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Stay away from Netgear. Their current level of support is disgusting and down right nasty.
They give you free "basic technical" support for 90 days after purchase. After that you have to pay for a technical support contract, ($50 for 3 months) to get help if there's an issue.
I cannot get them to replace a defective modem that is under warranty, and past the 90 days. That is unless I sign up for a technical support contract, THEN they'll have an expert assist me with "advance technical support". They literally told me they can fix my issue after I sign up and pay them more money. This was not miscommunication, as I've tried twice to RMA / return a defective unit.
Yes, they still make an interface for the browser. They all do.
The mesh systems like eero and Google require use of their app on a cell phone to set up and replace a stand alone router. They can be linked to a router without the app, and used, but my objective was to replace my existing router and our cell signal is spotty at best.
I have a Netgear 7960P and it works quite well, except that no matter what I try I can't update the firmware. I follow the step-by-step instructions to login to the router, and then see if it shows a firmware update, and it does. The next step is to upgrade the firmware by answering YES first, and then the router tries to connect and download some sort of "language tables" or something like that. The router tries and tries, but is unable to download the GUI (something like that), and a few seconds later returns to the previous window.
Since the router is fairly new, but past the warranty. I am thinking about resetting it to factory specs and setup the network once more, then try to upgrade the firmware. I have never had this type of trouble with LinkSys routers.
Maybe I should listen to Even Further and his comment about staying away from Netgear. This router is getting in my nerves already.
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re-edited: Just participated about the router above in the NetGear community forum, ad realized that a great number of people have been complaining about the problem with this router for quite a long time. So, that's it for me and NetGear routers. I will never purchase another. Switching to LinkSys or another router, and tossing the NetGear one in the trashcan. I am so pissed for wasting my money on this router!
I have a Netgear 7960P and it works quite well, except that no matter what I try I can't update the firmware. I follow the step-by-step instructions to login to the router, and then see if it shows a firmware update, and it does. The next step is to upgrade the firmware by answering YES first, and then the router tries to connect and download some sort of "language tables" or something like that. The router tries and tries, but is unable to download the GUI (something like that), and a few seconds later returns to the previous window.
Since the router is fairly new, but past the warranty. I am thinking about resetting it to factory specs and setup the network once more, then try to upgrade the firmware. I have never had this type of trouble with LinkSys routers.
Maybe I should listen to Even Further and his comment about staying away from Netgear. This router is getting in my nerves already.
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re-edited: Just participated about the router above in the NetGear community forum, ad realized that a great number of people have been complaining about the problem with this router for quite a long time. So, that's it for me and NetGear routers. I will never purchase another. Switching to LinkSys or another router, and tossing the NetGear one in the trashcan. I am so pissed for wasting my money on this router!
I have a Netgear that had some security issues. The solution was to upgrade firmware but I was never able to find it online. I have the R6300 v2. I just checked again and it seems there is an upgrade on their website. I will attempt it sometime soon.
Why don't you try to upgrade your firmware by manually downloading and installing. I was able to find this page. It looks like 1.4.1.68 is the latest and that's directly from them. It's very straight forward. You download the file and load it from the web interface. https://www.netgear.com/support/prod...ion%201.4.1.68
Edit: I just upgraded automatically with no problems from the web interface. It took maybe two minutes.
I have a Netgear that had some security issues. The solution was to upgrade firmware but I was never able to find it online. I have the R6300 v2. I just checked again and it seems there is an upgrade on their website. I will attempt it sometime soon.
Why don't you try to upgrade your firmware by manually downloading and installing. I was able to find this page. It looks like 1.4.1.68 is the latest and that's directly from them. It's very straight forward. You download the file and load it from the web interface. https://www.netgear.com/support/prod...ion%201.4.1.68
Edit: I just upgraded automatically with no problems from the web interface. It took maybe two minutes.
I tried both ways, and while the GUI updated, the firmware would not. If you go to the NetGear website, you will notice several pages of users having exactly the same problems I am having upgrading the firmware. These routers were being sold at CostCo about a year ago for around $140.00, if I well remember. A lot of CostCo customers returned the routers for the same reasons as mine. The firmware is available at NetGear, but the router won't download and install it.
I ordered an Asus RT-AX3000 which should be at my door step by the end of this month.-
Final edit to my post Thanks to ggerra I managed to upgrade the firmware of the NetGear router mentioned above. It took me about an hour to upgrade it as follows:
1. Manually upload the file from the hard drive to the routers one time, let it do its think and then logoff.
2. Login again and the router showed that there was a new firmware available, so I proceeded to let the router update the firmware automatically, and this time the router went through all the steps automatically. After it rebooted again I logged off.
3. Logged back on (a third time). The router still showed that there was a new firmware update available, so I again let the router automatically upgrade the firmware, and finally the right firmware version was displayed at the right upper corner of the window.
My thanks to ggerra, and my apologies to the folks at NetGear for being so mad at them for a couple of days. Also, my apologies to Amazon for having to cancel the order for an Asus router
I love my Netgear Nighthawk router.
Please tell me which of these companies DO have great customer service?
Hint: none do. It's a good thing I never need to use them. It's a router with few moving parts. They don't break often. I've had dozens of routers over the years, number of times I've needed tech support from them? 0.
I currently have a NetGear router. My cellphone also uses that line. Wireless. So when I go on the cell phone, it connects to the wireless router, then via telephone line. On the cell phone use. The cell phone is part of the wireless network. This is good. Internet is wireless. It goes through the wireless, then to the telephone line, of which the wireless is connected to. It is about 1 feet wireless router. Unlimited use. But the bill is on somewhere else. But it is unlimited use.
Bought a Netgear, but I just returned it. It dropped the connection occasionally and didn't seem like it was going as fast as it should.
I'm thinking Asus or TP Link for the next one.
No Netgear will just randomly drop connections.
Which Netgear? They are not all the same. What dropped the connection, the router, or your device? Did you do any speedtests? How long did you have it?
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