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New admin design/functionality
Dear Netgear, While I absolutely love the performance of my Ultra 6 in terms of speed, I find the admin webpage on the device (and frankly, on your routers too) to be very much sub-par. It's slow, ...
Oh I certainly prefer stability. I'm absolutely not suggesting Netgear goes the way QNap went (sorry QNap, just hearing a lot of bad things about your firmware). I'm also not saying Netgear copies the interface of Synology's DSM. I would just like to have an upgraded interface that makes use of the capabilities of modern browsers.
Synology is getting hundreds of positive reviews simply because their admin works so incredibly well. It shows they've put a lot of effort in. Even novice users are able to navigate it, where Netgear's admin is a maze of buttons and checkboxes that causes novice users to go into panic mode.
It loads slow, it feels cloggy. The design is horrible, it's made to be fixed height to fit 1024x768 screens. Sorry, but that's not been practice for years now. I've got two monitors of 1920x1200 pixels, why are you not allowing me to use this? Why am I getting scrollbars in a very small box when there's 600 pixels of empty space below where the page could scale to?
The web interface on the new Duo and NV looks promising, but since I have an Ultra 6, that's not much use to me (this sounds a lot more grumpy than intended). Please understand that I really would not want to get rid of my Ultra6 in favour of a Synology simply for the admin. I just wanted to say that I'm disappointed with the ancient feeling of webinterfaces on Netgear devices. My WNDR3700 is by far the best router I've had in years, yet the admin screen again feels as if I've landed back in 2001 with frames everywhere. Being a webdeveloper myself, I might be a tad more naggy about these things.
In the end, I'm just hoping that the web UI will be of such quality (both technically and in UX design) I can show it to people who might be interested in buying a NAS. At the moment, I would just scare them to bits.
Synology is getting hundreds of positive reviews simply because their admin works so incredibly well. It shows they've put a lot of effort in. Even novice users are able to navigate it, where Netgear's admin is a maze of buttons and checkboxes that causes novice users to go into panic mode.
It loads slow, it feels cloggy. The design is horrible, it's made to be fixed height to fit 1024x768 screens. Sorry, but that's not been practice for years now. I've got two monitors of 1920x1200 pixels, why are you not allowing me to use this? Why am I getting scrollbars in a very small box when there's 600 pixels of empty space below where the page could scale to?
The web interface on the new Duo and NV looks promising, but since I have an Ultra 6, that's not much use to me (this sounds a lot more grumpy than intended). Please understand that I really would not want to get rid of my Ultra6 in favour of a Synology simply for the admin. I just wanted to say that I'm disappointed with the ancient feeling of webinterfaces on Netgear devices. My WNDR3700 is by far the best router I've had in years, yet the admin screen again feels as if I've landed back in 2001 with frames everywhere. Being a webdeveloper myself, I might be a tad more naggy about these things.
In the end, I'm just hoping that the web UI will be of such quality (both technically and in UX design) I can show it to people who might be interested in buying a NAS. At the moment, I would just scare them to bits.
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