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khad
Mar 30, 2020Apprentice
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...
FURRYe38
Mar 30, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Heres what mine looks like:
SSID is not separated...
khad
Mar 30, 2020Apprentice
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.
- FURRYe38Mar 30, 2020Guru - Experienced User
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.