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Nighthawk(R) X4S R7800 MD5 Verify Error
Getting an MD5 Verify error when trying to install new firmware. I saw some old posts about this but nothing recent. Any advice appreciated.
Wooohooo! Mine worked correctly. And BTW I did NOT have to do any sort of reset, just went to the update and it worked fine from a Chrome session connected wirelessly.
Yeah that could work :) but its just a hail marry guess. thats what I would tell people to do when I was in high school doing tech support and didn't have a clue why our product wasn't working correctly.
Also why does it matter if the pc is hardwired? When you login to the router's web interface and kickoff its firmware update process, it shouldn't be relying on your PCs connection to do that. Should be going directly from the router to netgear's firmware repository to download? or am i missing something
jmidway22 wrote:
Also why does it matter if the pc is hardwired?
It doesn't. But past experience and an understanding that wifi is more likely to fall over than a wired connection means that experienced users try to avoid wifi wherever possible.
Should be going directly from the router to netgear's firmware repository to download? or am i missing something
It does indeed, but fir the same reason that they prefer wired – and knowing that Internet disconnections can happen at the worst of times – experienced users also prefer to conduct manual updates. Having the firmware file on your PC means that you don't even need an Internet connection to update firmware.
Too many complaints here are down to firmware updates that failed because the Internet and/or wifi fell over in the process. Wise users just like to reduce the risk.
Dang I wish I was a wise and experienced interwebs user like you!
unfortunately what you're saying about not using wifi doesn't make sense to me.. The PC to router wifi connection is only sending a single post to the admin web server and that's it to kickoff the download / update process.. The rest of that is handled between the router and netgear's firmware repository and thats all hardwired. So are you worried that that single post action will have an issue with wifi?
I agree, Unless the GUI is somehow pulling the firmware from the client (eg - our web browser) and not through some back-end software mechanism which downloads the firmware image to the router for upgrade, the manual update is a workaround, period. I'm glad it works but just the same, I'd rather just have the GUI function as it has... for years.
Cheers!
--Smartypants
I'd tend to think that using a hardwired connection for the manual update is safer than using a WiFi connection, because in that case the.img firmware file has to be downloaded on your PC first, then uploaded to the router via the web interface. AFAICT there's no MD5 verification in that case, so if the firmware file gets corrupted during the transfer, this might pass unnoticed by the router, which would then proceed with the installation and might end up in an unbootable or non-functional state.
I guess that using a WiFi connection to trigger an automated update check and installation is less likely to cause such problems, as indeed the firmware download takes place directly on the router and in that case is followed by an MD5 verification.