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Extend your existing Orbi with a satellite
I have found out that extending your existing Orbi with a satellite is not in al cases so easy.
My current Orbi set-up exist of a router and two satellites, which all where running on the latest firmware v2.1.4.10.
The new and third satellite came out of the box with firmware v1.12.0.18.
After adding the third satellite to the system I noticed that I could not upgrade the firmware of the new satellite.
Both automatic and manual I got the error that the upgrade failed.
While looking for a solution I saw a message that I had to downgrade first the router.
So I have downgraded the router to v1.12.0.18.
But stil upgrading the new satellite to v2.1.4.10 was not possible.
So I have first upgraded the new satellite to v2.0.1.4 and after that upgraded it to v2..1.4.10.
After that I needed to uprgade the router first to v2.0.1.4 and after that to v2.1.4.10.
Hopefully this information helps other with the same problem and that netgear can solve the problems what is causing this.
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I recently added a second RBS50 to my system. Bought it from someone who had it over a year and never used it. Auto updates to the firmware would not work, and eventually I figured out that the current firmware on it were so old that I had to manually update the firmware in stages, not one direct update.
