In message <f19hjk$qvm$2@registered.motzarella.org>, "Pete @
www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <gymratz@biggassmusclebuildingshop.gym> writes[color=blue]
>ian wrote:
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>> What kind of klutsy engineering is this? In real life there are a
>>dozen reasons why a file transfer might fail, and you finish up with a
>>useless lump of silicon. No thank you![/color]
>
>by file transfer they would mean Firmware upgrade not a general "file
>transfer" from LAN to WAN.[/color]

Understood.

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>Pretty much everything that has upgradeable firmware gives the same warning.
>[/color]

Not in my experience of remotely upgradeable equipment over the last 20
years+.

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>Firmware is like the operating system - if you only dump half of it to
>the EEPROM (Firmware) how will the router know what instructions to
>follow on power-up.[/color]

A hardware reset should revert the equipment to the original factory
version of the firmware.

--
Ian