Netgear r6300 wifi router amazon

It was packaged in a plain brown cardboard box without a Netgear brand-name outer box. There was no manual. So I'm guessing it was used. Although the description for the. The file size for the. Very little of it made sense to me. I'm not a bad hardware geek, but a poor software tech indeed. Unless I have personal experience with it. Sorry for typing three separate replies, I don't know how to edit posts here, or if it's even allowed.

I checked the email I got confirming my registration of the product and apparently I have a different model than I thought. I just did a thorough reading of the label on the bottom of the router and it listed the model as simply, "Rv2. I don't know the difference.

I think I might be in trouble. Product initially seemed to work fine however something was done on the "refurb" by migventuresinc. I did a factory reset to be sure that there was no setting I had inadvertently set but still no results.

Also tried stepping each version of the firmware update, perhaps it doesn't like to skip firmware versions I submitted a ticket to support of both migventureinc. I'll have to trash this router as the firmware updates are needed for best security FollowUp: I definitely have been trying firmware update using both auto-detect as well as making sure on manual attempts that I was pointing to the unzipped.

NetGear had me try several other versions and methods and have the same conclusion that the hardware has been made defective by "reconditioner" migventureinc. They -with Amazon's help, sold me a defective unit and there is no recourse beyond the 90 days.

Can't really use it any longer due to the well know security risks that would have been settled by firmware After many reboots, that worked. The router now uses the latest firmware. The file one downloads from Netgear must be unzipped into its components. If you point the firmware "browse" utility at the zipped file, you will also get the invalid message and a note about it not being a chz file.

I think I used Anyway, after I performed the download, unzip on computer , update firmware by pointing "browse" window in router screen to the unzipped, downloaded file on the computer, then the router was able to automatically find firmware updates.

Is anyone able to help me translate? Presumably, the actual, complete current firmware version would be similarly suggestive. That's what Windows will say about any file with a ". It's not meaningful. Ask Charter Spectrum? Or try to follow the existing guides related to cramming generic firmware into a device with ISP-specific firmware. That might make it harder. I've never tried it, so all I know is what I read in the papers. Antinode, I apologize, I was editing my reply and you got yours in before I finished.

If the new info in the edits are of any help, please let me know. Not really. There's nothing wrong "invalid" with the current ISP-specific firmware, other than the fact that it's ISP-specific firmware. We are investigating this as the highest priority and will provide updates at Status. Join Now Log In Help. I would love to since I have a ton of info to do. But if you are going to do this correctly after having issues and expect no more, you might as well do it right. It might be worth it in the long run.

Hope this helps. Message 7 of Funny but I am seeing higher ping issues as well with. When I ping the static IP of the I'm around ms via wireless. I'd like to try the. You didn't see any ping resolution with that firmware? Message 8 of Well I downgraded to 1. I submitted a report to Netgear support. Their response "since the downgrade resolved your problem do not upgrade until a newer release is issued" Message 9 of Their answers are at best laughable if not dangerous.

In my view, it is unlikely that this performance problem will be remedied by Netgear in a future release. It is likely a driver issue and they are focused almost solely on feature-set. They would have to work earnestly with Broadcom to address is and that simply isn't going to happen. Just to share a bit more experience, I had sent a ticket in asking for an engineer to supply the recommended settings between their R and their AC USB A The response was in the spirit that "no settings on the client PC matter" which is not only factually untrue, but I can only hope not from an engineer.

The best part was the follow-up survey for my experience on their support. Why bother? Message 10 of Yeah I feel your pain. This is not my first Netgear rodeo for sure. But so many vendors are becoming less customer focused these days. Funny thing is the R is a good device compared with other routers I've tried. But its apparent they don't do full testing when new firmware is released. Oh well Message 11 of FarmerBob, Thank You very Much. We'd exercise caution; while the We also suspect that there'll be a few kinks to iron out before the spec goes final, so for now, treat it as a technology preview.

It attempts to provide "at a glance" information, although graphics have been severely over-optimised and dithered over. Netgear now places its help menu in a bar along the bottom -- click it and it pops up, overlaying the settings screen.

While the help is related contextually to the current screen, there are huge amounts of information here, with only a tiny viewing box, resulting in a massive scroll bar. The separation into "Basic" and "Advanced" settings is expected; however, Netgear hasn't really thought things through, providing an "Advanced Setup" section within the advanced tab.

We can only assume that it's for advanced-advanced users. Similarly, we're at a loss as to why "Setup Wizard" is in the advanced section, or why you have to bounce between two different sections to access all of the wireless settings. While the R clearly has quite a bit of grunt inside, there are still periods where changing a setting takes an inordinate amount of time, and it's clear that the router is being rebooted, rather than just, say, the network stack.

The usual smattering of features are here; we're told that with the earlier US release, guest networks didn't make the cut, but firmware updates have since reinstated the feature. You can also record the amount of internet traffic through the router, if you wish, allowing you to disconnect the internet or make one of the lights on the router flash orange once the limit MBs or hours has been reached.

Those on TB plans will be out of luck here; the limit only supports six digits, locking you to a maximum of ,MB. Netgear has also released a Genie app for iPhone and Android. It's not as far reaching as Cisco's Connect Cloud, and it's only able to manage the router if you're on the same subnet -- that means no off-site management is possible without futzing with VPNs. We also found that throughout use, we were looking at a "waiting" graphic more often than we were actually configuring.

Technically, you should be able to configure your router out of the box with the phone, as it ships with Wi-Fi on and an auto-generated SSID and WPA2 password, which are both listed on a sticker on the router. You can also manage guest access, and there's a network map, too. The latter looks cool, and it does let you know who's connected -- but you can't do anything useful with it, like throttle individual devices or simply kick them off the network altogether.