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Orbi firmware update v2.1.4.16 availability
We’ve been monitoring issues that some customers have experienced in OrbiOS 2.1.4. In response, we’re releasing firmware that provides a permanent fix for the homekit issue along with various other f...
Hi BretD,
The Guest Network is still NOT isolated with this new Firmware version 2.1.4.16 in the link below. I can’t believe this is still an unresolved topic and we are continued to be taunted with this unless check box in the Guest Network Settings “Allow guests to see each other and access my local network” …. WHY do you hate us.. the loyal customer that goes out of our way to spend time writing on the community board time and time again about the same unresolved topic?... but I hear Orbi Pro is doing fantastic.. thanks to the Obri Home community complaining about this over and over again and johngm reading the post. Good job testing before you got my hopes up with the exquisite release notes..
- Fixes an issue where devices on the Guest Network are able to see (but not connect to) some devices on the main network
NOPE!
Stratguru wrote:
Hi BretD,
The Guest Network is still NOT isolated with this new Firmware version 2.1.4.16 in the link below. I can’t believe this is still an unresolved topic and we are continued to be taunted with this unless check box in the Guest Network Settings “Allow guests to see each other and access my local network” …. WHY do you hate us.. the loyal customer that goes out of our way to spend time writing on the community board time and time again about the same unresolved topic?... but I hear Orbi Pro is doing fantastic.. thanks to the Obri Home community complaining about this over and over again and johngm reading the post. Good job testing before you got my hopes up with the exquisite release notes..
- Fixes an issue where devices on the Guest Network are able to see (but not connect to) some devices on the main network
NOPE!
I was so surprised to read this that I had to check for myself - and I'll be damned, yep, via Fing it looks completely wide-open (it isn't, but it's only blocking basic ICMP echo requests and port-level TCP). Ugh.
Network Isolation was not on the list of things corrected with this version.
I do, however, agree it should be fixed and that it should be a priority. They fixed it for Pro but not standard Orbi.
If there is someone/something that you suspect coudl be doing something nefarious on your network, why would you allow them/it on your network at all? This "issue" sure doesn't seem like it is all that pressing. YOU are in control of who/what is on your network. Exercise that control.
tsig wrote:
If there is someone/something that you suspect coudl be doing something nefarious on your network, why would you allow them/it on your network at all? This "issue" sure doesn't seem like it is all that pressing. YOU are in control of who/what is on your network. Exercise that control.
I'm going to take it as read that this was said in jest and/or you're uninformed. The same holds true of any IoT devices (and in a much bigger way) - if the companies producing those devices are lax, shall we just give them a free pass because, well, the consumer made the decision to put them on their network, didn't they?
Jeremyinsf wrote:
Network Isolation was not on the list of things corrected with this version.
I do, however, agree it should be fixed and that it should be a priority. They fixed it for Pro but not standard Orbi.
You're unfortunately mistaken on this one. Directly from the release notes in the very first post:
- Fixes an issue where devices on the Guest Network are able to see (but not connect to) some devices on the main network
- "Fixes an issue where devices on the Guest Network are able to see (but not connect to) some devices on the main network"
- Yes it says this ... but to me it looks like they fixed the issue where guest devices could not connect to the main network.
- The text does not say "fixed an issue where clients on the guest network are not properly isolated from the main network"