Attached Device Names

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Isamu6791 wrote:

First of all, in order to change the names in the attaached devices you have to do it through routerlogin.net. 

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I can also edit names and change icons with the Nighthawk app on my various Netgear routers.

But I have an R7000 and an R7800.

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Isamu6791 wrote:

in addition, the name changes must be without spaces.

This is not my experience. I have many devices with spaces in their names.

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Isamu6791 wrote:

Now, the proble is the Nighthawak app, it does not reflect the name changes done through routerlogin.net, instead it shows the default names and there's no way to make them match.

This is not my experience. I have just changed several names in the app and then confirmed that they stick in the browser graphical user interface.

What is the firmware version on your R6080? That can influence what you can do in the GUI and in the apps.

I should add that 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 support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer Internet services and most modern network hardware. This may not matter to you, but be warned that it will hobble you if you ever sign up for faster Internet. It also slows down whatever is going on in your local network. Newer devices support 1000BASE-TX.

It probably doesn't make much difference, but the right place to talk about the R6080, and other non-Nighthawk routers, and to see what other people experience with it, is here:

General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk) - NETGEAR Communities