Firmware Update: Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 1.0.9.64

Netgear has released new firmware for its AC1900 Nighthawk Smart WiFi Router. This router, also referred to as R7000, can send and receive data on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, and has a theoretical throughput of no less than 1300Mbit/s. In addition, there are five gigabit Ethernet ports, one of which is on the wan side and the other four can be used internally, and a USB 2.0 and a USB 3.0 connection are present. The version number of this firmware release is fixed to 1.0.9.64 and the changes look like this:

New features and enhancements:

• Improves the network device identification.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes the issue where the router should not remember the device name that was changed before the reset.
• Fixes the issue where the OpenVPN client Connection Type shows as wired in the Attached Devices page but no information about the client shows in the VPN Client Devices tables.
• Fixes the issue where the user can access the Internet Setup page via the Router/AP/Bridge/Repeating mode page.
• Fixes the issue where some functions are grayed out if the user is using Firefox as the web browser.
• Fixes the issue where watch devices cannot be detected and don’t display on the attached devices page.
• Fixes the issue where some devices will display an unknown device name.
• Fixes the issue where offline devices do not disappear.
• Fixes the issue where the device name will show an unknown string.

Known Issues:

• When using the Nighthawk app, the login fails when the password contains special characters.
• The Internet will not disconnect when using a static WAN IP address and has reached the monthly traffic meter limit.
• When disabling Circle using the Nighthawk app, the GUI still shows the Circle status as enabled.