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Orbi router pings netgear.com every ~6 seconds
I have no clue why this is necessary but it's jamming up my DNS logs in PiHole since it results in some 14k netgear.com lookups a day. Maybe it's being used as a connectivity test? I blocked the...
fw 1.10.1.2 appears to have reduced the frequency that the Orbi pings netgear.com from every 6 seconds to ever 5 minutes.
Yes, I agree. Netgear kept bouncing me around to different people who kept asking for the same information (mostly completely irrelevant - like what kind of computer I was using) - it was obvious they had no idea what I was talking about. I finally told them that the new update has significantly reduced the problem.
