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I arrived back from vacation last night and as I arrived I noticed there is no connectivity available at my house. Given that I'm extremely tired and bunch of work related things I need to do, you guys managed to receive a lot of curse from my end in the middle of the night. I spent 2 hours looking through forums and reading how frustrated everybody is while trying to figure out how to restore my connection. This is unacceptable. 

In one post I saw your own employee saying "We cannot guarantee everything will work out fine during these updates.", I mean the definition of your work is exactly to solve such problems. If you cannot guarantee then just hire random people and let them do random things, as customers will end up in the exact same situation, so what is the difference? It is not your customers problem if a script which is supposed to copy and restore old configuration stops working, it is an engineering problem that a team of engineers supposed to ensure that works, if this has failed do you still feel you have achieved your purpose? If this is the mindset you have you should really reconsider your technical approach.

Now that I managed to restore my connection, I am trying to restore the name of my SSID and wifi password, I noticed the toggle to turn off "Wi-Fi" on the Dashboard does not have any confirmation dialog. Considering nowadays none of the laptops have ethernet ports, disabling Wi-Fi accidentally can cause a lot of waste of time. This is a horrible UX and you guys should be ashamed of. Don't you have *any* UX person checking such details? If you have one already, reconsider if that is the right person. I lost another hour here just because I toggled the "Wi-Fi is on" unintentionally. I had to find an ethernet cable, and two separate converters to convert rj45 to usb a and usb a to usb c. I could have ended up on the street shopping around to find those if I hadn't stashed them away and available at my disposal. Please introduce confirmation dialogs for crucial things such as disabling Wi-Fi connectivity.

During the time I spent on this new dashboard, there were several exceptions thrown in the console and are not caught, I had to refresh the page several times as it went complete blank.

Even though you say this update brings a new user interface, there are several obvious problems that your frontend engineers skipped to actually make it decent. There are several responsiveness and localization issues.

As I was writing this, all of a sudden I am now unable to reach to http://192.168.2.254/ at all, after waiting a few minutes I was able to reach again..

I hope the time I took to provide this feedback results in something..

Kind regards

well this update should not have been pushed at all, there is no sign of good testing before rolling out in this big scale, the update is a farce and you can expect more problems. 
KPN has fucked it up even worse this time as other times.

i understand your feeling, exactly the same here. 

KPN should take the blame and roll this back ASAP


Hoi ​@ozgur . I'm sorry the update was such a mess for you.

Did you manage to get it all stable again? Sometimes another factory default makes sure the update is installed correctly. 


Hoi ​@ozgur . I'm sorry the update was such a mess for you.

Did you manage to get it all stable again? Sometimes another factory default makes sure the update is installed correctly. 


Hi Erwin,

Thank you for your message. For the time being things are stable, but I saw people losing their configuration after turning the router off and on again. I am afraid of losing more time so I haven’t tried that yet. Is this a known issue and if so what is the solution?

Regards


Hoi ​@ozgur . I'm sorry the update was such a mess for you.

Did you manage to get it all stable again? Sometimes another factory default makes sure the update is installed correctly. 


Hi Erwin,

Thank you for your message. For the time being things are stable, but I saw people losing their configuration after turning the router off and on again. I am afraid of losing more time so I haven’t tried that yet. Is this a known issue and if so what is the solution?

Regards

Sadly this is a known issue.  It mainly manifests when you have used portforwarding in the past and then removed those portforwards afterward.    Our update script has issues with that and it makes the router lose it's settings after a powercycle.  If this is the case with your RG I can't say. 

You could test it.  If it occurs we can discuss a solution together. 


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