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I've gotten very frustrated wtih the "Attached Devices" list format on the R7800. With the large icons on the left hand end of each attached client entry "line", I can only get 3 clients in a full "Attached Devices" window. Since I have about 20 clients on my LAN, that's a LOT of scrolling around to see what devices are on the network, or to find a particular device. If the list of attached devices could be presented as a matrix of single lines, like is done on the Orbi in the 1.x versions; e.g. v1.12.x, I could see what devices were connected to my network at a glance rather than having to scroll around and not find clients in general. This is the way that "Attached Devices" lists used to be, a simple, compact listing, like a "detailed list" of files in the Windows File Explorer user interface, and those compact lists were much more useful to me. The giant lists with the large icons are more decorative (I suppose), but not nearly as useful as a simple compact list. I usually give each client a name when I go through the list to label each one for the router to use for client prioritization, so the icons are really useless to me, they just make the "Attached Devices" listing much harder to use.
So I propose a choice for the user...one can pick either the giant icon-style list or the compact matrix, "detailed list"-style list. So if the device icon lists are really of use to anyone, they'll still be available to them, while those of us that simply want to be able to see the "Attached Devices" list at a glance with minimal scrolling can do that.
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Please consider what the above is suggesting. Not sure who touched the Attached Devices list but they should have left the older/simple table as an option and not totally remove it. It was easy to copy/paste into Excel, etc. The pretty UI should have/always be optional as it took away a simple/effective maintenance routine. Now I have to capture the HTML page, then do search/replace and mark lines for deletion in Notepad++, etc... just to get a simple comma separated list. It was so much better for admins with previous router versions where copy/paste worked as it should.
Is this using the browser interface or one of the various genie apps?
My browser interface still delivers a table.
Yep this is in the browser UI. On my R7800 is where I see the change while older R7000 and R6700 did not have this.
See below... the option to sort by on top only changes the sort order.
michaelenward, you don't see the big tiled iconic pictures on the left of the list, you just have a text format table? I'm jealous. How did you get rid of the graphical elements in this list; e.g. the huge icons on the left that show a rendering of the type of client, along with a giant "ETH" and a picture of an ethernet port for a wired client? Which version of the firmware are you using? Or did you do something secret to get rid of the "graphics"?
Thanks!
Likely has a different router model with different UI that I mentioned... include your router model as it makes all the difference.
My R7800 is graphical --- and should be optional :)
My AC1450 is a text/html table --- which is what admins like.
Oh, good point. Since I was talking about the R7800 in my original postings, I assumed that comments would be about the R7800.
Thanks!
In general, most models follow the same pattern. What you see with one is what you get with the rest.
However, firmware also calls the shots on what you see.
If the table view dies on one model, there is a chance that Netgear is moving in that direction and the rest will follow and do the icon thing.
Not a good idea.
Come to think of it, in my recollection the desktop genie has always done icons. Given the value of mobile apps in managing networks by remote control, they too could benefit from the table model.
Then let's give this idea a thumbs up, please...
I vote thumbs up for better diagnostic access\format\display\reporting!
As an FYI to Netgear:
The only reason I will recommend a netgear router at this point is if someone needs an out of the box poorly documented open NAT WAN router solution to connect multiple XBOX systems for gaming, as long as they do not also plan to have more than a few other devices running. Netgear does open NAT exceptionally well! (and we run 3 xboxes off one now).
Please provide usable diagnostic access so we can help you sell and service your routers.
Thank you!
