@Sunshine   Hello and good afternoon, today I was trying to update my router's firmware but I can't seem to update the firmware, so I searched on the internet and found this thread. I am attaching a screenshot of the firmware version and hardware. I have already tried from your website but none of the firmware versions seem to work. My ISP was updated correctly. Thank you and I hope you can answer me.

Hello,

I've similar update problem :
I bought a second hand mr600 eu V2 with unreferenced firmware :

When trying to upgrade with lastest official version : Archer_MR600(EU)v2_1.8.0_0.9.1_[240716-rel60322]_up_boot_release_2024-07-18_20.20.05.bin

I'm getting the error :

Thanks for your help.

Regards

  @Sunshine 

Hello,

i have same problem. Bought the MR600 online at Amazon. There was no hint that the router has custom firmware. It works in Germany but i need the newest firmware to solve annoying disconnection errors.

Firmwareversion: 

1.4.0 0.9.1 v0001.0 Build 210805 Rel.63527n

Hardwareversion: 

Archer MR600 v2 00000002

Thanks in advance.

Thommy

@Sunshine 

Hi,

I have experienced the same problem with my MR600 router as the other users in this thread. Router was bought online in 2022 from a 3rd party supplier and the unit is not an ISP provided version.

Going through the list at this link the bottom version of the firmware is localized for South Africa. Loading that version works fine on my router.

However, it then changes for the next two versions to the EU version, which gets rejected by the router when attempting to upload it.

It appears that whoever loaded the firmware on the website was too lazy to localize it properly and then just assumed (or hoped) that the routers would accept the EU versions, except that they don't. I might be wrong and there might be other reasons for it being uploaded that way but it looks quite unprofessional when you have multiple versions of firmware that is supposed to work but only one legacy version that actually gets accepted by the hardware.

So, and this is aimed at whoever is responsible for uploading the firmware, either load a custom firmware on that page that enables the upgrade from the localized version to the EU version so that the later EU versions can be loaded and leave the rest of the updates as-is, or do the work properly and update the localized versions to the latest, then upload those to the site and to the locations where the online updating function on the device checks, since that also shows that the firmware is up to date, while it is clearly not.

That way you also don't have to constantly send beta firmware versions to users in private messages.

On a broader (and way more serious) note, since there are quite a lot of those routers in the wild which are still running firmware from 2021, any and all security fixes that have been applied since then are not installed on the routers because the firmware that it is supposed to load gets rejected and as such newer updates are not applied. Which means there are a lot of outdated and vulnerable routers out there. Scary.