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Whipsnade
Dec 28, 2021Aspirant
RAX45 issues
I recently acquired an RAX45 — Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX4300 WiFi Router and am generally happy with it. I've noticed 2 issues. (1) The Block Sites function doesn't seem to work at all. The User...
- Aug 29, 2022
Apparently the Block Site function is basically vaporware. According to the manual it won't work for any https address. Since pretty much everything is now that makes it a worthless function.
microchip8
Apr 26, 2022Master
I can't speak aboout Block Sites (never used it) but I strongly disencourage doing automatic firmware updates. It's a disaster waiting to happen for a bricked router.. Always download the firmware from NG's site and manually do a firmware update
Whipsnade
Apr 26, 2022Aspirant
Thanks for reaching out. Have you actually had the firmware autoupdate brick a router for you? Have others reported an issue with autoupdate?