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Your connection is not private after using router admin
I am running RBR50 with connected RBS50 both running the same firmware V2.7.4.24. The firmware version is irrelevant since this problem has dogged me since getting the routers. The issue After...
Trikon wrote:
I am running RBR50 with connected RBS50 both running the same firmware V2.7.4.24. The firmware version is irrelevant since this problem has dogged me since getting the routers.
The issue
After everytime I use my laptop (macbook) to access the router admin, I am faced with the dreaded message.
Your connection is not private
This is a result of the ever increasing paranoia about security with browser makers. If you are using Apple's own browser, you are even more likely to get this sort of piffle. You are lucky that it hasn't blocked you completely, a fate that has hit other Apple users:
NETGEAR Mobile Applications and Apple Devices FAQ - NETGEAR Communities
Some forum answers talk about specifying https instead of http, it is not this problem.
I don't know how you arrived at the conclusion that this is not the problem. How did you work that out?
This is why some browsers gag.
Websites in the outside world should use https. If you are accessing things on your local network, your router's graphical user interface (GUI) for example, http is safe. But browsers are programmed to object.
Of course, if you try to access you router from the outside world, using Anywhere Access for example, https is essential, which is why that is built into the system.
User failure to understand how things work has been going on for years. So much so that Netgear added the option to set https as the preferred protocol.
In many routers, go to Advanced Setup and look in Web Services Management and the Local Management checkbox.
From time to time, someone turns up here screaming about their "broken" router when what they have done is told it to Always Use HTTPS to Access Router. Doing this blocks various things so they usually go back and this turn off.
I loathe this product and right now would never recommend it.
If you reached that conclusion on the basis of that misleading error message, I fear that you may have to abandon the Internet. What you are describing is a "feature" of modern browsers and routers.
"I don't know how you arrived at the conclusion that this is not the problem. How did you work that out?"
The problem occurs if I enter https URLs directs, I am not trying to access HTTP addresses.
Trikon wrote:
The problem occurs if I enter https URLs directs, I am not trying to access HTTP addresses.
That does not suddenly turn an http link into https.
- Do you trust your own network? If so, there's no reason to use HTTPS. Also, using HTTPS will still throw a warning as the certificates are self-signed and not part of the browser to recognize them.
