The headaches of Netgear have me convinced. With increasing frequency I have had to reset this device and the fun of personalization to follow. A little over a week ago I noticed the strange behavior when turning on remote secure access, https. Momentarily other items would flash on the web page and disappear before being able to do anything. I wanted to hit this group up to ask what that was about, i.e. is something corrupted in the file on board?

Out of town for a few days I was happy to see it functioning when I got home, until bedtime. Alexa not responding. Took care of necessary manually. Next morning, I was unable to login, so I reset and logged in. Everything appeared fine except it said I had no internet access, yet I was able to browse everywhere, so I reset again.

This was the beginning of extra trouble because it would no longer recognize "password" or the one I created by chance. Several attempts of resets and different machines with and without internet connection including using the app. Insert long line of stars and stripes, etc. Even tried internet port 192.168.1.0.

What is the easiest way to check the power supply to see if it is failing under load?

I ask because I looked around and found I had a 5 amp one laying around with correct connector and plugged it. Reset. App connected. App allowed setup. Was able to enter with browser and reload latest update. Proceeded with personal settings, going slowly, creating backups along the way.

This is the first time I let it manage whether it be 2.5 or 5G connection.

When I got to turning on the remote connection, I got the same stupid behavior of flash then hiding controls.

Also, my Echo device has fallen offline a couple of times and that is not normal. Attached devices has been changing from Smart Plug to IoT for no apparent reason and on the edit device screen is another one of those flashes that quickly disappears as the screen opens. The name won't appear correctly on this screen nor is it editable here. Also, quite often for attached devices the proper icon for device name is not shown but a place holder to click and chose load image.

I could go on, but this is obviously corrupted software whether it was sloppily written or otherwise it needs fixing. HELP.

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