TheSkyscraper

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.

I have had my XR1000 for a bit over a year now and it has been nothing but trouble.  Looking at switching to another brand.    I keep it current,  on 1.0.0.64_1.0.49 and still issues like:
1. Network slows to a crawl, try to login to the router and  get device not found using the ip address or routerlogin.net
2. Once I am in the router, 80% of the time any tool I try to use, especially Device Manager times out with an error saying:  "This RAPP is not loaded yet please try again in a minute" and no matter how long I wait or try it never loads until I've restarted the router several times ( and YES, I reboot it through the Settings/Administration tool and dont do a cold-hard unplug)
I've seen on several forums/posts where support is saying to do a factory reset!!!   That is a bull$hit answer.    ridiculous to tell people to factory reset and have to re set up their whole network just because Netgear cant put out a quality product or at least fix what they sell!