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EX7000 Wifi Range Extender Dropping out after upgrade latest Firmware
Hello
Range extender recently upgraded to latest release version EX7000-V1.0.1.78_1.0.140. Now the extender keeps on dropping off usually for around few seconds. The signal received from Linksy...
How has the new firmware been holding up for everyone who's been testing?
It's been holding up pretty well for me.
I had a couple of dropouts that I noticed in the first week when I wasn't running the debug log, but since then with the log running continuously I haven't noticed any at all (although I may have missed any that ocurred when I wasn't using any of my devices/systems).
That said, I have just noticed that some of my devices could not connect to my extended 2.4Ghz network (although status showed no problems and one device was successfully connected), so have just rebooted the extender and now everything is working OK.......
So will offer to send in the logfile to see what they can find.
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Bill.
Has the new firmware update become available? I haven't heard back from Netgear's Christian yet. If it is available is it stable? I updated my new EX7300AC2200 and all good, but would like the EX7000AC1900 to work if possible.
drdantru wrote:
Has the new firmware update become available? I haven't heard back from Netgear's Christian yet. If it is available is it stable? I updated my new EX7300AC2200 and all good, but would like the EX7000AC1900 to work if possible.
As far as I am aware, the only new version available is the trial version that I obtained through Netgear's Christian.
With regard to the stability of that version in my experience, please refer to my previous posts above.
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Bill.
Agreed with the post above, the trial version is the only thing open to us for the moment. From my experiences of using it with & without running the log, it has been a lot more stable then the previous version. I did get a few hiccups here and there, which is expected, for my setup at least it worked well and it seems that Netgear is on the correct path. If you don't happen to get the trial FW then just hold out a tad longer on the older one
We still experience (EX7000 in AP mode, .157_test) that after some uptime, e.g. Windows 10 Intel Centrino Wireless N 2230 systems are loosing the connection and can no longer associate. Got .159_test meanwhile, but now not near to that EX7000 customer site.
Few other oddities - using mywifiext.net or the like does show a page claiming there are multiple extenders on the network - what is definitively not the case.I did not have much luck with the new firmware, which I got from Christian. After it was loaded, the extender factory reset, reconfigured - no devices could successfully attach to the extender - meaning, they could connect to the 2G or 5G WiFi network (layer 1/2) but were not given a routable DHCP address (layer 3) so they would show "No internet connection". The link from the extender to the base router (Netgear C3700) was fine, as I was able to log into the extender from the router network and the status page showed everything normal. This is basically the same pathology I had with the last (bad) firmware. Several extender reboots and factory resets as well as a reset of the base router did not help, so I've reverted to the previous (1.0.0.66) version and all is well again. I reported my experience to Christian, who did say there may be another test version soon.
thanks
Can you downgrad the EX to the last working FW version?
LordPurple wrote:
I did not have much luck with the new firmware, which I got from Christian. After it was loaded, the extender factory reset, reconfigured - no devices could successfully attach to the extender - meaning, they could connect to the 2G or 5G WiFi network (layer 1/2) but were not given a routable DHCP address (layer 3) so they would show "No internet connection". The link from the extender to the base router (Netgear C3700) was fine, as I was able to log into the extender from the router network and the status page showed everything normal. This is basically the same pathology I had with the last (bad) firmware. Several extender reboots and factory resets as well as a reset of the base router did not help, so I've reverted to the previous (1.0.0.66) version and all is well again. I reported my experience to Christian, who did say there may be another test version soon.
FURRYe38 wrote:
Can you downgrad the EX to the last working FW version?
Yes - that is what I said above - after the test FW did not work, I reverted to the "1.0.0.66" version. As long as you can connect to the extender, you can downgrade the FW.
Ah ok, kewl. Hopefully next FW will fix what ever is broke in the last version. :smileyfrustrated:
