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EX7000 internet issues after firmware upgrade
I received an email to upgrade my wifi extender firmware to V1.0.1.78_1.0.140. Installation went fine. Now I cannot connect to most websites. Google I can connect to. Netgear, among many others, I sim...
Yep... MANY people are having same problem .... downgrade the firmware by downloading it from netgear and applying ... looks like newest release is borked
Seemingly not at present. And i've found that rolling back hasn't resolved the instability ... i have effectively decommisioned my EX7000 because of this which is really annoying.
JMW001 wrote:
Seemingly not at present. And i've found that rolling back hasn't resolved the instability ... i have effectively decommisioned my EX7000 because of this which is really annoying.
You might try one more factory reset of the extender, and reconfigure. When the format of the settings file changes, they convert it when upgrading, but they can't back-convert it when downgrading. So you can end up with some bogus settings (not always visible in the UI).
Didn't work for us at all. Spent hours for updating and reconfig. Then we discovered the EX7000 in AP did not even pick up an address by DHCP on the wired GbE anymore, it "disappeared" - and the users complained about the loss of Internet connectivity.
schumaku wrote:
Then we discovered the EX7000 in AP did not even pick up an address by DHCP on the wired GbE anymore, it "disappeared"
This was after you downgraded the firmware again?
No, we've upgraded and re-configured from scratch last weekend - because we found it hard to believe it should not work. As of today, we're back on 1.0.0.66.
Tried factory resets several times... i've given up on it - it's off and will remain off until there's a new firmware out which (hopefully) resolves the issues
Go to netgear, download the previous firmware version and install. I did that and had no more problems. No telling when a new version will be out to replace the current buggy version.
I did that (several times) and it's still unstable. Tried updating wirelessly & cabled. Don't know what else to say ... factory reset each time but it's just, at this point, a useless hunk of plastic now.
Very much not impressed that this has happened
