Did I handle this right? (Unable to upgrade)
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A creature of habit, I tend to upgrade all of my hardware and software. Rarely am I bit in the <backside>.
This evening, and alone in the office, I started an upgrade of the Router firmware from V1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
Thirty minutes later, it was still "upgrading". Still later, the status changed to "Disconnected".
Thirty minutes later, I am getting near panic and I did a hard reboot (power off/on) of the router. A few minutes later the status said "configuring" and still a few minutes later, "connected" and everything is working again.
The logged error was: "Failed to upgrade Router to firmware version 1.3.0 Build 20230322 Rel.70951 online."
Now the questions:
1. Can I simply skip the upgrade and wait for the next version, or should I try again? There was nothing in the release notes that applies to my network- I just like a clean dashboard with no pending updates.
2. If I try again, and get the same hour and a half of downtime, did I handle the reboot correctly? What would you have done differently.
Thanks..
@d0ugmac1
https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/er7206/v1/#Firmware
and
https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/er7206/v1/#Firmware
Both take me to the same page:
I will try an online upgrade tomorrow evening, then if it fails, using the manual upload. I assume that this is the file I will submit to the upgrade prompt:
ER7206v1_un_1.4.0_20231114-rel36220_up_2023-11-14_10.04.07.bin
Hi @SteveMann
Thanks for posting in our business forum.
SteveMann wrote
Thanks. Is this where I do the manual upgrade?
Was it correct to do a cold reboot to get connectivity back?
Yes, it is.