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Orbi App 2.2 is Coming Soon!
We’re always working to improve your Orbi experience. This next release has all the Orbi App features you love and more. Along with performance improvements and bug fixes, of course, we’ve added ...
Orbi App 2.2 is now available! Please visit the following thread to join the conversation.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/New-Orbi-App-Now-Available/m-p/1591498#M33775
The new app is great. It would be even better if it used the device name in the list of Remote & local devices, rather than the model. I have two different Orbi setups in two locations - both have RBR50 routers - and that is what is listed. No ideal when making a selection!
New app is not that great. Very slow to start up. Tried remote management and it doesnt seem to want to connect. The connected devices list just has everything marked as connected to the router rather than identifying the satellite (if they are connected there). Once I very briefly saw a device marked as connected to one of my satellites and then it changed - I know that there are several devices connected to the satellites as I can see them when I login to them.
If you pop up the system map and click on a satellite, none of the connected devices are shown - everything appears on the router.
I think you mean not great for you.
Why would you want remote management, are you actually remote? (I think RM is a horrible idea for 99+% of users). Most can barely manage when locally connected.
Regardless, mine opens with the speed of any other IOS app (maybe it is your phone?). And it displays all of my services and any unique names I've given them (per satellite in network map).
So, it - along with Orbi in general - work great for me. What I don't get is how it would be possible for Netgear to have such horrible manufacturing processes. Seems like a huge amount of skew given the majority of owners globally work fine (if they didn't I think there would be an uproar beyond this forum) and those that seem to have ones that are broken.
- That's odd, mine show the exact names I gave them. Both the Orbi devices and my connected devices (and per satellite in network map). That along with the ability to edit every device's name.
Oh, the app shows the names and let's me edit them. It just doesn't show me where devices are connected. It is definitely slow to start though - and it's not my phone. It is more likely to be some issue with the Orbi firmware as I have a lot of problems with dropped connections and such like. I don't know if having the RBW30 on the system as well is causing an issue - it runs a much lower version of the firmware,
- Re: RBW30
Might be. Could be they don't interoperate so well across "tiers". I guess apart from the radios there could be other differences and like you mentioned the lowest common denominator may dictate.
- Checking out the new app version today:
I would have prefered the new app not require an account other than the one on the device. Less accounts is better. :) Last pass friendly is good.
The only app problem I see right away is that the app, like the Orbi web management page, reports devices connected to a Satillite switchport as connected to Orbi Router instead of indicating it as "<Satelilite Device Name> Wired". Or some other method that clearly delineates there is a wireless backbone dependancy but not a wireless to Orbi dependancy.
The Orbi management web interface should be updated to let it work with LastPass.