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Netgear, please please please allow end user to turn off automatic firmware updates!!!
Firimware updates 2.1.1.16 and 2.1.1.18 are totally unstable with random, constant loss of wifi. I must constantly reboot the router. Prior firmware 2.0.0.56 is very stable for me and I would like to keep it and experiment with firmware updates at my own discretion.
I hope someone at Netgear actually reads this.
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Vote for the feature request at the link below.
Done - upvoted. I will say, though - there are currently 18 "Idea suggestions" that have been moved through from the New Idea category to Reviewed category and into the Engineering Investigation category. Those 18 suggestions have an average of 8 upvotes each. This suggestion for a method to opt out of firmware updates currently stands in the New Idea category with **42**!!! upvotes and has not even made it to the Reviewed category yet. I'll let that speak for itself.
In fact I looked at ALL the categories and this is the single-most upvoted idea in the entirety of the Idea Exchange - second only to
Additional DNS support at 37 upvotes, and that one is in the "Reviewed" category - yet still no traction or urgency with Netgear support. Netgear - your customers are speaking. Are you listening?
I had to block updates using my firewall. Forced updates is a terrible idea.
Troyd75826
You're complete right that it's absured that auto-updates cannot be turned though the Netgear admin UI.
However, for others who stumble across this, there *is* a way to disable auto-updates, it's just not in the UI. You don't have to block the software update sites.
See the post by Butch1326, which details how to do it.
Even with auto-updates disabled, however, you'll have a host of other issue. See my related post here.
- Yes, I have done that, and it seems to work. But we should not have to hack config files just to keep something that we know works as it is. Please read Netgear!
I personally (and others as well) have found the telnet hack to be unreliable. The firewall block is the only really reliable way to block auto-updates.
