1.06g knocked out wireless

[xox101]

Hello all, I have upgraded a clients 7800N to the 1.06g firmware and now have no wireless! The wireless light is on but the router ssid does not show up on any laptop I have tried, 3 in all. I have tried it with the previous settings and without any security with no joy.

I have flashed the router three times, each time resetting it back to factory settings before flashing and then restarting it on factory settings but no matter what I try the wireless does not work!

It worked perfectly up until I flashed the newest firmware, could a firmware flash actually cause a hardware fault?

I am now going to try flashing back to 1.06f in the hope that gets the wireless working again but in the meantime has anyone else had this problem?

I have tried the forum search function but it seems worse than useless telling me that no matter what I enter it is too common!

[xox101]

Flashed back to 1.06f and wireless worked immediately. I have flashed my own 7800N with 1.06g with no problem and the client bought the same router on my recommendation but on his 1.06g knocks out the wireless.

Anybody any ideas.

[leckytech]

Yep,

1.06g is seriously flawed and although seems to work correctly on most there are a significant number that dont. I too had a similar problem to yours but it was only 1 laptop that couldnt connect or see the SSID. I had to change channels down to 6 as 9 or 13 would not work at all and was missing from Inssider. Added to that the wifi drops out all the time on all devices and I have now even reverted back to 1.06e to no avail.

Wish Billion would get their fingers out and sort this out as my router is effectively broken. Poor poor show releasing a shoddy firmware!

[tinytim]

When you've flashed with 1.06g did you use the current settings or the default factory settings? The latter is recommended btw.

If the wireless light is on could it be that the SSID is just hidden?

[xox101]

Used factory default settings each time. Second and third flash I reset to factory settings using the reset button at the back before flashing then restarted using factory settings. At no time did I try to restart using previous settings.

Wireless light was on constantly, not flashing like it normally does, ssid was not set as hidden and security was set to off. According to status page wireless was on but it simply wasn't!

I think Billion needs to do a lot more testing before releasing firmware like this.

I'm just thankful wireless came back after reverting to 1.06f and I think that is where it will be staying!

Thanks for the replies and advice.

[dog-man]

I too am having problems with wireless on my 7800N with the latest firmware.
I did a factory reset after flashing the new firmware.
It did not have any settings as it was brand new out of the box.

My wireless is very intermittent.
Loads of dropouts and my internet radio's just stay on connecting / retrying for long periods.

Sometimes powering down the router and then powering back up fixes it, but it is only temporary.
I am still using ADSL. Fibre is a few weeks or so away for me.


dog-man

[NigelS]

Wireless light was on constantly, not flashing like it normally does

Is this a change that has been made in f/w 1.06g?

I have just upgraded to the new release (from 1.06d and resetting to factory defaults) and everything seems fine so far (wireless included), except that I also notice the wireless green LED is solid now, and does not flash at all.

Perhaps this is working as designed in the new firmware, though I would have thought that if they were making any change to the function of this LED, it ought to be so that the light flashed only when there was any wireless activity.

NigelS

[dog-man]

My wireless light has never flashed / blinked either.



dog-man

[tinytim]

Mine used to flash as though it was polling but since 1.06g (now that you've mentioned it) it doesn't.

[rbz5416]

I know this is an old thread but just thought I'd post my experience of just having "upgraded" from f to g firmware.

No problems at all with the flash & everything worked as it did before. But then today I ran up an old XP PC to give to a neighbour. Configured originally with a TP-Link N150 USB adapter & all was well. Then tried an old Netgear "g" USB adapter & it couldn't see the 7800n. It appears that the SSID isn't being broadcast on the "g" band but is on "n". I was able to manually enter the SSID & the Netgear then connected fine.

Don't know if this gives any pointers or helps anyone else searching for the problem but there it is.

Quite surprised to see no further updates since May...