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Troyd75826
Feb 09, 2018Guide
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 t...
tagteam
Feb 09, 2018Virtuoso
Vote for the feature request at the link below.
BallHawk45
Feb 09, 2018Tutor
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?