Major Failures After Firmware 2.0.0.74 Upgrade!

You aren't alone. The Orbi has become worse and worse the longer the product stays on the market. I actually think they should revert to the latest stable firmware and just stop trying because they clearly are using the rest of us to test the product. If they really are testing their firmware before release - they need to hire an outside firm to do their testing because the last 4 releases have been increasingly terrible.

I now have a Satellite that won't even connect to the Router. Nobody knows why. If I could return this product to the store, I would. As it stands now, I'm getting to the point where I'm just willing to call it a loss and go buy something else.

If you have not already, try going into Advanced Setup / Wireless Settings and ensure Enable Daisy-Chain Topology is disabled.  Myself and others found this enabled by default when upgrading to .74

I had drops connection with the satellite on the v1 firmware but not with the last.

Since this last firmware, i don't have any issues with all options enabled (Implicit BEAMFORMING, MU-MIMO, Fast Roaming).

No issues with xbox one, nintendo switch, nest thermostat, smartphones, tv connected, computers and synology nas connected. Very stable.

Good luck and tell us if you discover a solution.

I am having major problems with 2.0.0.74 as well. My phone (Galaxy Note 4) keeps dropping off Wifi and going back to 4G LTE, even when I am stationary right next to the router.

When I disable Orbi (power off all 3 units), and switch to the R7000 (enable its Wifi radio), suddenly everything works - no more dropouts to 4G, except when I move out of the R7000 range.

I'm not paying premium support for Netgear to fix their own bugs.

I've ran in to issues and it seems to coincide with this firmware release as well. Started noticing issues the week of 9/25, but specifically on my Xbox One. Everything else has worked fine. My issue has been when I join a multiplayer lobby with any of my friends and am also in a xbox party with them, I lose connection from the party and get dropped from the multiplayer match. If I'm lucky, I can play one match but otherwise always get dropped at some point. Yet if I play online by myself, without any of my friends in a party, it seems to work ok. I've tried the typically resets, did a factory reset and nothing.

I have my Xbox One hardwired to the RBS50 satellite. I tried just using wifi and had the same results. Never had this issue before. Any one else experience this? I've since downgraded my firmware back to 1.12.0.18 and am testing now. To say the least, it's extremely frustrating. Nothing else has changed. Been running this setup for the past year. Same ISP, no new hardware introduced, etc. And outside of multiplayer on my Xbox, everything else does seem to work ok.

Just purchased RBK50 last Sunday and three days ago, I upgraded the hardware to the latest firmware. 

I've been having the same issues as everyone else.  For example, our iPad and iPhones have been losing connection to our Orbi...I have to manually connect to the Orbi WiFi network each time we use our devices, which is extremely annoying.  If anyone purchases a new Orbi today, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of returns.

While I know that the Orbi is supposed to have excellent throughput performance, I might just go back to my Eero 2nd generation system and return our Orbi, if Netgear can't resolve this.  I never ever had a problem with eero.

I can seem to connect to anything but the guest 5 ghz, everytime I type in the password for the standard broadcast I'm told that the password is incorrect, I have to enter the PW 10 times just to get connected, I downgraded to 1.12.0.18 as another forum suggested but it is still not working like it should, my ASUS AC1900 is going to get brought back out if this crap doesn't stop.

I've had the system for the past 2 weeks, Running V2 since day 1. No issues until late last week when all clients attached to the satellite received "no internet" and no signal on afternoon. If I move the device toward the router AP, service was restored. I rebooted the satellite and issue was resolved...unitl this past monday when it happened again. The same fix resolved the problem. After reading this thread, I disabled daisy-chaining (never adding a 2nd satellite) and turned on MIMO and Beamforming (peformance increased even better than I expected). Yesterday I discovered that our 5.8Ghz cordless phones were receiving heavy interference and handsets had issues connecting the base station. Never had this issue with prior dual-band wifi routers in the environment. I'm thinking that the cordless phone system is interferering with the Orbi backhaul channel communication. I have since unplugged the cordless unit ((15 yrs old) and will get a DECT 6 cordless system which should not interfere. I'm hoping these actions clean up the satellite issues I've experienced. Really love the range and throughput of this system. Hoping I don't have to return it for a refund.

Saw this post while browsing for another issue.  I have luckily not had any of the issues you are experiencing with the new formware (2.0.0.74).  No disconnects and great range.  I see there is a manual update to a new version and I am holding off on that one as the current version seems to be performing for me.  Hope you guys can get that worked out.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/ORBI-RBK53-AC3000-quot-No-AirPrint-Printers-Found-quot-After/m-p/1561155#M29672