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NGJunk
Oct 02, 2020Initiate
Netgear is/are thieves
4th Netgear router and the last I will ever buy. The first two, I was young and naive and listened to others about how great your products were. They are junk. Last two I have fought and fought and fo...
- Oct 02, 2020
NETGEAR is only good at hardware, because that's what they do. They have only a few people doing software. All other stuff they offer, including firmware & co, is outsourced to a third party that doesn't seem to care much despite being payed by NETGEAR. In fact, NETGEAR is worse in the sense that it allows such a poorly designed/implemented firmware to be used on its routers, which hardware-wise are pretty decent.
labatt
Oct 02, 2020Mentor
Netgear used to be my go to router company. Learned first with a r8000 then a r8000p that the company had gone down hill firmware wise. Sold both and moved on toward commercial side. Now have a never down network and coverage of whole house.
DeadBEEF666
Oct 15, 2020Tutor
labatt Do you mind sharing what your commercial setup is? I"m having fits with NG.. I'm on my 4th one now, and ready to dump it...