Nighthawk(R) X4S R7800 MD5 Verify Error

Your "tend to think theory" is just that, a theory based on your limited experience.  Experience on this board with Netgear products and experience on another board with ASUS products indicates otherwise.  Direct firmware update via a web browser and an ethernet connection results in significantly fewer issues than updates over Wi-Fi.  When updates are completed without issue you seldom have users posting on the boards.  Whey they go bad you have a lot of negative posts.

For firmware updates over Wi-Fi it is not a case of if they will go bad, it is simply a matter of time until they do.

dhe wrote:

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.

 

 

 

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