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Such a great statement from a forum "moderator"... I've been coding for 35 years, building/repairing PCs for 25ish, overclocking for 15....but pointing the PEBCAC finger is easy isn't it. As mentioned, quite inconsistent. Once my tablet can't connect I have to reboot the router, then half the time you can kiss any working config goodbye. Not spending further time on it...when I have the spare cash I'll swap it out.

Assuming this is not an April fools joke... Also feels like I'm a fool for purchasing the XR1000. I've now owned mine for over a year and it's been THE worse router I've ever owned. I purchase it for QoS - seems that is no good as my daughters phone on WiFi can cause the ping on my Cat5'd machine to reach 400+. However on top of this setting up timeframes to block machines or manually blocking them is utterly inconsistent. Sometimes they are blocked, sometimes not. Often blocking one machine will block another (random!) device on our network. My Android tablet frequently gets kicked off the WiFi and is not assigned an IP address until the router is rebooted. I do not expect a fix for any of these issues either - it seems us customers have simply been beta testers for the unfinished, and still entirely buggy OS. I'm very disappointed in Netgear, I used to swear by their products but this - very expensive - router has single handedly undone everything. Last Netgear product I purchase - if any admin reads this please just forward my dissatisfaction back to the management. Regards.