Night Hawk AX8 web interface attached devices edit issues.

Attached Devices does have an edit capability. Some of the settings would appear to affect how the router will deal with it handles data flowing to and from that device. One of these is Priority, obviously a no-brainer. Some types of devices need a lot of attention, and some not so much. That brings us to the device identification. On the RAX80, that is done by selecting the device type from a list. Doing that should tell the router what kind of data requirements that devices needs. Unfortunately, the default appears to be network devices only.

So, you can sit down like I did and edit each device's information and continue until each one has be correctly identified and defined. Which is all very nice, except the changes I so carefully made were gone a few hours later.

I started a tech support incident. The technician did not seem to understand what I was asking about.

Netgear devotes a significant amount of webpage space to describing how these advanced routers can accommodate this growing variety of network devices. In order to do so the router must first know what the attached device is. If the attached device editing functionality doesn't work, the router's potential to handle behavior and traffic to and from these devices vanishes. This is an important issue, because plainly, this functionality does not work.

Bottom line: If the device type capability really functional, it should be repaired. Or, if Netgear doesn't intend to support this (advertised) capability, it should be removed.