Idea Exchange For Business

Hi, I would be very happy for this basic features : 1. Add option to Enable / Disable Led lights on the front Netgear BR500 , this is very necassary . 2. Option to Reorder the FireWall Trafic Rules , This is must . ( if you have 50 rules and you want enter something to rule 10 , you have to remove all the rules and add it again , this is very painfull )   Many Thanks. ... View more

Firmware  V5.10.0.3   The old FVS338 had all of the below features and worked great.  I'm surprised and very disappointed they are missing from the BR500.   Custom services are always enabled unless deleted.  An enable/disable check box on each service would be very useful.  Currently you have to delete the custom service to disable and create the custom service from scratch to enable.  This extremely inconvenient.   There is a severe security problem with port forwarding custom services.  Open ports are exposed to the whole world.  The ability to limit port exposure to a specific external IP or a range of specific IPs would solve this security problem.  It is extremely important to implement this safeguard.   ... View more

Given that your entire product line of ProSafe Smart switches only supports up to TLS 1.0, I'd like to suggest that you start working on making TLS 1.3 available.   Especially, since TLS 1.2 has been around since 2008 and you should really be embarassed that your business line of switches only support insecure communication methods.   ... View more

I recommend that Netgear allow the Orbi Pro models to the ability to disable wifi radios at user's option for the following reasons:   Simple update for Netgear/Orbi - Currently, Orbi software allows wifi radio strength choices of 100%, 50%, 25%...they should add an option for 0%/Off.  It woudn't cost Netgear anything to provide the 0%/Off option as it only requires a modification to an existing field. It provides the User the option/choice rather than Netgear/Orbi making the choice for the user.  Netgear/Orbi should place security as one of their highest priorities, and providing this option would reflect that as ethernet-only wired systems are generlly more secure than wifi.  Netgeat provides this option on almost all of their other routers, so why not provide consistency and allow this as an option and give the user the same flexibility as other competing routers such as TP-Link, Linksys, and Asus. Consequently, I don't understand the resistance to doing so as it's an easy fix, increases security, and provides users the same option they have with other competing routers. Since you already provide an option for radio strength down to 25%, why not add an addtional selection for 0%/Off? Some users only use wifi occaisionally or alternatively would like to occaisoinaly diable wifi for security and/or interference reasons, and such an option would allow users to so turn it on when needed, and off when not needed. Wifi is not as secure in dense city areas and sometimes creates interference with other devices/systems, thus it would be prudent to allow the user to have the option to disable the wifi radios when needed...just give the user the choice. ... View more

The Management VLANID can only be changed from the IP Configuration page by opening the devices local web portal. It would be great to be able to change the VLAN ID for Management from the insight portal. ... View more

Please change the local device login page, to contain the device name. It would be immensely helpful to ensure I am logging into the correct device. Right now you only display the model in the right corner. ... View more

Hi,   Please add SNMP support on the GC510PP , to monitor this device. Smaller devices do have SNMP support, but this more expensive model does not have SNMP support. I think SNMP support for managed switches is a MUST have, since they are used in "enterprice".   Kind regards,   Tim ... View more

I've just added a GS108Ev3 to my network, to add to an existing GS116Ev2.  I am very disappointed to see that the 108 does not support a port description field which is present in the 116.  Can this not be added? ... View more

This item is sold as a complete and easy VPN, however it is somewhat misleading as the Netgear Insight VPN does not do NETBIOS over VPN.   This needs to be impletmented ASAP   This has apparently been requested before and has not happened, looking at the box, it does not advise anywhere that this is not possible and this is a basic requiement of the VPN.  As I have two of these units and bought twenty licenses for 3 years I feel somewhat cheated on this.   Can someone please investigate this? ... View more

Feature Request,    i allready spoken to the support team of netgear if its possible to set the fan speed in the M4300 , this is because the switches are installed in a House,    Maybe anybody a solution of the developer team?   Kind Regards, ... View more

Please look to add Port Description naming to the gs305e managed switch.    With lots of devices and switches using  port numbers is cumbersome..  names would be more efficient to manage. ... View more

I have two requests, 1) Being the most important and 2) being less important. 1) Per attached device real-time bandwidth monitor. Consider the scenario that a connect device is utilising too much bandwidth and slowing other users. You can’t easily identify the culprit at present. 2) Historical bandwidth and traffic stats, per attached device. Allowing you to identify large upload and downloads, etc., and View usage patterns. Thanks for the consideration. ... View more

You have kindly updated the firmware on the GS748Tv5 to not require java for device view.    Can this also be done for the GS110tp managed switch please?   Many thanks. ... View more

I need to set dhcp option60 (Vencor Class Identifier) on a VLAN in order to get my IPtv working. Is this possible on  the Orbi Pro? ... View more

As the core of LAN, L3 switch really needs DHCP reservation, which is indispensable. It's well-known that switch is the most stable hardware in network. It's more likely for a bare-metal server goes down than a switch does. If M4300 has DHCP reservation feature, we can transfer the DHCP server from a PC to the switch, which could enhance the stability and convenience for management of the network significantly.   At present, in "System-Services-DHCP Pool Configuration", I have to create ONE "manual_pool" for EACH MAC-IP mapping. It's REALLY tedious and boring. I think you can add at least two features to improve the situation.   1. Re-design "System-Services-DHCP Pool Configuration-Type of binding-manual" in the web-gui, and allow people to add multiple MAC-IP-GATEWAY-DNS-NETBIOS mappings to one 'manual_pool'. For example: https://i.loli.net/2020/04/03/lotb2NgSHzwpqIL.png  In this way, users can easily add or remove records by clicking the '+' or '-' button ahead of each line.   2. Add a new command to load an external text-based datebase which contains all the information stated above from a USB flash drive or tftp server. In this way, users can create and modify the text-based database using their favorite text-editor and then upload it to the switch.   It would be great if the developers can add the features I stated above to M4300.   Thanks a lot.   ... View more

I've upgraded from FVS338, which is EOL, to BR500 (currently the only option, and a very decent one!), and the feature that I've lost in translation is the option to provide WINS server address via DHCP to Windows host. The FVS338 had it, but BR500 does not. The WINS server is a necessity absent a domain, which is a common situation for a small business workgroup type network, especially given that the domain may be in Azure Active Directory, well under their free limit (moving in that direction). It may look like a weak justification, but most little businesses run on Windows, the locally hosted domain controller (expensive Windows Server!) is no longer even required for user directory, and a WINS server is an integral networking component in such a network. It would be extremely nice to have this option back! ... View more

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

It would be great, if there is a feature for the BR500 and WAC540 to allow us to change the client name, which we can then recognize as to which devices are on the network, etc., through the Insight Application and also on the admin page and to have a feature as well on these two devices to have parental controls as well, if businesses are using it for their work, whilst working from home, etc. Also, another suggestion of a feature under "Block Sites" in the back end of the admin page that you can just type "Pornography", "Explicit Content", which it will block all sites internationally on the website, instead of us having to mention the "Keyword and Domain Name" on it.  Businesses would like to have it as well, because they want their employees to work safely on the network, etc. Lastly, it would be great if the WC540 could be supplied with a Power Supply in the box as well, instead of purchasing it separately. Thank you. ... View more

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