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Announcing availability of OrbiOS 2.1
We’re excited to announce that OrbiOS 2.1 is now available for immediate download here: https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK50.aspx#download https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK40.asp...
Seems I cannot waste any more time and nerves with this solution. Sending ORBI back. I was not able to establish not stable wireless backhaul, nor ethernet backhaul, and router was often not able to get IP addresses from the main home router. This solution really is full with bugs. :(( I was so much hoping to use its advertised features, but this is just taking 2 hours every day to try to troubleshoot, reconfigure, restart and try and try and not succeeding. Enough. I'm sorry, but Netgear really screwed this up. And this is not ORBIOS 2.1 problem, this is a deeper whole system problem, since even before upgrading to 2.1 I had same issues :(( Very very sad. Do not recommend this solution to anybody.
I know this shouldn't be the fix, but for those that tried tp upgrade to FW ver 2.1 and are having these connectivity issues, have you tried to roll back to v1.12.0.18, and if so, does it fix the stability? I'm on v1.12.0.18 right now, and things have been running great. I wouldn't mind helping out with the testing of 2.1, but only if I know that rolling back to ver 1 will at least restore connectivity, if things get to bad.
Otherwise, I'll just patiently wait here on 1.12.
Also, I see there is a version 2.0.0.74 out there. Are there stability issues with that too?
2.0.0.74 has terrible connectivity issues. 2.1.1.12 just made them worse. I hear the 1.x versions are fairly stable. However, I also hear that they have some major security bugs which were patched in the newer versions. I'd be rather concerned about using 1.x and leaving my home vulnerable to hacking.
Looking through the release notes, it seems a number of them were patched in the last version of 1.12, except for the KRACK fix, which is in the latest 2.1. Will likely wait it out a litle bit. Still in my return period, so we'll see how things go. See if Netgear steps up and akes ownership of the issues or not.
Having had many of the troubles described by others when upgrading to 2.1 I decided to regress to 2.0.0.74 and now everything is reliable and stable once again. I have been running on xx.74 since it was first released. So my current configuration having regressed is RBR50 (1) & RBS50 (2) at 2.0.0.74 and RBW30 at 2.0.0.34_1.0.21