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Netgear drops the ball... again. RBR50 on FW2.5.1.8
I'm a longtime Orbi user. I bought the system as soon as it was available. I'm also fairly knowledgeable with tech devices. The Orbi worked flawlessly for me since he beginning. Like most of you,...
No, but I’d had earlier firmwares pushed to the system via the auto updates. I followed the threads like many of you and updated to 2.5.1.8 when everyone felt it was close to stable, which it was until just last week.
It’s more frustrating that I can read multiple threads saying the same thing without seemingly any acknowledgement from NG.
It’s more frustrating that I can read multiple threads saying the same thing without seemingly any acknowledgement from NG.
UnCapitano wrote:
No, but I’d had earlier firmwares pushed to the system via the auto updates. I followed the threads like many of you and updated to 2.5.1.8 when everyone felt it was close to stable, which it was until just last week.
It’s more frustrating that I can read multiple threads saying the same thing without seemingly any acknowledgement from NG.
The part about 2.5.1.8 ever being stable is debatable. There are some on here that enjoy living on the edge and claim that it works fine. However, I believe there are far more users where it is NOT stable. Of course, you never hear from those who it works well.
As a long time user to another, your only mistake was performing the upgrade IF you system was working.
- I can agree on that. The question for those like me is... did it degrade over time or did something else change that we didn’t have control over?
UnCapitano wrote:
I can agree on that. The question for those like me is... did it degrade over time or did something else change that we didn’t have control over?The one area where folks seems to have lost control is with the app. I've heard ( I don't use the app) that the app doesn't give you a choice...? I don't know but several report opening the app and it starts to donwload the latest FW...??
You probably heard the stories a few years back where folks kept complaing how NG pushed all updates. Now from what I was told, today they only push 'critical' updates. I've been on 2.5.30?? ...since Oct 2019.