SputnikNet 3.3.7.8
SputnikNet version 3.3.7.8 new features and enhancements include:
- Device management
- Enabled remote flash update for the following router models:
- Sputnik 720, 730 and 320
- Cisco E2000 and E3000
- Netgear 3500L
- Added firmware update alerts for all other router models.
- Added ability to remotely set timezone on router and to synchronize its clock with Internet time servers.
- Enabled remote control over basic wireless scheduling (turn wireless signal on/off at certain times of day).
- Enabled remote control over wireless client isolation.
- Router local web admin password can now be changed from SputnikNet.
- Sputnik Instant Setup
- Added ability to set Sputnik Agent mode (e.g. NMS) before assigning the device to its SputnikNet server. This will streamline the deployment of managed range extenders running Sputnik Agent in NMS mode.
- Added ability to detect and manually fix erroneous MAC addresses.
- Captive portals
- Added option to disable display of the session monitor window.
- Added the ability to customize the post-authentication welcome page greeting text.
- Prepaid authentication system
- Improved performance when creating large prepaid code batches (e.g. 50,000+ codes).
Bug Fixes:
- Device management: automatically apply walled garden rules that enable routers to connect to all Sputnik servers.
- Reports: fixed axis labeling on certain bandwidth charts.
- Various performance enhancements and minor bug fixes
For customers running Sputnik Control Center:
To upgrade to Sputnik Control Center 3.3.7.8, first upgrade to 3.3.7.0 as described in the 3.3.7.0 change log; then follow these upgrade instructions.
Important: if you are running Sputnik Control Center on White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to CentOS 4.7 before installing this release.
Sputnik Agent Firmware 3.3.7.8
Sputnik Agent firmware version 3.3.7.8 new features and enhancements include:
- Wireless client isolation is now enabled by default.
- Transmit power for selected models can be set above 400 mW (note: Power-over-Ethernet injector is required for power settings above 99 mW).
- Wireless Beacon is set to 200 by default to decrease overhead on APs with many connections.
- Wireless Channel is set to AUTO by default.
- Enhanced stability of Sputnik Agent running in NMS mode (for managed range extenders).
- Support for wireless scheduling (turn wireless signal on/off at certain times of day)
Sputnik Agent Firmware 3.3.7.6.2
Sputnik Agent firmware version 3.3.7.6.2 new features and enhancements include:
- Default transmit power changed from 71 Mw to 99 Mw
- Default wireless channel changed from 6 to "Auto" (device will detect channel with least interference)
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled by default
- IPv6 support enabled by default
- Enhanced stability when used as a Sputnik Agent NMS repeater (managed range extender)
- Rapid SputnikNet provisioning
- Sputnik Agent firmware version displayed in DD-WRT web user interface
- New Broadcom CFE binaries included (version 1.4.2)
- BCM91125E
- BCM91125F
- BCM91125PCIX
- BCM91250A
- BCM91250E
- BCM91280E
- BCM91480B
- BCM91480HT
- Support for new hardware, including:
- Cisco E1000
SputnikNet 3.3.7.7
SputnikNet version 3.3.7.7 new features and enhancements include:
- Upgraded SputnikNet Linux kernel for improved performance, enhanced stability and security
Bug Fixes:
- Improved AP provisioning using Sputnik Instant Setup
- Fixed a situation where an AP could not get its license from the SputnikNet server
- Fixed an issue where session monitor use could increase server load
For customers running Sputnik Control Center:
To upgrade to Sputnik Control Center 3.3.7.7, first upgrade to 3.3.7.0 as described in the 3.3.7.0 change log; then follow these upgrade instructions.
Important: if you are running Sputnik Control Center on White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to CentOS 4.7 before installing this release.
SputnikNet and Sputnik Agent Firmware 3.3.7.6
SputnikNet version 3.3.7.6 new features and enhancements include:
- Enhanced user bandwidth shaping: you can specify a bandwidth cap (maximum) that is applied to all users on the network, preventing bandwidth hogs. Please note: this feature requires the use of Sputnik Agent firmware version 3.3.7.6.1.
- Performance improvements: generally faster captive portal load times.
Bug Fixes:
- Update to PayPal Authentication System that prevents users from creating invalid PayPal passwords.
Sputnik Agent Firmware version 3.3.7.6.1 new features and enhancements include:
- Support for enhanced user bandwidth shaping in SputnikNet (see above).
