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MR60 Backup settings don't backup
Netgear. Are you TRYING to f up?! I've backed up all my reserved up addresses. And what happens after a full reset, and I've restored my backup file? Nothing! The backup backed up exactly NOTHING. ...
My backup didn't work either. I don't use reserved IP's, but I tried to save my setting from an old firmware to apply to a new one. Since many people say to do a factory reset after any router firmware version change, and it seems dumb to need to setup the router from scratch every time.
And I can't just read the backup file to confirm it has my settings as it's a binary file (or looked to be the one time I opened it in Notepad++).
Sadly money talks. We need to stop buying their products if we don't like how they "support" us... The people on this forum are great, but I VERY rarely see anything from Netgear proper. And often the help here is to work around weirdness in the product.
I'm 99% sure Asus routers are my future solution. I like the sound of their AiMesh feature (haven't tried it yet), and there are community modified firmwares you can flash (Merlin).
I'm suffering the same fate. I had what I thought was a good backup, but every time I try to restore from factory and restore from backup it fails. It looks like it's going to work, but it doesn't do jack. Nothing.
This is a major failure. What good is the backup and restore functionality if it doesn't work? Now I have to set up everything all over again. Not just on the MR60, but also on my devices that I had set up VPN on as well.
Add to this the fact you can't choose your bands on your 2nd network (guest network), and this stuff is just junk. Returning both sets to Costco and buying ASUS.
BTW, the model MR60 doesn't even show up in the list to post on these forums. Are these things even supported?
So, I found an older backup of my config and was able to restore from it. So it appears that the latest firmware (V1.1.6.122) has an issue with creating a valid backup file, but can restore valid backup files without issue.