[Solved] New R7800 gets progressively unusable

[hnyman]

@mielouk

Now, after another factory reset I can't even set a root PW. The browser always says site not reachable.

So my question now is: Shall I flash again and if so, which image should I use? Or am I on a completely wrong path?

R7800 works normally quite ok with OpenWrt. Sounds like your settings are somehow screwed.

I suggest that you flash again, without saving settings. And then manually reconfigure all settings from scratch again. Do not restore form backup...

Alternative would be to login with SSH, use the command "firstboot" to reset things, reboot, and then manually reconfigure everything from scratch.

Currently probably the "master" is slightly better on 5 GHz wifi, although personally I have not had trouble with 19.07.

I have regularly published a "community build" for R7800, which contains some essential add-on packages. You might try that.

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I have built a nice build for Netgear R7800 that offers the basic router functionality plus some useful add-ons, but does not contain too much additional fancy stuff like multimedia. The build is based on the bleeding-edge development main/master branch and the stable 23.05 branch. ("master" has been renamed as "main" in OpenWrt) Current version: Branch Version (branch-revision-commithash-date) main/master (development branch) main-r24930-0c45d2cfc6-20240127 (DSA) stable openwrt-23…