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RAXE500 - Missing Circle support / comprehensive parental controls
From what I've found online, both the RAX200 and RAXE500 routers sport the Broadcom BCM4908 processor, and my understanding is, is that the only really major difference between the RAX200 and the RAX...
Your not going to see someone from netgear "commit" to a timeline. To many things impact rollouts of added features.
And it might not seem like much of a change but the underlying drivers from even broadcom are changing regularly on the RAXE500.
The RAX200 is coming up on its 2 year anniversary of release versus the RAXE has only been out a couple months. Usually netgear gets a device stable and running well before adding complexity to it.
Maybe Altsai has more details and the time to chime in.
Understandably . . maybe "commit" is too strong a word. They've said it's coming, maybe they could give us a year and quarter it'd be released in?
I've done some embedded work myself and understand some of the issues working within a vendor ecosystem like Broadcom or Cavium (now Marvell). Maybe I can't see the bigger picture in this particular case, but your argument (to me) is somewhat analogous to not being able to use something like iptables . . because of a network driver tweak . . which makes no sense to me, respectfully.
The RAX200 and RAXE500 units both are essentially using the same guts (sans the 6ghz radio) . . so your comment about the release dates of the units really doesn't make any sense to me either. You have a solid platform and software stack developed and evolved in the RAX200 that I'm sure the Netgear team used as a springboard for the RAXE500.
If there was some instability that introducing the 6ghz drivers produced, I just can't see why you'd pair back functionality like Circle, but that could certainly be my lack of understand on how that specific feature works and the hooks it uses (e.g. how low level does it get).
Things could have also been rushed to be able to still show the RAXE500 off at CES and other venues too.
I'm not asking really for all the details from Netgear, but just saying we'll give you this feature when we get to it, isn't a good answer at all in my humble opinion.