New Orbi firmware 2.1.2.18 update issues?

Wondering if people on v2.1.1.16 are seeing the purple banner "there is newer firmware available" on their web admin GUI Advanced Status page? I'm not seeing that, but I'm also restricting my access to "netgear.downloads.com" via my main router (Orbi is in AP mode). I'm almost curious enough to remove the restriction to see if the banner appears, or maybe people are getting auto-updated without that warning ahead of time?

Anyways, sorry about all the difficulties that folks are experiencing...I'm hoping that the Google fixes coming out will fix a lot of the problems that people are having. We'll see...I don't have any of the Google clients that are apparently problematic, just a Pixel. Or my Pixel isn't in the mode that causes the problem.

Upgrade went off without a hitch.  No reboots and no interruptions so far.

Fixed an annoying issue where things were refusing to connect to the RBS even though only 10' away and were instead connecting to RBR a floor and 80' away.

Now if only I could get force devices to connect to specific satellite or 5GHz (instead of 2.4) things would be almost perfect...

Hi all, 

I was having a hard time with my satellite constantly disconnecting. I saw 2.1.2.18 was available yesterday and decided to try it. Updated both router and then satellite. I have my router upstairs connected to Optimum modem at 200MBPS router set for DHCP mostly default settings. I have satellite one floor below maybe 30 feet way so I can have my PS4 hardwired. After updating and rebooting, it looks like no more drop outs of satellite, and hardwired speed test reported by PS4 is 166mbps down and about 10mbps up, not bad. However, I did notice while connecting remotely to my PS4 from upstairs on a PC, that the disconnects seem to have stopped, but it looks like there is still some freezing happening since the game will freeze up every 15 minutes or so. This should obviously be rock solid, so I am not sure what is happening. I have always had good luck with Netgear and got this to replace my nighthawk which has always worked flawlessly. I am trying to get higher speeds to the PS4 downstairs which cannot be hardwired to the internet due to wiring/routing issues. The whole mesh thing seemed like a great choice since speed is not supposed to suffer. I tried powerline, wifi extenders, etc, without luck so this was very promissing. Looks to be good when it works, but I would expect it to be rock solid. Not sure if I need to take it back and try one of the other options out there. Otherwise this has been a solid performer. Oh, PS, this is my 2nd set of ORBI RBR50, the first set the satellites would not even connect out of the box. I have one more new satellite I have not connected yet, I may try swapping it out to the PS4 and see if there is a difference. I really just want this to work :)

No issues on my end. So far so good for 2 plus hours. 

Manually upgraded to v2.1.2.18, and am pretty happy so far. Upgrade went off without a hitch, everything just continued to work as it was, which was well. No resets or power-cycling needed here. The list of where clients are connected is correct again, and when I log into the satellite web admin GUI, I actually see the devices connected to it. As I recall, v2.1.1.16 started out this way as well, but after a few days, everything showed connected to the router unit.

Again, though, I apparently don't have any of the badly behaved clients that are disrupting people's home networks.

And time will tell if this version of the firmware keeps the displayed lists of clients sorted out. Hope springs eternal *smile*.

I was ready to go get a velop when I thought I would give this firmware one last chance coming from 1.11.0 .20. this one had given me fits almost immediately after initially upgrading it the first time. I did a full system power cycle and then reset the satellite and router to default and set it up as a new system. So far it's stable for a few hours with zero reboots. The key will be what happens in the morning when I wake it up. That's what I've had reboots on the previous latest firmware.

For what it's worth I'm running Android 8.1, two Google home Minis and one Chromecast in addition to other wireless devices

Dad said nobody should have to jump through so many hoops. Most of us experienced a Plug and Play device when we first bought orbi and the firmware updates were seamless until the last few.

On the other hand researching other devices really showed me how ugly the orbi is. However I bought it for its power. But the black velop from Best Buy would certainly look nicer

My router updated yesterday to 2.1.2.18. Subsequently nothing connected on WiFi; hardware connections were fine.

After some rebooting & checking found that the update cut-off a portion of the WiFi password and put in a ^ at the end.

I set the password back to original and everything is running fine again. 

Updated wednesday to 2.1.1.18 .  Set the SSID so that all devices connect to it. Have already had multiple Orbi reboots. No improvement on this side.

One other thing I've been appreciating with this latest firmware version (other than getting the "Attached Devices" client connections sorted out between the router and satellite units) is that the 2.4GHz. band looks better. Even though I'd like to just turn it off, 25% tx power is okay I guess...what I'm really glad to see is that this firmware version finally is using a 20MHz. channel width instead of 40MHz. channel width. Got lots of neighbors using 2.4GHz., and I've been feeling a little guilty about taking up over half of the 2.4GHz. band, but now I'm finally down to 20MHz. Of course, probably doesn't matter a whole lot at 25% tx power, but makes me feel better *smile*.

Something else to track and see if it stays that way...