[cteselle]

Has anyone successfully upgrade the firmware on their netgear router? In particular the fwag114?

I've downloaded the firmware file, but cannot uncompress it properly. It comes down as a .bin file. Stuffit says it isn't properly compressed or something to that effect, so then I thought that I can just upload the file as is to the router. The router didn't like it either.

What am I doing wrong? I've already emailed netgear tech support, but figured I would get a better and quicker answer here.

I even tried it on windoze with no luck.

Here is the link to the firmware upgrade in case you are interested or want to try it yourself: ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/fwag114_v1_0_21.bin

thanks in advance.

[John Strung]

What are you using to upload the firmware? I have never used a Netgear, but to upload firmware to a LinkSys, you need to use a MacTFTP client. See:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...lp_pg2.htm#Mac

[ghporter]

I think Netgear equipment has an import feature in their browser-based configuration. The trick should boil down to pointing the configuration to the correct downloaded file.

[aaanorton]

The firmware DOES NOT need to be uncompressed. It is ready to be uploaded, as is, to the router.

[John Strung]

GH, that sounds similar to the LinkSys setup, but I found that to be quite browser dependent (or maybe Java dependent) and the MacTFTP application seemed to work much better.

[aaanorton]

I've upgraded a few Netgears with Safari, IE and Chimera. Haven't had any problems with that. I just use their Upgrade Firmware link.

[John Strung]

That's good to hear. They must be less Java dependent than the LinkSys version. Either that, or it's just that I haven't tried upgrading a LinkSys through the web interface for a good long time.