BR500 and WAC540 On-Going DOS Attacks and Feature Requests

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Retired_Member wrote:

For blocking websites, support https,

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Insight and the Insight manageable WAP and WAX have URL filtering supporting https, kind of at least. It's not capturing the effective Web traffic, but the plain text DNS query. Clients using encrypted/secured DNS will bypass this with ease.

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Retired_Member wrote:

and block all pornographic websites.

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This would require some strong service allowing classification ...

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Retired_Member wrote:

Include a feature wherein the traffic generated by the device is shown in the logs.

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Often requested on Netgear's consumer routers, Orbi Pro and BR500...

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Retired_Member wrote:

...to have an inbuilt system to allow anyone to click on any countries, which they would like to block people from accessing any sites from that they think is not suitable because of the international crisis, etc., which would block all traffic and sites from certain countries, such as China, etc.

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Country or region based firewall for outgoing and/or incoming connections, is missing kind of.

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Retired_Member wrote:

Implementing a strong firewall and anti-DDOS attacks by preventing us from being attacked by Tencent and it's software applications manufactured by them, which has been causing the on-going DoS attacks.

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Hard to do much on the CPE or local router level ...

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Retired_Member wrote:

...it would be great for all the Netgear devices (BR500) to have the new WiFi 6, ...

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The first Wi-Fi 6 access points are already available with the WAX610 and the WAX610W. Reminder: Wi-Fi 6 is made for concurrent usage and performance, not for the highest speed.