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Is it safe to downgrade Orbi firmware from 2.7.3.22 to older ones?
My Orbi RBR50 was on older firmware (2.3.5.30) and I manually disabled auto-updates and splitted the SSID's to discreet 2.4GHz/5GHZ's. This was due to some of my devices being old For some reason, to...
I believe you can.
Use a wired PC and FireFox broswer to downgrade the RBS first then RBR lastly...
You can prevent an auto update if you put a host router in front of the Orbi router.
thebadpete wrote:
My Orbi RBR50 was on older firmware (2.3.5.30) and I manually disabled auto-updates and splitted the SSID's to discreet 2.4GHz/5GHZ's. This was due to some of my devices being old For some reason, today I found that the firmware got updated to latest 2.7.3.22. I lost the split SSID's and some of the devices stop working.
It looks like I cannot do the same trick anymore (telnet is disabled - https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/How-to-set-a-separate-SSID-for-the-5-GHz-network-on-your-Orbi/m-p/1396594 ). Is it safe for me to downgrade the Orbi firmwire back to my previous version? Anyone has done downgrades before?