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Products => Wireless => : kvanryn May 21, 2009, 09:59:48 PM

: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: kvanryn May 21, 2009, 09:59:48 PM
   I just bought this router and so far, so good.  However, I would like to make a suggestion to Buffalo for a firmware update.  I am looking for a way to insert a mac address and have time constraints on it, meaning what time that person is allowed to get on and a time to kick them off.  This is mainly to keep some control on my kids access to the net.  I would appreciate a response to see if this is possible.  On my last router, I had Tomato firmware installed and they had this function which was a real help in parental control.  I was a bit taken back that that functionality was not in the firmware.  Let me know.  Thanks.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Michael May 22, 2009, 05:18:35 PM
I will pass this request to our engineers to see if they could add this feature in a later firmware update.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: kvanryn July 30, 2009, 02:01:11 PM
   

Michael,

I was just wondering if there is any word on a firmware update for the G300NH that will allow time restrictions?  I hope there is an update coming up soon as I am getting frustrated with the wait. 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: atanhehco August 07, 2009, 10:45:25 AM
   there appears to be no firmware update on the support site at the moment, only drivers and utilities from april 2009 :(
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: kvanryn August 14, 2009, 10:54:29 PM
   As everyone can see....I have been waiting since May for an updated firmware for this router.  NO SUPPORT at all from Buffalo.  I think I have been buffaloed for the last time.  Come on, even my grandmother could program firmware faster than this company.  Good bye Buffalo, hello Linksys!
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Aveyer August 15, 2009, 09:41:06 AM
   Firmware updates aren't going to happen that fast, even from other manafacturers.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: megawind August 16, 2009, 09:59:01 PM
   

I found a 1.62 alpha firmware on one of Japanese discuss fourm. And here is the download link.

 

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.12_alpha  

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They have improved wireless conection performace and bittorrent bugs. 

However, we cannot flash Japanese firmware to it.  Anyone know how to do that?

 

 

 

  

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: sbenard August 18, 2009, 03:04:05 PM
   

Thanks for the link,megawind!

 

I assume that the new firmware has all the instructions in Japanese, no? 

 

I don't want to download it unless I can still see everything in English. My Japanese sucks! In fact, I don't speak a single syllable of it! :smileyvery-happy:

 

Hopefully, this is a good sign that an English version is just around the corner. I've noticed that whining and complaining doesn't help. 

Message Edited by sbenard on 08-18-2009 02:04 PM
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: megawind August 18, 2009, 09:21:34 PM
   

Yes, the new firmware is in Japanese only. 

 

I have tried to update my G300NH, but it doesn't work.....

I got a message that "invalid firmware". 

 

They have updating the firmware recently as following but we don't have any update until now!!??

 

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.12 ? 18/08

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.09 ? 12/08 

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.07 ? 24/07

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.04 ? 08/07

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.06 ? 08/07 

WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.03 ? 01/07

WZR-HP-G300NH 1.62 1.02 ? 29/06

 

Buffulo guys should do someting like Japan side. 

 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: escapement August 19, 2009, 06:41:39 AM
   This is getting really stupid... I've had this router for over a month and can't use it due to it's inability to make and/or sustain a DHCP connection with comcast.  Considering they are probably the largest broadband provider in the U.S., that is a major problem.  I'm ready to pack it in, write off the $100 bucks I spent on the thing and go buy a new router from a different vendor and disreguard any prodocuts this company makes.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: atanhehco August 19, 2009, 10:08:11 AM
   

@escapement  i believe we are all "frustrated" with our experience with this router so far. 

 

but does anybody know how to get an official reply from buffalo? 

 

i'm sitting all the way in hongkong and a 3rd party distributes buffalo products.  their tech support is responsive, but even they can't get a reply from buffalo in the US.

 

having an official answer (good or bad) is definitely better than not knowing whether someone is looking into this or not.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: scajjr2 August 19, 2009, 06:24:10 PM
   

escapement wrote:
This is getting really stupid... I've had this router for over a month and can't use it due to it's inability to make and/or sustain a DHCP connection with comcast.  Considering they are probably the largest broadband provider in the U.S., that is a major problem.  I'm ready to pack it in, write off the $100 bucks I spent on the thing and go buy a new router from a different vendor and disreguard any prodocuts this company makes.

I've been using my WZR-HP-G300NH for a couple of months now with Comcast (on both my old SB5101 and my new SB6120) with no problems at all. Have you had Comcast push a firmware update to your cable modem? Make sure they are using the right one for your modem. When I got my 6120 the first rep I spoke to thought I said 5120 and couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Got her to bump me up to the next tech level and the 6120 was up and running in a few minutes.

