Vodafone Home Broadband / Vodafone Connect

[dynamick]

Hi there. Firstly the speeds and setup on my broadband have been great, so has most of the customer support I have had with initial gremlins on setup

I do have two big headaches though. I have a zyxcel nsa325 network drive which I store music, photos, movies etc on and On my old plusnet modem I just plugged it in the ethernet port and my Hitachi tv saw it. Now although the drive is visible through my PC and is visible wordlessly on the home network, the drive is not seen by my TV *unless the drive is plugged directly into the the ethernet port on the TV. So what setting am missing, there is no help or suggestions on the net, with it being a new modem there is no firmware 6 for it either.

Secondly, when I signed up for vodafone home broadband I was told that I would get 10 email addresses too, I have no idea where they are or indeed the pop/imap.plus.net settings for the addresses or the settings so I can send emails on my current email address.

Hope someone can help and thanks in advance

Mick

[dglasbrook]

I have just pulled down upgrade to 5.4.8.1.291.1.30.1.6 - will post results here

[coopermarsh]

Unable to force it here

Firmware is up to date

Your Vodafone Connect router is already running the latest firmware.

Current firmware version 5.4.8.1.271.1.59

[daviesr]

Could be they're restricting delivery to test the water. i.e. I'm one of their guinea pigs!

I'll attempt some tests if anyone has a question.

Point 1, I can't remember if specifying an external DNS server was available in the previous version, it is now. You can turn off DNS from Vodafone and set your own.

[coopermarsh]

My  Current firmware version 5.4.8.1.271.1.59

i use opendns servers

[MrWhite]

Hi,

My firmware is showing as 5.4.8.1.291.1.30.1.6 and the router hasn't rebooted in 80 days, so mine hasn't been updated.  I tested anyway and the issue remains.

If there is a new firmware it may be a limited release.

[daviesr]

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@MrWhite wrote:

Hi,

My firmware is showing as 5.4.8.1.291.1.30.1.6 and the router hasn't rebooted in 80 days, so mine hasn't been updated.  I tested anyway and the issue remains.

If there is a new firmware it may be a limited release.

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My reboot came after I had an issue with the router hanging. It could be yours needs a reboot to activate the new version. 

I've enabled my 5Ghz wifi and not had any issues with partitioning my networks with testing.

[sharkey67]

New router was updated to 5.4.8.1.291.1.30.1.6 on Tuesday automatically.

Since then my router has rebooted at least 8 times.

That's whole router reboots not just the ADSL PPP connection dropping.

Anyone else having issues ?

[MonkeyJabba]

There is a new firmware! Let's see what this one breaks.

[MrWhite]

What's the firmware version number?  I'm not sure that mine has updated.

[daviesr]

Got alerted by this thread, and checked my router. Version 5.4.8.1.291.1.30.1.6 I didn't even know it had upgraded! Uptime since last reboot is 6 days, 13 hours.