After using 1.03 firmware for the past few days, it would appear that there is a new Broadcom driver in it for the wireless NICs as the 5gHz performance seems to be a little more fussy when it comes to connecting to it with a weaker signal.
My Macbook appears to struggle maintaining a stable link from a distance away and the connection times out too easily compared to 1.02.
Has anyone else experienced this too?
Firmware 1.03 for the Cisco e4200 has been released. I have noticed that 1.02 doesn’t play nice with 2011 Macbook Air with Lion.
Download from here: http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-apac/support/routers/E4200
I’ll report back once I have done some testing. In the mean time here is the change log:
Cisco Consumer Products
Product: E4200
Classification: Firmware Release History
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IMPORTANT:
- The safest way to perform the firmware upgrade is to use a wired computer.
- DO NOT power cycle the Router during the firmware upgrade process.
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Last Release Date: Sept 28, 2011
Last Firmware version: 1.0.03 (build 14)
- Added supports of Native IPv6 over PPPoE Internet connection when only keep
alive option is selected.
- Added supports of Native IPv6 on guest network if there are more than two
available IPv6 subnets
- Added supports of Native IPv6 on Parental Control
- Added supports of 3TB Hard drive with NTFS and HFS+ format
- Improved firmware upgrade stability
- Improved IPv6 WAN performance
- Fixed media server unstable issue
- Fixed Cisco LED flashing issue
- Fixed some minor bugs
- DLNA certified
- IPv6 Gold logo certified
- UPnP certified
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Release Date: June 14, 2011
Firmware version: 1.0.02 (build 13)
- Added support of USB printer connected to the router’s USB port, so that
a user may send a print job to the printer via the local area network.
** This feature requires Cisco connect software v1.4 or later **
- Added support of Native IPv6 and 6rd tunnel Internet connections
- Added supports of bridge mode
- Prevented devices on the guest network to access any private IP
address (RFC 1918)
- Updated wireless driver to improve interoperability
- Fixed some storage relative issues
- Fixed some browser-based configuration utility bugs
- Fixed some minor bugs
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Release Date: March 7, 2011
Firmware version: 1.0.01 (build 10)
- Fixed 2.4GHz wireless unstable issue
- Disabled IPv6-to-IPv4 Tunneling feature to improve Interoperability
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Release Date: Nov 14, 2010
Firmware version: 1.0.00 (build 13)
- Initial release
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