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Add Circle by Disney to the R9000 AD7200 router
Please add Circle to the R9000 Nighthawk X10 AD7200 Quad-Stream Wireless Router. I selected the R9000 because it had enough hardwired ports to connect to my existing wired network and the 2Gbps port agregation was a bonus for connecting to my Netgear ReadyNAS. However, for some reason NetGear has decided to abandon those who purchased their flagship Nighthawk router and are offering Circle only on there less expensive models. Also, just to add some confusion, if you go to the R9000 product page, there are references to Circle on the page under parental controls!Blocking HTTPS sites, truth vs lies.
Let me be clear and say that my knowledge is limited, no one knows everything about computers. I am fairly new, I have only been programming since the 1980's. Yes, I did look and yes, I see that the same issue has been brought up many times. I also keep seeing the same lame excuse that, quite frankly seams like a lie. I am going to call BS on this, ask the question again, and see if we can't get somewhere with it. The lie: "HTTPS pages are encrypted and the router can't see the content, hence, it can't block access to HTTPS pages." This same excuse keeps being used. This tired statement starts out true, about being encrypted and not seeing page content. It is also true that the ability to block the page, based on a scan of the page content, could not function. However; that claim fails to be true when it is used as an excuse for not blocking a domain name. The truth: The URL of an encrypted page is NOT encrypted or it couldn't be routed to its destination. Currently, there is no reason this router shouldn't be able to block HTTPS pages by applying the filter to the domain name. I understand that a URL mask can be applied server-side and HTTPS encryption used to hide the true destination. Yes, I know there are work-arounds for crafty programmers/hackers. That said, applying the filters to the known URL would allow a significantly effective block for many things. When we are looking at router level filters, we are not talking about national defense or stopping a truly determined expert hacker. Given a little opportunity, I doubt 1 out of 10,000 people would be able to keep a novice hacker out of their personal computer. That said, it would be most helpful to many of us if Netgear would simply apply the filters, we have already input, to the URL and stop the average person from simply typing https://facebook.com and getting what they want when we told you to block facebook.com. Ok so the next suggestion at this point might be to use the Genie app with the parental controls. That simply isn't an option. For reasons I will rant about in a future post, the Genie app is itself a security breach and not viable in its current design. So, no more lies please, even if you can't filter HTTPS pages by content scan, at least implement the filters on the URL so we can effectively block most of the things we don't want getting through. I do feel strongly about this and will not apologize for my tone. I am not a networking expert. If there is something I am missing, will someone PLEASE explain it to me because I have yet to read an explanation here that made any sence. Thank you for your consideration.Expand Disney Circle Compatiability
I'm excited to see the integration of Disneys' Circle platform in the netgear devices, but the supported devices should be larger; especially under the nighthawk brandname. I'm using the Circle device today, but in a limited capacity; only 2.4GHz band support, loss of 5GHz band use, and no inspection of wired connections. I would like to leverage this tool across all mediums and integration is the only way to acheive it without hardware changes. I'm sure both the X4S and the X8 have the resources to handle the additional workload.Ability to import VPN Provider Profiles (ie ExpressVPN, Nord VPN, etc)
It would be nice if Netgear actually had an option to use the roters as a VPN client like ASUS allows, with the ability to import profiles from VPN providers like ExpressVPN, Nord VPN and others. Also the ability to bypass VPN for certain devices would also be nice. ASUS routers with similar CPUs & WiFi chipsets offer this on their routers which are also priced lower. If you are going to charge premium prices over your competitors features like this shoud be there.Administer Circle from PC
Just installed and configured the new AC1900 R7000 Nighthawk router. I bought it for the parental controls. So far so good, it does what it is supposed to do. However, I can't tell you how much I dislike having to use my phone to administer the Circle application. I'd much rather use my PC with the full size screen. How hard can it be to provide a web interface in addition to the app. It's a major draw back to the product.parental controls not blocking P2P
Hi, I host a weekly Meetup and have my parental controls to block P2P sites. Unfortunately, someone from these Meetups is still able to P2P inappropriate things, which is causing me to get "Copyright Infringement" notices... Am I missing some other configuration step? I thought about blocking the sites they are visiting but I'm not sure how to find out what these sites are. Is there some way to tell what websites are being visited during my Meetups? The notices I get don't give me what website is being visited, just the name of the file and the method (i.e. P2P). I appreciate any advice/help any one can give me... Thanks.
