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New FW V2.1.1.16 (Router) and V2.1.0.18 (Beacon) - what's your experience?
Just received replacement RBK30 (RBR40/RBW30) Orbi system from Amazon and udpated to the current FW:
| Router | RBR40 | RBR40 | V2.1.1.16 |
| Satellite | RBW30 | Orbi Satellite-1 | V2.1.0.18 |
Enable Daisy Chain Topology is defaulted to on.
These is defaulted to off:
- Implicit Beam Forming
- MU-MIMO
- Fast Roaming
Left them at their defaults.
I'm going to see if this update has any effect on intermittent network drops I had w/previous 2.x FW versions.
What's your experience w/this update?
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Two network drops since I set up the new speakers - full drop, Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Just in case, a Nexus 6P I have w/Oreo on it has been turned off. (There was some talk about Pixel/Nexus devices w/Oreo affecting Orbi).
So..mabye I have the patience to do a factory reset and give it one more try, but looks like I'm most likely going back to Eero, which was flawless (if not quite as fast) for the last few days.
Yep - I'm done with Orbi. Since going back to Eero this weekend I've been absolutely rock solid.
I guess part of me was hoping that the next Orbi firmware drop would solve most issues but nope.
I am running the RBK50 with two satellites all on 2.1.1.16 for the last few hours and all the issues that I reported are gone. This one is stable, at least it seems for this hardware.
Op I notice you are running different versions of hardware, including one that does not have newer firmware so that may be contributing to your instability.
My Orbi is in AP mode, It has been about 5 hrs and issue returned, I even did a factory reset on both after the firmware update all devices show attached to main.
As I mentioned before - re-deploy the firmware to both satellites and router - that seems to have helped some people here with instability before. I'd also say after updating export your settings and then re-import them. Give time to stabilize and then power off router and satellites for 2 minutes before restarting.
What you are experiencing has to be a config issue.
aaz wrote:I am running the RBK50 with two satellites all on 2.1.1.16 for the last few hours and all the issues that I reported are gone. This one is stable, at least it seems for this hardware.
Op I notice you are running different versions of hardware, including one that does not have newer firmware so that may be contributing to your instability.
I'm running an Orbi system sold by Netgear - RBK30, which includes one router (RBR40) and one Satellite (RBW30). They are a matched set and sold together by Netgear, and both were updated to the current FW available via the FW update process (auto, not manual) from the router.
