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[ashishchandra]

Good News Guys, New Firmware 1.20 released with 80+80Mhz Support. Finally !!!

[wonders81]

Can I found a changelog somewhere?

[ashishchandra]

Am also waiting for the same, since its not uploaded on any website.

Things i notice so far:-

1. Wireless 80+80 Mhz support.
2. Status LED.
3. New Firewall Options included for IPV6

[GreenBay42]

Where did you find this? This firmware is not in our global database.

[wonders81]

I just installed ver 1.20 over the automatic update. The router said a new firmware is available when I signed in.

[GreenBay42]

Thanks. The firmware is usually pushed through our global database a week before they publish it on the firmware server. I guess this one is an exception.  I will contact the router guys for the official release notes.

[ashishchandra]

Where did you find this? This firmware is not in our global database.

Popped up on D-Link mobile app.

[FurryNutz]

Checked mine today via router UI, v1.20 appeared and installed. I now have the 80+80Mhz support on 5Ghz. 

I'll put this online this week and test it out. 

[caraM]

Can someone explain to a non-expert network admin what 80+80Mhz gives me?

[FurryNutz]

It means if you have a client devices that also supports 80+80Mhz channel width on 5Ghz, the connection rate between the 882 and this device will be 1700Mb instead of 1300Mb. 

Can someone explain to a non-expert network admin what 80+80Mhz gives me?

[FurryNutz]

Setup a NetGear R7960P in wireless bridge mode connected to the DIR-882 v1.20 in router mode today. Looking good: 
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/ad255b44-dd5f-4f73-8f2a-a840de5f0890

The R7960P supports 160Mhz, however I can't tell if it's connected at 1700Mb. I'll connect my R7800 in wireless bridge mode and it will let me know if it's connected at 1700Mb. 

[FurryNutz]

Well the R7800 reports 17333Gb/s in wireless bridge mode with the DIR-882:
WiFi0   ath0 ESSID:"Airport Extreme" , CH:153(P)+149(S), Frequency:5.805 GHz Rate:1.7333 Gb/s, Tx-Power (100%):29 dBm (794 mW), RSSI:-46 dBm

Speed test is good too. 

[Malechai]

Looks like they also added an auto firmware update feature with scheduled time option as well

[me_iauras]

Could someone else please check if my experience is unique or it can be reproduced .
Before the upgrade to v1.2  from v1.11 I used to get ~60-62 MB/s from my NAS ( wired of course )to my laptop ( Intel 7260 AC 2x2 wifi card ) but now it seems that it tops out at ~40 MB/s .
The 160 MHz channels do nothing for me right now since I have no compatible clients but the bug fixes to IPv6 Prefix Delegation issue (ISP RDS Romania ) and also the fix for the VPN Server / Firewall issue (which by the way is a little better @16 Mb/s speed both up/down from a max of 12-13 Mb/s on v1.11) are things for which I would like to keep using v1.2 but not at the expense of loosing 33% wireless bandwidth ( the link speed is still 867 Mb/s but the actual throughput is way worse ).

[FurryNutz]

Was a factory reset and setup from scratch performed after loading v1.20?

Could someone else please check if my experience is unique or it can be reproduced .
Before the upgrade to v1.2  from v1.11 I used to get ~60-62 MB/s from my NAS ( wired of course )to my laptop ( Intel 7260 AC 2x2 wifi card ) but now it seems that it tops out at ~40 MB/s .
The 160 MHz channels do nothing for me right now since I have no compatible clients but the bug fixes to IPv6 Prefix Delegation issue (ISP RDS Romania ) and also the fix for the VPN Server / Firewall issue (which by the way is a little better @16 Mb/s speed both up/down from a max of 12-13 Mb/s on v1.11) are things for which I would like to keep using v1.2 but not at the expense of loosing 33% wireless bandwidth ( the link speed is still 867 Mb/s but the actual throughput is way worse ).