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R7000, F/W V1.0.5.70, Time Sync approximately every 1 and 1/2 hour.
I reported this to ElaineM a few weeks ago with no answer other than she'll contact support. This started a few weeks ago. This is a snippet of my log with no deletions: [Time synchronized with N...
what exactly is the problem? Most other firmwares from other brands also sync every hour
Not a problem per se. Just that it CHANGED from before, the prior Official F/W (V1.0.4.30) and 2 prior Beta's. Under the last Official F/W and the first beta for this latest F/W it was about every 14 hours, and always had a DISCONNECT a second or so prior to the connect and sync. On the last beta no disconnect showing in the log, and then, somewhere during using that beta the 1 1/2 period started. I am NOT seeing any problems or degradation but all I want to know is 'why?' did it change? Was it my router causing this and possibly a pre-cursor of a router problem, did the NG time server start giving out shorter leases, or something else, like the F/W code changed?
Do you see in the log the time sync and if so, what is the period for sync'ing?
OK, that is all I wanted to know since it did change from prior F/W releases. Everything is working as it should.
NETGEAR not always documents the 100% full changelog when they release a new frimware. It's perfectly possible that they changed something related to the time update and did not document it when they released a new version of the firmware.
the router on itself cannot cause this. it's only the firmware that can make such changes and if everything is working as it should, you shouldn't go paranoid about seeing these messages in the log of the router every hour or so.
Trust me, if NETGEAR detects a problem with the firmware, they pull it back. They've done so on a few occasions and it usually gets announced on here or through official channels