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morrijas
Feb 06, 2026Tutor
Netgear said I need to pay for premium service for my router to work
I just got off the phone with netgear, they told me since I did not pay for premium service and security which is $300 on top of what you pay for the router it will work again, they said the new firm...
morrijas
Feb 06, 2026Tutor
Cable modem is ok and replaced but this all did not start until netgear put out new firmware, if I have to replace my rs700s with the extra I have in the box will be last resort and it is a pain hooking the 4 media bridges and all the WiFi stuff but I will put in the ssid the same and password the same so most will hookup easy but not all do but if I do have to use last resort I have it, I get like a ack-rts in the logs on the router now when it goes down, remember this did not happen at all before the firmware update, i am not to smart on the ack-rts i have no idea what that does