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My laptop can't connect for manual firmware upgrade for my Orbi RBR50
Today I got a message that a firmware update should be installed. My understanding, from reading the instructions for manually updating, that my computer must be connected to the RBR50 with an ethern...
KenJB wrote:Today I got a message that a firmware update should be installed. My understanding, from reading the instructions for manually updating, that my computer must be connected to the RBR50 with an ethernet cable. My laptop doesn't have ethernet capability. How do I upgrade?
Firmware update can be done using a laptop that is connected over WiFi. Most of us "old timers" feel more comfortable with a wired connection, but it is not required. Now that laptops are no longer coming with ethernet jacks, I paid $12 to buy an ethernet to USB converter (Amazon).
This forum has LOTS of posts about firmware updates. One common feeling is that if a firmware update is really required, then the Orbi Advanced Tab, Administration, Firmware Update menu should be able to do it. A manual firmware update should not be required.
(There are plenty of people who search out the "latest" firmware and want to install it when the automatic method does not find it, but's definitely not a message from Netgear.)
Please at least browse some of the firmware update posts for the version that Netgear says you should update to before messing with the Orbi.
KenJB wrote:Today I got a message that a firmware update should be installed. My understanding, from reading the instructions for manually updating, that my computer must be connected to the RBR50 with an ethernet cable. My laptop doesn't have ethernet capability. How do I upgrade?
Firmware update can be done using a laptop that is connected over WiFi. Most of us "old timers" feel more comfortable with a wired connection, but it is not required. Now that laptops are no longer coming with ethernet jacks, I paid $12 to buy an ethernet to USB converter (Amazon).
This forum has LOTS of posts about firmware updates. One common feeling is that if a firmware update is really required, then the Orbi Advanced Tab, Administration, Firmware Update menu should be able to do it. A manual firmware update should not be required.
(There are plenty of people who search out the "latest" firmware and want to install it when the automatic method does not find it, but's definitely not a message from Netgear.)
Please at least browse some of the firmware update posts for the version that Netgear says you should update to before messing with the Orbi.
Thanks, you made a lot of sense.
On the other hand Netgear seems not to make sense. Today's email message from Netgear says this update is important. This is what it said:
"We've Enhanced Your Product's Security.
Please Update to the Latest Firmware.
Your product has the following updates available:
RBR50
Learn how to update here
Use the Orbi App to update your firmware" (My emphasis).
We are told in the email that the Orbi App will update the firmware. It does not.
According of my App my Orbi firmware is up to date. It is not,
It's a shame that Netgear makes such good hardware and such an incoherent and unnecessarily complex process.