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Difference Between Netgenie app and Browser Config
Why do I need the Netgear Genie app? What does it provide that the browser config tool does not? Thanks!
There is basically 3 ways to configure the router with 'apps':
- Using a Browser and going to the URL of the GATEWAY IP Address or use ROUTERLOGIN.NET/COM.
- The Netgear Genie App for Android, Apple, and Windows.
- The Nighthawk app from Apple and Android store.
The first one has all the bells and whistles on would need to set up the router. USB for instance can't be set up on the other 2. Many more settings can be changes. Log can be enabled and viewed.
The 2nd and 3rd are 'similar' but the Genie app appears to have more capability, such and seeing the READYSHARE device and even playing media that might be on it.
The last one seems to have something Genie does not, the ability to actually set up the router. I got a new R8000 and the sticker says to run Nighthawk and continue setting up the router... A change in that NG had always said set it up using a wired connection although the MANUAL for the R8000 does says use GENIE to do it?
In any case, want COMPLETE control, open a browser and go to the URL of the gateway and you can do everything. The other 2 are more (in my estimation) for 'viewing' the status and make quick changes if need be and both can reboot the router remotely like the Browser can.
michaelkenward wrote:
Then there is the Nighthawk app....
Sure, but would you trust an application that says your router is OFFLINE for the Internet yet it both finds the router and connects to it and shows you all the limited info it can and the Internet works on the iPad? I saw this oddity with an R8000 I have now but don't remember if I did with the old R7000? Did not see that when I was testing Netgear Up beta's which it formally was but I had the R7000 active then. A sticker on my R8000 indicates that Netgear UP should be used to set it up, so I assume the app does support the R8000.
IrvSp wrote:
A sticker on my R8000 indicates that Netgear UP should be used to set it up, so I assume the app does support the R8000.
UP is dead. Long live Nighthawk.
michaelkenward wrote:UP is dead. Long live Nighthawk.
Yes, and that is what I meant. Figured out why it kept saying I was OFFLINE... I never RATED the program, just closed the prompt for it. I did this time when I tried it again and then I was ONLINE... program bug, but the Genie App seems to have a lot more features and I don't know NightHawk app really exists?