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R7000 Firmware
Hello, I have had a R7000 wifi router for a while now. For some time now I have been experiencing a lot of problems with it (frequent disconnections) The problems came with the successive updates ...
Kitsap wrote:
plegrand wrote:
I am also advised to turn to wifi mesh.
Not knowing anything or not much about it, I understand that for "efficient" wifi mesh, i have to choose "tri-band".
Thank you for your help and your opinions
I do not know where your advice or understanding is coming from. The tri-band part is suspicious.
Oh so true.
Treat it with extra suspicion if it came from the ISP's tech support. They will cook up any story to pass the buck back to the user and their equipment.
Hello,
after my problems with the latest version (136) I downgraded the firmware to version 1.0.9.42.
With this version, I still had some strange problems.
- My printer connected well to the router's wifi, got an IP address from my box, but was not visible on the network (no ping)
- 2 "special" devices (alarm interface and boiler interface) were not working at all.
- The rest was working properly
So I made an update to the "last" version proposed on the web interface of the router (1.0.9.88) without hard reset before or after the update.
After this update, everything seems to work correctly.
I will wait a little while before rejoicing.
If I encounter problems again I will try to update to more recent versions (126, 128, 130, 134)
I am surprised to have encountered problems with 1.0.9.42 which seemed to be the most secure, while 1.0.9.88 is not necessarily unanimous.
I keep in mind the RAX30 solution that I had also spotted just in case.
As well as a solution based on wifi mesh
Thanks again for your advice and help.
Pascal