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*Extended* - New NETGEAR Community Relaunch Hardware Giveaway
We are giving away some awesome NETGEAR hardware just for checking out our new Community Pages! While you're at it, we hope you'll take our survey and tell us what you think. Or, just give our NETGEAR Community Relaunch thread some love. Update 7/24: Entry period extended to Wednesday 07/26/2017 Update 7/26: New entries are now closed. We will announce the winners soon. Please visit the AMA - Ask Us Anything about NETGEAR ReadyNAS for a chance to win a ReadyNAS 214. Good luck! Update 8/1: Congratulations to: WMRAWLS - Winner of the NETGEAR Nighthawk AD7200 Smart WiFi Router BillYoung - Winner of the NETGEAR Orbi AC3000 RBK50 Home WiFi System Here's what we're giving away: 1x NETGEAR Nighthawk AD7200 Smart WiFi Router 1x NETGEAR Orbi AC3000 RBK50 To enter: Simply login or register for the NETGEAR Community and leave a quick comment in this thread below. Let us know what prize you are excited about and how you would use it. Only one entry per person will be considered. If you enter more than once you may be disqualified. We will choose the winners on 07/25/2017 (Entry period extended to 07/26/2017!) by random chance. Winners will be contacted by an administrator of the NETGEAR Community. Good Luck! NETGEAR Community Relaunch Hardware Giveaway Official Rules
Support for Linux clients and OPENVPN on R7000 or any other Netgear router
Althought the R7000 router has support for MAC and Windows clients when using the Netgear R7000 OPENVPN built-in server, it does not support Linux as a client. See the following link: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-VPN-Service-TAP-or-TUN/m-p/1002408#M20691 Currently I am running the latest "supported" firmware version: V1.0.4.30_1.1.67 as of Nov 10 2015 There is a great number of Linux users and not being able to take advantage of the OPENVPN server in the Router seems to be a big limitation/oversight. I personally purchased this router because of the fat that it had a built in OENVPN server, so that I could connect my Android and Linux devices to my network. As I discovered after purchasing the router neither of these platforms are supported. It seems that IOS and Android support is coming, but no plans to implement Linux. It may be possible to manually configure a Linux client if Netgear would publish how OPENVPN is implemented. I understand that this would not be "supported" by Netgear, but for those of us who have some technical skill we could possibly implement it and make it work for our needs. Providing information such as and not limited to the following would be very useful since OPENVPN is open source software: Tunnel Device (TUN/TAP) Protocol UDP/TCP) Port number (1194 -> official port, or another port defined by Netgear) Encryption cipher (None, blowfish, AES-512/256/192/128 CBC, etc....) Hash algorithm (SHA1/256/512,MD4/5,none, etc....) TLS Cipher (none, AES-128/256 SHA, etc...) LZO Compression (Adaptive, yes/No, none) Authority/ Password usage TLS Auth Key usage ? PKCS12 Key usage? Static Key usage? ns-cert-type server ? Is access limited to the local network, to access the internet only, or to both local and internet? etc..... This post is essentially to ask for Netgear to provide the following: Implement a Linux client file and instructions on how to implement it for the various distributions of Linux. Provide comprehensive documentation on how OPENVPN is implemented in the R7000 router or any other router that has an OPENVPN server built-in.Nighthawk R7000 Traffic Meter Monthly Limit Increase
Please update the Traffic Meter feature for the Nighthawk R7000 to have an increased Monthly Limit that can account into the Tbytes. Comcast as an ISP has began to implement data caps at 1024Mb which equates to 1048576Mbytes but the Monthly Limit field only allows me to enter 104857Mbytes, missing the last digit which is significantly less than the data cap. Given that Comcast is monitoring the traffic it should be available to impose limits and monitor traffic independent of Comcast. It is very important this feature be added. Currently running V1.0.7.10_1.2.3 firmware. This was mentioned in the forums and it was suggested that this be submitted at this location in that post. See below; https://community.netgear.com/t5/VPN-Firewalls/Bugfix-Request-Increase-maximum-monthly-limit-for-Traffic/m-p/1185320#M6496 Original Post "This in regards to the Traffic Meter monitoring function of the SRX5308 VPN Firewall. However this would apply to any device in Netgear's product lineup that monitors the amount of IP traffic per month. Currently the traffic meter can set a monthly traffic limit of up to a maximum of 256000 MB (~250 GB). However, this is insufficient for those who are using Comcast as an ISP where the limit is set to 1 Terabyte (1024 Gb). Request that the montly traffic limit setting be adjustable in the Terabyte range." Reply "I advise you to post your concern as feature request in the Idea Exchange Board for Business here. Be reminded that the community members who will give kudos to your idea will help as the development team will be reviewing the post that has the most kudos and it might be considered to be added on the future functionality of the product."
Switch it up and go Faster! Win a Nighthawk S8000 Switch
Ever wonder why even with awesome broadband your 4K YouTube videos can stutter? Or that sudden lag spike earns the other team a win? You might need a Nighthawk S8000 switch and we are giving away an S8000 to one lucky reader right here. To enter - reply with a message telling us where you'll use your Nighthawk S8000 Switch. Entry Period 8/9/17 – 8/15/17 Update 8/15/2017 - Entry Period now closed. Thanks for entering! Update 8/21/2017 - Congratulations to Robb5001 Enjoy your Nighthawk S8000 Switch! Learn more about The Nighthawk S8000 switch. Although it looks advanced it is easy to use with user-friendly pre-configured one-click optimized settings for gaming, media streaming, and standard networking, plus two customizable user-defined configurations. Just Plug-and-Play out of the box! Expert users have the option to configure through the mobile-friendly web GUI. -Good Luck! Register to post and enter Official Rules Here are a few videos that will help you learn about and setup a Nighthawk S8000 Switch.
Put timestamps on Nighthawk Log messages first, in sortable format
Putting the timestamps at the beginning in some sortable form, e.g., YYYY-MM-DD;HH:MM:SS.ttt, would allow the logs to be collected from the various mail messages and returned to their original ordering and saved in a log file, DB, NAS folder, etc.
What is the AT entercnd password?
You can connect via "telnet 192.168.1.1 5510" to gain access to "AT shell" which responds to various AT commands, e.g. status or band selection. "at!entercnd" is the command for band selection but it needs a password. What is the password? It's not any of the common ones it usually is.
