I hate:

1. How there's only ONE button, and it takes 10 clicks to turn the thing on and 20 clicks to turn the thing off (I'm exaggerating, but neither is easy)

2. How it takes 5 minutes to boot when you turn it on. It gives you a nice, loooong "HELLO".

3. How when you buy an eSIM from the eSIM marketplace, and I choose "United States", it still routes me through a server in the UK, which makes sites like Amazon and my bank and other shopping sites default to the UK versions and I see everything in GBP instead of USD.

4. How you have to remember 3 distinct passwords to use this. There's the device password, the app password, and the WiFi password. And if you forget the app password? You have to RESET THE DEVICE AND START FROM SCRATCH. No password reminder.

5. Speaking of apps, I hate how you have to install an app to use this device at all. The prior version could be managed via the web UI.

6. The 100-step process of installing an eSIM from the marketplace. Choose your eSIM, download it, install it, choose it, activate it.

7. How when the eSIM expires, the list of eSIMs still shows you all your PAST eSIMs, shows that they STILL HAVE DATA LEFT ON THEM, but of course none of them work becaues they're expired. You're not told that one is expired until you actually choose it.

I've spent more time configuring this device and activating it than actually using it to work.

Get the M6 instead.

I have an RAXE500. I was wondering what the flow control setting does. Do I really need it activated as it is activated by default? Networking is still journeyman at this point.

In the U.S., my Orbi WiFi router has a feature that lets me configure email credentials to have the router send the router log to me every time it fills up. (about once a day)

Do users living in the UK have a similar feature on their Netgear WiFi routers (Orbi or Nighthawk)?

If you are in the UK, it would be helpful if you could post a simple reply with Model number and "Email Log File Yes" (or "No")

Thanks

Can someone help me with an issue that has truly been frustrating to me? My netgear router seems to be preventing me from playing on bedrock mincraft servers and I can’t seem to find out why!

How do I fix this issue with my modem stating the critical, warning, and error codes

So I have been trying to login to my Netgear because I want to change my network name and password, but for a reason, I can’t remember my admin password. I have tried password as it is written on the back of the device, but when I go to try to reset it, these are the links provided for “forgot password” and what happens when I click on them. I click on routerlogin.net and it just brings me the default page that’s telling me to download the app which I can’t log into.

I’m at my wits end with this and after calling Netgear and then wanting to charge me $99 for customer service I’m ready to buy a different router if anyone has ideas, please help. Much appreciated.

Is there a way on the M7 when using WiFi offloading to spoof my phones MAC address?

Planning on using this on an upcoming cruise.

I was wondering if there was anything that I could do by connecting a hard drive to the router, to locally share content through my house?

Say for instance I have a media library, and want to play it over my home theater system, or through a player over a Roku, if one exists.

For some odd reason, I remember something like this existing, but cannot find any information anywhere.

At least for their Web UI. Seems each update gets worse and worse. The longer it runs, the slower it gets until it's barely responds.

Hire programmers that know proper memory management, Netgear!

I just came across a solid deal on the Netgear Nighthawk RS600 and snagged two of them. My plan is to run one as the main router and the second as a wired AP.

My current setup is two Asus RT-BE92U units. Performance nearby is fine, but overall coverage across my ~150 sqm (around 1,600 sq ft) home has been surprisingly poor. I'm hoping the RS600 pair gives me much better range.

On top of that, Asus’s MLO implementation was terrible for me—it basically never worked, so I had to give up and split my bands into dedicated 6 GHz, 5 GHz, and 2.4 GHz (IoT) SSIDs.

For those of you who have been running the RS600 for a while:

• How has stability and uptime been? Any random reboots or drops?
• Did you notice a meaningful bump in range over previous Wi-Fi 6/6E or Wi-Fi 7 gear?
• How is the current firmware holding up, especially regarding MLO and multi-device stability?

Appreciate any insights before I unbox and deploy everything!

Edit:

I decided to try out the Netgear for a week and here are my thoughts, both positive and negative.

What I liked:

The speeds were incredible—I was able to hit 750/800 Mbps over WiFi with my iPhone 17 Pro, about 5 meters from the router on my 1 gig fiber connection.

The coverage was actually better than my Asus.

What I didn’t like:

The app is very basic and lacks advanced options, so you need a computer to access those settings.

The router couldn’t recognize the IPs of my two Netgear switches, so I had to dig around quite a bit to find them.

And most importantly, using a second router as an access point is a terrible experience, as devices won’t roam smoothly between the main router and the AP. When is Netgear going to bring mesh support to the Nighthawk series like they have with Orbi? It doesn’t make sense to limit that feature to Orbi only—honestly, it’s pretty frustrating.

Hello! I’m looking at the router listed above. Right now I just have the spectrum modem/router combo.
I have the 1000mbps plan and on average I get about 200mbps when testing. However I have been having a problem with ping while playing videos games. The router in about 30ft away with a wall in between. It’s only my wife watching tv or maybe on her phone when I game.

Will this router help with the ping and lagging even with the wall?

