01-20-2022 02:19 PM
I just purchased a used ruckus R730 after not doing my homework only to find out it doesn't support ruckus unleasehed. On top of that, they want me to be a premium support user to download the latest solo firmware (Solo Access Point 114.0.0.0.6565)?
What gives? I thought that Ruckus products were supposed to be well supported? My R720 has unleashed, why not the R730 that I just paid $700 used for? Can we at least get the latest version of the far inferior Solo firmware to the public. Obviously we have already spent money on the AP, why do we need to purchase "premium support" when you could just stand behind your products from the get go.
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01-21-2022 01:37 PM
Hi @nick_s,
Let me get the link fixed.
All solo images are supposed to be available without premium support.
I will update you, once this is done.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
01-21-2022 11:20 AM
You are right. Though the latest 114.x code was from 06-28-2021.
You can try to contact support and ask for help but not sure what they will do for you.
01-21-2022 11:26 AM
Hah so sadly we've ended up back at the lack of support for this product. I will try contacting customer support to ask for an updated firmware for vulnerability fixes...
01-27-2022 12:45 AM
With proper configuration, in your case -- to get home network working, you don't actually need anything, any solo image is enough.
Just put management interface on untagged VLAN, and client traffic on different, tagged VLAN (or VLANs, if you need more separated networks).
All latest vulnerabilities related to cracking WiFi access are not that important for home use -- actually I have never read about real case of they practical use. Most WiFi networks are vulnerable because use bad passwords. So if you use proper setup, and don't have freely available very valuable info in your internal network, you don't need to be much troubled.
Speaking about performance and connection stability - you'll get very good connections from R730, of cause.
I agree, that it was unfortunate that because of need of early release, died-end chipset was used -- chipset, which lacks some hardware features, needed to achieve WiFi6 compliance. I suppose, when development was started, it was not clear, that chipset will not have this features.
So as soon as new chipset version became available, R730s model was dropped and replaced with wifi6 compliant, and we can't expect any new development for it (except continued support for platforms, on which it was integrated already).
We have installed a few R730 (under vSZ management) and they still work very nice, even so there were some functional limitations in the beginning (such as no support for mesh, for example).
We provided once Internet access during some EU event for family doctors , which had ~400 users, sitting in raws in area with just 1x R730, and obviously interest for presentation was so exclusive, that everybody was browsing Internet during it - we got ~500 devices connected and they together maxed Internet connection at 600Mbps (optical).
You can add ZD1200 as a controller, if you want more manageability and monitoring, but for home use you don't really need this...
09-09-2025 12:41 AM - edited 09-09-2025 12:44 AM
It does actually if you convert it to a R850 file and make the R730 think it’s an R850 but don’t use 160 MHz as the R730 doesn’t support that but in unleashed you will see that you have options. Look up how to convert r730 to r850 unleashed with the specific firmware ( this ) 200.14.6.2.203 if you go any higher, it will reset the AP and it won’t be reachable.
01-21-2022 01:37 PM
Hi @nick_s,
Let me get the link fixed.
All solo images are supposed to be available without premium support.
I will update you, once this is done.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
