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After endless tries and NetGear Support Orbi continues to be at 50% of modem speed
Orbi worked great for 10 months, but has gone down hill over the last 2 months. I have been on the phone with netgear nearly 8 hours over past week. And that doesnt include the 40 min wait times fo...
If you feel the degradation corresponds to the firmware update, I would try reverting to the previous version before throwing in the towel completely.
- What I don’t get is why our Orbis all worked great when we first got them, but with each new firmware, it gets worse and worse?
I wonder if this is Netgears Attempt to annualize Router purchases like iPhones or something.
Just a complete embarrassment to the company. This is supposed to be the best in the market. And it’s clealry the worst. I took your advice. I reloaded the older firmware, moved the router 25 feet to be more in the center of the basement, and used wifi analyzer to check out any channel interference. Orbi is performing closer to 100MBPS now 2 hours in....fingers crossed!
I wish netgear would have just recommended doing this is the first place.
I changed the firmware update from auto to english...so I hope I dont get another auto push.
That isn't firmware update control. That's the GUI language setting. That won't stop auto-update. You need to use the telnet technique discussed elsewhere in the forum to try to prevent auto-updates.
