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I'm a Conceptual Designer and have been working on a full range of integrated products for Home Networking Systems that may be of great interest to NETGEAR & Major Cable Providers. This system greatly reduces ‘back of TV wiring’, support calls and DIY install time and frustration. The current range of products include: Power Supply Cable Modem Set Top Box WiFi 7 Router DVR - eSata Battery Backup - UPS (Dependent on capacity, this maybe simply a battery backed alarm and status module, optionally wired to a hidden larger, 3rd party unit.) Blu-Ray DVD Streaming Box Connected Speakers Bluetooth Speakers Home Automation (Displays on TV). Home Security Service (Displays on TV) Jump Drive Interface Voice Remote Control Charging Station Smartphone / App Integration Totally new design concept. There is a long term upgrade path that ensures that new technology can be incorporated for years to come. There is a backward compatibility that allows mix and matching with legacy products There are two physical variations at price points that allow for marketing differentiation. (Perhaps Branded Elite and White Box OEM) The questions are: What am I missing? What is the best approach to pitch this range ? 1/ NETGEAR 2/ Charter / Comcast etc... as they may provide the basic units on subscription? 3/ Other.. Please specify. As this range is pre-patent, more in depth discussions maybe subject to NDA.Create a "General" topic in the forums (and why isn't my topography working)?
Oh, and allow legacy products under Associated products. I have a network topography problem that's taken me some time to nail, and describe. I got me a used Netgear M4100-26G. Not bad. God price. Works well. But I can't select it as an Associated product because it's not produced any more. Like the community can't discuss legacy products? I am also using a NetGear EV6200 as a WAP which is central to this topography problem (which I also can’t select as an associated product). In a nutshell I have a long term functioning topography as follows: Working for years: D-Link switch --- Netgear GS108 --- Netgear EX6200. The Switch is where all my LAND devices come together. The EX6200 works as a WAP and has IoT devices reporting on it. Has been fine for years. The GS108 is only there for historic reasons because a few other devices connect to it (a TV and an Xbox to be precise). These could actually be routed by the EX6200 and I could get rid of the GS108 but for physical topography and cable lay issues for now, but that is a digression. Point is that's a legacy working system I can manage the EX6200 and reach its web interface from any device connected to my LAN (via the D-Link switch) and the devices connected to the EX6200. Wi-Fi connected devices have internet access through the switch. The D-link started to play up (basically making a load of oise, likely a fan issue) so I looked quickly online for ana affordable replacement with around the 24 ports. Found a chap Netgear M4100-26G. Pretty nice working well, except for one link and only one (of the 20 odd on it). I swapped it in place of the D-Link switch and tested all my links. This one mentioned here fails. It is now: Not working: Netgear M4100-26G --- Netgear GS108 --- Netgear EX6200. I should point out that some 20 odd other services on the M41 do work. that this link to the EX62000 does not work on any of the M4100s ports, it's not port specific. So I tried an experiment. I still have a couple of Netgear GS108Ev3s on hand which predate the D-Link and were used while I could get by on them (but I needed more ports at some point so replaced them with a cheap D-Link switch). But they were still there and available as warm spares. Switched one on and tried this: Not working: Netgear M4100-26G --- Netgear GS108Ev3 --- Netgear GS108 --- Netgear EX6200. And now I can reach the EX6200 and my IoT devices are online. I can switch between these two topographies and have done serval times now because it beggars believe, and run a ping to the EX6200. The cable between the M4100 and GS108 is some 15m through walls/ The other cables are all short and under 1m. If I plug the GS108 into the M4100 the ping stops, if I plug it into the GS108Ev3 it starts I can go back and forth, with patience (as the timeout is a but long, but have established beyond any doubt that one topography works, the other not. So the D-Link worked with it. The M4100 for some reason doesn't like this 15m cable to the GS108. Is it the 15m that's to blame? Categorically not, at least 3 other lines emerging from the D-link (now the M4100) are 15 m cat6 cables that run to WAPs across the property The M4100 is happy with all those. These are all stock 15m cat 6 cables manufactured thusly. Three of them have the remote end manually patched into a wall plate. There is nothing to implicate the cable here. The M4100 is implicated. I have a workaround. But do I need to run a whole other 8 port switch just for this to work? What can I do to learn more from this, to turn into an experience gathering exercise, a learning exercise. What in the technology employed here could be causing this, and what does the M4100 offer as tools to diagnose? It does have a cable test feature (the M4100) But it's odd in the extreme as it reports failed cables that are working (including the uplink cable - to the WAN router, which is very sort running to my gateway router) and reports cable lengths that are totally wrong by an order or two of magnitude for the ones that pass. The M4100 does have later firmware available and I may try and update some time, but it's never risk free, and the web interface upload isn't working (these old boxes have among their lovely features sometimes reliance on deprecated web features, so I'll have to look a console approach). I test connectivity from a desktop using ping and trying to load the EX6200 web interface. And I have drawn the two topographies for the visually inclined and attach them.WiFi Connectivity in Driving School
