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This reply will solve TWO Issues pertaining to Mapping a Windows Network Drive to your USB Connected Drive on your Netgear Router. This posting applies to ALL Netgear Routers utilizing Shared USB Win...
This posting is from the author of the original post above. As of mid-OCT/2017 the Netgear Website lists updates for most of the current router models dealing with the SMBv1.x Issue described above. The beta solutions originally sent to me for testing by Netgear confirmed to me that the R8500 and the R9000 series routers have been "fixed". Please take the 3 minutes it will cost you to update your router firmware now. And please verify that you have indeed DISABLED SMBv1.x (NO Checkmark) in your Windows OS as per the instructions in the original thread of this posting. I have not encountered any issues with SAMSUNG or LG Smart TV's using files served from the Netgear Routers using Cable medium or WiFi, even with 5GB Plus 4K files.
SOLUTION: UPDATE ROUTER FIRMWARE NOV/2017
While I agree with your sentiments and the failed SMBv3 package is ludicrous (released for R7800 but limits the size of the media files on the external USB drives to just 2GB) I think this was a beta that should not have been released, who knows. Now your overly patriotic American stance is a little over the top, many countries produce great firmware, and its an ugly premise to suggest only Americans can sort this out, as it does insult other people from other countries with equal and greater skill sets. Also the firmware is actually written in Taiwan not as you put 'in tents in India by "experts' which to be honest is verging on being racist, India once again is not inferior to the US in programming skills. Netgear do need to sort out their firmware and address how these mistakes get made urgently, but your post and in my view it's racially provocative stance do not help at all.
When it comes to the programing of the software a device uses no country is better then another only the skill level and what people paying for them to write it are willing to spend. I find that with all the different operating systems and add on programs that the Internet even works something of a miracle.
Little along the programs that run our routers and other devices that make this world run.