Linksys WRT1900AC First User Reports

[htismaqe]

I can tell you that I have my printer, now wired into LAN 1 port on the R7000 and its shows perfectly every time from every computer on my network. Does not disappear and shows as a wired device on the Network map. (.60 firmware)

So this is the first report that the .60 firmware fixes the wired/wireless issue? Or did you never have the issue in the 1st place?

You can't tell me you don't have random reboots with the WRT 1900. Thats why I dumped it.

I don't have, and never have had, random reboots with the WRT1900AC. I've already gotten 5x the uptime out of the WRT1900AC than I ever got out of the R7000.

 

[htismaqe]

Haven't experienced this issue, so I can't comment. I transfer files between my wife's mother's desktop (wired) and my laptop (wireless) all the time. No problem.

As often as you switch back and forth between DD-WRT and stock, have you ever given the stock firmware 2 or 3 days to manifest the problem? It doesn't happen instantaneously.

 

[htismaqe]

Hey, without the status page, I couldn't even have verified that I was getting reboots, that's not what Linksys wants you to know. This stuff, along with telnet is all too sophisticated for Linksys customers to handle. If Linksys thought that you could deal with it, they'd have put all those dangerous settings and status information in an easier place to find *smile*. This is the Romper Room of router web admin GUI's, you know. Can't have you hurting yourself.

You're talking about hundreds of thousands of devices. Why would they want to expose settings that could generate hundreds of thousands of tech support calls?

I understand the enthusiast side of this but I also understand the business side of it as well.

 

[htismaqe]

It's cool finding these pages. But some people may mess with the settings and mess their entire network up. I was looking at the beam forming settings but not touching it till I found out more about it.

I've noticed a lot of recommendations lately with both Asus and Netgear (in this forum and in others) to disable beam forming.

I would suggest if your router is working, don't mess with it.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
My idea of it is turn it on with both Implicit and explicit or turn it off.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
Router's job is staying up 24/7. All routers I had, have done that. Maybe I don't load it heavy enough? WRT is up since I got it, still up counting 40 some days. I upgraded f/w twice on the fly, that's it. R7000 is sitting next to it, turned off. I noticed latest V1.0.3 60 f/w. Don't feel like to try it. No serious fix.

 

[htismaqe]

I never had problems with the R7000 rebooting or dropping wireless radios or any of that.

The only issue I ever had was that after 2 or 3 days of uptime, the switch would suddenly assume all wireless clients were hard-wired, cutting off connectivity to my printer, my NAS, and several other devices. Since the only way to fix the problem was to reboot the router, it was impossible to build more than 2-3 days of continuous uptime.

I'm 2 hours away from 10 days on the WRT and still going strong.

EDIT: I should also note that the R7000 had issues transferring large (>100MB) files over AFP that Netgear could never figure out.

 

[RogerSC]

Hi,
Router's job is staying up 24/7. All routers I had, have done that. Maybe I don't load it heavy enough? WRT is up since I got it, still up counting 40 some days. I upgraded f/w twice on the fly, that's it. R7000 is sitting next to it, turned off. I noticed latest V1.0.3 60 f/w. Don't feel like to try it. No serious fix.

Just about the reverse of that. WRT1900AC sitting turned off, waiting for better firmware. R7000 on, and doing a great job *smile*. So it goes.

 

[htismaqe]

Just about the reverse of that. WRT1900AC sitting turned off, waiting for better firmware. R7000 on, and doing a great job *smile*. So it goes.

You still running .61 beta or are you back on DD-WRT (or are you on Shibby Tomato now)?

 

[cc666]

yes

Just about the reverse of that. WRT1900AC sitting turned off, waiting for better firmware. R7000 on, and doing a great job *smile*. So it goes.

Same here...........on .60, wired printer never drops and is instantaneous.
WRT1900 reboots galore no matter what firmware.

CC

 

[htismaqe]

Same here...........on .60, wired printer never drops and is instantaneous.
WRT1900 reboots galore no matter what firmware.

CC

Did your printer ever drop on previous firmware?

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
My printer is WiFi connected. Have Synology DS713+ with exp. cabinet. 3 surveillance cameras on 24/7. I can live with either router w/o any problem. Maybe some problem
is caused by client devices? Compatibility issue, things like that. Router can't be 100%
at fault for all the problems mentioned.

 

[htismaqe]

Most of the people who originally reported the problem have moved onto other routers and they don't have the problem anymore. Pretty much points to the router.

What kind of a printer do you have?

As far as I know all of the reports of the issue included either an HP or Epson wireless printer. I think there might have been one Canon but it was several weeks ago so it's tough to remember.

And just so it's clear, when the problem popped up, my PC connected directly to the R7000 via wireless could not connect to either of the Netgear wireless access points connected to the R7000 via wired connections. In "Attached Devices", the R7000 listed my PC as a wired device even though it was connected via wireless.

It really didn't have anything to do with the printer. The printer just happened to be the most commonly-used device so it was the first one to show up with a problem.

 

[sfx2000]

Interesting that you mention printer sharing... perhaps a good catch here.

The Linksys GPL dump doesn't include CUPS, which is GPL, so perhaps they're using proprietary code, or they're using Samba to share the printer... when I say "they" it means more than just Linksys...

I've got an HP OfficeJet 4620 with WiFi, so it's not attached to the WRT1900ac via USB - and no WRT1900ac stability issues noted here.

Have to do WiFi there as I need network scanning, and it basically just works for Mac, a bit of work for Win/Linux...

Mac's use CUPS - and the printer also supports Apple's AirPrint natively for iOS...

sfx

 

[RMerlin]

Interesting that you mention printer sharing... perhaps a good catch here.

The Linksys GPL dump doesn't include CUPS, which is GPL, so perhaps they're using proprietary code, or they're using Samba to share the printer... when I say "they" it means more than just Linksys...

I've got an HP OfficeJet 4620 with WiFi, so it's not attached to the WRT1900ac via USB - and no WRT1900ac stability issues noted here.

Have to do WiFi there as I need network scanning, and it basically just works for Mac, a bit of work for Win/Linux...

Mac's use CUPS - and the printer also supports Apple's AirPrint natively for iOS...

sfx

Asus uses u2ec and LPRng to handle printer sharing, maybe that's also what Linksys uses?

 

[sfx2000]

Asus uses u2ec and LPRng to handle printer sharing, maybe that's also what Linksys uses?

I think you're correct here - seems reasonable enough - they're lightweight and u2ec provides the hotplug capabilities... With the odd USB2/eSATA and USB3, who knows?

In any event, only the samba code is in the GPL code drop from Linksys...

sfx

 

[htismaqe]

For the record, I'm not talking about sharing a printer via USB on the router.

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
I am a fan of Canon printers for long time. Never had good experience with Epson or HP. At present Canon MP990 connected to 2.4GHz -g mode. It's like wired, never gives any problem. Family drives this printer quite heavily, producing text documents, photos, etc. I just load paper tray, replace ink cart.. Jam is very rare using cheap paper from Walmart. B4 WiFi printer became common, there were several WiFi printer servers, most of them did not work 100%......

 

[sm00thpapa]

Checked my network map today and my chromecast is still showing up with 8 different Mac addresses and using 8 different IP addresses from the router. I'm stumped.

Sent from my LG-D800 using Tapatalk

 

[htismaqe]

Checked my network map today and my chromecast is still showing up with 8 different Mac addresses and using 8 different IP addresses from the router. I'm stumped.

Sent from my LG-D800 using Tapatalk

Must be issues with Chromecast and this router...

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=17594

Pete says when he plugs in a USB drive, his Chromecast gets booted off the router and can't reconnect.