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Parental Controls on ORBI RBR850
Is there an update when the top of the line ORBI RBR850 will have Parental Controls?
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It is absurd you pay a premium for this product, with a key reason being the use of Circle, only to find out it does not work. And Netgear is silent on it.
This is false advertising, as right on the Circle site from Netgear it clearly states 'Orbi Wifi Systems' and does not make a model distinction like the others. We should be getting updates on this, as this isn't a return, but a potential class action lawsuit.
All I need to know is that they will release the functionality while my kids are still kids. Their silence is frustrating. I'm pissed and feeling litigous, tell me where to sign up.
I am growing frustrated by the lack of parental controls as well. I've been using the RBR850 since April 2020 hoping it would get an update that would bring it up to standard netgear offerings. For a top of the line product I can't believe I don't have access to parental controls!
I don't know how NG can afford all of us returning our routers.....parental controls are listed all over the place and then you get home and its "certain models". What crap.
Add me to the list of users looking for Circle app to be natively supported on an Orbi Router RBR850. I would think a $700 product like this would have parental controls.
I also purchased these "flagship" Orbi RBR850 and I have SCREENSHOTS of the parental controls in both the app installed on my phone and the product spec pages on Netgear's site. Those features magically disappeared a few months after I purchased the item and I still have no parental controls.
I'm feeling LETIGIOUS! Time for a class action IMHO.
My original post along with images that show their questionable advertising.
PC is on the way and is forth coming to the 7 series first I believe, then 8 series:
