AIS Fibre - Huawei HG8245W5 Router Firmware Upgrade

[mtls2005]

AIS Fibre - Huawei HG8245W5 Router Firmware Upgrade

 

I have AIS Fibre, and the Huawei HG8245W5 Router.

On the page

 
https://myaisfibre.com/?lang=en

which is a summary page for your service, I noticed a flashing message "Firmware Upgrade" to the right of Device Info. / Software Version  V5R019C20Snnn, with a circular arrow.

 

OK, I couldn't resist, and clicked it, then said OK to the cryptic message "Do you want to change your speed" (with AIS Fibre you can change the upload/download speeds, but this usage here is weird).

It took a few minutes, but apparently upgraded from ...120 to ...133 (nnn suffix).

Still works. Only change noticed was 5 GHz WiFi seemed to perform ( a lot) better 607/584 on my phone, which is odd because the service is supposed to be 1,000/500.

 

Proceed (maybe don't) with warnings and caution.

I probably should have checked with AIS first, before potentially bricking my router.
 

[rbkk]

On 12/17/2021 at 5:09 PM, mtls2005 said:

https://myaisfibre.com/?lang=en

Thanks for that! I'm on the..... 

Manufacture  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd HG8145X6-Main

Hardware Version  1CDD.A

Software Version  V5R020C10S100   It's now updated to V5R020C10S151. The family are out with all the 5G/6G devices! Will check speed later.

 

Interestingly since they updated this router (Wifi 6) my ancient laptop that my son uses has not been connecting automatically to 2.4G ( Yes,  an old Acer 5750G) on startup. After this update I just checked it and it is now connecting on startup. Used to be lucky to get 90 Mbps now 113 Mbps. LAN speeds as per package. The router login page now has a CAPTCHA to do to access.