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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 al...
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 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.
Yes and it DOES help. Many issues solved by a reset. Proven. Some FW updates need a clean installation or there maybe bad residual code that needs to be cleared out. I agree, shouldn't have to however as a last resort or even preliminary reset maybe needed and should be performed. Many posts on resets resolve users issues after a FW update. Just the nature of the beast. Take it or leave it. Works well in most cases.
Good Luck.
It is COMPLETELY unreasonable in this day and age to require consumers to do a full router reset to apply an incremental firmware upgrade! Especially after 5-10 upgrades go just fine! It is a failure of development to produce a working firmware that can be upgraded in place. If they can't produce that then it is their responsibility to the customer to document the need to reset and how to do it. NOT advertising a firmware update on the administration page and allowing ppl to in place upgrade to it.
