Nighthawk(R) X4S R7800 MD5 Verify Error

haha his "limited experience", we pleebs and our weak technical experience strikes again! and now that we are done reasoning from authority lets try objective analysis..

still doesn't make sense why the wifi would have any impact on manually kicking off the auto update functionality on the netgear admin console. your browser literally sends one packet over wifi with a post message in it to the local webserver on the router.. whether that packet travels over an eth cable or wifi, there is no way this would cause this issue or brick a router. if this packet is dropped or corrupted, it will just not kickoff the firmware update process. also the very same process except for the post is automatically performed by the netgear software without issue when you have it set to autoupdate.

with the widespread use of asynch processes on webservers, your internet connection does not impact the background process of firmware update. so for auto update, it does its thing whether you are connected or not. and with a manual update, it will wait till you upload the new firmware .img, run the MD5 check and only when those two pass, it will then continue its asynch process to flash the rom. your connection to the router will have no impact on the flash process.

i am sure some old or crap routers have poor flashing software that is not asynch but can't say it as some universal without even understanding why.