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RAXE500 How to access ALL settings on a PC???
I jsut got this outragiously expencive router in the mail today. Aftter logging in, I find there is almost no information or settings in the standard GUI. I couldn't even find the Anti-virus (Armor...
You're logging in through the browser?
have that router and it has all the same standard settings netgear has on their other routers.
What are you actually seeing?
Have you tried a different browser/pc?
I figured it out. They are just not there. It's really clear that the WebGUI was an afterthought. It doesn't even have any background. There are settings in the app that are not in the WebGUI, like the Armor settings (the WebGUI shoed it active, but wouldn't let you interact with it, whereas you could interact with it in the phone app).
It may be a fantastic router, but the interface is just so bad that it's really not worth the money. If you simply compaired it to the Asus AX11000 (the router it would have been replacing) you'd see a tremendous difference in quality and function.
For me, I needed all of the tools in the WebGUI, not on the phone. Things like the Antivirus and Firewalls were terse and some controls obfuscated. Even compairing the phone app and the WebGUI shows more of an interest in the phone that the traditional ways of interfacing with networking tools. Besides, linking your phone tags your phone to all traffic on that router; which is a huge privacay issue.
I've also noticed that Netgear is trying to trick users into moving to a subscription service for network managing. This push to subscribe to Insight is awful! The fact that I had to look up how to setup the router manually (without the phone) should have tipped me off. It's usually printed on the bottom of the router.
I've been a fan of their enterprise stuff for decades and own a lot of that. Having just bought a WAX610 and seeing, again, this push to subscription services, and app based setups creates inherent network security and privacy issues involved; having me completely rethinking my relationships with netgear.