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AMA - Ask Us Anything About ReadyNAS and You Could Win a ReadyNAS 214!
We are hosting an extended 4 week Ask Me Anything AMA for the NETGEAR ReadyNAS line of products and we would love to answer your ReadyNAS questions. Best of all, posting your question below enters you in a sweepstake to win a ReadyNAS 214 with 4x 2-terabyte hard drives. *Update - 9/14 - The Winner has been contacted - We will announce soon. Learn more about NETGEAR ReadyNAS products for Home and ReadyNAS for Small & Medium businesses. Sweepstakes rules and alternative means of entry: How to ask a question and enter: In the discussion thread below post a question for our ReadyNAS team about ReadyNAS products. During the Questions & Answers and entry period: 7/26/2017 – 8/28/2017 a ReadyNAS rep will visit this thread and answer relevant questions Monday-Friday. After the Q&A is finished one lucky respondent will be chosen at random to receive a ReadyNAS 214! We look forward to your questions. Good Luck Update 8/29 - The AMA Period is now closed. Thank you to everyone for submitting their questions about ReadyNAS. Register to post your questionFlexible Mount Challenge - Win a NETGEAR Gigabit Easy-Mount or ProSAFE Switch!
*Update 9/5 12PM PST - Entries for this challenge are now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated! Is your network setup “Wire Wise” or are you harboring a “Rat’s Nest”? Snap a quick photo and post it here to the NETGEAR Community and you could win one of two NETGEAR Easy-Mount Switches! To enter the Flexible Mount Challenge: 2 Entries per person possible – But, feel free to comment and joke/praise snapshots community members post here. Post a pic of your clean wire-wise cabling triumph! Post a pic of your messy rat’s nest cabling disaster! We’ll feature our favorite from each category in a future article. At the end of the submission period (September 5th, 2017), we will randomly select one entry from each category to get one of two great NETGEAR switches. Learn more about NETGEAR Easy-Mount switching solutions. Prizes: 1x GSS108EPP – NETGEAR ProSAFE 8-port Gigabit Web Managed Click Switch with PoE/PoE+ 1x GS408EPP – NETGEAR 8-port Gigabit Web Managed Easy-Mount Switch w/8-port PoE/PoE+ We look forward to seeing your submissions and comments. Good Luck! Official Flexible Mount Challenge Rules.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.
New NETGEAR Community Pages Are Now Live
NETGEAR's new Community Pages are now Live! Have a look around, check it out then let us know what you think. We would like to thank the Community for their feedback in our first live test in June. We hope you'll take our survey and tell us what you think. What's new? Dynamic design - Use it on the go! Our pages are now responsive meaning they change dynamically depending on what device or screen size or device you are using. Focused - Easy to use. We created a simplified category selector will help you find the discussion you want. The ReadyNAS and Business Solutions section has been combined into a Business section selector. Note: Arlo Smart Home Security Community will continue to take you to separate pages. Stories - Be in the know. We can now curate the best posts and are producing our own content to spotlight on the Stories Tab. If you have a great idea, tip, trick - watch soon for a way to submit your own Stories. Search - Find what you need. Tab Structure - Find out what's new quickly. Each major category (Home or Business) will dynamically update our Tabs section to show relevant content in Desktop mode. Discussions - Shows the latest post in your selected category. Solved - Shows most recent questions with an accepted solution. Hot Topics - Finds the most discussed content in your selected category. KB Articles - Knowledgebase articles from your selected major category. When viewing on mobile, click the 3 horizontal lines on the top left to choose your preferred community channel Love it? Give it some Kudos or a post a reply below! Having an issue? Visit our Community Page Update feedback thread then follow the instructions and drop us a line. Also be sure to take the new NETGEAR Community Page Update Poll. -NETGEAR Community TeamNETGEAR Community Relaunch Survey
The new NETGEAR Community pages are live and we would love your feedback. Please take this new survey even if you took it originally in June as we have made further updates. The poll should show below in an iframe, but if you are having difficulty, you can also fill out the survey here - NETGEAR Community Survey. If you take the survey, please leave a quick comment and let us know. -NETGEAR Community Team*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 RulesCommunity Pages Update Feedback
