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BUG: Space certain strings completely break firmware 2.5.1.8
TLDR: The Orbi firmware team needs to learn how to properly parse strings with spaces. I just upgraded to 2.5.1.8 (from 2.3.5.30), and everything started going haywire: I kept getting discon...
This is how 5G Channel shows up in the admin console now. The incorrect parsing of spaces broke all sorts of things. I have to factory reset AGAIN.
I'm reverting to previous firmware and switching to Eero. I've been fighting with Orbi for too many years. This is insane.
Heres what mine looks like:
SSID is not separated...
Not sure what you're point is. Did you see the invalid characters in the 5G Channel value in the screenshot I posted? The parsing bug spilled some input into the wrong values because the space wasn't correctly handled.
Yes I saw the garbage characters. Try a reset and don't separate any SSIDs. Use a space in your SSID name using default wifi configuration.
If you need separation of SSIDs, you might give Voxels FW a try.
