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[fordem]

I have been a reader for a long time as you can see my account. I am not those fly-by posters.

I often checked station-drivers for latest drivers because the manufacturers don't update them very often. I don't know how but the guys at station-drivers.com can obtain the latest stuff when many of them are not even released yet.

Station-drivers often is down, therefore I post a mirror link at media-fire.

I guess D-Link not releasing it because it may not be tested extensively, but we are all beta testers here aren't we?

Obviously, it's your choice, however using software from an unknown source has it's dangers - ranging from simply bricking the hardware to compromising your network, data integrity and potentially identity theft.

I have long campaigned against this practise - and a few years back, after one post on the dangers, I offered - in the same thread - a hacked version of the DNS-323 firmware, describing it as a new beta release and was startled at the amount of requests.

With relatively small pieces of code, a NIC driver for example, it's not that easy to get creative, but, the DNS-323 firmware is large (>7MB for 1.07) and is an entire linux operating system - it's easy to slip a remote access trojan in there.

As you can see, there is a bit more risk than just a bad beta - but at the end of the day - it's your choice, it's your data, it's your identity

[Tilly]

Perhaps because it is not released by D-Link USA.

As station-drivers.com is a french site, maybe a european supporter gave this firmware to a user with problems and the user sent it to the site.

I did not find it on any official public D-link server. So it seems not to be released for public.
But nevertheless it runs fine.

Perhaps you are the distributor for the non official 1.08b07 version.
If it is not for the public, why do you distribute it publicly?

[lizzi555]

Perhaps you are the distributor for the non official 1.08b07 version.

Thanks but I only downloaded it from station drivers site.
On my server are nearly all older and newer firmwares not only for DNS-323.
All firmwares on my server are downloaded from public sites, mostly D-Link FTP sites round the world.

"Normal" users always should stick to the official firmwares for their country. Only download and use other firmwares if you know what you do. It is on your own risk.

Btw.: this 1.08b07 is running now the 6. day here without problems.

[dmnc]

Btw.: this 1.08b07 is running now the 6. day here without problems.

Dude, if there's a rootkit or whatever in there, the whole point is that you shouldn't notice. The days of viruses displaying a message then destroying all your data or something similar are since long gone. Today, they'll just use your NAS to send out bulk emails or whatever.

And isn't this an official D-link forum by the way? I find it odd that there's no official reply to this thread.

[gunrunnerjohn]

I can wait for the official release. 

[D-Link Multimedia]

So let me get this straight...im being flamed now for giving information as requested?

[gunrunnerjohn]

So let me get this straight...im being flamed now for giving information as requested?

It would appear that way.    You simply can't please all of the people all of the time it would seem.

[rlukawski]

i've checked out 1.5 T WD Drive, with the lates beta (b07) DNS-323 still see only 500G:

 Vendor       Model       Serial Number       Size
 WDC     WD15EADS-00P8B0     WD-WMAVU0180057     500 GB

Do any of you have seen similar problem ?

Regards

[D-Link Multimedia]

1.08 b07 was not released publically for a very simple reason. It had not been tested yet. We do not post things straight from engineering to the web, thats how you brick units. When testing has matured a little it will either be released as beta or go out as an official release.

I can not speak on behalf of UK support at all. While we are a World Wide company, D-Link US is not tied into UK's support, releases or anything of those sorts. Its different management in a different country. These boards are specifically here for D-Link US products and services and support.

Regarding your last message. I state this all the time, "These forums are here for D-Link Technical Support". If you want to be taken seriously as a complaint it should go through the customer service department. The main issue I see here is if you are in UK its not going to work =\.

We are doing the best with the resources we have and as of right now 1.08 b07 is being lab tested for future release.

[nohelp]

"When testing has matured a little it will either be released as beta or go out as an official release."

If I go with that logic then we should have seen a B06 and have been able to provide feedback to maybe fix more that 2 bugs in B07. We're here to help you make better software, if you can't see that then I would suggest closing the beta program and continue to release buggy software.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, many times an internal beta is released and then almost immediately found to have a significant flaw.  In that case, if it's been distributed to a number of people, the beta number is incremented.  It's really not reasonable to expect every numbered beta to make it to public release, and I wouldn't want one that has an obvious bug anyway.

[D-Link Multimedia]

It is clear the more advanced versions of the firmware exist but they just not used to test with customers cause D-Link is not in a position to even reason why this is not so.

Lets make one thing very clear. Beta sections and releases are not required to be given by any company. We opened these sections so that users could give their input publicly on device changes that they would like to see. We have every right to remove this section and make releases based on our own testing without any input from users on product changes. Are we making changes that users have requested? Yes. Are we making ALL changes that users have requested? No, and that is the way it will always be.

Essentially D-Link is clearly not allowing representatives here which are capable of providing us with the means to fix our issues, that is a shame.

What type of representative would that be? Please remember you are posting in a beta firmware post on beta boards regarding beta code.

Aside from all this, we are working on a firmware, with customer requested changes and new feature additions, on a product that has been in the market for over 3 years. Please show me another company who is doing the same thing for their consumer devices and their customers.

Now I could sit here all day and go back and forth but I have seen your posts and the majority of them are just flames, non-constructive posts bashing D-Link.  If you have anything else that may be constructive like a list of your gripes go ahead and post them but try to keep it civil so that you do not come off as someone strictly here to flame and not actually get things changed.

[D-Link Multimedia]

Just to make sure I make a mention since I missed it in my last post. While we could just as well pull down this section and remove beta testing all together, that is not our intention. The responses (although some flames) in the beta section is very helpful to engineering staff when identifying bugs. I do not want it to seem like we are doing everything because in fact alot of the testing from users is invaluable to us since everyones testing environment is different. The way users copy data, stream data and so forth is different for everyone. I just want to make it clear that we do appreciate all the constructive feedback and are glad that we have such an active community for these products.

Thank You

[DocD]

X3, your comments are getting pretty tiresome.  You do not speak for me nor do I suspect the majority of users.  1.08b05 is doing everything I need (more than D-Link advertised) and I appreciate D-Link is able to give us the beta to try out before official release.  Childish threats really don't belong here...

-DocD
(First post)

Mod - I would suggest this thread has outlived it's topic - might be time to lock it down...

[D-Link Multimedia]

Thank you Doc. I think I can agree that the original topic of discussion has been answered. Locking thread.