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Patreek
Feb 09, 2019Tutor
Wireless Repeater Nighthawk R6700v2
According to many sources on the forums, my R6700v2 is capable of acting as a wireless repeater. I have seen a literal ton of advanced features for the router and am impressed, but I see nothing abo...
- Feb 10, 2019
I'm going to return both units and avoid Netgear all together. I honestly can't comprehend why they would include so many features I do not need on a wireless router, but not wireless repeating.
Patreek
Feb 09, 2019Tutor
This was posted by a forum mod here:
Yes, it seems to have support for VPN, DynamicDNS and wireless bridging but not repeating a signal... weird.
Unless you are a C programmer I don't see the point of using those ironic underscores like Linus Torvalds. It's like you're trying to let the world know you discovered PHP magic constants or Python's dunder methods.
antinode
Feb 09, 2019Guru
> This was posted by a forum mod here: [...]
Perhaps it was true then. Firmware "updates" are not called
"upgrades" for a reason.
> Unless you are a C programmer [...]
I do write some C, but I don't see its relevance. Your analysis of
simple, low-effort underlining is too deep for me. "ironic"? I was
trying for "emphatic".