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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 21, 2019
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New Firmware v2.5.0.38

  All RBK 5 series Orbi's. FW not yet available on the download site for manual installation... Please perform a BACKUP configuration to file. Then update the RBS first then RBR lastly. Factory re...
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  • sgrayban's avatar
    sgrayban
    Oct 26, 2019

    Yes

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Schmak01
Apprentice
Oct 31, 2019

A far warning, if you use the Access control DO NOT UPDATE as this completely messes up the device names configured.   Nothing matches anymore. The names are all out of wack, got these new DEV-0x: MC:AD devices that were named. MACa addresses are right, names and IP's are wrong.  So unless you want to look at all your MAC's before you disable then don't update. 

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 31, 2019

You need to factory reset the RBR and setup from scratch. This should resolve issues seen with access controls. 

Schmak01 wrote:

A far warning, if you use the Access control DO NOT UPDATE as this completely messes up the device names configured.   Nothing matches anymore. The names are all out of wack, got these new DEV-0x: MC:AD devices that were named. MACa addresses are right, names and IP's are wrong.  So unless you want to look at all your MAC's before you disable then don't update.