Idea Exchange For Business

Here in Switzerland, basically every Home has direct 10Gbit Fibre to Home. Some Providers allow to use our own Routers (Init7), some maybe are interested in a co-orperation: Salt, Sunrise, Swisscom, UPC   If you would enable LAN4 Port, which is a 10Gbit SFP+ Port, as WAN, we would all spare us Mediaconverters from Fibre to 10Gbase-T So please consider releasing an alternative Firmware (or general firmware) to select and use LAN4 as WAN Port.   Also consider to contact Swiss Internet Providers, they need good User managable Router Solutons. Market is dim here.   Thanks!!! ... View more

It would be helpful if the SRK80 router supported defining firewall rules between VLANs. This would enable administrators to allow limited access to devices in other VLANs, more precisely than "Network Isolation" on (completely closed) or off (completely open).   A common use case of this feature would be to place IoT devices such as Chromecasts on an IoT VLAN and allow personal devices such as smartphones to control these IoT devices from a personal VLAN, withouth allowing IoT devices to access the personal VLAN. An example of this use-case is illustrated in OpenWRT which is already what the Orbi Pro Wifi 6 firmware is based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvniZs8q3eU&t=310s ... View more

#PR60X Hello, Currenthy, the  pro router PR60X doesn't have the ability to manage connection trought the access control as the  BR200 or BR500.   Is it possible to implement it because the access control by mac addres is more secure and it easyer to mange it directly from the router? 😎   Best Regards Farrenard   ... View more

Hello, the DHCP server is a bit "basic". Would it be possible to integrate some Options in the BR500 router and be able to manage them in the Insight portal. This would be a great advantage to maintain small sites with SIP phones. Option 2 (Time Zone Offset) Option 4 (Time Server) Option 60 (vendor ID) Option 66 (TFTP or HTTP server in stringvalue) Option 114 (URL) Option 120 (P-CSCF address) Thank You, Edouard ... View more

Hi,   I just got a certificate which the hash algorithm is SHA256.   But my vpn firewall only allows SHA1.   Can you please fix this?   Thank you very much.   Best regards  ... View more

To enable blacklisting or whitelisting of large IP ranges, CIDR Synstax in the type 10.140.0.0/16 should become possible.   See also this post: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Hardware-VPN-Firewalls-and/BR200-Advanved-Firewall-Traffic-Rules-error-message-cannot-add/m-p/2097946/highlight/true#M11810 ... View more

I'm actually using an SRX 5308 router, which is tagged as EoL product. As there is no replacement for this router in Netgear catalog, I was wondering if a minimal firmware update implmenting TLS 1.2 (which is the minimum request for modern browsers) would be possible. So we could continue using the router and, first of all, connecting to managmenet interface via browser. Thanks in advance Luciano ... View more

The BR200 does allows for attached devices to be renamed on LAN1 but not on LAN2 if created with an additional VLAN which I have. I opened a case 44177466 where they confirmed with engineering it is not possible currently. They advised me to post the request here. ... View more

Need firmware upgrade, if possible, for SRX 5308 to add SHA-256 or higher signature algorithm to meet PCI compliance. If this is not possible I need to know so I can replace hardware with compliant hardware. ... View more

I use IPSec VPN and Open VPN on my new BR200 routers. I understand there is a VPN Light on the hardware, but it doesnt turn on when having a VPN connection. I guess its a relic from the BR500 series. Either way, it would be great if I could see a visual representation on the hardware when I have an IPSec VPN connection. Is it possible to get that to happen?    Thanks for your hard work, best regards ... View more

Hello, I never use "SIP ALG" in my SIP phone installations. Would it be possible to disable it by default? Otherwise, would it be possible to deactivate it in the Insight portal? Thank you, Edouard ... View more

Hello, Would it be possible to integrate the address reservation in the DHCP server in the BR500 router in the Insight portal. It would be a great advantage to maintain small sites. thank you, Edouard ... View more

Please add Traffic Shaping to the BR500.   Let admins prioritise a specific VLAN and limit or garantee a given amount of bandwidth.   For Example: WAN connection 50Mbps UP/DOWN VLAN1 contains servers VLAN2 contains desktops VLAN3 contains VOIP phones VLAN4 wifi office VLAN5 wifi guests   When Windows Updates are downloaded on the servers each day at rondom moments, users complain that connections to Office365 is slow. Also during the day users complain that VOIP calls are disconnected of audio quality suffers. Sometimes when Guests are using the Wifi, all these problems seem to happen aswell.   Solution: Create a traffic shaping rule for VLAN1: Set the priority to medium and limit the maximum bandwitdh to 30Mbps shared. Create a traffic shaping rule for VLAN2: Set the priority to medium no limits Create a traffic shaping rule for VLAN3: Set the priority to high and set a garanteed bandwitdh of 5Mbps shared. Create a traffic shaping rule for VLAN4: Set the priority to medium no limits Create a traffic shaping rule for VLAN5: Set the prioriy to low and limit the maximum bandwitch to 5Mbps per session.   ... 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

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

In the Netherlands it is common practice for residential fibre internet that the fibre media is shared allong multiple ISPs.  Different ISP's use there own VLAN tag to provide internet services.   With the BR500 it is not possible to use VLAN tagging on the "internal" LAN network and use VLAN tagging on the "external" WAN network at the same time.   I now have two options. Use the **bleep**ty router supplied bij the ISP with the BR500 configured in the DMZ or to offer up two ethernet ports on my switch to untag the WAN traffic and this is a waste of ports. So both are not the best options!   Please add the WAN vlan tagging feature to the BR500. Please buy a Fortigate (60E for example) and have a good look on how this UTM device can be configured with the option to create "zones" for WAN, LAN, WIFI or whatever and assign, physical interfaces of VLAN interfaces to a zone. Firewall rules or traffic shaping rules are then applies to the zones. This makes it very easy to add or remove subnets from a network without having to reconfigure the entire firewall! ... View more

Hi,   I want a  "release" function on UTM50 as it is in many other routers. We often do a lot of test on PDA's and tablets and the IP addresses is not enough. The test itself take maybe 15 minutes and then we take one more units and so on (we also have 5 to 10 units at the same time). The standard lease is 24 h and we have lowered it to 1 h but that is not enough for us.   A simple release function should do the trick, then we can release the units we want or just release all. This function is on a lot of routers today. ... View more

Hello,   We purchased the BR500 mainly for it's VPN functionality and the offer we got. But we are missing a feature which is crucial for any IT testing company. This is why I'm sending you this request to add the option to setup port forwarding on multiple WAN addresses.   The unit can handle a 255.255.255.248 mask on the WAN side, but there is no way in the Port forwarding to tell the device it should listen beyond it's primary address.   Can you please fix this?   With regards, Wil...   ADI Global Netgear Distributor ... View more

Many fibre optic providers in Switzerland are upgrading speeds to 1Gbps up to 10Gbps. With the current WAN/LAN throughput of 924 Mbps, the BR200/BR500 are no choice. It would be great to have a business insight managed router in your lineup to serve this market which I believe is growing everywhere. ... View more