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A great idea: Act Upon Ideas!
Here is a good idea.... Do something with the user-provided ideas listed. At least acknowledge them. Try to show you care about what your customers think, want and need in terms of capability. You currently have 330+ ideas -- many of them simple and excellent -- provided directly from your customer base. So far a grand total of ONE (according to your website) has been implemented. 329+ to go. A batting average of .0021 would have you thrown off any professional team. If you cant act upon them, at least remark why. Letting them languish on your website doesnt build consumer confidence. I submitted a simple idea many months ago -- that is easily implemented -- with several user endorsements. It remains listed as "new" Reference: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/Orbi-needs-ability-to-turn-off-radios/idi-p/1706190 I suppose if you wait long enough and do nothing, the idea becomes unsupportable when the router becomes unsupportable. Thats also an Idea.
realtime bandwidth monitoring by device
It would be great if you could see realtime bandwidth per device for the netgear r7000, similar to Google Wifi and Eero. It would be a really useful info and diagnostic tool to see what devices are currently taking up bandwidth. It would be great if this was added to the router web administration page as well theNetgear Genie and/or Netgear Up apps. I've attached a screenshot of how this feature looks on Google Wifi.Feature request: DNS privacy
While it's great that we can designate our own DNS servers on the routers, instead of just using the ones provided by our ISPs, it would be even better if you could integrate DNS-over-TLS and/or DNS-over-HTTPS into the firmware. This would allow us to query DNS servers (e.g., Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or Google's 8.8.8.8) without our ISPs being able to monitor our requests, giving us confidentiality from our ISPs and anyone along the path between our LAN and the DNS server; without our requests being able to be changed, ensuring integrity in the replies; and without having to run a separate service or piece of hardware on our networks for this purpose, increasing availability, at least from a certain perspective, as not everyone has the resources or ability to run their own local DNS server capable of using one of these two standards.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.Homekit for Routers
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/03/homekit-will-securely-store-videos-in-icloud-explicit-router-support-coming Apple has partnered with multiple manufacturers to bring Homekit management to routers, considering Orbi hardware is sold directly through the Apple store, it seems kind of strange that Netgear has not hopped on this bandwagon. This feature would be extremely useful for Homekit users with Orbi systems.Orbi needs ability to turn off radios
It would be useful in the GUI (and perhaps app) to have the ability to turn off specific wifi band radios temporarily. As an example, turn off the 5g radio. This would be useful in setting up IOT devices on a mobile device that may default to 5g, but the IOT device needs 2.4! By being able to shut down the WIFI radio temporarily, you could set up and then reenable. I have seen the Telnet commands to do this, so I know it is possible. Just a matter of implementation.Firewall Rules for Internet/WAN -> LAN on IPv4 and IPv6, LAN -> WAN/Internet for IPv4 and IPv6
Amazing Orbi, Orbo Pro, Nighthawk Routers, DSL Routers, Mobile Routers have service blocking (only for IPv4 why ever) - limiting the LAN -> Internet access (why ever somebody want to do this) but there is no control to manage firewall rules for Internet/WAN -> LAN. When can we expect a workable UI ot manage firewall rules for IPv4 and IPv6 LAN->Internet and Internet/WAN->LAN please? And then support for a ISP changing IPv6 prefix (ie. if the ISP does change the IPv6 prefix because they use rapid deployment (6rd) where the prefix is linked to the IPv4 address. And every time a user is seeking or this the Netgear mods reply to use Service Blocking - what of course does not work for WAN/Internet -> LAN. AbhayB NaderAAllow SSID Disable on Orbi RBR850
Please add in a feature to disable SSID broadcast on the Orbi Tri-band RBR850. The stated reason of "you don't need it" is clearly contradicted by the number of people who have been asking for it, and I can't imagine it poses any sort of software/firmware design obstacle (the response is basically "we don't want to", rather than something with justification). As many others have stated, it's security best practice to make it as difficult as possible for a malicious actor to gain access to your system; stopping SSID broadcast is similar to creating a dummy Administrator account on Windows - it may not stop a determined actor, but it will stop bots and random people from finding their attack vector as easily.
