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NUTW0RX

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Hey Tim:

It's a great service you provide with reviewing hardware and very helpful that you put dates on your reviews since various other sites don't do; sometimes you can't tell how old a review is. Would it be of any value to add some flag noting that the device is no longer updated by the manufacturer? This could really help those who may just sort through rankings and pick a "top three" piece of gear without knowing it's been over a year since any updates were posted for that device.

Here's a sample of the Legacy rankings:

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Special mention goes to Netgear for not putting any release dates on their updates. The year noted above was based on looking at the downloaded firmware date.
 
NETGEAR's firmware downloads have "last updated" dates in their release notes.

Sorry, but it's not practical for me to do this. Also, firmware update frequency isn't necessarily a goodness indicator. It can indicate buggy products that NEED many releases.
 
NETGEAR's firmware downloads have "last updated" dates in their release notes.

Sorry, but it's not practical for me to do this. Also, firmware update frequency isn't necessarily a goodness indicator. It can indicate buggy products that NEED many releases.

The last updated date is for the written content on the page and not the actual download; even their "release notes" don't have dates like most other manufacturers. Just pointing out something simple they've neglected for a while.

Understand it's burdensome and guess it's really up to the consumer to figure this out but unfortunately there's too many out there looking for others to do the work for them.

It's not a matter of frequency of updates but the fact that there are still active feature, bug and security updates available. There are many factors that come into play with one of them being popular product sales where you have more users actively reporting issues and either get fixed or not. And then there are the low volume units that just die off with no effort going into fixing anything even security related bugs. If a company knows about a bug and nobody reports it then they'll probably shrug it off and focus on other revenue generating tasks unless it becomes a public issue. Your typical consumer encountering WiFi issues will unplug and plug the power adapter to fix the problem and the cause is never known or reported to get fixed. What's a firmware?

On a lighter note.
 
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