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Can I see lease info on RBR850?
I was wondering if there is a way I can see the lease info (length, expiration) of my RBR850 router for the IP addresses it receives from my ISP (not my devices on the network)? I would assume leases...
TC_in_Montana I found what that is referring to, that's the page where you can see the IPv6 IP address of the router, etc. But no lease info here. You can choose DHCP the dropdown on the upper right, and it will show everything unpopulated, then just click cancel or click to another page when you are done. But as you can see, no lease info here.
As an aside, in a moment of insanity I turned on IPv6 again this morning - it was working great. I returned to me desk about 2 hours later, and my iPhone and iPad could not pull up a page. I disabled IPv6 (it is the default protocol), and it worked like a champ - so that quickly I lost IPv6. This is severely broken, why won't Netgear address this for us, its users (although I did see on DSL reports this comment in one of their Comcast-Netgear IPv6 broken threads, from a guy supposedly testing beta firmware:
“I just received notification that the corrected firmware for my router should be released in September. Hopefully all routers that still receive updates will also be patched. ”
Here is the status page you were referring to:
donawalt I wish I could have been more help on IPv6 lease info... still hoping someone that uses it can chime in and point you to where that information is present - IF it is presented at all.
As to the firmware issues and your question as to why Netgear isn't fixing this - I can only say "I feel your pain". The people who help on the forums (even the SuperUsers/Gurus) are users just as everyone else and we are plagued with the same issues.
I'm a retired IT guy (45 years worth) - so I get frustrated pretty quickly when hit with issues like these and don't seem to be getting fixed.
But I also know that tracking down those issues, fixing them, and not breaking something else when putting in the fix, sometimes takes a long time - and are never quick enough when people pay out lots of money for devices that aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing.
There is some 'odd' information on the Orbi 'debug' page: http://orbilogin.net/debug.htm
I have seen comments that the debug page on the newer Orbi systems is different from the page on my ancient RBR50.
Could you confirm whether IPv6 information shows up on your debug page?
TC_in_Montana I was in the IT business too! While I agree with all the realities you conveyed, the one thing I would add is if they just *told* us they are aware of the issue, it's important to fix it, they are investigating it actively, and as soon as they have some results they will let us know. Done! I can be patient, what makes this maddening is that I don't even know if they are spending any time on it. That's bad service imho.
I had a boss who once said, and I always remembered, this..."Don't judge a company by the problems they have, judge them by what they do to fix them."
