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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-855 => Topic started by: Magnetron1 on January 23, 2010, 07:14:46 AM
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This new firmware implements the HNAP protocol. See this link for details: http://hnap.org/ (http://hnap.org/)
After installing this firmware, DNS immediately refused to work until I performed a hard reset to factory defaults. (I have DNS Relay disabled and the router was NOT passing the DNS server IP addresses to the PC's.)
While manually entering the configuration, I noticed that the 5 GHz channel width options have changed to 20 MHz and Auto 20/40 MHz instead of the previous 20 MHz and 40 MHz. I hope this doesn't bring back the old "Good Neighbor" problem that was in some of the older firmwares where the router was easily forced into the 20 MHz mode by the presence of other routers in the neighborhood. Incidentally the 20 MHz channel width is now the default for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. (40 MHz bandwidth is required for connection speeds over 150 MHz.)
Other than the above mentioned problems, the router is so far performing well.
Get your copy here: ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Beta/Firmware/ (ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Beta/Firmware/)
After installation the Status page will show firmware: 1.22NA 2010/01/21.
Good Luck!!
Regards,
Magnetron1
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20/40 Mhz only ?
That's a no go for me ! ;)
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I just installed the firmware as well. However, I did not have any of the problems you mentioned.
The HNAP protocol is an interesting addition. I installed Cisco's Network Magic (http://purenetworks.com/product/pro.php (http://purenetworks.com/product/pro.php)) to see what the protocol could do for me.
It does make administering a network much easier from a single interface. It did not add any additional functionality but did consolidate some of the network administration tasks to a single screen. It will even allow you to easily lock down a network with the network filtering without having to type any MAC addresses in. You just make sure the devices you trust are identified and when you lock it down, it puts in all the MAC addresses and turns on filtering for you. I am assuming this was not possible before HNAP was on the router but this is just an assumption.
I wonder what D-link has up it's sleeve with adding this protocol.
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HNAP was there since the first day of this router.
They only fixed a security hole in this implementation.
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Where? Oh! Where? Are the Release Notes?
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Where? Oh! Where? Are the Release Notes?
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=10679.0
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HNAP was there since the first day of this router.
They only fixed a security hole in this implementation.
Well, had you never said it, I would have never known of the existance of HNAP :D
Nor would I have known of Cisco Network Magic Pro. Interesting tool for visualizing your network. It's too bad I can't put in custom mappings of rooms and switches though. As it is, it is just very cluttered. I do like some of the features to view and change the router's configuration though.
(http://cranium.thruhere.net/photo/convert.php?dir=4d697363&name=4e6574776f726b204d616769632050726f2e6a7067&type=1&v=0)
The network history, reporting and internet access are also fabulous tools.
(http://cranium.thruhere.net/photo/convert.php?dir=4d697363&name=4e6574776f726b204d616769632050726f312e6a7067&type=1&v=0)
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The 1.22 beta 04 brings more issues back for me than it resolves. I now have packets being dropped on the LAN, I still have packets dropping and errors on the wireless 2.4GHz, and I'm now starting to get errors on the 5GHz wireless as well. Great job D-Link! ): I had reset the stats to see if they came back so below is just for the past few minutes.
LAN Statistics
Sent : 4814 .
TX Packets Dropped : 3 .
Collisions : 0 .
Received : 4490 .
RX Packets Dropped : 0 .
Errors : 0 .
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WAN Statistics
Sent : 3641 .
TX Packets Dropped : 0 .
Collisions : 0 .
Received : 4826 .
RX Packets Dropped : 0 .
Errors : 0 .
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Wireless Statistics – 2.4GHz Band
Sent : 2075 .
TX Packets Dropped : 2 .
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Received : 173 .
RX Packets Dropped : 0 .
Errors : 2 .
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Wireless Statistics – 5GHz Band
Sent : 1423 .
TX Packets Dropped : 0 .
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Received : 489 .
RX Packets Dropped : 0 .
Errors : 1
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We used to work with Pure Networks who made Network Magic before Cisco purchased it.
We closed the security failure with the previous versions.
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I always had a few packets dropped on LAN when the router starts. Check if it occurs after start.
