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Endless Router Password Reset
CAX80 latest fiormware When I go to http://192.168.1.1 or "routerlogin.net" on Chrome or Edge I see this page: Router Password Reset We can help you reset your router's admin password. You need yo...
Yes, the App shows no update available.
Unlike the web interface from a computer, the Netgear app actually works. Though its capabilities are very limited. It is pretty much a useless app.
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Yes, the App shows no update available.
Unlike the web interface from a computer, the Netgear app actually works.
Is that the on board update check?
Some say that this fails both with the app and with a web browser and the graphical user interface (GUI).
The only reliable check is through the version that the GUI reports and the library of versions on the support page for a particular device.
Though its capabilities are very limited. It is pretty much a useless app.
It's complicated. The app can remote control things that are no longer possible with via the GUI.That died for security reasons. And who wants to be messing around with browsers in the mobile app days when all you want to do is to check that your router is behaving and to control things like the wifi access?
Throw everything onto the app and it would soon become an unmanageable mess.