I'm interested in and possibly afraid of the organic products they're expecting from Arlo.
Arlo, can you go? NETGEAR spins out its security cameras biz
NETGEAR has announced it will spin out its “Arlo” security camera range as a new, listed, company of the same name. The company chose its Q4 2017 earnings presentation to reveal the plan, which CEO and chairman Patrick Lo said has become necessary because “both NETGEAR and Arlo have reached the point where they can succeed by …
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Thursday 8th February 2018 01:12 GMT joed
continuous cloud and mobile app based engagement
1st rule of of any of my technology purchases - no strings attached, no subscriptions. It's foolish to trade privacy for mostly false sense of security. Maybe some SMB will bite - though these tend to be just as cheap and with MS forcing it's cloud integrated security features there's little of value to justify extra expense. Other manufacturers have already tried this with parental control subscriptions and I'd like to see uptake levels (of paying consumers).
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Sunday 11th February 2018 22:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: continuous cloud and mobile app based engagement
Netgear routers are normally open to flashing with some OpenWRT firmware variant. Personally I use Gargoyle on mine for the simple interface. Should be noted however that it seems less capable than the others and I've had problems whereby it is shithouse at enforcing restrictions - quotas, limiting ip ranges etc, causing the cutoff of all net access when it shouldn't have. The usual OpenVPN and port forwarding stuff works fine though as does guest wi-fi.
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Thursday 8th February 2018 11:53 GMT ThatOne
Nice network connection you have there. Shame if...
Translation: We're going to sell hardware with a subscription - Pay us all over again, month after month, or your Netgear box stops working. Oh and we'll also collect some juicy user statistics which we can sell to whoever wants them.
Yet another nail in their coffin, does it really need that many? I was already wary of buying their stuff given things I've seen and heard, but this is the final straw...
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Thursday 8th February 2018 20:24 GMT tcmonkey
Doesn't help that the hardware cost is astronomical too. I saw a kit of 3 cameras at a local electronics supplier with a name that sounds a lot like "Hardly Normal" - nearly AU$900 they wanted for it. At that price, wouldn't it be cheaper just to let the ne'er-do-wells keep your goddamn car stereos?
For frame of reference, my 8 channel IP system, complete with recording PC cost me significantly less than that. It also doesn't require a cloud of farts to work.