NETGEAR's new Community Pages are live and we want your feedback. We want to thank the Community for feedback from our first live test in June. We hope you'll take our survey and tell us what you think. Our new design allows for use on Mobile devices, and at various screen resolutions and sizes. You will continue to have access to your previous posts, profile and favorite categories. Please use this unified post to provide feedback for the new design. Be sure to consider the overall design, technical and formatting issues. Also, consider accessing the platform from your mobile devices. Your feedback will be very valuable as we continue to refine the NETGEAR Community Pages. Thank You, -NETGEAR Community Team When leaving feedback, you may use this format below for consistency. Issue or Comment: Device/Browser: Resolution (If known): Site Page/Section: Page URL: Feedback Comment:DOCSIS 3.1 – How NETGEAR is Blazing the Trail to Gigabit speeds over Cable Internet – NETGEAR Blog
Comcast and other providers are upgrading their systems to allow up to Gigabit Internet speeds over cable. Are you ready for the speed boost? In our latest Connected Home blog writer and Director of Product Management, Ravindra Bhilave explains the technology and introduces our two blazing fast solutions. The Netgear CM1000 DOCSIS® 3.1 Ultra-High Speed Cable Modem and the integrated solution Nighthawk X4S C7800 DOCSIS® 3.1 Ultra-High Speed Cable Modem and WiFi Router. DOCSIS 3.1 is backward compatible, so even if your provider does not have DOCSIS 3.1 yet, these modems can improve your speeds, especially on congested networks. Check out on the Netgear Connections blog. Have you updated to DOCSIS 3.1, or are planning to? Let us know in the comments below.Introducing Circle Smart Parental Controls for Nighthawk AC2300 (R7000P)
Now you can limit daily internet time for websites, apps and more. This feature has been built into one of NETGEAR’s most popular routers the Nigthhawk AC2300 (R7000P). Circle features a set of basic features like filter and history for free and additional premium features such as time limits and rewards. Enable Circle on your R7000p Today. If you need more info or help, learn more about Circle on our informational landing Page. Or visit the Circle support page. Let us know what you think in the comments below.Tips for Using New NETGEAR Community Pages
Our new Community pages are designed to be intuitive, responsive, and work on your mobile devices. We also now have a way to feature content and help alert you to new articles, updates, and products. These changes may make it a little tricky to find parts of the site you used to visit often. Here are some tips on how to use the new NETGEAR Community pages effectively. We do understand that there are a few issues with the new pages and if you encounter any, please visit our Feedback and survey threads to alert us, or make suggestions. Search Mode - Tips for searching through content Select Your Community (Categories/Boards) Mode - Tips for finding community forums Features and Tabs mode - Tips for finding featured content and stories To search – simply type in a product name, or error message then click “Search”. It will take you the search results page. Here you can also use the Filter Results box to filter for certain categories, boards and more. You can also search by relevance and date. Select Your Community – This is where the magic happens. Use the large icons on the front page to choose Home Networking, Business Solutions or Arlo – Smart Home Security. Each button will take you the respective business line. Once there, you can check out the Features and Tabs section, or click on the product category on the icons below that you are interested in. This will take you to the Category or Board page for each topic. Category page – Some Categories have several boards, choose what board you are interested in here. Board page – Board pages are for individual topics for specific product categories or features. Here you can see the conversation topics. If you have not read a topic, it will show with a small red line on the left side as in the screenshot below. Features and Tabs - This is where we can feature cool content like NETGEAR Youtube videos, stories and even let you quickly see what’s happening in the community through our Tabs section. Tabs can show you Stories – (you’re here now!) this is content by NETGEAR Community Team and soon, great posts by our Community members. Discussions – current posts in your selected business line. Solved – recent topics with a “Solved” flag. Hot Topics – Interesting topics currently getting lots of Community attention. KB Articles – populated with recent KB articles in your product family. Announcements – We post important stuff here, and it populates across the Community pages.
