NETGEAR WC9500 Wireless Controller Firmware 5.1.0.17

New Features:

- Admins can download e-mail ID of the guest WLAN users.
- Improvements in Internal captive portal to allow customization of splash pages.
- Increase in number of floors and buildings that can be loaded on to the controller.
- Allows up to 8 + 1 captive portal profiles to be configured. This will allow admin to enable captive portal on more than 1 WLAN.
- Built-in HTML editor will allow splash pages to be customized.
- Increased the support portal session timeout to 24 hours to allow hotspots users to continuously logged in for longer period of time.
- EULA checkout in splash page possible.

Bug Fixes:

- MAC ACL bugs.
- Redundancy configuration related bugs.
- Improvements on AP350 and AP360 in wireless drivers.
- AP disconnects.

Known Issues:

- Initial firmware upgrade from M1 (3.1.x.x) image, (one time for WC9500 M4 beta) needs to be done using TFTP or FTP method in Maintenance > Upgrade.
- Radius proxy server in wireless controller may not work, if there are managed AP’s in down state and its last known IP address matches with one of the connected and up AP in the same wireless controller.
- SNMP traps are not supported in WC9500 M4 beta firmware.
- Wireless client separation feature do not work when clients are connected on different AP’s on same profile.
- Inconsistency in L2/L3 discovery for AP’s.
- By running the L2/L3 discovery multiple times, user can discover all AP’s.
- Captive portal unauthenticated clients can able to send and receive multicast traffic.
- Captive portal authenticated clients require re-authentication when roaming from Master Controller managed AP to Save Controller managed AP or vice versa.
- Wireless fixed data rate setting for WNDAP660/WNDAP620 will not be supported.

Upgrade Instructions:

- Using the Download Link below, download and extract the new software to a convenient place such as your desktop.
- Log into the WC9500
- Read the below Caveats, if the upgrade is from a lower major release
- Select Maintenance > Upgrade from the main/submenu.
- In the Firmware Upgrade section, select Local File and click Browse.
- Locate the downloaded file and click Apply.
- This will start the software upgrade to your WC9500. This may take some time. Do not interrupt the upgrade process.
- At the conclusion of the upgrade, WC9500 will reboot automatically.

About Network Adapter:

When connected, the operating system usually installs a generic driver that helps the computer to recognize the newly attached device.

However, proper software must be applied if you want to make use of all features that the network adapter has available. This task also allows computers to properly recognize all device characteristics such as manufacturer, chipset, technology, and others.

Updating the adapter’s drivers and utilities version might improve overall performance and stability, increase transfer speeds, fix different compatibility problems and several network-related errors, as well as bring various other changes.

To install this release, simply get the package, extract it if necessary, run the setup, and follow the instructions displayed on-screen. When done, don’t forget to perform a system restart and reconnect the network adapter to make sure that all changes take effect properly.

Without further ado, if you intend to apply this version, click the download button and install the package. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible so that you don’t miss a single new release.