The fact that you get some errors sometimes on 2G4 and 5G is fine. There is a trade-off between pushing up speed and getting errors. Just make the router very slow and you do not have any errors, but you system will overall be slow. The ratio between total traffic and errors should be acceptable. If you have too many retransmissions you will loose speed due to them.
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Downloaded the firmware, set it pure default, and set the wireless to 20/40, left all the other settings default.
Definately getting alot less wireless errors.
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What it the average throughput compared to before?
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Hi. Just went to download and see TWO FW 122b04NA folders with the same creation date. I assume you guys are talking about the one that has HNAP in the folder name, right? The other folder with the FW doesn't have the HNAP capability?
Thanks.
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Here is the link to the latest firmware released on 2/8/2010 which fixes a security hole in HNAP and the DNS Relay slow down issue:
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Firmware/dir855_fw_122NA.zip (ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Firmware/dir855_fw_122NA.zip)
Regards,
Magnetron1
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Release notes are included! About time!!!!!! ;D
They cover releases 1.22NA to 1.10.
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Here is the link to the latest firmware released on 2/8/2010 which fixes a security hole in HNAP and the DNS Relay slow down issue:
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Firmware/dir855_fw_122NA.zip (ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir855/Firmware/dir855_fw_122NA.zip)
Regards,
Magnetron1
Thanks, had some serious slowdown issues over the last few days, lets hope this fixes it.
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Thanks, had some serious slowdown issues over the last few days, lets hope this fixes it.
I don't get it?? That version is the same as 122b04na, its the same date (01/21/2010) not 02/08/2010, look at the file date, and when you upgrade its still 01/21/2010
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Thats because it is the same code as the beta. That statement was made on the forum where you could download the beta from.
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Router keeps rebooting after about 24 hrs, doesn't seem stable.
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SO... is there a newer firmware than 1.22NA, release date 2010/01/21
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SO... is there a newer firmware than 1.22NA, release date 2010/01/21
Nope thats the newest version.
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After 26 days my router rebooted by itself. This is by far the most stable version for mes, so far.
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After 26 days my router rebooted by itself. This is by far the most stable version for mes, so far.
Had another random reboot after 2 days, Im not sure why some are ok until 26 days are some are 2 days. I guess it could boil down to settings and even ISP's at this point, but still; thats 24 more days.
I have some simple questions for you - is gamerfuel on? is wish on?, exactly how is your wireless setup? what settings are not default? and finally, is DNS relay on or off?
I ask this because these are normally the problem areas, untleast from what I've seen.
Just some thoughts, Why is it taking so long to work out what is causing the stability issues on the 4500 and 855? I own both routers, and none have ever gone longer that 30 days without a reboot, and were still trying to work out what the issues are. Is it that the only feedback we can give is something like it doesn't work or it does? How can we improve the feedback that we give to D-link? Because this issue has truely plagued D-link routers and its seems that nothing can fix the issue.
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I am having the exact same problems. The DNS settings drop out in as little as 4 hours especially if I am streaming a video. I have called Tech support and was told to reinstall the update but that did not make any differrence at all.
This version definitely fixed problems with the wireless connection but this issue is much worse. I would appeciate any help on this issue. Can I go back to an earlier version if there is no fix?
JC
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Yeah, streaming video is an issue with this firmware, I can measure 15mb download on a speed test and streams from multipal sites can't stream cleanly. This has been happening for some time however, and Im in a position where I don't know if its the router or the ISP. However after looking at some speed tests it does appear to be the router, I don't know what is causing this, it could be like you say; a DNS issue, which has been an issue for d-link for years now.
On a side note, because of this streaming issue, uploading also seems very poor and completely unstable, good one min, next the whole upload drops. There's no stability what so ever on the upload.
We get back to the router being able to handle a consistent stream of data, and it still can't do that yet, again, I have no idea if this is all related to the DNS issues on the router, or just router configuration. It does it factory default anyway, and I haven't found one setting that truely improves streaming, even turning everything off, and I mean everything, from gamerfuel to WISH, to firewalls and SPI's and wireless, nothing seems to help the streams.
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I solved my dns issue by using opendns. it works like a charm and resolves this bug. Dlink should solve their problem but in the meantime this works great. try it at www.opendns.com
JC