It is overkill for my current needs, and I would have got a kick out of using it on my network here at home. I really do, and like others here, I'm not looking for a free lunch, I'm just trying to stop older corporate equipment from headed to landfill. I get that keeping things up to date costs cash, time and effort. I'm at the point where I am a little more than dismayed at this attitude towards a single firmware download. I asked about on the cost of what a service contract would be (note I _only_ wanted the firmware. No option for home users to have a discounted one time purchase, or cheaper access like some other companies offer. Like so many here I found exactly what I was after for the hardware I bought, but its paywalled. Fully understand that I'm more than 2 standard deviations from what Cisco would consider its customer base, but thought that I would have a look on the website. It wasn't working as intended and I was told by some of the networking chaps I know that Cisco would have a newer firmware on the website and that would sort out what I wanted.Īgain, I'm a _home_ user. I obtained the unit from everyones favourite auction house after a good bit of thinking on what would suit my needs, and a lovely Cisco box arrived at my door. I could have bought a consumer unit new, but I bought a second hand Cisco AP thinking that this would probably do me for a very very long time. I had a look at Cisco and another enterprise competitor, and decided that whilst as a home user I really couldn't justify the cost of the equipment new I saw Cisco at work, and in various places, and it was seen as one of the more solid companies out there. Like a good few out there (oh and there are a good number if you look), I had some issues with my home based wifi and decided to splash out and get some higher end equipment. If at any point it starts to sound that way, stop reading as its not coming across as intended. OK, I know this thread is an old one, but I made the effort to register, log in and post here.įirst off I really am not intending any of this to seem as a flame or the like, seriously I am not. Customers have always needed a service contract to download Cisco IOS the change merely disabled the ability to inadventently download software for which no active service contract existed.įor more details on the Software Download center, please see The issue that Leo refers to was the January 2011 change where software center started a more rigourous enforcement of access based on covered products, which prevented users from downloading software for devices and device families for which they had no service contract. In general, service contracts will get you updates and ugrades, but feature set upgrades will require a purchase (just like going from Windows Home to Windows Ultimate, for example) Just for the record, let me clarify some terminology.Īn update is when you get software of a newer version but the mostly same capbility.Īn upgrade is when you get software of substantially improved capability or new features in a feature family.Ī feature set upgrade is when you move up to a different licensed set of features. I'm busy, and so are my many colleagues out there, and frankly we're sick of being treated like second class citizens because we don't have million dollar contracts. We just don't like to be nickel and dimed, and/or forced to subscribe to meaningless marketing/data harvesting programs just so we can be assured that our appliances are secure. We paid a lot for the features we require. Nobody's looking for a free ride, or extra features. If Cisco was so serious about providing timely updates and making them convenient for users to install, they wouldn't require them to jump through hoops just to get a security update. So don't give me some BS about "low end" devices not providing firmware updates. Installation is as easy as a click of a button. The updates are checked for automatically from the dashboard panel, and the user is alerted whenever there's a new release. My Asus consumer wireless router had 5 firmware updates in the last year. I'm not interested in your anecdotal evidence.
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