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New Orbi RBR50/RBS50 Firmware Version 2.3.1.44
Netgear is pushing out yet another a new Orbi firmware update.
Hopefully it's better than the last version v32.
Please share your experience.
Firmware Update
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The update tab in weblogin showed up today. I assume I set autoupdate to "off" at some point when I was on 2.2.1.212
It's difficult to decide wether to update or not just browning through these posts. Often I find that there is a problem-bias in forums. In this case, I guess that a lot or routers have autoupdated and users have not had problems or enough problems to find this forum and post.
Since a factory reset is an investment in time I will hold off a bit longer and watch this thread...
Loungepuppy wrote:
The update tab in weblogin showed up today. I assume I set autoupdate to "off" at some point when I was on 2.2.1.212
It's difficult to decide wether to update or not just browning through these posts. Often I find that there is a problem-bias in forums. In this case, I guess that a lot or routers have autoupdated and users have not had problems or enough problems to find this forum and post.
Since a factory reset is an investment in time I will hold off a bit longer and watch this thread...
Been wanting to comment on this for a few days and now have a moment. "Bias" is actually a good word in this case and is the one that caught my attention.
Recommending a factory reset is not something I take lightly but due to so many episodes where things don't appear quite right, and then seeing an actual improvement or correction of a situation I've trained myself to do it, not solely the act of doing the reset, but the discipline around knowing the changes from default in the router, scheduling time, and then performing the task, because it is very distruptive to a household, the decision to do it is one that usually pays dividends down the road avoid reboots of devices.
Based on how Netgear itself deals with autoupdate of the firmware, they clearly have expectations the silent update will work correctly. And perhpas that is what happened in your case which is fantastic. So if you're satisfied with the results, no need to blindly follow do this or do that. Draw your own conclusions and make the call.