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I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on an RS100
Sorry, i know this is a few months old, but i am curious about your comment as to why the RS200 would be better for this use case. I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on an RS100, but would like to separate my IoT devices, but still manage them with apps on my phone on my regular wifi setupRS140 Previously configured device does not connect to the Wi-Fi network.
Hi, I have my company laptop and it ran out of battery while connected to my company's VPN. It also uses Cisco Anny Connect. After recharging, it won't connect to the Wi-Fi network with my RS140 router. I've already restarted the modem and router, and removed the network from the laptop. The other devices are still working fine.Streamline Upgrade; Old NightHawk to New NightHawk
Background info - Recently received email from Netgear Support that my existing router (NightHawk AX1800 WiFi 6, serial# 689B0C7PA0131, purchased/installed March 2021) will no longer receive service updates starting May 2026. The email from Netgear Support suggested upgrading to a NightHawk WiFi 7 RS100 router. Appreciate the recommendation. Don't need to upgrade to a mesh router (small square footage building), have had excellent performance with the AX1800, would welcome upgrade to WiFi 7. I then proceeded to check on info at Netgear.com about the RS100 router. Difficulty - In order to upgrade from NightHawk AX1800 to NightHawk RS100, I will have to setup the newer RS100 router from 'scratch'. I will have to manually, configuration page-by-page, type in all my customized network configuration settings for the AX1800, one-by-one, that have accumulated over 5 years of use (lots of configuration info). The AX1800 router, if not all NightHawk routers, has the capability to output an encrypted, binary coded ".cfg" file that can be used to very quickly, painlessly, backup/restore all the configuration settings, etc, for the AX1800 -even to another AX1800 (if old router dies). HOWEVER, after visiting with Netgear chat support (both AI and human), NO such quick/easy option exists for UPGRADE of a NightHawk from an older to a newer model NightHawk (AX1800 to RS100). I cannot simply take the encrypted/binary coded .cfg file from my old, existing AX1800 (which has ALL my 5 years worth of configuration settings) and simply import/load that into a newer RS100 router (via the backup/restore feature). I realize the newer RS100, or any newer router especially going from WiFi 6 to Wifi 7, will have many, many new features/settings (ie, the .cfg file for a RS100 would probably be much, much larger and have many different, newer settings than the older AX1800). However, and maybe I am over-simplifying things, wouldn't the older AX1800 settings be somewhat of a smaller subset of the newer, more enhanced RS100 settings? Recommendation/suggestion/discussion - Would there possibly be some overlap, commonality between the .cfg files? If there was some commonality, would it be possible to have some kind of utility program that could take the AX1800 config settings in its .cfg file and 'seed them' into the proper format for the RS100 .cfg file? As to encryption, have the 'upgrade utility program/feature' use current unique encryption key for the AX1800 .cfg file to decode its info to plain text/ASCII, etc, and then use current unique encryption key for the RS100 to encrypt that info into a .cfg file for backup/restore into the RS100 (with the proper format, sequencing, etc). This would streamline the upgrade process from AX1800 to RS100 by an order of magnitude or more (mere minutes? using .cfg files versus much, much longer, having to manually by hand, page-by-page, type in settings with many, many more opportunities for errors). Surely other customers would also benefit from such an "upgrade feature" for their routers -especially if the utility program/feature could be made to work across different models for other router upgrades. I think the coding effort would be worth it for customers/end-users. If not incorporated directly or built-in for the router, then offer it for purchase as an router feature upgrade. Why not make it easier for the customer to upgrade, purchase newer models, be more user-friendly) -instead of causing the customer to spend more of his/her valuable time for setup when they have already the setup working on their existing router.
