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I have an ORBI RBR50 with 2 RBS50 Satellites. The router keeps going offline, and somehow it downloaded the new firmware V2.7.3.22 automatically. I am hearing nothing but nightmares about the new f...
I havn't factory reset and setup from scratch after v22 was loaded automatically. Is this what i need to do? What will that do? V22 is nothing but problems from what I am reading. I was going to revert back to V104 and hopefully it works normal like before. This issue has been happening the last 2 days. It ran okay for years except for some ups and downs but with the help of the community, I was able to resolve.
If you decide to manually reload V2.7.2.104, you will have to stop Netgear from automatically upgrading it to 2.7.3.22 again.
The easiest method to accomplish this is to sign up for a free account with OpenDNS, change the Orbi DNS entries to point to OpenDNS instead of wherever they are pointing now, and use OpenDNS to block this URL: https://http.fw.updates1.netgear.com
Of course, this breaks the agree that customers agree to when configuring their Netgear product:
- SOFTWARE UPDATES AND UPDATES TO THE PRODUCTS
Software Updates. By using the Product, You agree to receive all Software Updates and upgrades that NETGEAR sends to the software included in the Product. You specifically agree Your Product may: (i) communicate with NETGEAR servers from time to time to automatically check for available updates, such as bug fixes, critical system updates, patches, enhanced functions, upgrades, missing plug-ins and new versions (collectively, “Software Updates”) and (ii) install the Software Updates. Such Software Updates may be in various forms and are generally provided for the purposes of improving the performance, security and reliability of the Product.
Another of course, one might argue that Netgear has already broken the agreement by forcing an update which made the product stop working. (I'm not a lawyer, and do not even play one on TV.)