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Can't remote to MR60 from Nighthawk app
I owned MR60 and R9000 Nighthawk. Last year, I turned on remote management on all my routers and could remote fine using web browser/nighthawk app on both devices from internet connection and my inte...
I already had linked MR60 on my.neargear.com since last year and i could use it fine until I upgraded firmware and nighthawk app, after that nothing seems to work.
And Yes, Web service management/local management, I checked for "Always use HTTPS to access router'.
Wow. This is a fix. You are the man. Unbelievable! Unchecked for "Always use HTTPS to access router' let me remote using Nighthawk app now. Curiously, is this a bug? What is the purpose of this "Always use HTTPS to access router'? Should it force securely accessing to admin console? Thank you so much.
jibjubja wrote:
Curiously, is this a bug? What is the purpose of this "Always use HTTPS to access router'? Should it force securely accessing to admin console? Thank you so much.
I have never understood why that was put in there.
Not sure that it is a bug.
My guess is that Netgear responded to complaints from people who think that every web address must have https before they will trust it. That they insisted that it was needed for local access to the router just shows their ignorance. But they screamed long and loud so Netgear added that possibility for the terminally paranoid.
Yes, there may be rare events when someone can break onto their routers, but mostly this added "security measure" just gets in the way.
Netgear really should put a warning in their telling people that enabling that feature breaks things that might be deal breakers for some users.