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reply to Mele20

Re: Cisco Connect Cloud

There's been an update to the Cisco blog. You tell from it that Cisco is rapidly retreating because of the anger from their very badly abused customers.

For your information, ALL router vendors intended to do what Cisco has done but Cisco got there first. Now I think the other vendors will rethink what do as far as the cloud and invading user's privacy with the intent to sell their information.

I don't object to users ignorantly deciding to allow themselves to be sold to highest bidder...heck that is what all the sheeple on Facebook have willingly chosen, what I object to very strenuously is a vendor trying to FORCE this on its users.

You believe that only physical acts can be "violent"? And users who believe that everyone should live in a glass house are not only "ignorant" but dangerous to the continuation of this nation as without privacy we no longer have liberty and freedom. In my mind, there is NO debate about this. You MUST be against Cisco forcing the cloud on its users. Cisco is retreating because of the storm of protest.

»blogs.cisco.com/home/update-answ···cloud-2/

Here's an excellent article about what Cisco was trying to pull...and it is VIOLENT.

»www.extremetech.com/computing/13···retion/2
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reply to Mele20

Well it would seem the internet spoke and Cisco was forced to listen:

»arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/···setting/

CCC will no longer be the default setting, from my perspective this is exactly how it should have been from the get go.

Better yet they should have merely added another page of options and allowed you to optionally create a new CCC login that would then allow you to remotely access.

The end user remains in full control, Cisco can still provide cloud access and remote management and you the customer gets to choose.

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UPDATE:
Cisco has told us that going forward the automatic update process will accomodate people who prefer the local, browser-based management console over the cloud service. That's good news, as customers who don't want to use Connect Cloud won't have to choose between their current management setup and firmware updates that could be important.

"If a customer chooses to use the Embedded Web UI and selects the Auto-Update feature, Cisco will offer them an update," Cisco said. "Currently the only update we have is for the Cisco Connect Cloud feature set, but in future, we plan to provide updates for the embedded Web UI feature set specifically. The core message is that a customer can/will be able to choose an embedded web UI and Update without having to use CCC.”

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reply to danclan

reply to Mike Wolf
Well I came across this today »Cisco Backpedals a Little on Cloud Firmware which says that the new firmware is now optional?

but still doesnt tell us if Cisco is going to continue to update the firmware for the classic interface. Here is a thread I came across. »linksys.lithium.com/t5/Wireless-···p/538014

reply to Mike Wolf

Cisco removes cloud sign ups from default router settings

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Cisco removes cloud sign ups from default router settings

...Cisco Connect Cloud is an optional service that brings additional features to a home network. It is not required to set-up and manage Cisco Linksys EA Series routers. In response to our customers’ concerns, we have simplified the process for opting-out of the Cisco Connect Cloud service and have changed the default setting back to traditional router set-up and management.

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i downgraded back down to the classic firmware interface then upgraded back to the cloud and found no way of turning the whole thing off and still have the classic interface. what sucks is that alot of fixes were added to the new firmware such as updated wireless drivers. doesnt look at a way to keep the new updates to the router but lose the cloud interface part.

No because "going forward" could mean this would start with the EA6500 (and any router released after it) and not with any of the current routers already on shelves and in homes such as the 2011 E series E4200v1, E3200, E2500, E1500, E1200, and E900 and the 2012 EA series E4500, E4200v2, EA3500, and EA2700.

reply to Mike Wolf

Re: Cisco Connect Cloud

reply to Mike Wolf

Re: Cisco Cloud Storage

Well now that the whole cloud mess was cleared up, the questions still remain of "where do they go now?" Are they going to continue with the cloud service? Are they going to start updating the firmware with the classic interface? What about their new router coming out next month, the EA6500? Will that too have the cloud interface or are they going to also provide a classic interface? Plus the questions I asked last post "... because "going forward" could mean this would start with the EA6500 (and any router released after it) and not with any of the current routers already on shelves and in homes such as the 2011 E series E4200v1, E3200, E2500, E1500, E1200, and E900 and the 2012 EA series E4500, E4200v2, EA3500, and EA2700. "

Understood. Thanks.

reply to Mike Wolf

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