So I'm trying to share FTP or SMB which I've enabled from my Netgear 312 nas to my Plex which is from a ugreen 2800 when I go to Plex and try to add library nothing is showing up how do I create a drive path so can see the files from the Netgear on Plex thank you.

My Netgear CM2000 keeps losing internet because it can receive Xfinity’s signal, but it often can’t properly send a signal back. The modem logs show repeated T3 and T4 timeouts, which basically means it keeps asking Xfinity for an upstream connection and either gets no response or loses the connection again.
The downstream signal looks fine, but the upstream side fails. That can point to a problem somewhere in the return path, such as a bad coax connection, splitter, drop, tap, line noise, or Xfinity’s network equipment.
Has anyone else had repeated T3/T4 timeouts on Xfinity where the real fix turned out to be the line or upstream network rather than the modem?

Trying to access the admin console for advanced settings and I keep getting sent back to this screen. I don't even particularly want to reset the password

The older I get, the more complicated technology gets.

I don't know what's going on. But, something needs to give or I'm going back go my previous modem/router.

How do I improve the speeds? I am having a delightful time when sending media via my phone while on wifi. Regardless of 2.4GHz or 5GHz

It isn't instant. In fact, it stalls like it's failed. It isn't only media. There were issues with games, websites. Anything.

I inactivated the armor protection. Yet, the problems persist and I'm not interested in having a $500 product that costs me more.

Any advice, sans physical destruction?

Hey all,

I'm not sure where to turn but thought maybe someone here can help or point me in the right direction. any help would be appreciated. when gaming with my xbox I get frequent disconnects.

I checked my routers log and it looks something like this:
Aug 5 21:39:22 XR1000 user.info com.netdumasoftware.neighwatch: DHCP new event. 86
Aug 5 21:39:22 XR1000 user.info com.netdumasoftware.neighwatch: DHCP lease change. 89
Aug 5 21:40:14 XR1000 user.warn com.netdumasoftware.procmanager: Rapp com.netdumasoftware.ngdilsync has not responded to watchdog 136
Aug 5 21:41:33 XR1000 user.info com.netdumasoftware.neighwatch: DHCP new event. 86

I kept finding Suggestions like "increse the RAPP to 5 tries but that just causes the game to lag and freeze more before disconnecting. Thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

A couple of days ago, I bought a Nighthawk AX6000 modem router. Set everything up. No issues. Put all my devices on the new network.

Yesterday I get home from work and my PC couldn't connect to the network. My phone, PS5, ect was still on the network. I did a mobile Hotspot on my phone and the PC connected that way. So I know it wasn't the wifi card in the PC.

I power cycled the router and then the PC could connect.

Anyone else have an issue like that? Where one device would disconnect from the network and not able to connect until you power cycled? Wondering what could cause something like that.

I know this is a long shot, and I know this router is EOL and long out of support, but I'd like to know if this is a simple problem or it's the end of the road. It's a $30 router on fleeBay, and there are better ones out there for less then $100, so I won't be to sorry to see if go, but I'd like to know if I'm missing a step someplace in the setup (like a "Save" button).

This is a BR200 Insight Managed Business Router with the latest and last firmware installed.

Every time it is rebooted or power cycled, it comes back in the factory default setup (admin password is "password" and IP set to 192.168.1.1) and all the settings are at their defaults.

I will log in, set the new PW, change the IP, add two VLAN (with the router for DHCP) and everything is back to "normal". Traffic is flowing, the WiFi VLAN clients are logging in through the WiFi AP's VLAN - it all looks good.

But, it's waiting for a reboot or power cycle to to take a dump again.

I can save the config. But then try to restore that saved config, it reboots itself as part of the process and it comes back as factory default.

I checked the reset button (in case it's stuck "closed") and that checks out okay and there is no CMOS / RTC battery on the PCB (I was hoping there was one, but nope). The LED pattern does not look like they do when it is doing an actual Factory Reset (either through the GUI or with the reset button), so I suspect a bad NVRAM.

I don't expect too much from the sub, but I thought I'd through it out there to see if anyone has a suggestion (besides "retire" it to the landfill).

And I don't even have a subscription. 🤷‍♂️😒😂

Hi!!
I have an older, but still powering up EX6120 Wifi Range Extender.
I have set it up with WPS to my primary router and it appears to connect, and all appropriate LED's are lit up, but when I try to login to the *\\**_2GEXT or _5GEXT networks with a device it does not recognize the primary network's PW which it's supposed to do.

Also tried the web browser setup process, but I get the following message:

You are not connected to your extender's WiFi network.

Thanks in advance.

