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V 1.9.1.12 Lost ability in attached devices to see if attached to Router or Sat
Just checked what else is different in new release and found Netgear have removed the option to click into a device name in attached devices (wheras before you pressed enter and it would then list al...
You can still see the devices attached to the satellite if you open up the browser page for the RBS50.
On the orbilogin page, I noticed all devices connected to the satellite are iisted together at the bottom of the connected device list. When I walked to the other end of my house so that my iPhone disconnected from the RBR50 and connected to the RBS50 and did a refresh on the attached devices, I noticed the iphone was listed at the bottom of the devices list with other devices connected to the satellite. When I moved back to a location where the iPhone connected to the RBR50 and did a refresh on the attached devices, I noticed the iphone was listed further up in the list with the other devices connected to the RBR50 and the RBS50 devices still grouped together.
There is no explicit indication on the main attached devices page stating which is the first device connected to the RBS50, but all devices connected to the RBS50 are at the bottom of the list.
I understand, but that takes away from the single-pane-of-glass approach we could previously achieve on the router.
At first, they took away the ability to set the debug flag, which we could still do manually via telnet.
Now not even that works, and the underlying web code itself has simply been removed (that presented the split view).
Given the outcry when it stopped being the default, and again when the flag was removed from the debug page, it's obvious this was a very deliberate action on Netgear's part to willfully _reduce_ transparency of how (or if) handoffs are occurring...but that is NOT a good thing.
Rodney
Completely agree that removing this capability is "not appreciated".
I can only assume it is part of a strategy aimed at declaring you should not care which AP your device is connected to. Control freaks (like myself) will never buy-in to this strategy as it inhibits monitoring.
Maybe there is a command line config tweak that can restore this setting (similar to the tweak that restores the capability to see if a device is connected via 5G or 2.4G- which still works)
Unfortunately, no - I looked. They literally removed the code. :/
I agree it's likely aimed at a "you shouldn't care as a consumer" customer, but entirely removing the ability to override it, even in advances settings, is what I'm taking issue with.
Netgear, please don't tell us we should suggest this as an enhancement/feature. It was there and you've progressively taken it away! Why?
Rodney