Author Topic: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??  (Read 2469 times)

alxjm69

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Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« on: September 09, 2010, 02:54:15 PM »

ALrighty.

 

For any of those who have upgraded to the new FW (Pro-v24s?p2-14998), can you tell us the pros and cons.

 

For instance what is the difference between the new one and the old Buffalo Tech 1.74 FW as well as what the difference is from the DD-WRT latest (v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - build 14896)?

 

I have DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std - build 14896 installed and see no SAMBA or NTFS support. Anything else missing that may have been in the Buffalo Tech FW 1.74?


gdog05

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2010, 03:33:27 PM »

Torrents are missing. Horribly painful refresh times when making the tiniest of changes is gone from 1.74. It has been pretty stable for me, though.


alxjm69

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2010, 03:42:46 PM »

Hmmm..you are tight, Torrents are missing. Then again, I never used that feature (though I would like to try). Is the Torrent feature stable?

 

So, if the features are missing ( that most seem to want according to the forum) why would anyone want to upgrade?

 

 

BTW, to the Buffalo Tech Admin. You guys NEED to post what the updates have in them (features or missing) as well as the fixes instead of us finding out AFTER we download the file or even install it.


gdog05

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 04:11:39 PM »

Why the upgrade even with missing features? Well, the refresh time is pretty big one, especially if you fine tune your settings often. I've spent the better part of a weekend just trying to get the old firmware up to where it should be. Stability (over regular old DD-WRT especially). This has been way more stable for me than DD-WRT previously. I guess I'm hoping that since the code is now DD-WRT, that the features will be added soon. I've heard that good engineers don't speculate on when things will be done (which means Apple has crappy engineers), so no one knows when/if the features will be rolled out.


alxjm69

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2010, 04:35:47 PM »

Hmm...well I would have assumed that MOST people bought this particular unit because of the features and the ability to upgrade to DD-WRT, thinking it would contain such said features.

 

Dont get me wrong, my current DD-WRT FW has been going strong thus far since I installed it about 2 weeks ago. I have not had to reboot or any other non-sense.

 

I am looking for all the other features and hope they are implemented in future builds in a stable manner.


mookie

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2010, 10:33:16 PM »

Isn't torrents available under a sub-tab in NAS?  I don't use this but it seems to have an enable box.


gdog05

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Re: Pros & Cons of NEW FW Pro-v24s?p2-14998??
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2010, 10:38:42 PM »

Under NAS is just the ProFTP settings now. In the old firmware, I believe that is where the torrent options were.