I think people who have used Netgear routing should have a feeling that Netgear's routing signal is always inferior among routes in the same price range. On the R7000, they used Wave Aggregation Beam (RuiDong Antenna technology), which strengthens the device signal. This technology, officially, is very good. But in actual use, it can only be able to enhance the signal, and devices that originally had only 1 frame or no signal can see a full signal. But there will still be floating. Take my S3 as an example, with three walls apart, it turns out that there is only one frame of signal, R7000 can jump between the full frame and 2 frame signal. The measured internet speed is 200K to 500K. the effect is more obvious, but the packet loss rate is very high, the Wifi rate is only 2M only. If you want to play online games, give up the idea. Compared to other routers, the R7000's signal is much stronger, so at least you can be sure you'll be able to get online.
2, USB speed
Talking about my configuration, the computer uses a PCI Gigabit LAN card (not a real Gigabit LAN card, because it is a *** enjoy bus broadband, generally not up to the Gigabit rate), plus a USB3.0 HDD (USB3.0 interface reading speed of the measured 100M/s). The USB3.0 interface on the front of the R7000 connects the HDD, through the built-in Samba (Netgear officially called ReadyShare, ReadyShare contains a variety of USB features such as Samba function, see 3) function to read and write large files are going to 50M / s. Because they do not have a gigabit network card, so I do not know whether it is caused by the network card or this route itself is this speed. But this speed is much faster than reading directly from my computer's USB 2.0 port (my computer's USB reading is less than 20M). So I'm happy with the speed on my computer.
By the way, Samba allows you to set a password independently, so you don't have to worry about accessing things that shouldn't be accessible.
3, USB **** enjoy function
To the netware official download tool, you can realize the LAN device **** enjoy USB device (printer, camera, etc.). This function of the need for wireless printers and only ordinary printers practical point.
4, VPN function
I have to say, Netgear's VPN function is still too much trouble, you must be practical dedicated client to connect to the R7000 VPN. I bought 69 Lei Ke's NI360, Q3, etc. VPN function supports PPTP, IPSec, L2TP these directly through Windows, Android, iPhone built-in VPN function can connect to these VPN. Thousands of dollars of R7000 but more trouble, this point really surprised me. I can only hope that the R7000 will include these easier VPN features in subsequent updates.
The other thing is that the VPN function is only server-side, not client-side. You can't connect to a remote VPN server as a client.
5, offline download function
With the offline download function, compared to the Raspberry Pi (using Aria2c, combined with Baidu.com, Xunlei members offline, QQ members offline), I prefer to use the Raspberry Pi, because the Aria2c has a very good browser plug-in support, you can directly add some of the resources to the Aria2c and can be achieved to full-speed download (1.5M/s). 1.5M/s). When I use the offline download feature, for whatever reason, BT etc. have almost no speed, but others with the same seeds have speed with offline downloads. The shortcoming of Raspberry Pi is that Samba speed is too slow (Raspberry Pi to computer is only 4M, NTFS partition), so now I am storage device connected to the R7000, Raspberry Pi mount R7000 Samba. so that the downloaded resources dragged to the computer can go to 50M/s.
So regarding offline downloads, I would prefer that the official firmware integrate a tool like Aria2c, after all, Aria2c is more mature at the moment, and there are plenty of plug-ins under Chrome.
6, QoS function is too monotonous
Previously, Netgear's QoS function was nearly useless, and the effect of opening and not opening was almost the same, this time, Netgear has improved a little bit. R7000's QoS up and down the line to separate the restrictions, which is the downstream QoS to join the support of streaming media. After opening the downstream function of QoS, open the Xunlei full-speed download, and then watch youku and other domestic video sites, the effect is very obvious, you can still watch the video very smoothly. If QoS is turned off, the video is almost impossible to watch.
But this QoS feature doesn't allow for individual speed limits on each IP address. I don't know if it's true that networks outside the mainland can do without such speed limits, but for our domestic broadband, which is almost always small, with uploads of barely 64K to 120K, it's still important to limit the speed of each IP to some extent.
By the way, from the first Netgear router I used to the R7000 I have now, there is no ability to view per-IP traffic, so if you feel your network is stuck, you have no way to see exactly which device is causing it.
7, built-in DLNA and iTunes server
iTunes function for most domestic users should not have much effect, right? We all use QQ music, Baidu music these, so I myself did not look deeper. Just to let you know, the iTunes server can play the music in the HDD normally, and some of the small movies can be watched, but the bigger ones can't be watched.
DLNA is also not very useful for me, but still a simple test, it is possible to reach the HD VOD, because the HD source are deleted, and only try a few 6G or so video, can be played normally without pressure.
By the way, if you have too many files in your storage device, the scanning will take slightly longer.
8, with hardware wifi switch
While experts at home and abroad say that electromagnetic radiation is harmless to the human body as long as it is under the national standard. I personally believe that this, but the annual sampling, there are always some routes wifi electromagnetic radiation exceeds the standard, although Netgear every time not on the list (I did not see, and on the list of almost a few fixed), but inevitably, some users still want to not need to use the time to turn off the wifi. this function for the need for the user, or very convenient.
9. Power adapter
The power adapter for the R7000 is really big, almost as big as the ORICO DCA-4U-WH I bought before, and weighs about the same. Input 100V~220V voltage should support most countries, and then the output is 12V 3.5A, as a science scum do not know how to calculate the power and test the power, but look at this parameter, it should be in the full load of the power consumption or not small, after all, the two USB ports power supply, or a dual-core 1G CPU. but the general routing in the case of not full power consumption are not The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know how to do this. The company's products have been tested and approved by the government, and are now available for sale on the Internet.
10, guest network
Now a lot of routes with multi-SSID function, Netgear's multi-SSID is called the guest network, as the name suggests, is to give visitors temporary use. But this guest network is not only multi-SSID, it can be set to isolate from non-guest network. Under guest network, you can disable guest access to ReadyShare or devices under non-guest network. So if you have any information on your HDD that you don't want outsiders to know, or if you want to open up Samba access on your LAN for your convenience, you don't have to worry about guests asking for free access to this resource anymore.
My personal suggestion would be to add a physical wifi switch for the guest network so that it can be turned off with one click when not in use, and just turned on with one click when in use. I don't know if multiple SSIDs would increase EMF, if so, then I'd still want to turn off unnecessary SSIDs in normal times and turn them on when needed.
11, LED light control
Routing LED can be set to completely off, fear of light pollution comrades, this you can rest assured.
12, about the route management page
From the first Netgear router I used (before TP-Link, D-Link, Mercury, Lei Ke, Tengda, etc.), I feel that the Netgear's route management page is very slow to respond to slow, point an operation to wait half a day to respond to it.
The R7000 is much, much better in this area. It's not quite as fast as TP-Link, but at least you can feel that it's still fast, and at the very least it doesn't make you wait until you're impatient.