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R6080 - recieved email for Firmware update
I recently received an email from seurity@e.netgear.com to upgrade my firmware, according to the email "We've Enhanced Your Product's Security. Please Update to the Latest Firmware." An image of th...
As long as that is a typo in the email address you posted, it may well be genuine.
Those mailings don't seem to be tied to a particular release cycle. Netgear just sends them you from time to time. Think of it as fancy marketing,
By the way, if you ever get an Internet service that is faster than 100 Mbps (probably faster the 90 Mbps in reality) you won't see the benefit. That is a slow router.
The R6080 is pretty well Netgear's bottom of the range router. According to Netgear's manual for this device, not always the most reliable source of information, the LAN and WAN ports support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer internet services and most modern network hardware.
Your modem is likely to have an Ethernet connection that runs at 1000 Mbps. Connecting it to a 100 Mbps router throws away a lot of speed and probably hobbles your wifi in the process.
Router throughput is not really a concern.
Few if any requirements need 1Gbps throughput. Latency may be longer but I do not play games so I do not see it. Video is fine, only needs 10MBs or so max anyway. Perhaps file downloads might suffer but again unless trying to download a movie for off-line there is no penalty. Streaming certainly does not need it. And this is so much less expensive.
Bleeding edge hardware is nice but it costs and rarely does much for the average user. I prefer to run multiple inexpensive routers in a Mesh configuration and instead get great coverage than one expensive one that likely will give me good coverage but may not. I have lots of wired locations so I can connect multiple routers.
I have a 25Mbps internet connection and I can stream, conference, download, surf without any issues. Not sure why i would want to pay more. Thanks for the thoughts though.
LexGitter wrote:
Bleeding edge hardware is nice but it costs and rarely does much for the average user. I prefer to run multiple inexpensive routers in a Mesh configuration and instead get great coverage than one expensive one that likely will give me good coverage but may not. I have lots of wired locations so I can connect multiple routers.
Gigabit Ethernet was "bleeding edge" at the end of the 20th Century. It has been pretty well the consumer standard for more than a decade. Netgear started using it in around 2009, a mere 13 years ago.
Gigabit Ethernet is now pretty well the cheapest option around. Netgear is odd in selling a couple of slower devices. Everything else it sells is Gigabit.
Any Mesh system you buy will have Gigabit Ethernet. Mesh came after Gigabit in the technology cycle. Attaching Mesh to slower devices will do nothing to improve your service.
Gigabit may well be a waste of money to anyone with an slow Internet service but anyone who has Internet that runs at more than 100 Mbps is also wasting money.