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most stable firmware for R8900?

haberdasher_99
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most stable firmware for R8900?

Taking a poll of the most stable firmware. I had trouble with 5Ghz for the past week or so with V1.0.4.28. I downgraded to 26.

 

When I upgraded to 28 I did a factory reset and reapplied my config through the UI. 

 

If people have tricks up their sleeves on getting 28 to be stable, would love to hear that as well. 

Model: R8900|Nighthawk X10 AD7000 Smart WiFi Router
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

After a few weeks V1.0.4.26 has remained stable. Key is to factory reset after updating the firmware to V1.0.4.26, turn off MU-MIMO and Beamforming as has been recommended in other threads.

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Model: R8900|Nighthawk X10 AD7000 Smart WiFi Router
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?


@haberdasher_99 wrote:

I had trouble with 5Ghz for the past week or so with V1.0.4.28.

 

Care to explain what they were?

 

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schumaku
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Beyond of a few reports of DHCP issues on alrger installations it's very silent around the R9000/R8900. 5 GHz is rock solid for us for the time we use it.

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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Build 28 - 5Ghz slows to a crawl or is unresponsive. 2.4 works fine. Wired works fine. In terms of radio related issue my RSSI and SNR are in the green according to Acrylic.

Build 26 seems much more stable with 5Ghz.
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Kamoj
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Voxel firmware! Built on Netgear, but improved speed, functionality and security.

 

 

Model: R7800|Nighthawk X4S AC2600 Wifi Router
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Is Voxel open source so I can inspect it?
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Kamoj
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Voxel publish his source code on Github:
https://github.com/SVoxel

(The R8900 is the same as the R9000 except the QoS handling//some "wireless speed model"; For R8900, 2.4G only support 64QAM).


See this thread for more info:

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/third-party-firmware-security.54226/#post-458627

You can also post your questions there or send a private message to Voxel himself:
https://www.snbforums.com/members/voxel.35038/
Hi usually answer in a short time, and has a good support for his users!

Model: R7800|Nighthawk X4S AC2600 Wifi Router
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

5Ghz broken again. I can’t connect from my TV or my iPhone. 2.4 works fine from iPhone.
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Turned off MU-MIMO and Beamforming. 5Ghz working now.
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

5Ghz broken yet again. 2.4 is working fine. I will post the content of the logs later but likely nothing of significance will show in there. The radio was transmitting and I can attempt to join it. However, my iPhone it promoted me for my password.

Went to my HP AIO and found I was able to connect to 5Ghz but no internet connection, then connected 2.4Ghz and from the HP it worked fine. Browsed the log. Reconnected from HP to 5Ghz and the Internet works on 5Ghz now for the HP.

Going to test from iPhone next (which is where I am making this post).
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

Works now from iPhone. I had previously rebooted the iPhone but no joy. Now it works. Seems to be a race condition in the R8900 firmware that gets reset by watchdog (doesn’t seem like very good embedded coding).
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haberdasher_99
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Re: most stable firmware for R8900?

After a few weeks V1.0.4.26 has remained stable. Key is to factory reset after updating the firmware to V1.0.4.26, turn off MU-MIMO and Beamforming as has been recommended in other threads.

Model: R8900|Nighthawk X10 AD7000 Smart WiFi Router
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