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fstarne
Aspirant
Dec 31, 2015
Solved

R7000 New Firmware 1.0.6.28 released

New Features: Supports Arlo camera. Set up the R7000 as an Arlo base station and connect an Arlo camera to the R7000 without needing an extra base station.. Bug Fixes: Fixes the issue in which ...
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  • IrvSp's avatar
    IrvSp
    May 25, 2016

    If you are going backwards in release number you might still have them (that is from one of the older recalled beta's). However there is NO guarantee they will work. In cases like that you have to RESET the router and then re-apply manually your setting for proper operation.

     

    If you are moving up from and older official release, like V1.0.4 or older you don't need to reset the router but it is advised. In this case I'd give it a try, have any problems, reset and re-enter is the first thing to try. DO NOT load saved settings from any other version into a new one. That seems to be asking for trouble these days.

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chopin70
Virtuoso
Jan 03, 2016

1.06 fw killed my p2p speed

This happens after some time of the router running with some p2p load. Suddenly, the speed drops to near 5 kbs and all the peers cannot connect anymore

It needs a reboot of teh router and speed is back

 

I reconfigured the ports after update and UpnP seems correctly set

 

Seems really unstable even for a light p2p load after a few hours

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chopin70
Virtuoso
Jan 05, 2016

In reply to my previous own bug report:

After testing many p2p files and trackers, I ended with hard reset, downgrade to 1.0.4.30 which worked fine for me previously and restored my backup of that firmware

 

Now, p2p performance on 3 different clients and various trackers is again very stable

 

Under 1.0.6 it was a continuous up and down caused by peers being dropped regularly. After a while, they only got allowed to some 0.1 to 1 kbs

 

My tests were done on 2 days with 1.0.6. While the p2p activity was still miserable, I downgraded and I immediately saw the performance stability

 

I am sticking with 1.0.4.30 for the next months until something proper comes out. Quiet a shame seeing all this crappy feedback with 2 consecutive fw updates...