MyNet N750 major faults in functionalities

WD Legacy Products My Net Networking Devices
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 Here is my late experience with the N750, which I have unfortunately to return back, which caused me a lot of problems.

  1. MAC filtering applies to all interfaces WiFi and LAN – if you use MAC filter for blocking all addresses that are not in the list then it will also work for LAN connected machines. It seems that is also works for the WAN as I sow blocked requests from the ISP due to the MAC filtering.

My opinion is that MAC filter should be separated for WiFi and LAN or to be valid only for WiFi. Otherwise you can very much cut yourself out of connection to the router. Just put some MAC address that you don’t have and you can no longer connect to the router in no way! The only option is to hard reset it.

  1. There is no option to manually set the time – this is not so important but is a problem if you disable the synch with servers over internet. Then your router goes with some strange timing which you can’t change in any way and the log timestamps are also broken.

  2. If your ISP uses DHCP to give you an address there is a lease time. In my case it was 600sec=10min. So every 10min. my internet connection was dropped for a ~20sec! This is the main reason I returned back the router! This is a big issue and need to be fixed urgently! The problem seems to be that WD N750 (I guess it applies to the other models also) uses broadcast to 255.255.255.255 to reach the ISP DHCP server. Is some cases ISP DHCPs doesn’t support this and you need to use unicast which doesn’t seems to be possible with this router! I have made tests with a tp-link and a d-link routers and they can be set to unicast and work fine with no drops. The problem also might be in the firewall which cuts the response from the DHCP but after turning everything off everything that is available via the advanced admin GUI I was still dropped every 10min. If someone knows how to report this fault to WD, please let me know.

  3. After a reboot the password is reset to the default one. This happens from time to time, not on every reboot.

The firmware is the latest available 1.04.16.

I liked the router very much and want to have one, but because of point 3 I will wait a bit. And if this is not fixed soon I will by a different one from another vendor (sorry WD).

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Hi blekota,

WD is constantly making changes thought firmware updates, improving performance and adding features. Your post sound like a good idea, so you might want to share it on the network ideas section. 

http://community.wd.com/t5/Network-Product-Ideas/idb-p/network_ideas

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Ichigo wrote:

Hi blekota,

 

WD is constantly making changes thought firmware updates, improving performance and adding features. Your post sound like a good idea, so you might want to share it on the network ideas section. 

 

http://community.wd.com/t5/Network-Product-Ideas/idb-p/network_ideas

Any user should not have to suggest the device operates as other, standard $30 routers.  We are talking about basic features offered on Chinese, no name routers.  I want my n900 to not crash, should I suggest that too?  Just to be a royal pain, I actually did, see here…

READ THIS

Come on… it needs to connect to wan-FAIL, filter MACs-FAIL, and route and serve ips.  The lame support offered here is why my blood pressure rises and I continue to bash wd.  I feel that wd pays these bots to surf all day to offer these responses.

 Yet I digress… to the OP, MOVE ON! you will thank me later.  ASUS OR LINKSYS, something truly open source, dd-wrt.

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Amen

I took a chance on the N750 since I bought a WD 1TB HDD which I thought would be a safe bet since WD has been making HDD for eons and the 2 items should be compatible.

To say I am disappointed is an understatement… I do not get into electronics like I used to as I do not have time for it. In this day of age, I would like for something to work and not go down every 30min.

However, the router is on 1.04.16 firmware and as a engineering manager that means this may have teething problems … BUT WD SHOULD GET IT FIXED PRONTO!!

My family uses this WiFi, not where I work… at this point i would never recommend this to a friend… let alone any commercial version that may come out of this. 

Hopefully the above can get addressed and if i have to i will put down all my issues… which seems to be very similar to any N900… mainly dropping off internet and not picking back up without a cold reboot.