Armor subscription not worth renewing

Yes, the security status tile in the Orbi app is useless (certainly for the RBE970 series at least).

I also see the iOS and iPad devices fail to register the presence of Armor.

But lately I have seen this happening (nothing I do will allow the Armor install to be recognised) with some Android devices too so not only has it not been fixed or even improved for years it has become worse.

Not doing anything about this is very bad IMHO particularly as NG are happy to not provide support, basically not listen to you, a very short time after purchase.

But I actually like the "idea" behind the Netgear/Bitdefender product on the Orbi, if it worked as designed I would much prefer to continue to use it over other products such as the security offered for TP Link Deco products which is also quite good. As it is now I end up growing weary of it not working properly and I disable the auto-renew and do what I can to prevent continuing to be billed.

Yes, Netgear also ignores the auto-renew setting and continues to bill me (that's happened more than once now) which is a rather large nail in the coffin of Netgear Armor!. But I continue to hope and have been consistently disappointed over the last few years.

Consider this, the people that are implementing the security system may well be the same people that have made these mistakes (assuming the billing bug is not deliberate) and will not fix the problems. So I have to wonder if we can trust the security implementation will actually keep us safe!