I had legacy support switched on for an old HP wireless b printer. Ditched the printer, switched off legacy support and not had a single problem since. I'm using Macs/PCs/iPhones/iPads and rock solid since then. A lot of my Mac devices are never rebooted and just go to sleep - that seems to work well. On the old firmware, it had difficulty with devices waking from sleep.
Only frustration is that I got a new wireless printer, and it won't automatically reconnect if the router is rebooted/power drops. Not sure if this is the router or the printer, however.
Hope you get it sorted.
Cheers,
JonathanN
Try setting a static IP lease to this device (also known as fixed host), you should be able to find this option under LAN
Well, I discovered another problem which after much nashing of teeth and elimination of other possibilities I came to realise was also a problem of the v2.31 f/w on the 7800VDOX router.
I was trying to transfer files from one laptop to another one, both being connected to the Billion router. This used to work fine at speeds of up to 7-8 MB/s. Under v2.31 I was getting ridiculously slow transfer speeds (2-3 kB/s) and the explorer window on the receiving laptop would keep giving Not Responding messages and when I'd try and close the window it would trigger a crash of the video graphics driver.
I have now gone back to the previous router f/w 2.24b and everything is working fine again - wireless connections are solid & fast and the transfer of files between wirelessly connected devices is back to normal again.
NigelS wrote:Well, I discovered another problem which after much nashing of teeth and elimination of other possibilities I came to realise was also a problem of the v2.31 f/w on the 7800VDOX router.
I was trying to transfer files from one laptop to another one, both being connected to the Billion router. This used to work fine at speeds of up to 7-8 MB/s. Under v2.31 I was getting ridiculously slow transfer speeds (2-3 kB/s) and the explorer window on the receiving laptop would keep giving Not Responding messages and when I'd try and close the window it would trigger a crash of the video graphics driver.
I have now gone back to the previous router f/w 2.24b and everything is working fine again - wireless connections are solid & fast and the transfer of files between wirelessly connected devices is back to normal again.
NigelS
Thanks for the update NigelS, our engineers are investigating the issue with broadcom, the newer firmware 2.32a seems to have wifi issues also. Once I get a update on new firmware, I'll post it on the fourm.
I'm trying to set a fixed IP address for one of my devices. It's connected at present and whenever I enter it's IP and Mac under LAN settings Static IP Lease List I get an error saying that 192.168.1.254 is invalid ! Even though it's 192.168.1.106 I'm trying to allocate.
Very annoying and looks like an obvious bug in the firmware to me.
I'm trying to set a fixed IP address for one of my devices. It's connected at present and whenever I enter it's IP and Mac under LAN settings Static IP Lease List I get an error saying that 192.168.1.254 is invalid ! Even though it's 192.168.1.106 I'm trying to allocate.
Very annoying and looks like an obvious bug in the firmware to me.
If you allocate a fixed IP address outside the range specified for dynamic assignment I think you'll find it works.
