Genius Modem Firmware Upgrade for Fibre

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#102521 16-May-2012 11:20

Orcon plan to roll out a firmware upgrade to all Genius customers that will disable port 4 on the modem for general use. This is scheduled to happen in the next few weeks. There is no opt out option. I will be waiting until Dec 2016 according to their fibre roll out plan!

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#625978 16-May-2012 11:26

Yeah got that letter. I use all my ports so now I'll have to buy a switch, not really happy about that but what can you do?

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#625983 16-May-2012 11:33

Hmm bit sucky but guess losing a port to enable 100mbps internet is worth it ;) For those that can get it anyway... not holding my breath for fibre until 2022 by my estimates ;)

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#626015 16-May-2012 11:58

gpsboy: I will be waiting until Dec 2016 according to their fibre roll out plan!

Where did you find that? http://www.chorus.co.nz/maps only lists up to June next year. Are you in a non-Chorus area?

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#626132 16-May-2012 13:43

Any other cool stuff coming with the firmware update other than reserving port 4 for fibre?

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#626155 16-May-2012 14:06

Haven't been able to find any Orcon specific modem firmware release notes.

Check your address here www.orcon.net.nz/fibre

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#626245 16-May-2012 15:48

Go Orcon! Reduce functionality for nothing. One would imagine a staged roll out is smarter and safer..

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#626249 16-May-2012 15:53

I thought these Genius modems would have a WAN port on it for the fibre ONT to plug into?

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#626254 16-May-2012 16:03

mrgsm021: I thought these Genius modems would have a WAN port on it for the fibre ONT to plug into?

That's what they are using port 4 for.

In hindsight somebody's probably wondering why they didn't disable it from the start to save having to deal with the support issues this will create!

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#626258 16-May-2012 16:10

It does suck a bit, I'm using all the ports on our Genius so I guess I'll have to buy a switch.

I'm at least a year away until i get fibre installed :( according to chorus anyway...

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#626582 16-May-2012 23:23

I don't get why Orcon have to change everyone's Genius config now, when most of us won't be able to use it in the new mode for quite a while, and some won't ever! So why reduce the port availability unnecessarily early? If it's for ease of support, then that seems to me to be a reason more for Orcon's own convenience than their customers!

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#626595 17-May-2012 00:08

What's the point of disabling it anyway? There's no obvious reason to have it strictly for Fibre, why not just leave it as it is?
What if people don't want to get fibre but still want Genius?

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#626597 17-May-2012 00:11

I guess kind of annoying but switches are soooo cheap these days its no huge issue.

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#626619 17-May-2012 06:20

garryk: I don't get why Orcon have to change everyone's Genius config now, when most of us won't be able to use it in the new mode for quite a while, and some won't ever! So why reduce the port availability unnecessarily early? If it's for ease of support, then that seems to me to be a reason more for Orcon's own convenience than their customers!

You've clearly never tried to manage a network with thousands devices, paricularly routers. Keeping everything on the same firmware revision is quite simply the best way of managing things as every device has exactly the same characteristics and feature set.

Only changing some routers would be the worlds biggest nightmare.

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#626672 17-May-2012 09:21

Zeon: I guess kind of annoying but switches are soooo cheap these days its no huge issue.

on that note adsl modems are kind of cheap. maybe it's best not to use the orcon ones, and just have your own standard config that doesn't change for bizzare reasons.

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#626674 17-May-2012 09:22

sbiddle:
garryk: I don't get why Orcon have to change everyone's Genius config now, when most of us won't be able to use it in the new mode for quite a while, and some won't ever! So why reduce the port availability unnecessarily early? If it's for ease of support, then that seems to me to be a reason more for Orcon's own convenience than their customers!

You've clearly never tried to manage a network with thousands devices, paricularly routers. Keeping everything on the same firmware revision is quite simply the best way of managing things as every device has exactly the same characteristics and feature set.

Only changing some routers would be the worlds biggest nightmare.

firmware revision and config to use one of the ports as wan or not are two quite different things surely?

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