Cisco RV340 Router new firmware Upgrade

[coxhaus]

There is a new firmware version out. It seems to be a lot different. I have upgraded in the middle of a Hulu streaming. Restarting works fine. They recommend starting from factory reset. I will have to do that a little later when I have more time. It is working after the upgrade without any changes.

Some of the feature are to bring the router under the Cisco Umbrella. I am not sure what that means exactly. The GUI interface is different.

 

[Dave Parker]

My knowledge is very limited on networking issues and hopefully someone more knowledgeable will offer there opinion on this, but seems like a very bad idea to upgrade firmware while streaming or downloading anything.

 

[coxhaus]

My wife and I were streaming a Hulu movie. She had to leave and go to a meeting. When she returned an hour or 2 later I had upgraded the firmware while she was gone. We settled back down and finished the movie. So not exactly the way it sounded.

I did this once with pfsense where after the upgrade I had problems with Hulu commercials running and causing problems. I posted on pfsense's site. It was fixed in a later release.

 

[System Error Message]

in a busy network, it may not be possible to update when the network is idle.

 

[coxhaus]

I agree everybody needs to figure out their best time to upgrade. My point is Cisco recommends doing a factory reset and reconfigure from scratch. I did not and it still runs for me.

 

[sfx2000]

There is a new firmware version out. It seems to be a lot different. I have upgraded in the middle of a Hulu streaming. Restarting works fine. They recommend starting from factory reset. I will have to do that a little later when I have more time. It is working after the upgrade without any changes.

Some of the feature are to bring the router under the Cisco Umbrella. I am not sure what that means exactly. The GUI interface is different.

When you get a chance to schedule a maint window, it would probably be good to follow thru with the reset and reconfigure...

 

[coxhaus]

It's on my list when I have time. I do like the new GUI better. I think it is a little faster.