Netgear is utter shit.
Yet another time finding out the high end WiFi device I paid $100 for doesn’t support something basic. Fucking miracast.
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Netgear cabled switches are decent. Their wifi equipment is... Mediocre.
The Intel card in my laptop performs better in both speed and stability, and supports miracast. It was $30. I’m going to get one for my desktop now that I’m not using both m.2 slots.
I agree their “business” wired switches are pretty decent little workhorses as long as you can get away with unmanaged. I have a 12 port that does a fine job.
Problem is, I’ve seen what Ubiquity gear can do now, so Im getting rid of everything else.
Yeah I got some nighthawks a while back. They randomly over wrote my port forwards and while the list in the UI was blank the NVRAM still had the loaded. I was stuck because I refused to reset my whole network. Better now because I just bumped my servers up a port lmao
....I agree with nostr:npub1sr92xvmaxdmqac64d9exptc2qw9wd2pwd593jhrak0raqt4njnhq50l2qw they're a rather mediocre product 😔😕
My nighthawk bit the dust after 5 months in my house. We had a smart home with over 80 WiFi devices. Developed a problem where everytime the power flickered it would issue duplicate IP addresses to devices. I had to go to the breaker box and turn zones of the house on one-by-one to keep it from getting overwhelmed.
I know that’s a lot of devices, but this was a pro-sumer level router and wasn’t cheap. I could have got an entry level Cisco or Ubiquity for the same price. (I didn’t know about Ubiquity at the time)
It finally fried itself and in desperation I bought a Google Nest WiFi Pro 6e set of 2. Flawless for a year. I don’t like the limitations of the Google gear though, which is why we’re transitioning.
At this point, I pretty much recommend Ubi or eBay Cisco stuff to my family or friends, unless they have truly low usage.
For sure have seen duplicate ips as well. Seems like they still don't test firmwares before pushing 😂
I have a Netgear router that is an absolute rockstar.
The original firmware was slow and horribly buggy, but I quickly re-flashed it with https://www.OpenWrt.org
Which isn't to say OpenWRT never screws up, but its #FOSS and straight-up #linux so I can always fix a broken service myself, or use an alternative package.
Proprietary firmware you're just SOL without an enterprise grade support contract...
you can always go full diy. I run an openbsd + pf router on pcengines hardware. It’s been rock solid for years now. I do dread the day something breaks - I’m far less interested in building routers these days.
I went Ubiquity. Fell in love with it at work. I’ll probably get rugged someday but for now it’s one of the most intuitive systems I’ve ever used, and they’re taking their stuff out of the cloud and having it run on your hardware.
I’ll be able to RFID unlock my front door, check the cameras in my house, and remotely administer my system all without having my data in the cloud. The router even handles recording the cameras to disk locally. For a corpo, they’re doing some neat stuff.