New Features / Enhancements:

1. Data Volume limit: This feature allows the administrator to control the amount of Internet data consumed by the SSIDs and individual clients. This feature is mainly intended to limit the clients connected to a guest SSID from exhausting the whole data which is available for a billing cycle.

   A total monthly data volume limit can be specified and can be divided into each SSIDs. Administrator can also configure the action to be taken when SSID data limit is fully exhausted.

   A default volume limit can be configured for each client. When the clients exhaust their 90% limit the speed is limited to 256 Kbps.

2. URL Tracking: This feature allows the administrator to track the URLs accessed by any client. This feature can be enabled per SSID. The list of up to 500 URLs are maintained. Client MAC address, hostname and the URLs accessed by it are captured. The hit count per URL also can be viewed. The information can be sorted based on URL or Client MAC address or by SSID name.
3. Scheduled Reboot: This feature allows the administrator to schedule AP reboot at pre-configured day and time.
4. 802.11h Announcements: This feature allows connected clients to switch to the AP’s new channel without losing any data whenever there is a channel change on AP.  This feature is supported only on 5 GHz band.
5. Band Steering – 5GHz preferred: This feature helps steer dual mode clients to 5GHz radio during initial association. 5GHz preferred is added as a default configuration when Band Steering is being enabled. Radio button changed to drop down with Automatic and 5GHz preferred options.
6. Hybrid Management Mode: When the Access Point is managed by the NETGEAR Insight app then very few configurations can be modified using the local web-browser interface of the device. Most of these configurations are also not supported by Insight yet. With this feature the administrator can configure most of these configurations from local browser interface for the device.
7. Facebook Wi-Fi Insight Support: Facebook based Captive Portal support is available through Insight application.

Firmware Fixes:

1. In router mode, when using PPPoE, Facebook Wi-Fi redirection is functional.
2. Fixed an issue where in router mode, when using PPPoE, SSIDs would turn off if the Network Integrity check was enabled.
3. Fixed an issue where the IP address and hostname was not being captured for a client connected to an SSID which maps to the non-default VLAN.
4. Fixed multiple Security Vulnerabilities Issues.
5. Fixed issues in with fast roaming.
6. Fixed issue with the setting of maximum number of clients allowed to be connected per radio.

Known Issues:

• While using the Facebook Wi-Fi feature, there is an auto pop-up issue with some iOS devices and old android versions. Some iOS devices and some Android devices may not pop up the Facebook Authentication page. The user must launch the web browser to get the Authentication page.
• May need to clear the web browser cache to get the latest web management interface changes after upgrades to a newer firmware version.

Updating the Firmware

Standalone mode:

• Before using a new Access Point, make sure that you are using the latest firmware. To download firmware, visit downloadcenter.netgear.com.
• If the WAC510 AP is operating on firmware v1.2.1.6 or above, update the firmware to latest version.
• If the WAC510 AP is operating on firmware lower than v1.2.1.6, update the firmware to v1.2.1.6 first, and then update the AP to latest firmware.
• If the WAC505 AP is operating on firmware v1.5.2.3 or higher, update to the latest firmware.

Insight mode:

• Before using a new Access Point, make sure that you are using the latest firmware.
• Make sure that you are using the latest version of the NETGEAR Insight app.
• If the WAC505 AP is operating in Insight mode with firmware v1.5.2.3 or higher, update to the latest firmware through the NETGEAR Insight app.
• If the WAC510 AP is already managed using the NETGEAR Insight app v4.0.x / v4.1.x, update to the latest NETGEAR Insight v5.0.x app and update the AP to the latest firmware.

Standalone to Insight Mode

• Make sure that you are running the latest firmware. In the local browser interface, go to Configuration -> System -> Basic -> Management Mode -> select “Insight” -> APPLY.
  Note: Install the NETGEAR Insight app v5.0.x on your mobile devices to discover and manage the WAC505 and WAC510 APs.

Router mode:

• Before using a new Access Point, make sure that you are using the latest firmware.
• If the Access Point is operating in router mode with firmware v1.2.5.12 or lower, make sure to set the default management VLAN ID (1) and default VLAN ID for first DHCP server before updating to the latest firmware.

Unsupported Features

• Router Mode (WAC505)
• WDS configuration in Router mode (WAC510)

Firmware Upgrade Procedure:

• Using the Download Link below, download and extract the new firmware to a convenient place such as your desktop. The firmware filename after extracting is WAC505-510_firmware_V5.0.0.17.tar

  Download Link : http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WAC505/WAC505-510_firmware_V5.0.0.17.zip

Limitations:

• IE10 and lower versions are not supported.
• In the WAC510 AP, a backup configuration file that was created on a firmware lower than v1.2.0.12 will not be restored on v1.2.0.12 or above through the IE11 browser.