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MicW
Mar 13, 2018Luminary
Anyone know what the latest firmware for the M1100 fixs?
As the title says, I just checked and noticed a new firmware is available. Does anyone know what it fixs / changes ?
- Mar 13, 2018
104 Mb, v NTGN9X50C_10.25.01.01
There's a neat new setting under Setup|Mobile Routing for Ethernet Standby which I have disabled and testing is going well through WAN Connection to Dovado which until now I had to use with Wifi spotboost.
MR1100 seems to run a bit hotter. I have been using without battery since last fw upgrade, up to 10 days without reboot. Currently at 4 hours and counting, with no dropouts and speeds greatly improved.
Dashboard has lost data usage info, hope to see it return. No info on Telstra Community and Netgear UM is still for June 2017.
MicW
Mar 14, 2018Luminary
My M1 was bought out right from JB HiFi in Aus, a electronics store, it came unlocked. The reason mine didn't auto update is because I had been running it without a battery. I just finished installing it and I got the version number slightly wrong it is actually. NTG9X50C_10.25.01.00.
My previous firmware required a telstra account to display the data usage, there was no facility to set "bill date" or "plan limit"
The previous firmware it had was from July last year. There are quite a few changes from that old firmware that I have noticed :-
*The ability to disable the ethernet sleep or set for 2 minutes.
*Slight change to dashboard look
*Arlo camera support
*The lan display now displays non windows devices ip address, name and mac address as well.Also shows correct count of devices connected, previously only seemed to count windows devices.
*Dashboard data usage can now set manually the roll over day and data cap and can display data usage warnings. It also now displays amount of data left and correct number of devices connected on the M1 screen( quite nice considering I am using a Optus service). My data usage display now works.It now no longer requires a Telstra account to display data usage
*In diagnostics it now shows that it is connected to a quick charge device.
*Displays realtime current/ voltage
*Mine actually seems to be running cooler
*The M1 reboots fine without hanging now(previously used to hang on a reboot)
### RS-SINR still does not work(always displays 0dBM).
hmm after an hour with battery on charger all it says is Power state in standby mode. Its not even attempting to recharge( This is with a quickcharge 2 charger not the usless 1A charger that comes with the M1).And battery level is dropping.Before it used to recharge very quickly with the quick charge
Otherwise the M1 seems fine so far.
Thanks for the extra info hippolyte
UK-based
Mar 14, 2018Luminary
MicW- thanks for your explanation and list of new features. I found the same problem with updating without a battery and wrote this post a while ago that you also contributed to. In my case, the M1 appeared to have attempted to start the update and then stopped with a flashing amber LED. When you clicked the "CHECK FOR UPDATES" button, did you see that there was a new version available even without the battery installed? Or did you have to install the battery just to display the fact there was a new version available? I'm wondering if the software checks the battery status and if it's below 20% it doesn't bother checking for new firmware.
Regarding the new features, it seems that Netgear are running multiple firmware branches because the 10.22.03.00 version that I'm on (build date Nov 2017) doesn't have the Ethernet sleep option or the Arlo camera support but it has all the other features you mentioned.
- MicWMar 14, 2018Luminary
Last night when I clicked the "check for updates" button I did not have the battery installed, and it returned with information about an update being available that was 104 mb in size. That was when I decided to post on the forums to check for some information before beginning the update process.
The battery finally recharged I just had to stop accessing the internet and it topped up before I removed it again.
I agree with you UK-based they definitly seem to be running a few versions of the firmware, the last one I was running was the July build last year, and last night was the first time it found an update.
I've been running mine with both 2.4 and 5 ghz enabled at the same time on both the old (July build) and now the new firmware (6 hours since upgrade), so far no issues and never had issues on the old firmware. Though I'm not a heavy wifi user( I rely on the ethernet primarily) and I can't say I have accessed 2.4 and 5 Ghz at the same time. The wifi client range seems about the same as prior the upgrade.
- UK-basedMar 14, 2018Luminary
MicW: Thanks - it's good to know that new firmware availability will be detected even if the battery isn't installed.
JSchnee21: Like MicW, I've had no problems running 2.4 and 5GHz simultaneously. I just did some tests with testmy.net, first testing 2.4- and 5GHz-connected devices separately and then compared the speeds when starting the tests on both devices at the same time. The speeds were actually slightly better when both tests were running simultaneously :robotlol:. Needless to say, the M1 didn't crash. My UK firmware version (10.22.03.00) seems to be between the latest and previous Telstra versions.
- JSchnee21Mar 15, 2018Virtuoso
Thanks Everyone,
Wow, so many versions!
10.20.x
10.22.x
10.25.x
12.x
We seem to be lagging here in the USA on NTG9X50C_10.20.05.02. I had hoped the Aussies would have worked out all of the bugs in the machine before it got imported. Perhaps they have, and the new import tarifs are holding up the works (-:
Hopefully the dual band wifi issue is fixed in 10.22 and later. Either that or I was imaginging it -- though i did have n=3 occurances within a day of the lockups (to work, home from work, back to work -- this was on battery the whole time in the car in winter so not too warm). Often it would seem to hang / become nonresponsive when I would try to bring up the screen or to shut it down when dual band was enabled. I didn't actually check to see if it was still passing data / broadcasting its SSID. I've only had this occur once over the last several weeks when single band was enabled.
If we ever get an update, hopefully I can re-testThank you,
Jonathan