Well, here we go again! Folks, do not update this doorstop to 1.4.2.84 without copying down on paper ALL your custom settings and stuff because you will likely need them after you update and hard reset and hard reset and clear caches and reset browsers and start trying different settings and cuss for 20 minutes and hard reset and re-flash and.... until you realize the crap update is....crap! Good guess! LUCKILY!! Before you pull your hair out and before updating, download the firmware that IS working (last version for me) so you can flash the thing back to the firmware that worked.
My issue: Everything "appeared" to work correctly for initially and you start going to your critical websites when then appears the sad face....DNS ERROR...CAN'T FIND THE SERVER. Went to a Ally bank website, logged in, saw my accounts, clicked on Billpay link and....DNS ERROR...CAN'T FIND THE SERVER AT billpay.ally.com (roughly). THEN....some websites would show the same error, click refresh a dozen times and then it would "find" it and load. Quicken downloads will error out with the unable to connect to the internet, check your address, blah, blah, blah. I flashed to the last version that works just fine, for me 1.4.1.68. Tested quite thoroughly afterwards and everything that IS wrong with 1.4.2.84 was working fine in 1.4.1.68. I'm on very stable fiber system (plenty speed and bandwidth).
NetGear, quit calling these things UPDATES and UPGRADES because the only thing that DOES go up is my level of anger, frustration and irritation . You have ALREADY screwed the pooch with that 1.4.1.50, of which I received a new replacement for, and now this "update to upgrade". Tired of being your involuntary Beta tester!! Crap!
