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Orbi firmware v2.1.1.16 discussion
do we need to do nvram wipe for this 2.1.1.16 Firmware just released today? noticed it downloaded automatically.
when i up to 2.1.1.16, my homekit 2.4g device was lost connection, when the 5G SSID was heidden and singal set to 25%, some device will back. if any setting change will make conection lost again.
i give up and back to 2.0.0.74
According to my uptime status indicators, I've had no stability problems with .16, and my speeds on all my wired and wireless devices look great, and so my complaint is relatively minor. I have two satellites with multiple devices wired to them, as well as seven wireless devices distributed among the router and satellites. Neither the Orbi app nor logging into the router shows either of the two devices that are wired to one of my satellites. The physical placement of my router and satellites is such that a star connection makes much more sense than a daisy chain connection, and so I don't have the 'use daisy chain option' checked. The backhaul status shows 'good' on both satellites. And so, I'm guessing this is a display bug in the firmware. I have mu-mimo and beamforming enabled, but otherwise am using default settings for the rest. One other detail that might help the developers is that the two satellite-wired computers that are not showing up happened to be sleeping when I decided to disable the daisy chaining (days after updating to .16) which rebooted the system. When the computers were awakened, they received IP addresses and had access to the internet, but neither showed up as connected to the internet.