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name99
Oct 23, 2019Guide
length of name of attached devices
Can Netgear PLEASE allow us to use names for attached devices that are long than 15 characters? 15 characters is, frankly, amateur hour. As is forced capitalizing all the names that you were able to ...
schumaku
Oct 23, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Not impressed about the Netgear UI and the limited name lengths, and some attempts to "niceify" things, too. In a light attempt for defense of Netgear - and different from eg. Fing - Netgear does support and use the Web UI and Apps (Genie, Nighthawk, Orbi) on many different products. Needless to say, they failed to change the 1990ties specs on the migration from the Genie to the Nighthawk/Orbi environment - not only where it comes to the allowed length of the device names/description text fields.