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Cannot ping the device in same network (MR60)
Switched to this device 3 days ago and having a hardtime managing my network since then. Worst customer-care support ever even with premium support Spend Three hours on calls all-together today wit...
Here are links to the beta firmware "V1.0.6.103_21.03.03_homepod" (hosted on Netgear's Salesforce instance)
This firmware resolves the issue where some devices could not reach each other on my local network. Now my kids can play their games together and I'm able to use my Apple Homepod devices. The downside is that LAN (but not WAN/internet) throughput seems to be reduced.
MR60-V1.0.6.103_21.03.03_homepod.chk
MS60-V1.0.6.103_21.03.03_homepod.chk
I've had pretty good luck with this firmware but your results may vary. Good luck.
Thanks for supplying that. I will have to test it out and see how it does for my environment. Nice to know they are at least aware and working on a fix - just wish they'd get it into the next full release quickly.
TBH, I have no idea how long those links will stay up. If they go down then I'll replace with links to my personal google drive.
I just want some transparency about the issue. The official firmware is legitimately broken.
While it did fix the problem, you were right in that it is slowed down on the local LAN.
I thought that would be acceptable in my environment but almost immediately I realized how much that actually does affect what we do at home. I have a Plex server and it was nearly impossible to locally stream anything to any TV in the house from my server due to the latency in the beta firmware. Oddly enough this was not something I had a problem with before the beta as most of the issues we had were related to file share access and of course inability to print to a printer from one laptop but not others which was the most annoying.
So, I went back to the latest firmware. For now, my only solution is to unplug the satellite and accept that not every system in the house will get as strong a signal.
I think you're right about them potentially having debug logging turned on in this beta firmware. Otherwise it was nice just to see a fix but I will have to hope they just get the fix into the next release.
Did you factory reset the MR and MS after loading up the beta FW and setup from scratch and test?
UpIrons wrote:
While it did fix the problem, you were right in that it is slowed down on the local LAN.
I thought that would be acceptable in my environment but almost immediately I realized how much that actually does affect what we do at home. I have a Plex server and it was nearly impossible to locally stream anything to any TV in the house from my server due to the latency in the beta firmware. Oddly enough this was not something I had a problem with before the beta as most of the issues we had were related to file share access and of course inability to print to a printer from one laptop but not others which was the most annoying.
So, I went back to the latest firmware. For now, my only solution is to unplug the satellite and accept that not every system in the house will get as strong a signal.
I think you're right about them potentially having debug logging turned on in this beta firmware. Otherwise it was nice just to see a fix but I will have to hope they just get the fix into the next release.
