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New Firmware 2.3.5.30
Just updated my Orbi to 2.3.5.30. Seems stable so far. I see few "ads" for the Orbi app and links for app download in the web GUI. Otherwise I could not see much more new things. I'm keeping to loo...
Firmware 2.3.5.30 is an absoolute disaster. My orbi system was getting disconnected from internet time to time. Lets say twice a week or a little more often. In order to fix this I went ahead and upgraded the firmware to 2.3.5.30, now it keeps rebooting every 2 hours or even less. I tried to capture the traffic to see whats going on with wireshark and did not see anything obvious. Netgear please fix this. I cannot return this product because, I have been using it for a little more than a year.
Netgear, please fix this mess. I am a software engineer in a big software company any this is not how a product is developed. You guys simply making a hardware and push it out there with fancy new features without even testing it much. Please stop creating new models and work a little on reliability.
triak wrote:Firmware 2.3.5.30 is an absoolute disaster.
Just curious.....did you do the FW update manually or was it performed auto-update?
- I didn't perform any action from my side to perform the update . I assume it was an auto update .
It's a disaster , also WiFi is unstable . Let's see if I have some time today to rollback . For the moment, status is : all the devices connected to the main router with the mentioned problems .
AFD wrote:
I didn't perform any action from my side to perform the update . I assume it was an auto update .
It's a disaster , also WiFi is unstable . Let's see if I have some time today to rollback . For the moment, status is : all the devices connected to the main router with the mentioned problems .Do you have another router in your network?
- To the question if I have another router in my network . Answer is no . I don't have any router in my network just the Orbi System .
Start testing with the following Steps
1 - Start disconnection (turn off-on) of each device thta supposed to be connected to the satellite (more than 20 devices)
2 - Verify the connections
3 - Depending on the results 1-2 go to factory reset and reinstall 2.3.1.44 (manually)
4 - Restore the previously config file saved 2 months ago .
Thanks for all the collaboration and support . Im going to keep you informed about the results
By the way , it seems that unstable wifi is better now (I dont know why , because I didn't perform any action , but let's see)
Problem solved(??) for the moment , status follows
This is the Method I used in my case
1 - Factory reset
2 - Manual installation Firmware 2.3.1.44
3 - Load Configuration file from Backup
4 - Testing everything with old firmware (OK)
5 - Manual installation Firmware 2.3.5.30
6 - Turn OFF/ON all the devices that supposed to be connected to the satellite
7 - Testing everything since 2 hours ago (seems to be ok)
Let's see what happen . Firmware 2.3.5.30 (up and running) .
It was a manual update. It was an attempt to fix my ongoing isssues with the earlier versions. Now I reverted the upgrade. Now it takes 15hours to 48 hours to go unresponsive :(
triak wrote:It was a manual update. It was an attempt to fix my ongoing isssues with the earlier versions. Now I reverted the upgrade. Now it takes 15hours to 48 hours to go unresponsive :(
wow...so you have never been right
Yeah, unfortunately.
It was requiring twice a week regular manual power cycle. Because of the new firmware I am now closely monitoring the "debug" page and it tells how long the router was up. Probably it was always like that earlier and I was not aware about the debug page.
