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Netgear, please please please allow end user to turn off automatic firmware updates!!!
Firimware updates 2.1.1.16 and 2.1.1.18 are totally unstable with random, constant loss of wifi. I must constantly reboot the router. Prior firmware 2.0.0.56 is very stable for me and I would like t...
Troyd75826
You're complete right that it's absured that auto-updates cannot be turned though the Netgear admin UI.
However, for others who stumble across this, there *is* a way to disable auto-updates, it's just not in the UI. You don't have to block the software update sites.
See the post by Butch1326, which details how to do it.
Even with auto-updates disabled, however, you'll have a host of other issue. See my related post here.
Yes, I have done that, and it seems to work. But we should not have to hack config files just to keep something that we know works as it is. Please read Netgear!
I personally (and others as well) have found the telnet hack to be unreliable. The firewall block is the only really reliable way to block auto-updates.
Although allowing the user the ability to turn off auto-updates may be a positive thing, I'm curious about the following:
Number of Orbi systems sold______
Number of Orbi systems with little to no problems_______
Number of Orbi systems with too many problems_______
VAJim,
I can help you with that!
Number of Orbi systems sold: Millions
Number of Orbi systems with little to no problems: 0
Number of Orbi systems with too many problems: Millions
What you're looking for is "How many users have *noticed* the Orbi system problems".
Since the disconnect issues are not immediate, the backhaul issues are based on traffic, and firmware upgrades only cause issues if you *happen to notice*, the number of people who notice is probably low.
The issues are completely reproducable given a proper test case, across all Orbi's. If you only use wifi on and off for a few hours each day you may never notice that it drops all the time. Not noticing a problem is completely different from not having one.
- Please describe firewall block in detail.