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aks-2
Aug 24, 2021Apprentice
ReadyCLOUD discover reveals more than I bargained for
I visited ReadyCLOUD, selected 'Set up a new ReadyNAS', and was a bit surpeised to see so many devices - none of which are mine. Are these real devices of other users?
jmel
Aug 24, 2021Aspirant
Based on the slow support I've seen here in the past, I don't think they will do anything very quickly, though I'm hoping I'm proven wrong.
schumaku
Aug 25, 2021Guru - Experienced User
jmel wrote:
Based on the slow support I've seen here in the past, ....
Mind you, this is a customer community and in no aspect a formal support channel under any service level.
- jmelAug 26, 2021Aspirant
Fair enough - but issues like this should certainly have a better vehicle to report. Corporations have decided that making it nearly impossible to reach a person without paying is a good idea.
- aks-2Aug 26, 2021Apprentice
There are plenty, well a few at least, Netgear official members here too, so any response would be good, even if this is 'by design with no plan to change it', or whatever. Silence is more painful 😯.
- Hawk321Sep 16, 2021ApprenticeYes it’s a customer community but the software is broken in so many ways and has no features compared to other manufacturers. Sometimes I really ask myself why Iam still hurting myself with using Netgear NAS hardware since years, over 3 different models now. It seems I have a masochistic streak otherwise I would use something which is improving and not getting worse and worse.
Maybe we all have a masochistic streak ^^- SandsharkSep 17, 2021Sensei - Experienced User
Did you complete the set-up and did your NAS then disappear from the list? If so (and I think it should, but I never really used ReadyCloud) then Netgear did not anticipate that so many would enable ReadyCloud and then never complete the set-up and has failed to warn users about potential consequences of doing so. But I'm not sure that's such a really terrible consequence unless there is a way to "hijack" somebody's ReadyNAS, which you seem to have determined cannot happen without knowing the NAS name, admin password, and having access to the network on which it resides.
- aks-2Sep 17, 2021Apprentice
This is intriguing. So, I just visited https://readycloud.netgear.com, selected add new device, NAS, and low and behold, no devices are displayed at all now. I used search, and it did show my local NAS, but surely this is now functioning entirely as we'd expect?
Anyone from Netgear here to confirm the behaviour has been changed?
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