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How to disable automatic firmware updates?
Where is the option to disable firmware updates? There seems to be no option in the Orbi App and no option on the Orbilogin web browser log in page either. I’ve been (happily) on the same firmware ...
Looks like it happened again. I have the RBK23 modem/satellites and just a few hours ago everything was force updated to 2.7.3.22.
Prior to this, I was happily on 2.5.1.16 for over a year.
The part I don't understand is how this happened, especially since I've manually disabled all automatic updates in the router using the Telnet method. This is where you log into the router and disable the below configurations.
orbi_auto_upgrade=1
auto_check_for_upgrade=1
auto_update=1
Anyway, been running fine with all the firmware updates being bypassed for the past year except now with 2.7.3.22.
Has this occurred to anyone? How did the router bypass the disabled update configurations?!
Netgear reserves the right to push firmware that deemed needed to fix security holes regardless of what telnet settings you have chosen.