Linksys firmware update: "Auto-enter" customized settings; Streaming Transport via UDP

Following up on yesterday's report on the Linksys router firmware 1.385 update:

Tip to aut-enter customized settings Bob Curlee found that the need to manually re-enter your customized settings, lost after upgrading the firmware on a Linksys router, can be avoided by "addressing the router in your browser before doing the firmware update. (I keep my router's default IP address as a Toolbar Favorite in IE5 for just this purpose.) With the browser page still open showing the current values in the router's Setup tab, perform the firmware upgrade by any appropriate method (I ran the .exe file in Win98 under VPC4). As soon as the firmware is upgraded, simply go back to the open browser window and hit the Apply button to restore your previous settings to the router. Works like a charm."

Streaming Transport can now use UDP Regarding the update itself, John Strung reports: "It enables trigger port mapping which can be used to enable QuickTime Streaming Transport through UDP." With older versions of the firmware, you needed to use the HTTP setting, which typically provides less smooth streaming.

However, running QuickTime 5, we have been able to use the UDP setting even before installing this firmware upgrade to the router.

Alan Somers confirms that for him, "QuickTime UDP streaming has worked for at least the last two firmware versions. Version 1.37 introduced the capability to do port forwarding by protocol (TCP or UDP); prior to that, when you forwarded a port, the corresponding port numbers for both TCP and UDP were forwarded."

See also previous coverage, which discusses another work-around.

Version 1.386 already in beta? Mack Willingham claims that you can already get a beta version of the 1.386 firmware update for the 4-port Linksys router at DSLReports.com taken from a posting the in their Linksys forum.