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migsta
Apprentice
Oct 27, 2019

Orbi 2.5.0.38 - Absolutely Dreadful on the Devices side

Once again, Netgear releases another firmware update for absolutely no reason.  They add more device selection on the iOS app but the devices updating is horrendous.  It never sticks and you get diff...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 12, 2019

Care to give v40 a try? Looks like one user said the naming of devices seems fixed for him. 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Where-are-the-device-names-located-when-in-a-telnet-session/td-p/1822589/jump-to/first-unread-message

migsta wrote:

Once again, Netgear releases another firmware update for absolutely no reason.  They add more device selection on the iOS app but the devices updating is horrendous.  It never sticks and you get different presentations of your device names and device type everytime you come in and out of the application.  I've wasted so much time trying to rename all of my device names and types but it's time to give up.  It's really embarrassing that Netgear continues to flounder on this very basic fundamental.  It happens with Orbi and all of their RAX series routers.  

 

Netgear, please take a queue from Google, Eero and Synology as their device names and selections are simple, intuitive and they work.  And, the Nighthawk iOS app is really bad with response times when using it.  There is a lot of just waiting sometimes for the next screen to draw up.