NETGEAR Nighthawk - WiFi App Software
Company Name: NETGEAR
About: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses
worldwide.
Headquarters: San Jose, California, United States.
NETGEAR Nighthawk Overview
What is NETGEAR Nighthawk? The NETGEAR Nighthawk app is a powerful tool that allows users to manage their home WiFi network from anywhere. With this app, users can access their router's features, monitor and control their home WiFi, filter content, limit time online, and protect all devices from online threats. The app also allows users to check their internet broadband speeds, set up a secure and separate WiFi network for guests, monitor internet usage over time, and perform other tasks such as pausing WiFi and updating firmware.
Features
- Anywhere Access
- Smart Parental Controls with Circle® on NETGEAR
- Armor Security
- Speed Test
- Guest WiFi
- Traffic Meter
- Pause WiFi
- Firmware updates
- New features added regularly
Official Screenshots
Product Details and Description of
Do more with your WiFi using the NETGEAR Nighthawk app. Access your router’s features and manage your network from anywhere after quickly setting up your WiFi in just a few steps. The Nighthawk app gives you convenient access to your router’s features: - Anywhere Access – Monitor and control your home WiFi from anywhere. - Smart Parental Controls – Filter content and limit time online automatically with Circle® on NETGEAR. - Armor Security – Advanced cybersecurity on your network to protect all devices from online threats. - Speed Test – See if you’re getting the internet broadband speeds you’re paying for. - Guest WiFi – Set up a secure and separate WiFi network for guests. - Traffic Meter – Monitor internet usage over time. - Easily pause WiFi, update firmware, and more! The NETGEAR Nighthawk app (formerly Up App) is a complete upgrade from the legacy NETGEAR genie app. New features are consistently being added. Install it today! For more information about your router, visit http://www.support.netgear.com
Top Reviews
By IamPump
Devices
Used to show me name of devices. Now I have to check Ip addresses of each device and manually name them. I have WiFi lights, multiple phones and tablets, smart TV’s, etc and its a pain, especially when IP address changes on each device. The only work around is manually input each device to their original IP address I named. Stupid. Ever since last firmware update to allow smart connect constantly causes multiple devices to drop main combined WiFi connection. Drops everything it changes to a different channel and takes about 5 min for combined smart connect name to reappear and reconnect. Turn off smart connect and it’s even worse. Latest update limits my option to assign devices to 2.4 or 5 bands. A lot of potential and I see where they are trying to accomplish but there’s too many bugs to be releasing and using us as guinnie pigs to work out their bugs.
By La Wowita
R7900 nighthawk router Device names
After this update to the application, both nighthawk app and genie no longer recognize any device names. If you try to add a device name to the IP address, it will add the name of the device you added to multiple different IP address is that do not have a device name on it. It changes The device names if on there as well when you try to add them to another IP address. Developers, please check your program quoting as something is missing that prohibits you from adding that device name to the IP addresses. Unfortunately next year does not offer direct customer contact support and steers due to their neck your community for answers from other customers and users. That is not a good quality customer support from a company of the size as many users aren’t aware of how the product was developed or how it is programmed on the software.
By Dzeimsas
Dope Application!
If you own your own router or modem / router combo and refuse to pay a monthly fee to any of these media conglomerates, then you’re smarter than the average bear! It definitely pays for itself and more importantly gives you full control of your network. I’ve always been a fan of the NetGear’s hardware lineup and installing this app will make you wanna pat yourself on the back! FWIW - I’m an application / software developer myself and I’m always critical of nearly every app that I install. To put it plainly, this one is a gem. Be careful though. After using this app, you may start to feel resentment and in some cases, hate towards the poorly designed / developed apps that you have installed. This is just one of those rare apps that can make you feel that kinda way! :)
