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Back to Orbi - for a friend. What is the best firmware version
OK. I had the Orbi and after several months of trying to get it to work through the various updates, I finally gave up and bought an Eero (which works flawlessly). I gifted the Orbi RBK53, with an a...
The latest stable version is 2.0.2.14. No Ethernet backhaul and I believe no Circle parental controls.
The latest public beta version is V2.1.3.4. The links to this are in a sticky post.
Version 2.1.2.18 is available, but NETGEAR says this has bugs affecting some users, so it was pulled from the auto update servers.
I've used Orbi in AP mode for 15 months with zero problems. I've used all of the above versions with no issues. I'm currently using V2.1.3.4.