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I understand that a developing product needs updates. Sometimes these updates require changes to what data is expected for an element of the settings config. As a customer, when a firmware update i...
The current config backup tool is horribly deficient and nearly useless. Maybe I didn't clearly outline the problem in the first post. There are far too many examples, such as this one:
netgear developers have a bad habit of making changes to settings options that effectively break your "backup" and make it unusable. It seams that netgear refuses to take responsibility for messing everything up and they keep coming back to the same recommendation, "factory re-set and start over". This link is a perfect example of a case where the developers screwed up the code, broke our config backups, and now they expect us to re-do everything from scratch. These cases are precisely why netgear needs to provide us a viable tool-set to fix things when they break them. A human readable config backup is where this begins. As I have said in the past, if the netgear developers think I am going to manually write down page after page after page... of settings and start over from scratch every time they break thing, they are sorely mistaken. I would sooner throw their pile of s--- off a cliff and pony up the cash for a professional router. I would think that providing us the tools to fix the things they break is the least they could do.