Auto Update

My iMac bogged down around 9:00 a.m. this morning. Having seen this before when the Orbi started an automatic update, I logged into orbilogin.com and went to Advanced -> Administration -> Firmware Update. That page said the current firmware version was V2.3.1.48 and displayed the "A New Firmware Update is Available" banner. However, it must have already been doing something since I wasn't doing anything that would have slowed the iMac. Maybe it was just downloading the new Firmware? At any rate, the iMac REALLY bogged down soon after I went to that page even though I didn't click on anything. Pretty nearly frozen even for local apps that don't access the Internet. After 10 minutes or so I got out my iPad and discovered I could browse the Internet with it so I started the Orbi app and selected Network Map. The details for the RBR and RBS said the firmware was V2.3.1.60 for both, my iMac was connected and all was well. On the iMac, System Preferences -> Network also said it was connected and all was well. But the iMac was still nearly frozen. (It took tens of seconds to bring up the System Preferences app.) Rebooting the iMac restored it to normal operation. However, my wife's iMac and both our iPads came back without rebooting. Maybe my iMac was hung up because that was the machine that was logged into the RBR when the updated started?

At that point, I went to this forum to see if anyone was having similar problems and discovered your explanation of the change in how Online Update works. Thanks a bunch. Don't know how I'd ever have figured out how it was supposed to work without you. I'm glad to see Netgear giving some control of updates to users but it looks like they have some more work to do.