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NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 17, 2018

Announcing availability of OrbiOS 2.1

I posted this on a different thread, but copy & pasting it here for more visibility. Let me give you a quick update on where NETGEAR is with the OrbiOS. Just before Christmas break, we paus...

Installation

yaggermr

Guide

Jan 20, 2018

Getting constant network loss. Now I also lose my Lan connection as well as WIFI. Guess I am rolling back to 2.0.0.74. Getting close to bagging this Router. It's just way to unstable.

webminster

Luminary

Jan 20, 2018

Despite having gone through the telnet autoupdate-disable instructions carefully back on 2.0.0.76 a while back, my router and satellite auto-updated overnight to 2.1.2.18. My LG TV did not connect on power-on this morning, which I saw happen often on 2.1.2.10 as well. Never that problem with 2.0.x.

Will be testing for the apparent packet loss issue I've had previously with 2.1.x later today.

I really hate that I can't reliably control if the box updates. I really want to like this, but a device that refuses any role for the user to manage the device realy doesn't have a place in my home...

tagteam
Virtuoso
Jan 20, 2018
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/Orbi-System-Disable-automatic-firmware-updates/idi-p/1430660/jump-to/first-unread-message
- webminster
  Luminary
  Jan 20, 2018
  Yeah, I +1'd that a while back. Wish a lot more people would too.
  - tagteam
    Virtuoso
    Jan 20, 2018
    webminster wrote:
    Yeah, I +1'd that a while back. Wish a lot more people would too.
    
    Good! :-)
    
    Funny that so many owners seem to have the time to make multiple posts on this board with a complaint, but then can't be bothered to vote up a suggestion to have the same thing they are complaining about implemented.