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New Orbi firmware 2.1.2.18 update issues?
I noticed that there was a new firmware version 2.1.2.18 for Orbi RBK50. Has anyone installed this version, and has there been any issues after the installation. Please provide any details that you...
Installed earlier this afternoon, and still no issues thus far - everything working very well.
I did not do a factory reset this time around - I just installed it over the prev version (2.1.1.16) via the firmware update option in the GUI - that went smoothly. All precvious settings were maintained, and all of my varrious devices have now settled down on the device (router vs sat) and network (2.4 vs 5) that I want each one to be on.
So far so good!
Hydro130 wrote:
...I just installed it over the prev version (2.1.1.16) via the firmware update option in the GUI...Kind of strange - I have v2.1.1.16 and there is no update being offered in the GUI ("No new firmware version available").
I've been running beta 2.1.2.16 for the past week and a half and it has been stable for me. This release seems to be just the release version of the not very public beta so I think it should be OK. It doesn't fix the google device issue but that will resolve itself soon enough even if netgear does nothing as google is providing fixes now.
tagteam wrote:
Hydro130 wrote:
...I just installed it over the prev version (2.1.1.16) via the firmware update option in the GUI...Kind of strange - I have v2.1.1.16 and there is no update being offered in the GUI ("No new firmware version available").
That's odd, maybe it's being realeased incremetally? I was fully expecxting to have to do a manual update, but decided to first check the Firmware Update page for giggles, and there it was...
It's been quite a while since I've updated that way, but it worked fine... Well, so far anyway! But I wasn't having any issues at all with v.16, so I'm pretty confident this latest f/w will be OK for me too.
>>Hydro130 wrote:
>>>>That's odd, maybe it's being realeased incremetally?...
Yeah, I think that must be the case since it just appeared earlier this morning. I need to be online so I haven't installed it yet, but I haven't had any major issues with 2.1.1.16 so not a big deal.
