R7000 BETA 1.0.6.40 ..........SOS..........Different version #

you are doing a mistake Why are you using the physical button on the router rather the gui based setting. You already know beta firmware could trigger anything since its not being final version. May be the physicall button is triggering all the wifi ssid.

More over the ssid for arlo in advanced wifi should have option though the arlo seperate settings.

But for my setup the 1.6.40 is working fine with no arlo on . Its working stable for past 12 hrs and no hang or net issues as well. Everything is working well with over 9+ devices streaming from net and locally via connected USB with 2 more routers connected via WIFI-bridge and 2 readyshare is working in conjuntion.

Hope if you re-do without touching the wifi button and configure everything from router gui things should go smooth for you.

Your missing the point.

I'm not testing connections or any other options. I don't care. My point is ARLO shouldn't be on UNLESS user selects it to be on. That's it nothing else.

Glad your happy with.

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@searay wrote:

My point is ARLO shouldn't be on UNLESS user selects it to be on. That's it nothing else.

 

I'd agree with that......would keep it consistent with other optional elements within the firmware.

And while I don't know the reason why they went down that path, (I don't own any Arlo products), it's also not a bug in the formware. 

Still just under 2 days of uptime but looks the most promising so far.

All good with the config I run and this was coming from 1.0.3.61_20140605_QA and without any resets or re-entering configs after the update.  Even the port forwarding kept working without having to remove/re-enter.

To my understanding previous firmware for R7000 was pulled due to 2.4 GHz bug where router will stall after a while when using 2,4 GHz devices. Arlo support will remain built-in. 

Hi All,

This has been forwarded already to engineers and should be fixed on the next FW.

For me 6.40 is working great. 

Using two R7000's, one as main router and other as AP.  Connecting around 35 devices, wired and wireless mix, 2 port forwards, 1gb readyshare disk.  Fastest version so far for internet browsing & gaming, very smooth.  No connection issues with any of my wireless devices.  My IP cameras and printers are solid and not nearly as fiesty as they sometimes were on previous versions.  Cellphones, tablets, kindles, chromecast, amazon echo, etc. are all solid. 

For ARLO, I suppose if you have arlo devices your happy the service defaults on, if you don't use arlo devices you're not.  Don't really apreciate the "issue" since its easy to turn on/off via the gui...no I don't use any arlo devices and the arlo service is turned off.

Never experienced the stated stall issue if you use 2.4 devices (I use around 20 2.4 devices).  However I mess around with settings periodically, usally requiring a router reboot,j so maybe uptime was never on long enough to trigger issue.

So you're all ok with Arlo turning on when you use the botton on front or by tunring the 2.4 off. I might add the output is 12 db higher than other 2.4 signals were before turning 2.4 off.

Thank you for your feedback. I'm thinking about testing this as well, however, I'd like to know did you do an in-place upgrade from your previous firmware, or did you upgrade > factory reset > reconfigure all settings?

I always just do an inplace upgrade, no resets, manually reload settings or any of that.  You can always fall back to that approach if somethings doesnt work, but its a lot quicker just to upgrade in place.  Over the past many years, I've done 200+ firmware upgrades over numerous router brands and only once did I have issues that caused me to go back to the reset, manually reload settings route.

Thank you, SkyOwl. Appreciate your reply.

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