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Disney Circle on Orbi RBK50
Initially excited to see circle integration, figured that we can finaly do something that every other modern router has built in. Time limits on browsing for certain devices and some go beyond that f...
I was glad they added it and have no problem paying for the premium features. However, it's a huge fail as it causes internet connectivity drops every few hours. Disabling Circle via the iOS app resolves the issue. Even the most basic testing should have detected this problem before the firmaware update was shipped.
Also, the firmware should be smart enough to detect it's having difficulty communicating with the Circle servers and automatically disable it and send an alert to the router admin.
Looks like Netgear uses cheap Indian/H1B programmers and testers too....hopefully this giant mistake will show they're not so inexpensive after all.
- Looks like my company is going to switch routers now. Total fail. I bought or I for my home after our tech guy installed them at work. What a mistake