Most IT experts constantly keep on sharing the importance of patch and firmware updates with their clients but neglect the value of hardware updates. We are not trying to say to replace it with new hardware. All we want to say that updating the software coded into the physical IT hardware.

What is Firmware?

Basically, the firmware is a kind of software that is used attached to every hardware component of your device. It is a must software to keep your WiFi extender work well and can only be updated.

Firmware is like a translator between you and your WiFi extender hardware. Let us understand it with an example. Suppose you want to watch videos on your computer. But you don't have any media player installed on your computer. Then, how you gonna watch them?

For this, you have to download and install any media player on the Internet. After that, you can watch any video format i.e. mp4, 3gp, etc. on your computer. Here in this scenario, the media player acts as a medium in between you and your saved videos.

The same is in the case of firmware, the slight difference here is that firmware acts as a medium between you and your computer hardware.

Why Netgear Firmware Update Is So Important?

Firmware installed on your Netgear extender is a great example of why mentioning this problem is so important. When you purchase a WiFi extender and plug it into an electric outlet, it should be able to connect your WiFi-enabled devices to your WiFi network with almost zero efforts. However, leaving the default settings such as the Netgear Genie login credentials will leave you woefully exposed.

And the Netgear extender login credentials are quite common. Experienced hackers can exploit security holes and you will find no way to fix it. So, to fix these hardware security gaps is firmware updates.

What's Inside Netgear Firmware Version 1.0.1.202?

Netgear extender firmware 1.0.1.202 carries out the integral functions of hardware, firmware updates, which are important to enable the corresponding connected devices to operate flawlessly as well as fixed the previous security bug PSV-2019-0029.

Some of the upsides of firmware 1.0.1.202 are:

Version 1.0.1.202 update will upgrade your WiFi extender with advanced operational instructions.
By updating to Netgear Genie 1.0.1.202 firmware, you will be able to find new features that are added to the WIFi extender and also have offered an enhanced user experience.
The latest firmware will help you to optimize the performance of your wireless extender and enhance the performance of the integrated processor.
1.0.1.202 will optimize extender drivers that will quickly decode the algorithms and thus the hardware will reach an optimum level.

Major Bug Fixes

Fixes incorrect attributes.
Fixes the FTP access fail issue.
Fixes the incorrect publish algorithm.
Fixes the incorrect image bug in the Android and iOS Nighthawk application.
Fixes the 'Extender not Found' issue while using the Android Nighthawk application.