Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[V@nо]

Oh, ok, I guess dlink has better ideas...no wonder it confuses.
wiki: N/A


Any way, are these 2 items in changes log is the only changed in this version? doesn't look much for releasing a whole new version...

[Trikein]

I have this feeling in a couple months something new is going to come out and thats what all the firmware coders are. Who knows though. I still love my 4500 

[LookIntoMyEyees]

What did you mean by something new and thats all the firmware coders are? What? I got lost, I say shh and just LookIntoMyEyees.
Btw tricky this is none forum related xD but if you have cod waw lets hope on and shoot up some zombies.
                  It never hurts a man to get off topic or does it? The world will never know! As for the sigs don't worry I am testing peoples reactions to them if you guys don't like them and wish them to be removed I will do so.

--
Chris

[FurryNutz]

  Stay on subject please.

[LookIntoMyEyees]

EEEKK!! whats with that Angry macho face, (Means no sig  )

[Trikein]

Umm..well..his Sig and no more less on topic then a certian Halo character. ::grin::

But yea, back on topic, what I meant is I wonder if the reason the release is late and less then impressive is they(the encoders) got pulled off the 4500 and put on something new? So maybe Dlink was waiting for them to have time to finish it..but then went..::meh:: and just released it. I think that release date matches up when they stopped releasing updates for the 4300 no?

[V@nо]

Stress testing v1.23NA for one full day now, so far works solid, same as v1.22NA, no issues to report.

But yea, back on topic, what I meant is I wonder if the reason the release is late and less then impressive is they(the encoders) got pulled off the 4500 and put on something new? So maybe Dlink was waiting for them to have time to finish it..but then went..::meh:: and just released it. I think that release date matches up when they stopped releasing updates for the 4300 no?

You actually talking about new hardware...
Well, not surprising as 4500 is how old already, 2-3 years? I'm surprised it took them that long to cook up something better...
P.S. this is still off topic though.

[ashman40]

I needed to add my input on this new FW release.... IT ROCKS!

Just bought my DGL-4500 last week (from a US vendor).  Since I hooked it up and clicked the upgrade firmware button during the setup I've been miserable.  It upgraded to only FW1.15 (I live outside the US so maybe this was the latest FW on the closest FW source).  I think it had FW1.02 in there before I clicked the button.

Ever since then I have experienced all of the following problems:

• Some website cannot be displayed and NEVER timeout (loading icon forever) (eg. www.delta.com)
• Most websites load fine, but some images on some websites never load (loading icon forever)
• My Thunderbird email client cannot connect to ANY of my email hosts to download new email (three separate email providers).  Thunderbird makes a connection but eventually times out downloading the email
• WireShark captures indicated timesouts; checksum errors on packets; missing previous segment warnings
  

I tried reset to default immediately before loading the FW and immediately afterwards.  Nothing seemed to help.  I disabled any feature I wasn't using, but the above pattern was always there.  From two different wired PCs.  My iPhone connected over WiFi was able to load the mobile versions of the delta.com site.

Upgraded to FW1.22NA since it appeared to be very stable (based on comments in another thread).  Same issues.

Downgraded to FW1.20NA... same.

Each time I would restore defaults before loading the FW bin file, and then restore defaults immediately after the load rebooted.  Nothing helped.... until I loaded FW1.23NA.

So far, everything is working EXACTLY as I would expect.  The two sites that I COULD NOT load on my Firefox nor my IE8 browser... delta.com and partycity.com... Both loaded on my first try!


Needless to say, (so far) I am VERY happy with FW1.23NA.  If anything changes... I will update this thread.  Fingers crossed for now.


Now, why did I need to go through all that pain?  The difference between FW1.22 and FW1.23 are not significant, but they were night & day for my router.
I see one step that I did differently on the last FW load... immediately after loading the FW and the router had rebooted... I pulled the power connection because I had to leave the house and didn't want to leave an unconfigured/unpassworded router connected to my network.  But I don't believe a cold boot is required for a FW update, is it?

If anyone knows WHY my router was running so badly under all the previous FW versions I tried... please chime in.

I might try loading an earlier version just to see if I can re-create the issue, but then again... why tempt fate?



AshMan40

[V@nо]

If anyone knows WHY my router was running so badly under all the previous FW versions I tried... please chime in.

It's because started with v1.12 the quality of FW went down hill at exponential rate. Only since v1.22 it brought back this router to life. I think upgrading to v1.23 fixed all the problems was an coincident, if you'd downgrade to v1.22 and confirm that the problem remains, then I'll take my words back.

[JoeScan]

I'm still running absolutely perfect on 1.23 since release day with all my networked connections.

[LookIntoMyEyees]

I'm still running absolutely perfect on 1.23 since release day with all my networked connections.

  Same here I did mention I got a restart on 1.22 N/A a while back, But with 1.23. N/A It has been very stable and good so far. 6 Days & counting.

[Trikein]

I wish I could brag on how long my router has been up, but I play with it so much its never up for longer then a few days. LOL

[JoeScan]

I did have have a problem but it wasn't the router instead my cable modem wasn't getting good Signal To Noise Ratio levels and I needed to double booster my connection. I know it sounds crazy I have two booster's on the run but it's working freaking great and my levels are almost perfect now in every aspect.

[LookIntoMyEyees]

Wow two boosters do sound crazy! I got no boosters in my line, unless there is one outside. Well Tricky I can't brag no more I had to restart to test a few things oh well. 3 hours and counting

[Trikein]

Hmm, boosters don't increase your signal to noise ratio (SNR) because all it does it amplify your noise as much as amplify your signal, hence, keeping your signal to noise ratio  the same. It would be the equivalent of having a scratched CD so turning the volume full blast. Sure, you can hear it better, but its skill going to skip. And if anything, since its another connection point, its just going to make it worse, just like talking through a bull horn makes your voice less clear. On top of that, it adds resistance, increase your transmit or TX levels, and makes your receive or RX levels out of specs. I mean the proofs in the pudding, so if it works, cool, but don't be surprised if you have issues.