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Netgear-Guest Open and Disabling Firmware Updates
As many have reported I often see a Netgear-Guest Open WiFi Network even when Guest Networks are disabled. I trraced the issue to one of my 3 satelittes - an RBS50Y. Netgear lists two firmwar...
Sundried wrote:
Taking the satellite back to 2.3.5.32 solved the issue. However, one thing I discovered after I went back to the prior firmware is that the latest version seemed to be stored in the satellite - so on reset to factory settings the firmware seems to be upgraded back to the latest version that causes the issue (this may explain some of the comments re the firmware is automatically updated). It looks like on reset to factory settings you then also need to do a re application of the older firmware version.
Yes that is probably what I was seeing. Per FURRYe38 recommendations I (repeatedly) tried doing a factory reset. That was probably what kept loading the latest firmware.
Going back to 2.3.5.32 always solved the issue - no recent factory resets and still on 2.3.5.32 and everything good on the outdoor RBS50Y - and yes it's just the RBS50Y. My other RBS50 satellites run fine on their latest firmware.
Hi, All,
This has been brought up already and the product team are investigating on the issue.
Vandergraff Retired_Member Sundried
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Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
Hi after weeks and weeks of issues with the Orbi system I kicked of my house. I will never buy a netgear product. Since I bough the junk I had only troubles. FW does not work properly satellite did. no connect wlan troubles. And the support from netgear is the worst I have ever experienced