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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-857 => Topic started by: FurryNutz on May 23, 2012, 07:22:38 AM
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News Update (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?board=303.0)
Let us know of your experiences here.
NOTE: if your 857 router is working with out any issues, it's recommended to keep the current version of FW that is loaded unless your are effected by one of the 3 fixes.
IF IT WORKS, DON'T FIX IT!!! ::)
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What's a "BT issue"? Bluetooth interference?
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or Bit Torrent interference. ::)
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Is there a possibility of downloading firmware 1.00 as well? I always get nervous when I update router firmware, especially if there's no possibility of going back to the previous one (and, except for the ''[truncated] m" message, it works well).
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FTP (http://ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/dir857/Firmware/)
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Erm, well, I flashed the new firmware using Google Chrome. When I cliched "upload" rather than seeing it upload, I got a dialog asking me to check an option to prevent any further dialogs from opening. Not knowing quite what to do, I ignored that and continued. Then I got a new tab with a Dlink logo and some other stuff that didn't seem related to firmware update. I waited quite a while and nothing happened, so I returned to the previous page and this time checked off the option to suppress further dialogs. When I continued, this time I saw the firmware update being uploaded and everything went as I had expected it would. Except, once the firmware update process was done, the router never restarted. When I looked at it, the power LED was completely off. So I unplugged and replugged it. The LED came on as a yellow light and stayed that way. No blue lights at all. Not even after waiting 10 minutes.
Is this thing bricked?
Where did I go wrong? How was this supposed to have wowrked? Did anyone ever test the firmware update process with Google Chrome?
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bc
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So after this I presume that you can no longer get to the routers web page?
I highly recommend using IE, Opera or FF for uploading FW updates. I have seen some issues in using Chrome and router web pages. I personally don't use Chrome for managing or updating the router.
I presume you were wired and not wireless to the router?
Did you follow the firmware update process sticky? Firmware Updating (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=42457.0)
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Correct, the router is unresponsive. I was definitely wired (over GB ethernet). The only step I skipped in the FW update process was the reset to factory after backing up the config. Never had to do that with my DIR-655.
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bc
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FYI, It's highly recommended to do factory reset after saving the config.
Lets try this: Emergency Recovery Mode (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=44909.0)
If this fails to recover the router, You'll need to return this router to place of purchase or RMA it.
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Perhaps having the U/I of the router automatically revert to factory settings when the upload firmware button is pressed (after upload but just before actually flashing) could be a new feature... Some users might get miffed, but a warning dialog indicating exactly what is happening (encouraging settings save prior, etc.) might be a good idea for future enhancements.
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When the data file is sent, routers, I presume avoid doing anything else and go into the accept mode of receiving and verifying the data file so the router reverting to some other setting would not be possible. More like using a non tested browser like Chrome would be an issue here and how Chrome is handling the connection with the router and the FW file. I highly recommend using known working browsers like IE for Windows and Safari for Mac for updating FW. I personally have tested FF and Opera and they are working well for updating and manging the router. In most cases, when I update FW, I use IE to be safe. I also highly recommend following the steps detailed in the FW update sticky process as each step ensures updating FW is done correctly and prevents any possible update problems. This has been tested and works well.
My 2 cents.
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Hey, has anyone out there performed the 1.01 update successfully? (May not get an answer to this because sometimes only people who have trouble come to the forums)
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Kargo has. A few others have I believe from other sites. I still haven't. I probably won't get a chance to till this weekend.
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FYI, It's highly recommended to do factory reset after saving the config.
Lets try this: Emergency Recovery Mode (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=44909.0)
If this fails to recover the router, You'll need to return this router to place of purchase or RMA it.
It failed. RMA'd. With Chrome overtaking IE in market share, it would be nice if Dlink could test with Chrome in the future. In the meantime, I'll use IE the next time I need to flash.
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bc
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I can't wait to read your review/analysis of the new firmware.
I would not expect the changes to be that phenomenal, considering that it is 1.01 and not 1.1 - but you'll have to let us know.
(I still want to own one, btw, but there are a few things I wanted them to fix - as per my previous posts)
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Sorry that the recovery didn't work. Can you tell me if you were able to get the Recovery Mode screen to display in the browser? Just curious if the 857 is supporting this.
Chrome maybe taking over the market however doesn't mean that Chrome is best use in certain things. Ya in a perfect world it would be nice if every browser worked for everything. It also might mean that this is a Chrome issue and not a router issue either. :-\
Keep us posted on when you get the next one. Hope it works well for you.
It failed. RMA'd. With Chrome overtaking IE in market share, it would be nice if Dlink could test with Chrome in the future. In the meantime, I'll use IE the next time I need to flash.
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bc
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I'm finding Chrome to be having weird issues too. None of which can I think of at this time.
