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most stable firmware for R8900?
Taking a poll of the most stable firmware. I had trouble with 5Ghz for the past week or so with V1.0.4.28. I downgraded to 26.
When I upgraded to 28 I did a factory reset and reapplied my config through the UI.
If people have tricks up their sleeves on getting 28 to be stable, would love to hear that as well.
After a few weeks V1.0.4.26 has remained stable. Key is to factory reset after updating the firmware to V1.0.4.26, turn off MU-MIMO and Beamforming as has been recommended in other threads.
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haberdasher_99 wrote:
I had trouble with 5Ghz for the past week or so with V1.0.4.28.
Care to explain what they were?
Beyond of a few reports of DHCP issues on alrger installations it's very silent around the R9000/R8900. 5 GHz is rock solid for us for the time we use it.
- Build 28 - 5Ghz slows to a crawl or is unresponsive. 2.4 works fine. Wired works fine. In terms of radio related issue my RSSI and SNR are in the green according to Acrylic.
Build 26 seems much more stable with 5Ghz.
Voxel firmware! Built on Netgear, but improved speed, functionality and security.
- Is Voxel open source so I can inspect it?
Voxel publish his source code on Github:
https://github.com/SVoxel(The R8900 is the same as the R9000 except the QoS handling//some "wireless speed model"; For R8900, 2.4G only support 64QAM).
See this thread for more info:https://www.snbforums.com/threads/third-party-firmware-security.54226/#post-458627
You can also post your questions there or send a private message to Voxel himself:
https://www.snbforums.com/members/voxel.35038/
Hi usually answer in a short time, and has a good support for his users!
