We have a GS108Ev3 and a Nighthawk X6 R8000.
GS108Ev3 has this famous 80-port 10Mbps issue, completely useless.
Today our X6 R8000 broke down. I factory reset it, then the 192.168.1.1 web page keeps redir to https://www.routerlogin.com/start.htm, which is 404. now it is a electricity wasting brick. hopeless crap.
I’ll fire any employee buys netgear again.
Can confirm. Switched to TP-LINK.
There is a DD-WRT image for the Netgear R8000. That’s an upgrade anyway.
Yeah, gave up on Netgear years ago because of terrible firmware. Only have Asus routers now, about the only brand that I trust to provide decent support for long enough. The Asus routers that I’ve had work well…some of the firmware releases have been buggy, but I can always revert to a nice, stable previous firmware version.
Asus are great - appreciated their work ever since their CUSL motherboards in the early 2000’s.
Only bugbear I have with Asus now is they’re “doing a Samsung” - great hardware and great support, but bloated with a metric fucktonne of shit on their firmware now that serves little other than to add another fancy line onto the box blurb.
On balance though, I’d still choose something with an Asus name.
I’ve had dreadful experiences with NetGear over the years, and I won’t put any of their gear into production anymore, except possibly a dumb network switch.
TP-Link, TrendNet, Zyxel, Cisco, Unifi. . . all acceptable alternatives, IMO.
If you want a nice solid network switch, try the Zyxel GS1200-8.
They are really, really easy to configure, especially VLANs if you use them.
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