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Where to find older firmware
When I check the support page for my router(R4500), I don't see any additional downloads for previous firmware versions. I've read from this forum there is supposed to be. Does anyone know the corre...
> When I check the support page for my router(R4500), I don't see any
> additional downloads for previous firmware versions. [...]
Nor do I. But what's there is about as old as most folks would like:
$ unzip -l R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3.zip
Archive: R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
0 05-25-2012 03:53 R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3/
8609850 05-03-2012 15:25 R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3/R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3.chk
2244 05-25-2012 03:53 R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3/R4500_V1.0.0.4_1.0.3_RN.html
--------- -------
8612094 3 filesThe date in the User Manual is "February 2013".
> I'm trying to downgrade my router to hopefully fix issues I've had.
What you might really want is _newer_ firmware, which seems not to
exist in the usual place, either. You might have picked a real
non-winner in that model.
"issues"?
>Issues
I keep having to reset daily or multiple times a day. Issues never typically occur when it's just me connected. And, there's about 21 other devices that sometimes connect besides me. I didn't have any problems till a power outage ~2 years ago.
I've tried troubleshooting and so far, I've assigned assigned every device that typically connects a static ip, and I've locked that range.
> What you might really want is _newer_ firmware, which seems not to exist in the usual place, either.
I didn't realize my router was that old. I'm pretty sure I'm using the firmware version from this site too unfortunately