Orbi Firmware 1.4.0.16

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Dan4th1 wrote:
I received my Orbi yesterday. Satellite would not connect unless sitting next to the router. I downloaded the firmware updates and it works great. Just kinda ticked they sent them to me with the original firmware installed. Auto download wouldn't work either. Had to go to Netgear website and manually download and install. For $400 they should be working when they arrive!

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seeing as you dont buy the orbi direct from netgear the state of the firmware will depend on when the supplier got their shipment as to what level fw it will have , dont forget the orbi has come a long way in a very short space of time both hardware and firmware wise

the autoupdate feature was a bit problematic in some early fw and is why you had to manually update it but from now on any new releases will appear in the web gui when you login and prob update for you behind the scenes , me i would prefer if you could tick a box to not have it do it automatically and instead choose when its done but that just my geek side not liking big brother messing with my stuff

i have had this fw for a while now and for the most part its working fine here , kids are happy wifi is happy so im happy

hopefully this release will fix some issue that have been reported on this forum and the experience is a better one for everyone now that guest wifi is available as it was one of the biggest gripes ppl had about features missing in the orbi

other features like ethernet backhaul i cant see anytime soon , however seeing as the firmware is basically open source you might find someone taking interest in developing 3rd party firmware that may in time allow such other features , its not like the orbi is short of ram

anything is possible and thanks for the netgear dev team for getting the fw and guest wifi out in a timely manner

what needs to be acknowledged is how far the orbi has come in such a short period of time esp being a new class and type of technology not seen in this form before so no prior knowledge to base it on , it was only 6 months ago that the orbi started its beta trials and now its main line and working well in the wild  , in tech terms thats pretty dam quick

pete