Netgear Router Support

[SimonF]

It would be great to extend the current functionality for Netgear Routers to the Netgear family... eliminating the arlo base station footprint and make my household greener 

I have a nighthawk D7000 and despite its greater hardware specification to the nighthawk r7000 i do not have  the luxury of the aforementiones points.

Hopefully these firmware changes would leverage existing design and could be a quick win for netgear and its customer base 

[simonlloyd]

I also have an R8000 and am very disappointed that no Arlo support seems to be available: why not???

[ittroll]

I don't have a D7000 but I would buy one if it could double as an Arlo Base Station.

[sorova]

But what people said it didn't work properly on the r7000 anyway.

[ittroll]

Nobody said that. This idea is to expand the Arlo Nase Station feature that the R7000 has to other Netgear routers. Particularly on the D7000 which has very similar hardware.

[sorova]

are you saying the base station does not work on the D7000? I am asking because I have one and just ordered the base station.

[ittroll]

No I'm not saying that. The R7000 got a firmware update which allows it to double as both a regular router and an Arlo Base Station, eliminating the need for a separate hardware device.

It would be good if the D7000 got a similar firmware update.

[sorova]

ok that would be good, but from what people are saying here, the r7000 one never worked that great either without the base station. I can't see why the external battery cameras require a base station and yet the internal ones do not! doesn't make sense, just use the same technology and run on batteries, or is there something I am missing.

[ittroll]

I think you might be getting confused again. There is only one model of battery powered Arlo camera which can be used inside or outside. The Arlo Q is inside only but that is not battery powered and is quite different in how it works.

[sorova]

I thow it is inside only, but a slight mod and it could work ourtside! Why do they bother with a separate design other than the battery system.

[jslingwine]

OK.  Arlo not supported by Nighthawk R8000 router (R8000 > R7000 -- duh).

Return Arlo Security Camera; return Nighthawk R8000 router.

Destroy any non-returnable Netgear equipment.

Netgear out of business.  Problem solved!!!!