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AX6000 RAX 80 print server absent!!!!!
Why is there no print server feature on that router?
It is like if a ferrari was not provided with reverse gear!!
What is wrong with that picture????
schumaku wrote:
aalexandrebeta wrote:
Why is there no print server feature on that router?
Because it's not in the specifications, it's not implemented, not part of the offering, not part of the product - nothing to complain.
Remind me to write a complaint letter to Elon Musk that the Tesla X hasn't.any differential locks while my 4x4 Pinzgauer has three.
This is not on specifications, not implemented not an excuse, a 20 Y/O modem routeur is still able to do thet so, so it should be implemented directly to the standard specifications period.
I complain because it should go like the safety belts on a car!!!!
A good old cheated software VW is greener than a Tesla X!!!!!
The more tech you put in a car the less reliable it is!!!
The RedyShare USB print feature is almost obsolete and given up by Netgear. Look at the poor maintenance of the required code to run it from Windows or (even worse) MacOS. A nightmare on it's own.
Today's low cost printers have Ethernet ports or at least a WiFi client.
Time to abandon the incomplete and unreliable USB ReadyShare for crappy USB disks, too: A router isn't a NAS. Why you ask? Netgear failed to keep things up to speed - WSD (WS Discovery) is stil not implemenented, however it's the Windows 10 set industry standard.
Back to the roots of what a router should be and have: Configureable firewall rules for Internet->LAN, provide services like a local DNS, ... and much more. This is what I want to see today on a consumer router. Not legacy features like NetBIOS discovery/name resolution or USB port sharing.
The more garbage features Netgear does put in a router the less reliable it is!!!
Proof enough - just look around these communities. It's safer for Netgear to go back to the roots, removing what's not required on a router.
> Because it's not in the specifications, [...]
Which "the specifications"? I seem to see it in the RAX80 Data
Sheet:http://netgear.com/images/datasheet/networking/wifirouter/RAX80.pdf
Sharing
READYSHARE (R) USB ACCESS-Wirelessly access & share
USB hard drive & printer via two (2) USB ports
Which part of "& printer" is unclear (or absent)?
> The RedyShare USB print feature is almost obsolete and given up by
> Netgear. [...]I'm willing to stipulate that all Netgear USB-related file- and
print-sharing software is garbage, but that doesn't seem to stop Netgear
from advertising it.angry and not agry!!!!
antinode wrote:
> Because it's not in the specifications, [...]
Which "the specifications"? I seem to see it in the RAX80 Data
Sheet:Amazing - after not finding anything related in the marketing Web pages and the User Manual I must admit I've stopped searching and missed the Data Sheet - a resource I'm usually checking when it comes to the business products feature availability.
antinode wrote:
I'm willing to stipulate that all Netgear USB-related file- and
print-sharing software is garbage, but that doesn't seem to stop Netgear
from advertising it.Only a part of the data sheet information has made it to the marketing information - and the effective product. While I could life without, some users apparently can't.
Altsai ChristineT Christian_R any insight of what is (again not) going on with Netgear? Also ref. the WS Discovery feature which is key to the Windows 10 interoperability without having your customers breaking some legs and having to add legacy SMB 1.0/CIFS and NetBIOS features, lack of automatic local LAN DNS, the ability to configure a local LAN DNS servers overriding the router/ISP DNS - just to mention a few which are de-facto industry standards on many consumer and SOHO routers?
Hey I am the lst one not understanding aalexandrebeta frustration - see my email where I have announced ceasing from helping Netgear consumer customers from last night - because Netgear does obviously fail sticking ahead of the competition - not just with latest technologies and a lot of bells and whistles in the marketing.Netgear must go back to its roots, the respect of those who are feeding and helping them to improve their products!!!!
They must have hearing or reading problems!!!!
schumaku I agree with you!!!!
If they do not act to solve their management issues I will go elswhere where the grass is greener!!
Thank you for pointing out the error in the datasheet this will be corrected. As for Readyshare print, this is not a feature currently on the RAX80 but is something you can request over on the Idea exchange board that I posted below.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
Thanks
DarrenM
Sorry Darren, this is a joke. There are users in the field using these ReadyShare USB Printer 8USB sharing) features - what reason exists to abandon the support on the leading edge Wi-Fi 6 product line? Yes, I understand (to much) about Kernels, drivers, software developemnet, crappy USB device handling on SoC garbage platforms, and much more.... If I coud get my fingers to a RAX80 and RAX120 I might be able to tell you. But for some reasons, critical community members are not supported and provied with beta test hardware in time. And no way, I won't buy any consumer stuff: Certainly not Wi-Fi 6 platforms known to lack of features which are key core features of Wi-Fi 6.
PS. FWIW the RAX120 Data Sheet does also list the same feature. Shame on the Netgear so called product "management". I had fired them years ago due to ignorance and lack of market knowledge and tech understanding - that's yet a new reason for one way tickets to Timbuktu.
