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Pissed about the Nighthawk app
I own an R8000P which is "supported" by the new Nighthawk app. Problem is, the new app doesn't DO anything. I was forced to update to it on my phone (when I logged into genie to pause the internet on...
Yes I just purchased a new AC3200 if I knew that direct Parental Controls was removed, and replaced by a service called Circle at £45/year. I would not have purchased it, in fact I still thinking about boxing it up sending it back, even my old router at £29 had parent controls for free.
1 star router will be going on web site.
Cdh321 wrote:
Yes I just purchased a new AC3200 if I knew that direct Parental Controls was removed, and replaced by a service called Circle at £45/year.
Circle does not replace Parental Controls. Both still exist. What is broken is the use of a mobile app to manage Parental Controls. You can still do it with the browser interface. (Hint, you may be able to use a browser on mobile devices instead of an app.)
Maybe the app can manage Circle.
Cdh321 wrote:
even my old router at £29 had parent controls for free.
So does your R8000. I presume that what you have is the R8000 in your footer. Or maybe the R8000P. (AC3200 is not a Netgear model number: it is a label that Netgear, and others, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds.)
There is support for the R8000, including a manual, somewhere at the end of this link:
>>>>> R8000 | Product | Support | NETGEAR <<<<<
See the section Set Up Parental Controls.