 

Sam

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: escapement August 19, 2009, 08:21:48 PM
   

 


does anybody know how to get an official reply from buffalo?

I do... post a message about 3rd party firmware... that's all I think the tech people at buffalo seem to react to on this forum.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: escapement August 19, 2009, 08:48:36 PM
   

I've been using my WZR-HP-G300NH for a couple of months now with Comcast (on both my old SB5101 and my new SB6120) with no problems at all. Have you had Comcast push a firmware update to your cable modem? Make sure they are using the right one for your modem. When I got my 6120 the first rep I spoke to thought I said 5120 and couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Got her to bump me up to the next tech level and the 6120 was up and running in a few minutes.

I have an RCA dc315 cable modem.  I spoke to comcast and they said I was at the latest firmware rev.  Also, my modem works fine with both my asus and linksys modem using both stock firmware on both and dd-that-which-shall-not-be-named-on-this-forum on both.  Therefore I think it's a problem with my router.  Thanks for your input though.  It's very appreciated.

 

esc 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: arbyd August 28, 2009, 01:11:41 PM
   I've occasionally seen problems with autosensing ports not working together. You might try putting a simple switch or hub between your router and the cable modem.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Zimeon August 30, 2009, 03:30:52 AM
   

The router in itself is pretty nice to own, nearly made my home home server obsolete. There are a few complaints tho from my side:

 

- NAS doesn't support NTFS, altho I formatted my HDD as FAT32 there is still the file size limit, can't store my HD movies on the 1tb drive due to this restriction.

- The bit torrent client doesn't support SSL, this is a really good feature in BT and should be included in the next firmware update

- BT statistics not available, for example amount of peers/seeders, ratio, total up/down

 

 

Other than that, it's been working pretty well the past few days. If these things were to be fixed the router would completely make the server useless.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: scajjr2 September 06, 2009, 03:38:29 PM
   

escapement wrote:

I've been using my WZR-HP-G300NH for a couple of months now with Comcast (on both my old SB5101 and my new SB6120) with no problems at all. Have you had Comcast push a firmware update to your cable modem? Make sure they are using the right one for your modem. When I got my 6120 the first rep I spoke to thought I said 5120 and couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Got her to bump me up to the next tech level and the 6120 was up and running in a few minutes.

I have an RCA dc315 cable modem.  I spoke to comcast and they said I was at the latest firmware rev.  Also, my modem works fine with both my asus and linksys modem using both stock firmware on both and dd-that-which-shall-not-be-named-on-this-forum on both.  Therefore I think it's a problem with my router.  Thanks for your input though.  It's very appreciated.

 

esc 


If you're using Vista this link may help regarding DHCP issues.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928233

 

Sam

 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Zimeon September 07, 2009, 09:39:29 AM
   

Some additional problems found with the bit-torrent client, addition to the ones mentioned in my previous post.

 

Even tho a 1TB hdd is formatted in FAT32 the bit-torrent client can't handle torrent's larger than 4gb in size, even tho the individual filesize would be less than 4gb. So say a torrent has 40x100mb files in it, the torrent client wouldn't be able to handle this.

 

If you try to add a torrent while the drive (NAS) is in sleep, it can't spin it up again to be able to write. Instead it gives an erro that the drive can't be accessed.

 

 

 

Does anyone know when a firmware update is scheduled? Or has buffalo ever mentioned somewhere what is going to be fixed in the upcoming (fingers crossed) firmware update?

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: zaphod777 September 07, 2009, 11:12:31 PM
   

The HDD does support XFS this file system will allow file sizes of 8 exabytes which is pretty huge. I think this is why also you can't downloadtorrnts larger than 4 GB.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS

 

 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: PCPiranha September 09, 2009, 03:01:57 PM

Escapement,

 

Cable modems have a tendancy to hang on to the MAC address of the device that it was attatched to.  Power cycling for long enough will solve the issue because it will force the modem to reassign DHCP to the devices connected to it.  If that doesn't work try cloning the mac address, as this should stabilize it.

 

To others:

 

Please see my post to escapement about the new firmware:

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0102&message.id=2766&jump=true#M2766
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Zimeon September 15, 2009, 03:43:59 PM
   

Bumping up this thread in hope for any news on a firmware update to this router. Would also like to point out that the bit torrent client on this router doesn't know how to handle files with spaces in the filename giving the following error:

 

changed for format of the drive to XFS, atleast the client can now handle a torrent that includes a total filesize over 4gb (in example: 100x500Mb), there are still the problems mentioned before tho....

