annoyance for admins using older notebooks. The second is that admin access is by HTTP only. The lack of secure HTTPS access to the admin server is a serious oversight for those on corporate networks, and I hope Netgear corrects this in a firmware update. (There...

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for the first time still pops up a message telling you to change the router's default password and you can now enable secure (HTTPS) admin access. You can also change the default remote admin port from 8080, but can't restrict access by IP address or domain....

you run the utility on, its built-in web-based admin server provides access to the complete set of admin features. I'll focus on the web-based admin here, since you can get the gist of what the Windows utility does from the 51AB review. Since the 54G comes...

reboots are needed to get the changes you make on each page to take. But the reboots take about 10 seconds and automatically refresh the browser to signal you that they're completed. Multiple admin logins are allowed, with no warning given when two admins are...

boxes that pop up - because the ReadyNAS admin interface uses a secure (HTTPS) connection - before you can enter the default login info and get to the Welcome page (Figure 5). Note that multiple admins can log in simultaneously with no warnings thrown. Figure...

on each page take an annoying 30 seconds or so - much longer than on the WRT54G. Multiple admin logins are allowed, with no warning given when two or more admins log on. Once you're logged in, there's no idle timeout, and you just need to remember to quit your...