I did the firmware update yesterday and didn't have any issues. I also used Chrome with a wired connection.
I know the "warning" window that pops up. I think I clicked "OK" without putting a check mark in the box or clicked "Cancel" and just went about the update.
The GUI will give you a 300 minute (or so) countdown when the update is in progress. I think it then re-boots the router, but I didn't pay that much attention, to be honest, I had other things annoying me in our house (my 6 year old son).
On the performance, reliability side, I don't notice any difference between the two firmwares.
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It failed. RMA'd. With Chrome overtaking IE in market share, it would be nice if Dlink could test with Chrome in the future. In the meantime, I'll use IE the next time I need to flash.
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Man, that sucks that you couldn't get it to emergency flash. I know the DIR-601 will do it. I had to do that to get DD-WRT off of it and back to stock firmware.
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Hey, rlcronin, were you by any chance set up to log into the router on https when you attempted the upgrade?
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Hi all, I was able to upgrade to the new firmware version...there were moments I did wonder what the router was doing...seemed to "go into space" for a bit but eventually recovered and everything is working fine. -- What I mean by go into space...I got to an orange "Dlink page" which didn't really signal anything was happening...after a short time I was going to reset my router but it then completed a re-start on its own. Good heads up on the Chrome issues...I believe I was using I.E.
Rob
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Sorry that the recovery didn't work. Can you tell me if you were able to get the Recovery Mode screen to display in the browser? Just curious if the 857 is supporting this.
Chrome maybe taking over the market however doesn't mean that Chrome is best use in certain things. Ya in a perfect world it would be nice if every browser worked for everything. It also might mean that this is a Chrome issue and not a router issue either. :-\
Keep us posted on when you get the next one. Hope it works well for you.
No, I did not get the recovery screen. I could not get a response when I tried to point the browser to 192.168.0.1 (and yes, I did set my static IP to an address in the 192.168.0.x range).
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bc
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Hey, rlcronin, were you by any chance set up to log into the router on https when you attempted the upgrade?
No.
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bc
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Hi all, I was able to upgrade to the new firmware version...there were moments I did wonder what the router was doing...seemed to "go into space" for a bit but eventually recovered and everything is working fine. -- What I mean by go into space...I got to an orange "Dlink page" which didn't really signal anything was happening...after a short time I was going to reset my router but it then completed a re-start on its own. Good heads up on the Chrome issues...I believe I was using I.E.
Rob
This is what happened to me as well. However, unlike you after several minutes of nothing happening I figured it was not doing anything so I closed that Dlink tab and initiated the upload again. I guess there was already an upload in progress (but there were NO messages on the screen or in the browser status bar indicating that, which is why I initiated it again ... after I did that there *were* messages in the status bar showing an upload in progress, so I figured I was correct when I concluded the first upload never started, but based on the results that clearly wasn't the case).
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Keep us posted on when you get the next one. Hope it works well for you.
Sure thing, and thanks.
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Those of you who had weird issues with the firmware update. Just out of curiosity, were you using a CAT5(e) or CAT6 cable?
I used a CAT5e.
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Updated to F/W 1.01 successfully ;D
1) Downloaded the BIN to the Desktop...LAN machine using Win XP
2) Used Mozilla FireFox 12.0
3) Loaded F/W 1.01, took 238 seconds. Did not touch anything until I saw the router blue globe flashing and the web browser said that it was successful.
4) Reaccessed the Router and saw that it was upgraded to 1.01 and original settings were intact and confirmed both wired and wireless was seeing the whole network...it was.
5) I personally noticed an improvement in the 5GHZ wireless. Gigabit ports worked even better
6) See's my 1TB USB 2.0 HDD and works well.
7) Using Cat 5e thru out the entire system.
Thus far 5 hrs after update it is working like 1.00, but even better!!!!! ;D
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Same experience as Lexist2112, upgraded without a hitch in 238 seconds, all settings intact. Firefox 13 beta.
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Lets keep this thread alive and hope that others will find and join and will be able to install F/W 1.01 and we can all post improvements for the DLink Community. Hopefully the Dlink techies will be reading this thread so that they can tweak future F/W updates. Lets start a list, I'll go 1st.
1) Would like to have both the Auto and Manual option for the MTU.
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You can post requests and such in the forum requests and bugs sticky thread please.
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SO i just updated my Rev A1 using v1.01 using IE9 on wired Windows 7x64. I didn't factory reset before the update as I wanted to see how the configuration held afterwards. Everything held and looks good.
I got 240 seconds after I sent the file. At -50 seconds the power light changed from blue to yellow and started blinking. At -15 seconds it changed back to blue and blinked a few times. I was able to log in and check the status. Up and running.
So this FW takes about 4 minutes to complete. I still recommend saving the config file first.
