Netgear

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Netgear, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Forced Netgear account login to manage a local device, breaking the earlier offline management2025-03-24
App is very buggy, making the router hard to manage2024-12-18
Settings changes restart the radio or whole router, causing long waits2023-12-02
Management interface changes with every model, making the APs painful to manage2023-05-18
Cloud account requirement is hard for non-technical users to get past2021-12-27
Interface and usability are so-so and the setup was frustrating2021-11-03
Router would never select a DFS channel and firmware never mentioned DFS, so the setting was unreachable2021-03-26
Per-device usage reporting is badly implemented and hard to use2020-10-12
Took hours of tweaking before the network worked properly2018-01-05
Latest firmware update can permanently lock the user out of the router2017-12-04