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R7000 firmware updates not being announced or detected by Nighthawk app or routerlogin.net
I bought an R7000 in 2015 and for many years received regular email updates from Netgear announcing new firmware versions. Also, if I logged in at routerlogin.net or used the Nighthawk app to check f...
You can find a detailed description of the automatic update mechanism in the Vulnerability overview section at https://iot-lab-fh-ooe.github.io/netgear_update_vulnerability/
If you check the entries in the file https://http.fw.updates1.netgear.com/r7000/ww/fileinfo.txt
it looks like Netgear hasn't updated it recently with newer firmware version.
GregGreg wrote:You can find a detailed description of the automatic update mechanism in the Vulnerability overview section at https://iot-lab-fh-ooe.github.io/netgear_update_vulnerability/
If you check the entries in the file https://http.fw.updates1.netgear.com/r7000/ww/fileinfo.txt
it looks like Netgear hasn't updated it recently with newer firmware version.
GregGreg To be fair, most router owners who would venture onto a forum would never look at information buried in links in pages they probably won't find anyway, because for many, it's just technobabble gobbledegook. I highly suspect that most router owners who come to forums such as this, don't ever read the router manual and so have little idea about their kit anyway, evidenced by the repeat after repeat after repeat postings on this forum from folks who won't even use the forum search engine or Google for answers, they just want answers there and then without doing any of the research. None of this is in any way aimed at the OP, it's a general observation.
If Netgear (and other tech companies) are going to do firmware updates, then they should be absolutely crystal clear what it is they have changed in ordinary language people can understand and make that information super easy to find.