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Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

ant — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:30:32 GMT

Just curious to see how many people still have and use it.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. 🙂

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

BHägg — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:15:20 GMT

I have two of the originals from 2015 - purchased and used since ~Feb 2016. In general they've worked consistently well although I am on this site trying to find out what misery of updates have caused them to start dropping off the network as of last week.

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

TomMac — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:23:08 GMT

Hi Ant...

still running 2 Arlo hd cams on a 4000 base...have no issues with them.

( with rechargeable cells )

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

jguerdat — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:57:12 GMT

I still have a VMB3010 running from years ago with a mix of cameras attached. No problems here.

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

Minburn57 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:36:30 GMT

I have 5 cams and original base station. Purchased when pretty much first on offer.

Ran well for first two years . . . pretty much problem free.

Then periodic issues (many of which are documented here . . . including comments/concerns from myself) and really never got back to that secure confidence that I had early on i.e. no surprise if any given day some issue with base offline, cameras not connecting, yet 'another' camera going red hued . . . .

That said, of late - and that measured across a few months at most, its been good.

Would I buy again? Never. I expect reliability first and formost and this system has been anything but. But I have the better part of $1K CDN in this and can't afford anything else at the moment. So I make do with the understanding that the system might fail when I need it most. So while not real time, I supplement coverage with trail cams.

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

nivek60 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:30:28 GMT

I was using it, until Arlo deleted my account!

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

dcfox1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:15:04 GMT

@nivek60 wrote:
I was using it, until Arlo deleted my account!

Why and when did they delete your account?

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

nivek60 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:31:54 GMT

I'm confused about this now. I tried to log into my account, then retrieve my password and it said there was no such an account, couldn't log into the community either. I assumed that they deleted my account because I hadn't set up the 2FA. So I created a new community account. Then tried to create new Arlo account and it said that an account already existed for me email address!

Maybe I am confusing Arlo and the Arlo Community...

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

nivek60 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:39:44 GMT

Just created a new password and logged into my account that supposedly already existed and there's nothing there - no base station, no cameras, no recordings.

Re: Who is still using the original (Netgear) Arlo from its time (e.g., 2015)?

nivek60 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:59:51 GMT

I have resolved this - I had multiple accounts. Two for arlo.netgear.com and one for
my.netgear.com which uses the same email address as one of the arlo.netgear.com accounts!