NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
HavinFunCO
Jan 10, 2021Aspirant
R6220 DNLA missing
Does anyone "official" know what happened to the DNLA feature? My docs show it should be available, but I don't see it. If the fuction was removed due to security flaws, that's fine. Is there a mo...
HavinFunCO
Jan 11, 2021Aspirant
If you are in-the-know, that's fine. If this is just speculation, I'm not seeking that.
Thanks for the responce.
microchip8
Jan 11, 2021Master
HavinFunCO wrote:If you are in-the-know, that's fine. If this is just speculation, I'm not seeking that.
Thanks for the responce.
it's not speculation, but the truth. NETGEAR has been removing DLNA from various models over the months to make place for Armor as there's not enough storage on the routers to integrate it so something has to go
- michaelkenwardJan 11, 2021Guru
microchip8 wrote:
NETGEAR has been removing DLNA from various models over the months to make place for Armor as there's not enough storage on the routers to integrate it so something has to go
Don't forget Circle, another money making add-on that needs storage space.
It might also be worth pointing out that the R6220 is a pretty basic router, near the bottom of Netgear's range. Not powerful enough to warrant the Nighthawk tag.
- plemansJan 11, 2021Guru
I went through 3 years of release notes on the R6220 and didn't see any mention of it being removed. the devices I've seen it pulled from have something listed under the release notes.
what issue are you having with it?
Page 73 goes over setting it up.
Also, my understanding of armor was the R6400v2 was roughly where they stopped adding it due to cpu/storage issues. The R6400v1 didn't make the cut due to those issues.
If they didn't need to add it, maybe the R6220 still has dlna.
- HavinFunCOJan 12, 2021Aspirant
I use ROKU Media Server, and it sees my PC when I enable DLNA and share the files. It doesn't see the netgear's share or the device. Guess I'll work on the assumption that it just doesn't work. I'd re-flash it with DD-WRT, but I didn't see this model listed.
Thanks for the feedback folks.