Firmwareupdate for TP-PL8030P
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Hello,
I'd like to ask for a firmware update for the TP-PL8030P adapters which is based on the latest or a more recent *.nvm file.
Background:
As far as I know, all 1200 or 1300 Mbit/s powerline adapter are using the same chipset from Qualcomn (QCA7500).
TP-Link is also selling the TP-PL8010P adapters which are similar to the 8030 adapters except they lack two lan ports.
The lastest firmware for the 8030 adapters is from 28/03/16 while the lastet firmware for the 8010 adapters is from 18/08/16 (Day / Month / Year).
The firmware file of a QCA7500 adapter consists of two files.
The first file is the *.nvm file which is the firmware for the chipset provided by Qualcomn.
The second file is a *.pib file (parameter information block) which stores parameter information (MAC-address, tone-map (which frequencies should be used with which power), ...) and is adjusted by the producer of the adapter (TP-Link).
The new firmware of the 8010 adapter has the following nvm file: MAC-7500-v2.2.2-00-X-CS.nvm .
The latest firmware of the 8030 adapter has only the following nvm file: MAC-7500-v2.0.0-05-X-CS.nvm .
As you can see there is quite a big version jump from one chipset firmware to the other.
With a new firmware I hope to get improved performance and stability, therefore I'd like to have a new firmware for the 8030 adapter which is based on at least the MAC-7500-v2.2.2-00-X-CS.nvm .
Devolo also sells 1200 Mbit/s adapters on the German market and they claim that an firmware update (with NVM 2.2.x ...) boosts performance by 20% (though I do not know if that's true or whether they have adjusted anything else like the tone map).
PS: I tried to crossflash firmware : Using the firmware from the 8010 adapters or a combination of the new nvm with the pib from the 8030 adapter but I could not flash the firmware.
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@val_andrio mine is the EU version not the UK one so I should get the latest EU v1 version right? Do you have a direct link for that like the one you posted for the UK one please ?
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I have no instability issues, but since the firmware is more than four years old, I was wondering if I would potentially gain any speed advantage from flashing a newer firmware, either some beta or something cooked up by the good folks in this thread. At the moment, the TPPLC utility reports 85-100 Mbps between my two adapters.
Is there any point of trying a newer firmware, or am I best off staying with what I have got?
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@val_andrio mine is the EU version not the UK one so I should get the latest EU v1 version right? Do you have a direct link for that like the one you posted for the UK one please ?
Although I don't think there will be any difference between the EU and UK version, here is a link to an EU firmware for V1.
https://static.tp-link.com/res/down/soft/TL-PA8030P(EU)_V1_160328.zip
You can also go to https://www.tp-link.com/ change the country to your preference and then search for 8030P on the top search.
In that product page there is a "Support" link that will list all the available firmwares.
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Some more long-term experience with firmware MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS:
This firmware is much better than before, but (still) reacts very strange to distortions or noise, especially it reacts persistently after a single glitch!
- A station exposed to noise does seems to see it's CCO thus not creation a network on it's own by assuming CCO role, but the CCO seems to not allow the station to (re-)join the network. This happens regularly after glitches... Workaround: reset from attached router... not nice and not working at all times, as a single CCO reset makes the CCO role wander and sometimes the new CCO also refuses to let the device join.
# plcstat -t P/L NET TEI ------ MAC ------ ------ BDA ------ TX RX CHIPSET FIRMWARE LOC STA 002 18:A6:F7:A2:27:4E 18:A6:F7:A2:27:4C n/a n/a QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS
- A station is still seen in the network, but no details shown eg in the topology map, neither any user data communication possible:
# plcstat -t P/L NET TEI ------ MAC ------ ------ BDA ------ TX RX CHIPSET FIRMWARE LOC STA 002 98:DE:D0:9D:78:7F 98:DE:D0:9D:78:7D n/a n/a QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS REM CCO 001 F4:06:8D:50:2E:BC 30:B5:C2:86:42:9E 165 211 QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS REM STA 003 18:A6:F7:A2:03:F6 A4:14:37:2C:6A:F4 141 128 REM STA 004 98:DE:D0:9D:6D:7B 98:DE:D0:9D:6D:79 036 082 QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS REM STA 005 30:D3:2D:0A:40:8E 24:62:AB:35:11:E7 045 113 QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS
- In this (persisting) state, the other side also sees no user data nor mgmt info
# plcstat -t P/L NET TEI ------ MAC ------ ------ BDA ------ TX RX CHIPSET FIRMWARE LOC STA 003 18:A6:F7:A2:03:F6 18:A6:F7:A2:03:F4 n/a n/a QCA7500 MAC-QCA7500-2.8.0.30-01-20190705-CS REM CCO 001 F4:06:8D:50:2E:BC FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 562 707 REM STA 002 98:DE:D0:9D:78:7F FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 128 143 REM STA 004 98:DE:D0:9D:6D:7B FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 057 052 REM STA 005 30:D3:2D:0A:40:8E FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 019 037
- Other and more symptoms I wasn't able to catch in detail so far ...
So is anyone anywhere working on this? Or would it be feasible to get a SDK from somewhere and work on it?
G.hn is not an alternative in highly noisy sites either, I'm afraid... but it has an SDK available at least!
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Hi,
Does anyone know if the last TL-PA9020P (or TL-PA9025P for france), has the same issue of connection problem between 2 CPL with the last frimware? I have the TL-WPA8635P connected to a TL-PA8015P with custom firmwares found on this forum to solve connection problem (connection was lost every week) and I want to change for the TL-PA9025P but I don't want to have same connection problem as before.
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@PeterM. No, you have to update incrementally. See this thread. Post #71-75 describes this. The pib file changes (in size) with some firmware updates.
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@Ariek Thanks for your advice. I did not need to step through incremental updates, for the unit already was on 2.2 and PIBs are still compatible for 2.10. I went straight from 2.2 to 2.10, unit is fine. My first attempt probably failed due to the ancient Windows XP laptop I was using, successful attempt ran from a modern Windows 10 desktop.
So now I've got one TL-PA8030P V2, german version, reporting firmware 2.10.0.32-01_803112_170704_905.
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