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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 ?
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- 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.
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.
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.
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
JSchnee21: Bear in mind that both MicW and I are running our M1's without battery, on upgraded mains chargers (higher power than the supplied 2A charger). At least I think that's what MicW said. When I did the test yesterday to check simultaneous downloads on both WiFi bands, I wasn't running solely on the battery. Have you tried doing the same test using an upgraded charger instead of running on battery?
Regarding the various firmware releases in different countries and for different carriers, although the version numbering system may appear to be sequential / chronological, it's possible and even likely that there are different branches in the numbering. So a version issued to Telstra customers may appear to be more advanced numerically than one issued to AT&T customers but the included features may be a mishmass of whatever happens to suit or be compatible with that carrier. Why on earth would a contiguous firmware development jump from 10.x.x.x to 12.x.x.x (TeeJay74 in Finland)?
That's why I asked Netgear to demystify their firmware version numbering and to make update/changelog histories available to the public (see my link in message 2 above). For example, does the version numbering contain an indication of a specific branch, i.e. an identifier for a specific carrier? Or does Netgear maintain a private list that documents which version is for which carrier? How many of us in different countries with different carriers are on identical firmware version numbers? It seems to me that we're all on different numbers. Perhaps we should all contribute to a list that documents the following:
Country - Carrier - Firmware Version - Build Date - Install Date.
It may be necessary to hold this list somewhere other than this community page because threads scroll lower as more are added, unless we can encourage a Netgear moderator to make the list "sticky" - this may be difficult if their intention is to keep us guessing.