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DO NOT UPGRADE RBR/RBS40 to 2.3.5.30 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
As usual if you are a NETGEAR Customer YOU ARE THE BETA TESTER!!!!!! This firmware is ABSOLUTE and COMPLETE GARBAGE! iOS devices WILL NOT STAY CONNECTED with this update. Samsung mobile devices also exhibit intermittent connection issues.
WTF Netgear? To busy trying to foist your Bitdefender armor garbage on people to actually test crap?
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- Unfortunately I did upgrade to this firmware version. It is absolutely horrible. Very unstable. I have 1 orbi router and 2 satellites. One of my satellite has zero device connected which is closest to several devices. The other satellite only 2 devices and the router 15. I have 400/20 but on my s10+ i only get 20/1 if I'm 6 feet away. How can I downgrade?
- Seeing the same issue on RBR20. Can't even connect to the router because it won't assign an IP address. Something to do with the DHCP maybe?
- Netgear should be ashamed for pushing out this garbage.
- I previously had my Guest network turned off. Connected a laptop via Ethernet to the main Router, enabled the Guest network and can connect to the internet through the Guest. Still can't get my regular network to give a device an IP though. Not confident it will last though...
- The new firmware changed all the static ip addresses in my network. I had to login from my computer and reassign them. Total garbage. All because wants to force a trial version of anti virus. But the main issues is lowering the wifi connection from 280mb to 20-30mb for no reason. Netgear., Please provide downgrade option. My 8 years old wireless router works better than 3 netgear orbi now. This is absolutely unacceptable.
- You can manually downgrade, that's what I did. Had to log into the sat and downgrade it manually first, then the router.
- Do you have the link for the firmware please? Rb40, rb20 and rbw30.
You need to factory reset and setup from scratch after updating FW. Newer FW may cause some problems with just installing and continuing. Most users get better results after doing the factory reset and setup from scratch. Then save off a new backup config to file for that version of FW.
Kmaniei wrote:
The new firmware changed all the static ip addresses in my network. I had to login from my computer and reassign them. Total garbage. All because wants to force a trial version of anti virus. But the main issues is lowering the wifi connection from 280mb to 20-30mb for no reason. Netgear., Please provide downgrade option. My 8 years old wireless router works better than 3 netgear orbi now. This is absolutely unacceptable.- NO. NO YOU DONT. That is so anti consumer and no one does that! I've upgraded all the firmware updates up to this point and have never had to do that. That is a garbage solution and a cheap ploy to excuse netgear from crappy firmware programming.
System worked fine until FW 2.3.5.30 now were back to having to reboot constantly inorder to have Wan conection ,, THe Orbi sustem is the only thing on the network I have no Modem I use Airfiber which a Point to point data conetion directly to the ISP , There antena is powered by a POE injector , I can plug a laptop directly into it and thats fine , all points to this latest firmware wen can we expect a fix ?
CReinhard wrote:System worked fine until FW 2.3.5.30 now were back to having to reboot constantly inorder to have Wan conection ,,
Did you do a 'manual' update?