- Support for new hardware, including:
- Buffalo WHR-G125 (standard and enhanced)
- Buffalo WHR-HP-G54
- Cisco e2000
- Cisco e3000
- D-Link DIR-615 WIRELESS N 300 ROUTER
- Deliberant AP 2i*
- Deliberant CPE 2*
- EnGenius EAP-3660*
- EnGenius ECB3500*
- EnGenius EOC1650*
- EnGenius EOC-2610*
- Linksys WRT160N
- Linksys WRT320N
- Linksys WRT54G (Serial numbers CDF0-CDFA)
- Linksys WRT54GS (Serial numbers CGN0-CGN5, CGN6*)
- Linksys WRT54GL
- Linksys WRT610N
- Netgear WGR614L
- Netgear WNDR3300
- Netgear WNR3500L
- Netgear WRG614L
- Sputnik 700
- Sputnik 720
- Sputnik 730
- Ubiquiti Bullet 2HP*
- Ubiquiti Bullet M2HP*
- Ubiquiti NanoStation 2*
- Ubiquiti NanoStation M2*
- Ubiquiti NanoStation loco M2*
- Ubiquiti PicoStation 2HP*
- Ubiquiti PicoStation M2HP*
- Ubiquiti PowerStation 2*
*Coming soon.
Bug Fixes:
- Improved provisioning: Sputnik Agent launch is delayed until WAN interface is available.
Please note:
While Sputnik Agent Firmware version 3.3.7.6 is not required for SputnikNet 3.3.7.6, we recommend that customers upgrade their routers to the latest firmware.
For customers running Sputnik Control Center:
To upgrade to Sputnik Control Center 3.3.7.6, first upgrade to 3.3.7.0 as described in the 3.3.7.0 change log; then follow these upgrade instructions.
Important: if you are running Sputnik Control Center on White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to CentOS 4.7 before installing this release.
SputnikNet 3.3.7.5
SputnikNet version 3.3.7.5 new features and enhancements include:
- Improved Quality of Service (QoS) settings with updated priorities for common services, as follows:
- low-level network protocols (POP3/IMAP/SSH/DNS, etc.) are now set to "Premium" (highest priority)
- HTTP (web) and Skype are set to "Express" (next level priority)
- P2P (peer to peer) is set to "Bulk" (lowest priority)
- everything else is set to "Standard" (the default priority, between "Express" and "Bulk")
- Added more fine-grained upload/download bandwidth limit options to QoS settings.
- Added control over "purge unauthenticated session time". This value sets the amount of time a wireless end-user can spend online before they complete a login. If the user exceeds the allotted time, their unauthenticated session is purged from the database and the captive portal reloads with a new session. Setting the value lower will show fewer unauthenticated settings in SputnikNet’s Client Sessions view, but force the end-user to refresh the captive portal if they exceed the time limit. Setting the value higher will show more unauthenticated sessions, but force fewer captive portal reloads. In 3.3.7.5 the default value was changed from 30 minutes to one hour.
- Router List settings for showing fields and display limit are now preserved across sessions.
Bug Fixes:
- More fixes to bring SputnikNet into better compliance with UTF-8 character encoding. This will enhance the ability to process PayPal transactions with non-Roman characters.
- Restored captive portal preview feature (so that authentication systems are displayed embedded within the captive portal preview).
- Fixed missing node_id problem that occurred when an end-user attempted to log in with an expired session token.
- Disabled setting "session idle timeout" to less than five minutes. (Setting this value lower can logout end-users too quickly.)
- Modified calculation of end-user total time online so that it no longer includes the session idle timeout. Instead, the idle timeout value is automatically subtracted from the reported session time.
- User Authentication System: added help text to clarify the fact that optional sign-up fields are for email address, title, and organization.
For customers running Sputnik Control Center:
To upgrade to Sputnik Control Center 3.3.7.5, first upgrade to 3.3.7.0 as described in the 3.3.7.0 change log; then follow these upgrade instructions.
Important: if you are running Sputnik Control Center on White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to CentOS 4.7 before installing this release.
SputnikNet 3.3.7.4
- New Account Settings page for managing your SputnikNet subscriptions
- Various minor enhancements to the user interface
- Fixed bug in PayPal Standard authentication system that was causing some users returning from paypal.com get a session timeout error
- Fixed bug in PayPal authentication system where certain foreign language characters caused transaction failure
- Fixed bug in PayPal authentication system where transaction does not complete and login::hash is displayed in transaction details
- Changed internal auto session expire time to one hour
- Enhanced captive portal loading speed
- Fixed missing node id problem
- Made minor fix to WorldPay authentication system
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error when viewing saved captive portals
To upgrade to Sputnik Control Center 3.3.7.4, first upgrade to 3.3.7.0 as described in the 3.3.7.0 change log; then follow these upgrade instructions.
Important: if you are running Sputnik Control Center on White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to CentOS 4.7 before installing this release.