the router. The network port is exactly one of the three intact Gigabit network ports. Prior to this, there was only one Gigabit router for the R4300 and 100 megabits for the secondary router. This time, the R7000 main route, R4300 is a second-level router (when both are connected, the LAN indicator of the router can quickly determine whether the connected internal network line is Gigabit).

Therefore, only two years after the renovation was completed, it was discovered that the above-mentioned Gigabit intranet was renovated into a 100-megabit problem.

After the R7000 LAN port is connected to the R4300 LAN port, the indicator light is orange, and the computer displays the hundreds of megabytes.

One of the mouths is unstable and sometimes shows 10M.

No tears, in view of the small water pipes at home, even if the internal network is Gigabit, it will not be used and it will not work. However, I was not reconciled to OCD and still did not want to give up. It took a few nights to toss N for a long time and ruled out. Because the router-to-computer segment has three network cables (flat network cable, network cable in the wall, panel-to-computer network cable), three connection points (flat cable to network cable connector, network cable connector to the wall cable header, network panel Straight head to computer network cable). Need to find the specific location of the problem.


Several network panel headers were removed for inspection. The eight lines were pressed together.

Also re-buyed the network cable, the network header on the panel, replaced to exclude, did not find they have problems. But the network is still 100M.

Newly purchased flat cable jumper (flat cable does not seem like a round cable?)

Changed the network through, or not.


During the period there was also a flat cable that could not be pulled out of the panel. However, we had no choice but to use violence to destroy the panel and the cable and lost nearly 20 yuan. The most vomiting of blood was that the one who reinstalled the network had a direct heading. At that time, he did not press the tool and tossed it one hour faster.


Replace the network cable and replace the cable connector. No problem was found. Looking at the crystal head at the weak box, the order of the lines is the same, and the eight lines are pressed.

Even in the Jingdong bought a simple network tester, the test result is that the five 100M Ethernet network cable, each port does not have 2-4 different lines.

Some toss, no result. However, basically the biggest suspect in the crystal head, followed by the network through the panel. So he bought a crystal head again and decided to change it.

The problem came again, had not done crystal head before, if find acquaintance borrowed the tool, the result found that although the pressure crystal head looks, but not easy to sort into, crystal head did not locate the module, do a few experiments It's all scrapped.

Due to temporarily unable to find a reliable network installer, the 100M intranet problem had to be shelved and maintenance was suspended. After all, even if it is repaired, the network will never be able to go.

Simple questions, do not know how to install a few days unsolved toss, think of yourself really funny 13.

With the rain leaking around the room, the problem of the transmission of physical lines on the Internet has not yet been resolved, and there are even more problems affecting the use of temporary solutions.

20M Unicom small water pipe, network speed is not up to standard (upload speed is 2 times the download speed, the actual experience upload speed is also 1M/S or more, much faster than download); network is extremely unstable (the network is bad in the afternoon to midnight, delay is severe) Another tragedy.

The following screenshot is only one day, then measured several times no screenshots, test results and actual speed experience, and the test results of the following figure is similar.

Compared to the 50M network of relatives at home, the difference between the sky and the earth is simply different.


So, eventually it is back to the original point, and no problem is solved. Calm down and only accept use.
6, Questions & Summary

Put aside the above unresolved issues. Use meilin more than a week, but fortunately did not appear big problems.

Still found some minor problems with the firmware.

1, 2.4G, 5G wireless network in normal use, suddenly shut himself.

Untouched routers, mobile phones, and tablets were suddenly unable to connect to WIFI. The wireless network could not be found. To see the router, it was found that no two wireless lights were off. Press the switch manually and the wireless network is OK. At present, this phenomenon has occurred twice. Very strange question.

2, USB3.0 interface, connected to the USB3.0 hard disk can only work in USB2.0 mode.

Because the landlord used Toshiba 1T USB3.0 hard drive, connected to USB2.0 and 3.0 after the indicator color is different (white, blue, respectively). Received R7000 front USB3.0 port, the indicator light shows blue and turns white after about 5 seconds.

The following figure shows the situation where the light that was just inserted into the mobile hard disk and the indicator of the hard disk is blue.

Do not know is not because of this problem, the desktop copy data to the mobile hard drive USB3.0 port router, writing speed is finally fixed at about 28M/S.

3, sometimes enter the login URL, can not enter the management interface (in front of the browser address plus a long list of English numbers), and the browser appears as shown below.

At this point, you must enter the router login IP to enter the management interface.

4, the default transmit power 50% can be changed, but can not change the region (the latest 7.4 version has been supported).

Summarize the next router:

1, in the home of mid-end equipment, configuration is currently considered mainstream, can brush Merlin firmware, high playability.

2,599 yuan discount price, the price is good, there may be a lower price in the future.

3, slightly larger volume, the indicator light is too bright.

In addition, according to the personal experience mentioned above, for home network layout, if you do not trust the construction workers on the network, you can buy a finished finished product network cable and use it directly at the end, then at the other end, on the wall panel. Install a straight head or stick out directly from the panel. (Mr. Zhang seems to have a similar list of clothes mentioned). The advantage is: First, do not worry about doing crystal head and the network through the first connection, may not be installed or not contact. On the other hand, the Category VI cable has a keel, and it is really too hard. It is very difficult to get the electric box out of order, and it is not well received by the equipment. The crystal head that comes with it may not be snapped in the same direction. The disadvantage is that the extra length may be concentrated in the weak box.

In the end, he vowed himself: the home network or related equipment too many short boards, but also a small water network, without a large number of network applications and equipment, but used R7000 + R4300, also on the counter, toss Gigabit network, the results The network cable has not been connected to become a hundred megabytes (the problem was discovered only two years after the renovation). The most terrible network is the extremely unstable 20M water pipe. Is it feeling very strange? ? ? Is it drunk? ? ?

The last, please spray! ! !

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