In today's digital age, driving schools are increasingly relying on technology to enhance their services and operations. One crucial aspect is establishing reliable and efficient connectivity to support various online platforms, communication systems, and administrative tasks. Netgear.com offers a range of networking solutions that can be leveraged by driving schools to streamline their operations and improve the overall learning experience for students.Suggeastion for next iteration of MR80 mesh system
Its not in the above list, but the next iteration of the MR80 mesh system should include a 2.5Gbps port for interface with the multigig nighthawk cable modem, eh? I've already run SFTP CAT6A & added a 2.5Gbps switch. The leap from 1Gbit to 2.5 and beyond in residential products is way overdue, ISPs will be offering 2Gbps+ before most people can even use it.Asus RT-AX86U AiMesh
Is there any chance we are getting anything similar to Asus AiMesh that allows a seamless whole-home mesh network with a ton of older compatible asus routers? It would be absolutely brilliant to be able to use my old Netgear routers and finally set up a decent mesh network! 🥺🙏🙏🙏 (Be cool if you did)😎SNMP on RBR50v2 and RBS50v2
I had posted this as a question on the Orbi forum (https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/SNMP-on-RBR50v2-and-RBS50v2/td-p/1768958), but it seems it might be better suited here as a suggestion with reasoning, or at least as another heartfelt supportive vote for the few previous idea posts that also suggested SNMP on Orbi: "I searched the forum for "SNMP", yet most "can't do" answers are left from 2017, and since then there have been many NOs that turned into YESes by hardware/software updates. So, I'll refresh the question... The online PDF manual for RBRxx & RBSxx says, on the many pages under the title "default settings" that "SNMP: Disabled". That seems to mildly indicate that there might be a way, now or in the future, to enable it. I have just bought RBK50v2, all set up, works, happy, etc. It is a large house (I bought TWO RBK50v2!), so I am also replacing my misc ~15 year old unmanaged Netgear switches with Netgear's "Smart Managed Pro" 8/16/24-port switches. These are switches that implement the "SNMP v1/v2c and v3" for discovery & management by tools like LanTopoLog (https://www.lantopolog.com/) as well as more professional LAN mapping software (like, SolarWinds etc). So, I was wondering if the Orbi routers and sattelites will be visible in these topology maps when I am all done wiring up the stuff. I have looked at ORBI's router admin pages for settings, but nothing screamed as SNMP; maybe it is labeled as something different. I know that orbilogin.com shows a list of the devices on the network, and I appreciate that VERY much; I already spent hours properly assigning friendly names to all the devices on my network. But a list is not a topology, and the iPhone app just showing which Orbi is connected to which other Orbi via wired or wireless is also not LAN topology. I want to see what device is connected to which switch/router/satelite either wirelessly or wired, and which port, if wired. Upfront thanks for any insight about the current and future state of SNMP on Orbi. Tuna"Network multiple Raspberry PI's to run SETI
I am new to the community so please have patience. I know what I want to do is possible, I am just not sure how. I have a Comcast/Xfinity for my internet. I have a WI-FI/switch (4 ports). I ran a hardline from one port on the switch to my computer in the office. I have begun to experiment with a Raspberry PI 3. It is up and running. I am running BOINC and chose to run data from SETI. The Raspberry is currently talking to the WI-FI. I would like to add more Raspberry PI's as time and money allow. Is it possible to hook to use the hardline I have already run to a switch (probably the 16 port one) and plug my computer and the other Raspberries into the remaining ports? It is impractical to have multiple keyboards and monitors, so I was hoping to be able to use my PC as a terminal tp "talk" to the Raspberried using there ID's and port.
Secure (more) switch administration...
Can't believe NetGear support have suggested I raise this as a 'new' idea... but here goes. Can we please have a secure means of administering the above switch such that the password is not passed in clear... i.e. use of HTTPS (SSH/TLS) I know, this is just ground breaking stuff... :P The switch is marketed as an SMB switch and ironically has ProSafe in it's title. While we're at it... any chance of being able to use complex passwords on the most if not their entire ReadyNAS range? apprently that's also deemed to be an advanced and seldom requested feature...
