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Firmware Version 1.5.0.12 issues/fixes
New firmware released on Feb 22, 2017. Starting this thread so people can chime in. And hopefully Netgear moderators read our feedback. I'll start: Update process went smoothly. Tha...
My Orbi did the update overnight. The base station seemed to be working fine. I could get online fine through my desktop computer connected to the base station by ethernet. But the link to the satellite was lost. I restarted the base station and it reconnected. Once that happened, my devices seemed to all connect fine. I hope the smoother updating process takes care of this in the future.
Until this morning, the Orbi has been very good, no problems at all. Very fast speeds throughout my home. So if the updating can be automatic and without glitches in the future, that would make me quite happy.
Are you sure? One Orbi complaint is that it does NOT perform automatic updates: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-Option-to-Automatically-Update-Firmware/td-p/1191452
dethier1958 wrote:My Orbi did the update overnight.
It definitely did update itself. I did not do the update manually, and the firmware version did change. I had been checking for updates from time to time.