All is good.
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Are there any "measureable" differences that you can attribute to the new firmware ?
Have any known buggy behavior issues been addressed/fixed ?
It is unfortunate that DLink did not post what changes were made in the new f/w version - at least then we'd know what improvements one can be thankful for.
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Changes were posted and public.
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Gotta love it.
I was going to dlink.CA to look for the f/w update and there was no info there - hence my post.
I just went to dlink.COM and voila - there is the info. I don't know why the .ca version of their site had no info.
Firmware 1.01 5/22/2012
Revision Info:
¤ Fixed: Display status issue.
¤ Fixed: Setup wizard issue.
¤ Fixed: BT issue.
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It's also listed in the News section of the FAQ Library too. ;)
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I upgraded over the weekend. I'm very glad that I read this forum--it's not an upgrade for the faint of heart. even with I.E., I too had the interim orange logo screen that appeared to be in some sort of zombie state after the upgrade timer expired. I waited several minutes and finally saw the success screen, but I couldn't click on the tab to upload my config. It appeared to be crashed. I power-cycled it, then let things settle for a few minutes. Then I logged in and I uploaded my config.bin settings file (I had reset to defaults just prior to upgrading). Non-responsive, it looked like it was crashed, but recovered again a while later. I power-cycled again out of paranoia, then everything was dandy and has been for the past 72 hours. Haven't looked in the logs yet for the "[truncated] m" message.
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So you got a yellow light after the 4 minutes was up? I didn't see this as per my post#29.
You have any security software running while you updated? Mine was disabled.
Glad its back up and running for you though.
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Yeah, yellow light. I was horrified, but figured I'd wait...and it payed off. No security software. I do think, however, that IE9 is doing something funky with caching pages (I did have to close my browser, and no, the gateway IP didn't change). Perhaps Firefox or Safari is a better bet.
Stable as ever now, though (heavy use, 2 Xboxes + PC gaming simultaneously over the very hot weekend).
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Anything is possible now days between OS, Browsers and FW updates. Glad it's working well for you. Enjoy.
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Those of you who had weird issues with the firmware update. Just out of curiosity, were you using a CAT5(e) or CAT6 cable?
I used a CAT5e.
that would not make a difference (I have cat6), know one knew that it would take 300 secs to overwrite the firmware so once you press ok, ok, after upload you cannot do anything within that time, I assume if g chrome page blanked out after that, an individual would get itchy and try to solve it not knowing you are about to brick your router since you mess with it before that time.
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it shouldn't make a difference however the quality of the cables in use can make a difference. Having new cables from places like Deepsurplus or Monoprice can ensure your getting good quality cables and getting good connections. I wouldn't leave anything to chance when using in box cables. Cat5e is good, nothing wrong in using CAT6 which is better. As stated in my post #29, all was good during the FW update. IT TAKES 4 MINUTES to complete the update. SO BE PATIENT!!! ::)
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it shouldn't make a difference however the quality of the cables in use can make a difference. Having new cables from places like Deepsurplus or Monoprice can ensure your getting good quality cables and getting good connections. I wouldn't leave anything to chance when using in box cables. Cat5e is good, nothing wrong in using CAT6 which is better. As stated in my post #29, all was good during the FW update. IT TAKES 4 MINUTES to complete the update. SO BE PATIENT!!! ::)
you mean 5 minutes, 300 secs is 5 minutes, unless it's different time for everyone, but I saw the countdown start from 300 seconds on mine. I know there was a post in the beginning a poster put 300 minutes but I figured that was in error.
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Re-read post #29 again.
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Saved my old config, reset to factory settings, reloaded old settings, no probs whatsoever!
Even used Chrome; alls well here, LAN & WAN both zooming along, very happy! ;D
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Re-read post #29 again.
10/4
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Hi, I tried to upgrade to version 1.01 and everything worked fine, except for my 6in4 IPv6 connection. The LAN didn't get IPv6 address and no RA were sent to the clients. I downgraded to the posted version 1.00, but found out it is actually version 1.00b9 from December 2011 and not the version 1.00shipped with my router. This older version has WPS PIN method enabled and some other issues compared to the version shipped with my router, so now I'm stuck with it.
Can you please:
1. Post the final v1.00 at ftp.dlink.com instead of 1.00b9, so I can revert to the version shipped with my router.
2. Investigate and fix the problem regarding 6in4 with version 1.01. Native IPv6 is nice, but Comcast still hasn't turned it on where I live so I have to use a tunnel to get IPv6 connectivity.
Thanks!
Ref: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=48683.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=48683.0)
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Keep us posted on when you get the next one. Hope it works well for you.
Back from vacation, RMA'd router arrived, re-flashed using IE, all is well.
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bc
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Enjoy.