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Joechang
Apprentice
Feb 14, 2018
I found Orbi software development team is quite unprofessional and inefficient compare with R8500 team. Firmware is not stable and no development planning
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webminster
Luminary
Feb 15, 2018

Netgear's whole approach to their firmware issues and releases has been, "interesting," the past few months:

  • Released 2.1.1.2 as beta, with some serious issues (attached devices list, password truncation);
  • Based on customer bug reports, released an unfixed 2.1.1.16 to autoupdate to spread the problem;
  • Retracted 2.1.1.16 before Christmas, back to "stable" 2.0.0.74;
  • Released 2.1.2.10.  Better than 2.1.1.16 by a smidge.  But still significant customer reports of issues;
  • Released a slightly fixed 2.1.2.18 to autoupdate channel;
  • Reverted release from 2.1.2.18, but not back to 2.0.0.74 as before, but to 2.1.0.4.  Release notes seemingly dated 2/14/18, and seemingly a new release of unknown pedigree.

Hard to pin down how the decisions are getting made here.