 

The name of the torrent file is:  Rangaistuspataljoona E02.torrent

 

failed to load torrent file '/mnt/usb0_0/.BUFFALO/bittorrent/_torrent/Rangaistuspataljoona' (No such file or directory).
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: zaphod777 September 15, 2009, 08:59:19 PM
   Also I would like to be able to maunaully add trackers to a torrent. I am in Japan using a japanese version using the japanese firmware 1.62 revision 12. My router also has rondom lock ups where I need to reboot it a couple times a week.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: ksec September 15, 2009, 11:51:54 PM
   

How exactly do you read XFS on Windows / Mac system?

 

I think they should add exFAT once Linux has support for it.  ( I guess they use Linux as OS.... )

 

Since it is used as SHXC default File system. Therefore it will be the best option for widest support while having larger then 4GB file size.

 

Just wondering, are the Engineers waiting for Final Certification on 802.11N before releasing a Firmware update.

 

This Router is good. The only thing is that Buffalo tends to have very slow firmware update. 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: zaphod777 September 16, 2009, 12:49:53 AM
   doesn't look like it but you should be accesing it as a NAS not conected to your machine. If you had to you could always use a linux live cd to access the data on the disk.
Message Edited by zaphod777 on 09-16-2009 12:50 AM
: WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.16_US-EU-AP
: worldwidebaka September 16, 2009, 04:27:41 AM

I found new firmware for US, EU and AP.

 

***URL removed - even though it says US - this firmware is not approved for US yet - it hasn't been through US testing. Do not post URLs advertising unapproved firmware on these forums. Customers could end up bricking their unit and voiding their warranty. We are working on approved US firmware update for this product.****

Buffalo Forum Admin

 

Message Edited by worldwidebaka on 09-16-2009 04:31 AM
Message Edited by drmemory on 09-16-2009 09:29 AM
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.16_US-EU-AP
: aaur4man September 16, 2009, 05:45:19 AM
   seems alpha? and 1.61 not available for download either.
: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH_1.62_1.16_US-EU-AP
: kouyoumin September 17, 2009, 11:01:32 AM
   

I tried the alpha firmware.

The good: There's a media server.

The bad: Connections come from WAN are always discarded. Port forwarding and DMZ don't work.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: European September 20, 2009, 11:04:08 PM
   

zaphod777 wrote:
Also I would like to be able to maunaully add trackers to a torrent. I am in Japan using a japanese version using the japanese firmware 1.62 revision 12. My router also has rondom lock ups where I need to reboot it a couple times a week.

Where did this firmware comes from because the Buffalo Japan site only lists the 1.60 firmware? http://buffalo.jp/download/driver/lan/wzr-hp-g300nh_fw-win.html

 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: ksec September 21, 2009, 10:17:00 AM
   

OH god... i am actually running WZR-HP-G300NH Ver.1.61 on my new router. ( Brought it two days ago )

 

WZR-HP-G300NH Ver.1.61 (R1.08/B1.03) 

 

But, I am still having so many problems.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: zaphod777 September 21, 2009, 10:26:57 AM
   I found a link somewhere I don't have it handy at the moment but a little bit of googling you can find it.

European wrote:

zaphod777 wrote:
Also I would like to be able to maunaully add trackers to a torrent. I am in Japan using a japanese version using the japanese firmware 1.62 revision 12. My router also has rondom lock ups where I need to reboot it a couple times a week.

Where did this firmware comes from because the Buffalo Japan site only lists the 1.60 firmware? http://buffalo.jp/download/driver/lan/wzr-hp-g300nh_fw-win.html

 


 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: Memoryman October 23, 2009, 04:56:47 PM
   

FW 1.65 on UK and US site

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: grizzleduser November 10, 2010, 02:25:32 PM

This is in response to the original post for this thread.   Any update, on whether using a mac address to set up time restriction as a update to the WZR-HP-G300NH firmware?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: drmemory November 11, 2010, 10:22:25 AM

feature suggestions are made on the Idea Exchange Lounge, where readers vote for the ideas by placing kudos on them.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: zed June 28, 2012, 12:37:31 AM

BAWWWWW,  a major company isn't pandering to my extremely specific request!

BAWWWWWW,   I'm  whining, and demanding that they write a custom piece of programming just for me bawwwww.

 

 

Get a grip, kvanryn.

: Re: WZR-HP-G300NH Router
: rohsman June 30, 2012, 10:32:48 AM

I want to know if  my router WZR 300NH  can connect to WCR-GN and have the wifi range extended. I have this room in the house where the wifi signal is weak. Would this work?