NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

2020rob's avatar
2020rob
Follower
Jul 08, 2020
Status:
New Idea

Circle on Orbi WiFi 6

Please add circle support. I need to be able to add schedules and control screen time etc. for my children.

9 Comments

  • This feature is required and suprised that there were no options for this feature.  

  • I just upgraded from an older Netgear router that had circle and I am surprised and very disappointed to not have it supported on my new Orbi.  I relied on Circle quite a bit. Will this be implemented at some point or do I need to return my new equipment?

     

  • The parental controls on the new wifi 6 mesh systems are really bad. I agree that Circle is needed for these routers as an option as well. I upgraded expecting to have at least the same features but can't believe that good parental controls wasn't a consideration. Why am I spending so much more money to get less options? Yes, speed is important but I didn't want to go backwards with the other capabilities and functionality. Please add Circle as soon as possible!!!

  • Same!! I upgraded to orbi AX thinking that it supports Circle. If it doesn't, I rather go back to slower speed

  • Yes I bought thinking that it included Circle also, becaue we wanted a better way to restrict child usage across devices.Very disappointed that this very premium product doesn't have decent parental controls.

  • Add me to the list of users looking for Circle app to be natively supported on an Orbi Router RBR850.   I would think a $700 product like this would have parental controls

  • Please add Circle!! I'm looking to upgrade to this system but if this is not part of it, I will need to look elsewhere. 

  • I just bought Orbi RBK353 to upgrade from Orbi RBR20. From my point of view, the Orbi WiFi 6 model is an Orbi hardware upgrade.

     

    However, just note that Netgear has removed the support for Circle on this new model which I think is totally unreasonable. It is literally a downgrade to me.