R7000 Nighthawk Readycloud setup won’t allow read/write.

michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 15, 2018
r7000_nooby wrote:

and IMO, if there are ‘hotfixes’ then Netgear should be informing us.... just saying

Hotfixes are "work in progress". Ready for people to use, but not tested enough to release them into the update process.

If don't want to look for them, just wait until they arrive in the official channels.

r7000_nooby wrote:

And firmware should not be a condition of how ReadyCloud works.

Firmware is the software, in effect the "operating system", that makes your hardware work. Of course it affects how ReadyCLOUD operates. No firmware = no ReadyCLOUD. Broken firmware = broken ReadyCLOUD

I have been trying to get that thing to show my files/folders for over a year! And all I get are those icon symbols that go nowhere and do nothing.

What are these "icon symbols? I suspect a configuration issue at your end.

ReadyCLOUD isn't the easiest thing to set up. It requires various steps. It is hard to diagnose where things may have give wrong with so little to go on.

I assume that you have your router registered in the router.

Have you installed the ReadyCLOUD software?

Did you factory reset the thing after the latest firmware update?
- r7000_nooby
  Aspirant
  Jun 16, 2018
  http://readycloud.netgear.com/client/en/router-setup.html
  
  I have done everything outlined on this ‘netgear readycloud’ setup page.
  
  it doesn’t mention spending 40 days and 40 nights making screenshots so I can get MY settings back after a reset!
  
  And no, I don’t have ‘Readycloud’ software that I am aware of and that is not mentioned as a requirement either in the router setup nor the afore mentioned Readycloud set up page(see above). WHERE IS IT? WHY WOULD/SHOULD I NEED IT?
  
  The icon symbols I see are a neat little image of the R7000 router with antennas and another nest little image if a folder with my USB storage name under it. And as stated clicking on the ‘routrer’ to show the ‘share name’ in the right side will show the share, BUT selecting it DOES NOTHING, ZIP, NADA, ZILTCH.
  
  And I ASSUME my router is registered in the router or I would not be able to access it.
  
  i can get to the share drive via http and ftp but that only allows read, and NOT write to it.
  - r7000_nooby
    Aspirant
    Jun 16, 2018
    OK, getting somewhere, don’t know where yet as the share drive files/folders won’t display.
    
    BUT, in the bottom advanced settings is one for ‘Enable any USB device connectrped to the router’ with radio buttons for YES and NO.
    
    NO, was selected(by default I assume). I selected YES hit apply and now selection of the share name at the ReadyCloud site at least tries to,populate. Not there yet but closer.
    
    Funny how that arcane setting was failed to be mentioned in ANY of the Readyckoud setups I could find.
    
    i have made a backup,of my settings. And maybe will try the reset thing if it still,doesn’t populate the share drive at the ready cloud site.

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R7000 Nighthawk Readycloud setup won’t allow read/write.