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New RBK30 - what is the safest newer FW version?
I've just set up an RBK30 (RBR40 & RBW30)...just blown away by the speed improvement over my older Nighthawk R7000. DId not know I was living in the dark ages. :) I'd like to update the FW. I cu...
And just had a complete (whole house) internet drop (wi-fi stayed connected) for about 20 seconds or so.
Cleared up fairly quickly, didn't have to do anything but curse and wait while I was unable to work from home. Not something I would see w/my previous (albeit slower) router, R7000 Nighthawk.
Netgear, please skip the features for now and focus on stability/reliability alone. That is PARAMOUNT.
Also, forgot to mention above that I can see my RBW30 statelite and connected devices in both the mobile app and in the router management pages from browser on my laptop. So that display of information is working for me.
I had more problems - lost the entire wirless network at one point, and lost internet again while keeping wi-fi, so I rolled back the RBW30 statelite to 2.0...
We'll see if that helps, but I'm not optimistic, and don't really like running older FW and not having the security updates and hopefully bug fixes they contain.