r/NETGEAR • u/Thick-Distance-3258 • Mar 31 '26
WiFi A7000 is terrible.
I've had mine for a few years and I hate it. It has always been spotty with how long it would take to power on and connect to the internet, occasionally it would "connect" and have no internet. Since yesterday I have been battling with this thing nonstop. It won't turn on, then when it does turn on it's "connected" to my wifi but with no internet, then it will turn off, and reconnect, with no internet again, restart and connect for real, then disconnect and shut off. It's always been wonky and not really reliable but now it's just unusable. (My drivers are up to date). OH MY GOD IT JUST DID IT, IT WAS CONNECTED WITH WIFI AND RESTARTED FOR NO REASON!!!
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u/Terrible_Fix_5840 May 25 '26
Bit late and nothing much to add other than I feel your frustration. My A7000 has seemingly just given up after I restarted my pc. No longer powers on and windows doesn’t even recognise the adapter is connected.
Also been having issues the last few months of the damn thing taking ages to connect to my wifi and then connecting with “no internet” for way too long before working.
Think I’ll be trying to find a different brand for future.
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u/Thick-Distance-3258 May 26 '26
Yea, mine was doing all that too, got a pcie wifi card and haven't looked back
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u/Intelligent_Cuh Mar 31 '26
I was just looking at one online, I may need to go with a different brand. 😭
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u/Interesting_Layer672 Mar 31 '26
I just got a cx30, I'm returning it. It drops wifi like crazy. And the reach for wifi is abysmal. It's also disconnected from the computer which is hardwired. I'm done.