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rix0rrr
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May 01, 2018

How to disable auto upgrade?

As mentioned in this topic: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Drops-network-every-30-seconds-for-5-seconds/m-p/1505649/highlight/true#M23564   I still keep having period 5-second complete net...
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rix0rrr
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May 02, 2018
My home router can’t block https connections :(
  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
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    May 02, 2018

    Try blocking FTP port 21 to the IP address of the Orbi Router...

    rix0rrr wrote:
    My home router can’t block https connections :(



     

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      rix0rrr
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      May 03, 2018

      Here's what I did: I replaced /usr/sbin/fw-upgrade with /bin/true. Let's see what that does :)

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        bent_wookie
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        May 03, 2018
        rix0rrr wrote:

        Here's what I did: I replaced /usr/sbin/fw-upgrade with /bin/true. Let's see what that does :)

        Ha! That's awesome. Maybe curl to an ITTT applet that Tweets "Thanks, but no thanks." at the netgear account ;)