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Originally Posted by babis3g
Anyway it must be better than the r30 (well even slightly)
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Mark Wilkinson says the primary objective with R36 is to reduce hangs and reboots. People still report hangs and reboots but a survey of the beta testers suggests there may now be less of them. I haven't had one but I'm still running 145 radio and no UpNP. I have the firewall on but don't use any parental controls or other filtering. Nor do I run torrents.
There are no new firmware features that I noticed - still has glaring omissions like no ability to override DNS and no dynamic DNS client support both of which are there in the cheapest of routers. The GUI has had a makeover and to me looks a lot cleaner and more logically laid out than it was. One major moan I had about the old GUI was IP address reservtion and that is now vastly improved - you can select a connected device instead of having to type in MACs and it doesn't reboot every time you add one. It will let you move away from the page without warning if you fail to click the apply button - easy to do if you assume that the update button means update.
On mine at least the WiFi range is still terrible but this seems to vary between people - whether that is hub variations or just environmental I've no idea. As I've got a spare hub I've ordered some pigtails off eBay and will be adding external antennas - I can swap to the un-modded case side if it ever needs to be returned.