Idea Exchange For Business

ALL FIRMWARE should be updated. More info: https://betanews.com/2017/10/16/krack-wpa2-security-vulnerability/ ... View more

I would like to request the addition of a 48 port switch to your insight cloud switch lineup.  We currently have the 28 port switch in our school district which is great but a 48 port would better meed the needs of education environments.   ... View more

Per Subject. I was lead to believe on the forums this was already available. I had consumer orbi and just spent a large sum of money for a srk60 thinking this was here. Will this be coming? ... View more

Dear Netgear(community) As of right now VLAN is unfortunately not supported by the Orbi Pro. For two reason I think a device aimed at SMB's and marketed as PRO should offer this. 1) My Provider (TM Malaysia, Unify) requires VLAN Tagging on my WAN Port. e.g. vlan.500 for Internet PPPoE (other VLAN ID's for IPTV, etc. but that's irrelevant to me). Right now I am forced to use a managed switch as a workaround. A hassle I would like to avoid. 2) To my understanding right now my 3 Networks (Admin, Employee, and Guest) are isolated on MAC level. This is too much of an insecurity as a common address space is shared. Looking forward to you recognizing the necessity of upgrading your system to match requirements of the very SMB's you are currently marketing your device at. To support that this is not just a request of relevance to myself, I would greatly appreciate if others affected by it would just hook on! Best Regards Ben   ... View more

I have read on the other forums that with the Orbi Home, people have been able to register more than 3 orbi sattelites. We will need 4 at our small business. Does anyone know what will happen when I try and register the 4th satellite? All will be using ethernet backhaul. If this is not supported, Netgear really needs to allow more than 3 sattelites. Especially when they are all using ethernet backhaul. ... View more

Please consider using HTTPS for the web management of the GS1xxE line of switches. Especially the smaller models need a secure way to configure them as there are no real replacements for in-field deployments outside special technical rooms where is no room to fit an entire rack into...   As the current state of security of many of the embedded or IoT thingis is sub-optimal it is crucial to prevent login credential sniffing via other pOwnd network devices within the same subnet.   Thanks, Stefan Seide ... View more

Can we get the software to be supported on MAC computers? ... View more

Please ensure NTGR does publish the Letter of Volatility (LOV) along with the product support download pages. We see that requests for LOV are taking reasonable bandwidth in the community support, temporary file downloads will be enabled with valid for a few days only. This makes the replies virtually useless, because the download is no longer available. So we see requests for the same product LOV again, or we get new posts. All this can be avoided...   Thank you for consideration!   Regards, -Kurt  ... View more

These Plus switch web interface can only be accessed from the default VLAN 1. This is restrictive. Could a future firmware include the ablility to access the web interface from all defined VLAN's on the switch and not only VLAN 1. ... View more

Hi, is great to have the possibility to configure the VLAN management interface.   Thx! Claudio ... View more

Hello to anyone taking the time to read this.   I have close to a dozen netgear GS1xxE switches at my home and various family member's homes by now and swear by the things. Vlan tagging is a must for our various setups and these switches haven't disapointed yet.   However , when it comes to configuring them, the fact one is incapable of selecting the vlan on which the things do their DHCP negotiating forces me to use fixed IP's.   In essence this isn't all that bad. But adding this to the firmware isn't something unreasonable to ask I would think.      http://i.imgur.com/JZEvBx4.png http://i.imgur.com/p9evrYY.png   Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply. If you also think this slight oversight should be rectified please do reply. ... View more

Hello:   The GS105PE switch is a great idea and potential problem solver.  Unfortunately, due to one design flaw, it is only "almost" useful.   There are a few different switches that support PoE Passthrough on a single port.  What makes this switch so awesome is that it has two ports.  With an 802.3at (PoE+) feed, there is enough power to power two devices of common PoE types (for example, two PoE telephones).    Of course, with this its also potentially possible to plug in two devices that use too much power and end up overloading the feed port.  Fortunately, MOST poe devices out there do not have this problem.   Unfortunately, this switch is hamstrung by a design choice: the overload problem is solved by PoE class limitations rather than actual current limits.  In order to use both ports, you have to plug in class 1/2 devices, if you have even one class0 or class3 device, then you only get one.  Period.  Even if that device only wants 2.5w.   This is a more extreme problem than it appears because most PoE PE chip makers have switched to only making class 3 chips.  Thus most devices advertise class 3, even if they only need class 2.  Except for this switch, this is no issue, as normal PoE switches regulate by combined power, not class.  That's why I can get an 8 port 60W PoE switch that supports class 3.  At full class 3, that allows nearly 13 watts per port, or 104W for all 8 ports.   It appears Netgear used this worst-case design method when designing this device.  Please correct this huge oversight and just use power limiting rather than class-based limiting.  It would be fine to shut off the port output and flash the power light if the total available budget is exceeded.  Without that, this becomes a single-port PoE passthrough, not the two port its advertised as.   Jim Kusznir Palouse Technology Services (who is now returning 3 of these devices just purchased, as they are useless as currently implemented) ... View more

