Somewhat related: someone took it upon themselves to extract the private
key for routerlogin.net from a Netgear firmware so I believe the CA revoked
the key. Netgear now says just use http:
https://kb.netgear.com/000061582/Security-Advisory-for-Signed-TLS-Certificate-Private-Key-Disclosure-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2020-0105
Doesn’t sound like the problems mentioned, though.

On Monday, February 3, 2020, castarritt . <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've seen a lot of phones/tablets refuse to browse to routerlogin.net
> since they detect it as a redirected URL.  I tell people to either plug a
> windows machine into the LAN port, or get the app.
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 8:04 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I’ve had several customers call with new Netgear Nighthawk routers R7000
>> series and the only instructions that come with them is to download an app
>> to your phone.  The user manual on the Netgear website says to do it the
>> same as always, connect to the WiFi and browse to www.routerlogin.net.
>> Customers try that and the page cannot be displayed.  I’ve been unable to
>> figure it out over the phone, I tell them to call Netgear support, usually
>> they end up taking it back to the store and getting something like a
>> Belkon/Linksys.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this something stupid like force HTTPS or use a different browser or
>> clear the cache?  Shouldn’t be this hard.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you really have to use the app on your phone?  They say that doesn’t
>> work either.
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