It has increased my wifi coverage and now covers the entire house, but signal is no more prone to cut out before re-finding signal again.
Response from netgear.comBy Consumer Affairs, September 30, 2022
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It started working when we were finally able to get the setup completed. However, it's supposed to offer both the 2.4 and 5 gigahertz. The 2.4 showed up when we initially set up, but it disappeared. We needed to have both. We restarted it with no success. We sent it back and started using our MG7550. We will replace it if it starts acting up again.
My internet provider is pretty unreliable, with frequent dropouts. With my previous setup of a separate modem and router, when the modem even briefly lost connectivity, I would have to reboot the router, which was really annoying. This modem router combo is able to recover full connectivity automatically, without rebooting anything, which is great.
For the price, I think this is a solid device. The admin interface is also easy to understand and easy to use right out of the box. Custom configuring was also easy to do.