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Re: New Firmware for WPNT834 Z3r03557, hey finally a response on this router! Well, at the moment I am on firmware 1.0.41 still and have it running stable since yesterday. I did not configure all of the things into the firmware that I wanted to for now since it seems that if I add too many config entries into the IP Address Reservations list and/or the Access List MAC address filter list, the router fails and hangs. I started out disabling the access list filter totally and removing all ip address reservations. That got the router stable and it started working fine allowing all PC's wired and wireless to connect. That was yesterday. I let it run all day and night until today, when I gradually started to enable first the access list (and it kept running fine) and then I started to add a few (but not all) of the ip address reservations back into the configuration and saving it. The router kept running. I should add that it did run once like this before but after a power off and power on reset of the router, the router would not assign ip address to any machine and I would have to reset it and start from scratch. Even reloading the config file (which I saved to a file) did not work before. Today however, after loading a few (but not all) of my desired ip address reservations, saving and re-powering off and on, the router continued to work. I think that there is a firmware glitch (or maybe indeed it is my router hardware) where if I add too many ip address reservations the firmware locks up and it's browser interface quits responding. So at this point I just have not added a lot of ip address reservations to it. It continues to work right now.
I am wondering now if I update the firmware using the BETA 1.0.44 if it may fix this problem I am experiencing. Has anyone figured out a way to back level to a previous firmware version? I would like to be able to do that if I need to.
Also, FYI, I have a Dlink DIR-625 Draft-N router and matching DWA-642 laptop cards that I am also testing out. The Dlink DIR-625 combo gives me higher data transfer rates than this Netgear WPNT834 combo! The Netgear RF signal seems a bit stronger yes, but it does not register the high speeds that all the test reports say it does compared to this Draft-N router. So either my Netgear is not operating at peak capacity (which I doubt because it seems fine in this respect while I have it working) or those test report reviews are not telling the truth. Dlink combo has speeds of up to 300Mbps averaging meter readings around 216 to 243Mbps while the Netgear combo peaks at 240Mbps and averages reading of 116 to 143Mbps using the same laptop PC at the same locations setup in my house. The Laptop reading were taken from a room 1 floor up and 1 room over from the routers location downstairs. Dlink wins here. This is my case, it does not jive with all of the test reports I have read highly raving about this Netgear WPNY834. nuff' said. The only hope I have for this Netgear router is that I found a Netgear link providing what seems to be GNU open source source code to compile the routers v1.0.24 and v1.0.41 firmwares! So maybe some guru hackers out there can tweak the firmware to fix the bugs and make this a really winning router setup. |
