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Forum Discussion

Virtuoso

May 22, 2017

Solved

Netgear Data Collection

https://hothardware.com/news/netgear-adds-data-collection-to-r7000-router-firmware Any opt out? Mdoerator please find out. Thanks.

Troubleshooting

ElaineM
May 24, 2017
Hello everybody, here is our latest update regarding Router Analytics Data Collection.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-New-FW-v1-0-8-34-Data-Collection-and-Analytics/m-p/1289325/thread-id/57863

Guide

May 22, 2017

Netgear has put up a support page for enabling/disabling the data collection:

https://kb.netgear.com/000038661/How-do-I-Enable-Disable-Router-Analytics-Data-Collection#

Unfortunately, the page Netgear points at (router update page) doesn't have the said options. I didn't find other pages in the firmware with the options...

ringlord
Apprentice
May 22, 2017
See also this topic :
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-quot-Router-Analytics-Data-Collection-quot-Options-Grayed/m-p/1287480

Data collection (and the option to disable it) was only introduced in FW V1.0.8.34.
This version is not available to everyone yet (it is rolled out gradually by Netgear)
You are probably on an older version that does not have this option yet.