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There really needs to be a way to adjust the time-out for the admin web page. It is a real pain to have to keep reentering the password. The max time-out should appropriately be limited, to say 10 mi...
Here is the problem I see with having a timeoute so fast. First people are going to either have an easy password that they can type really fast because they have to type it so much, or defeat it altogether by having the browser save the password, and just click the login. That defeats the whole purpose.
I have a nighthawk, and I am struggling getting a wifi printer online, and I need to make changes in the admin page then go test the printer, but by the time the printer fails to connect, I am already logged out of the admin page. It makes testing so frustrating. So what do I do? I have the browser save the password, so now if anybody gets a hold of my laptop, they can just log in to my router? How is that safer? but what if I was able to change the timeout to 5 minutes, or 10 minutes even, so I can do some testing on my network? Or even shut the timeout off completely for the testing phase? But really, It is not like netgear is the only game in town. If this doesn't get fixed, I am going to buy different brand, this is a deal breaker. I need to be able to configure my own security as we see fit.
I wonder if the people at Netgear eat their own dog food? Because I can't think of a scenario where anybody would be happy about this. I am officially entering my vote for an adjustable timeout. You can make the default 10 seconds or whatever it is, but please give the people that want the ability to change it the ability to change it. That way if people don't care or don't know how it will default to the quick timeout, but for the techies let us have some security control.
Cheers,
AC