It would be very usefull to be able to reboot online from the interface especially when remotely managing. Being able to change the wifi power would be great too but this is more complex Hopefully in a future firmware Thanks ... View more

I would like to decide what is a major event or a critical event.  ... View more

Hi, We have recently had a security audit performed and it identified that our WNAP210 Wireless Access Points are running an old version of PHP (5.2.3) and LightTPD (1.4.18). We have applied all the latest firmware upgrades as far as we can see, but this has had no effect on the versions listed.   Are there any options for upgrading these to a later version of PHP, or is is time to look at replacements?   Kind Regards, Richard Ward IT Manager ... View more

We have just had smoothwall implemented and are trying to get BYOD working. Smoothwall have looked into this and stated that our wireless is not providing Framed IP's which is essential to the smoothwall BYOD system working please see notes below:    Framed -IP-Address — This contains the IP address of the client that has been authorized to join the wireless network. This attribute is essential to the BYOD service.   Could this feature be added in a firmware update? we have 2 wc7600 controllers and over 80 access points so pretty stuck at the moment ... View more

Hi Netgear Community,   Before I contact Netgear support to give feedback in regards to the quality of their wireless controllers I wanted to seek clarification from Netgear community about an issue we are currently facing at our site.   We would like to utilise the Radius accounting information generated by our WC7600v2 (firmware v6.5.1.11) to be utilised by our Windows 2012r2 NPS server. The specific attribute we need is the "Framed-IP-Address" attribute to contain the IP address of the client / user requesting the authentication. This attribute is helpful in identifying successfully authenticated clients to be simultaneously authenticated against other systems i.e. like internet filters. Some internet filters providers utilise agent software that can sit on a Windows NPS server and read the logs generated by the NPS service and automatically apply the appropriate internet access policy to the client devices / users at the moment of wireless authentication essentially providing a Single Sign On process.   After attempting to undertake this process at a site that utilises a Netgear WC7600v2 we have come to the conclusion that the WC7600v2 does not provide the Framed-IP-Address. This has been confirmed by reviewing the NPS server logs where Framed-IP-Address radius attribute is 0.0.0.0 for all clients authenticating via the WC7600v2   Thanks to previous advice on this forum, we were able to make contact with Netgear text based support and after sometime the Netgear technician, he was able to confirm that the WC7600v2 does not provide the Framed-IP-Address as part of its radius account response to the NPS (radius) server. This feature maybe included sometime in the future but could not give any ETA on its implementation; he was also able to confirm that other customers of the WC7600 series have requested this feature to be implemented.   What my site is trying to perform is something that is not to complex, I have done it many times via cisco / h3c / Aruba controllers and wireless implementations. These devices are more compliant with the RFC 2866 radius standard than what Netgear equipment is, even though your product information sheet (https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/wireless/wirelessmanagement/WC7600v2.pdf) states that the controller is complaint with this spec.   How are we meant to recommend Netgear equipment to clients in enterprise when the device does not standard up against large enterprise network equipment manufactures. I can understand something like "it will be included in the next firmware release" but when something like "No ETA at this time" it makes us feel like recommending to the site management the entire removal the Netgear wireless implementation and going for something "more enterprise".   Do you think if the site invested in Prosafe support agreement it would carry more weight with Netgear in implementing a basic feature like a more extensive implementation of the RFC 2866 accounting standard?   I hope that I do not come across as too negative in this forum thread, but was hoping to provide constructive feedback to help improve your products and the process to improve them.   Peter ... View more

The functionality of the ReadyCloud Desktop app for Mac seems still very primitive. The Sync and Backup always displays as "indexing..." and very difficult to tell the exact status ot the Sync or Backup is completed.    It would be good if the app can provide the existing speed, more instant sync status info, selective sync function and also a individual (green) mark for sucessfully synced file (like Dropbox or Creative Cloud), otherwise it could hardly be relibale to use it as a trusted source to share works between multiple platforms. However, this was one of the major function for the reason to obtain a NAS drive that could perform a private cloud service for sharing works in multiple locations.   For the deskptop app, it doesn't work to assign a Backup for external hard drive mounted on computer.    For the ReadyCloud online portal, the Backup function and button setup seems not too intuitive for Mac user.  ... View more

The IGMP Snooping Static Router Port setting on GS105PE was originally not available on that model, but it was later added after a request to add it and was provided by updating the firmware.  Our engineers will now review if it will be possible to add it on the GS108PEv3 and we need to log it as a request however we will not be able provide you an estimated time of release. We will have to wait and see it on the future firmware update of the product.  ... View more