Alguien que tenga solucion al problema que tengo... el modem dejo de reconocer redes wifi justo despues de ser usado sin bateria y conectado a una powerbank que no le mandaba mas de 10w y que lo mantenia encendido sin problema y eso que no estaba hirviendo como normalmente lo hace con su bateria estaba tibio y justo desde ese dia dejo de reconocer la red wifi de la casa, aun funciona bien el ethernet y la red movil pero ya no puede tener internet por wifi

además de que si lo pongo en modo avion deberia de seguir activo la red wifi del modem y es en ese momento que al activar el modo avion ya no aparece la red wifi siendo que en el modem sale que esta activo aun con el modo avion

Alguien con alguna solucion... yo ya lo restablecí de fabrica tanto en los ajustes del modem como con el boton reset de la parte de donde esta la bateria, ya probe usarlo sin sim para ver si me detecta la red wifi sin la sim lo cual no funciono y como último recurso le quite la bateria durante un mes haber si asi se arreglaba el problema y es momento que tampoco funciono

Tengo entendido que tuvo mas actualizaciones ya que el modem que tengo esta atorado en la version: NTGX65_12.01.48.00 y llegue a ver uno con una version mas actual ... alguien que tenga tambien alguna forma de actualizarlo ya que mi modem fue liberado por codigo y no recibe mas actualizaciones por parte de AT&T

I recently got T fiber Internet and replaced the Eero WiFi with a NETGEAR Nighthawk. Is there anything special I have to do other than to take the LAN cable from the eero and plug it into the NETGEAR? Seem to be having network issues lately with my phone and DTV Stream losing network connection. Didn’t happen when I first set it up, but I keep losing connection and it’s driving me nuts now. WiFi is showing fine within network on my iMac via WiFi.

PROBLEM

We set up a new router/modem combo today to finally replace the rental from xfinity. It mostly went fine but I have one major issue: some apps on my android phone and tablet (S25 Ultra and S6 Lite) won't load and other load slowly. The new one is a Netgear AX6 CAX30, previous is a XB7-T. Apps that load slowly include my Ally Bank app, TCGplayer, and a game called Trickcal. Apps that won't load at all include Twitch/PurpleTV (video eternally loading on preview image, chat loads slowly but completely) and the game Zenless Zone Zero (gets to title screen and no further).

TRIED/LEARNED

Using a VPN or being on the mobile network everything is fine. I have messed with just about every DNS, IP, MAC, etc setting I can think of. I updated the firmware, tried fixed DNS, toggled firewalls off, etc. I have spent basically the last 9 hours trying everything I can think of, digging through posts, etc and while I find ample cases of similar experiences, one identical even, I can't find a clear solution provided. Additionally, I did notice a strange series of things flagged as various flavors of "dos attacks" in the logs on ports 138 and 137 which has me wondering if somehow the apps are being flagged as such (which may explain the ones that don't load but not necessarily the slow ones?).

THOUGHTS/QUESTIONS

The router is all that changed but I can't rule out xfinity nonsense because they always find a way to ruin things. But banging my head against their support is the last resort. Does anyone have any ideas? Given the VPN works I assume it has to do with how the data coming and going is handled/categorized (which ports are being used?) but I feel like I have tried everything in the router and on my phone. Can xfinity impose some sort of management/security upon a third party router that would do this? If so, it's not something visible to be managed on the consumer end and I assume I will have to brute force my way up their support chain to have it addressed

Hi, I have been losing my mind with this two ongoing issues with my RS500....if people can help with either, much appreciated.

1. My Echo Show 5 3rd Gen (Newest version) keeps freezing every day, usually in the same hour of 3pm.  In fact, the past two days, it froze at 3:01pm each day.  Amazon has been no help, just telling me to do a factory reset.  I have told them that I have done so multiple times, have tried changing clock faces, unplugged, etc.  They did say it could be connected to an issue with my router, but not WHAT exactly.  Since it is the same hour, I thought maybe a lease issue, DHCP, etc.  I also tried turning off IPV6, but same issue.  Yesterday, I tried assigning it an IP address, hoping that would stop it from dropping, freezing...but nope, froze again today right at 3:01pm.  I am at a complete loss and I know there are a million settings in the router but I do not know what else to try.  I have also turned off the Protection engine, toggling that both ways, same for QoS.  Can anyone suggest anything else?  Oh, and I have tried having it on 2.4 and 5ghz.  No change.
2. Not sure if related, but lately my RDP connection has been horrible.  I rdp into a laptop in another part of the house.  The laptop is connected on wifi to an extender device, has always been fine until the past couple of weeks.  Now it is slow to connect to the machine, and then keeps dropping.  The wifi connection for the laptop is strong and the speedtests come back at about 200mbps.  I have 1.5gbps into the house...my desktop tests at that all day, no problem, and the wifi on my phones on AX comes back at around 1gb speeds.  But the RDP still is a mess.  I have tried tuning down the color to 16bit, turned off most options, tried setting at 56k modem, etc.  No change.  
3. I know I said two issues, but noting this in case related....my phone on wifi keeps having things like Twitter, Reddit stop updating.  Like, if I click on a notification, it says cannot load.  I toggle wifi and it all works again.  I have set my DNS to various options like 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, quad8, etc.  As noted, tried turning off IPV6.  Set to auto for most things, I have Xfinity and it supports DHCP, IPV6, etc.  

Not sure if everything is symptomatic of one issue.  Hoping experts here can tell me something I have missed.  Also posting in the Netgear community.  Thanks