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Orbi anywhere access architecture
Is there any documentation available on how the Orbi anywhere access app works? If I had some basic understanding of this I could probably solve my own problem with anywhere access. For example, Netge...
I have an android phone that I no longer use. I'm going see if works when I back home on Friday. It does not work on my iPhone 14 Pro Max or my 2022 iPad Pro.
I've found the anywhere access by Orbi works fine on an iPhone and iPad using Private Wi-Fi Address. I had an issue starting earlier in the year where setting the Orbi app to "Connect Locally" failed, even on my local Wi-Fi and only Anywhere Access worked, regardless of having private networking set not. This issue stayed throughout various iOS and Orbi app updates and only resolved itself when I nuked the RBR50 to supposedly resolve the Armor issue with Orbi, that incidentally is still present.
My Netgear account is not registered using iCloud hide my email - I wouldn't risk using this for important device or paid for registrations and subscriptions like this until it's been thoroughly debunked.
Keen to hear what insights you discover from your Orbi app debunking and API sniffing, and if Anywhere Access is vulnerable - assuming you'd make use of Netgear's vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty process 🙂 you can Google netgear's kudos rewards program or bug bounty offerings, not on par of Apple's but could pay for a pizza or two.
Of course there's this KB article from Netgear NETGEAR Mobile Applications and Apple Devices FAQ - NETGEAR Communities
Seems it would be easy enough (for now) to have the Orbi app check to see if these settigs are in a non-preferred state and warn the user the Anywhere Access feature probably won't work.
Thanks, I will try a combination of these things when I get back on the Local network later this week.
Ferrellt wrote:
Seems it would be easy enough (for now) to have.....
That is indeed a good question. One of the surprising differences between Apple iOS and Android is the capability to interact with the "lower levels" of the operating system. For example, Android users have their choice of numerous apps that display graphs of WiFi signal levels, which APs are on which channels, etc. My understanding is that Apple does not allow developers the same degree of access to system fundamentals. (Although I understand very little about "Apple things".)
"Something went wrong" just seems lame.
IOS generally doesn't allow free reign to OS internals the way Android does, but still, there's got to be some kind of error or return code from something that could be displayed. In most of the programming environments I have worked in,a filure returns a non-zero error code or something similar..
