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FURRYe38
Sep 20, 2022Guru - Experienced User
New - CAX80 Firmware Version 2.1.4.2 Released
New Features and Enhancements:
Stability Improvements
Recommended to help prevent any modem bricking's.
Download Link:
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/CAX80.aspx#download...
My_Username
Sep 27, 2022Apprentice
I am curious about the rationale for your statement:
NOTE: For any users that were on the CAX80 beta project. DO NOT LOAD THIS VERSION FW!!!
This is an honest fact finding mission as opposed to any argument or such. I also noticed an earlier note from you that stated firmware upgrade capability may be compromised by the engineering or beta release.
My system may be unusual in that an RPi running Pihole serves as my local DHCP server. The RPi is also running Unbound, serving as my DNS server. Any issues related to those functions would almost certainly be different on my system.
All of that said, when I noticed the official 2.1.4.2 release on the Netgear site I decided to load that in hope that something may have improved since the engineering release. The CAX80 web interface indicated that no update was available. I just assumed that was because the version numbers were the same and the Netgear firmware didn't know what to make of the engineering suffix.
So - I downloaded 2.1.4.2 from Netgear and pointed the firmware update utility in the web interface to the file and it loaded.
All is well. I haven't seen anything at all out of the ordinary. In fact Comcast must have solved some issues while I was out camping as I am finally warning free on the connection and getting the data rates I am paying for.
Curious what the issue you have seen was? Is my house going to spontaneously combust tomorrow? Well - it may but it would be more likely due to the generator lockout being wired in.
Anyhoo - what issue did you see?
- FURRYe38Sep 27, 2022Guru - Experienced User
If you bought your CAX from a retail outlet or direct from NG, then you can proceed to update if you want too. NG found a problem with early beta units that some of us got that were using older boot code which wasn't included with newer version of FW thus caused the FW partition to be come read only. We could not upgrade or downgrade FW. This only effects users with these early beta units. Otherwise, all other units seen in retail production are not effected. The notice is for beta units that some users may have. They know who they are.