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AmitR
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 23, 2018

Orbi MR 2.1 Update 3/23/18

Our teams are still working through the issues, but I wanted to provide a quick update on OrbiOS 2.1.  We usually wait to release our software until it's available across all Orbi product lines, but ...
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Chairman007
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Mar 31, 2018

The only failure I'm seeing with the new beta firmware for the RBK50 is that my HP printer which is connecting wirelessly at 2.4G will lose it's connection daily.  A static IP address seemed to do nothing ... very similar to the earlier posts re: Rainmachine.  Only thing that would reset the wifi to the printer was to power cycle it.  Perhaps just a limitation in the beta firmware that will get corrected as this was always stable in the past.  The beta firmware did stop all of the crazy drops I was seeing recently, even with the prior "safe" auto-update firmware level ... this beta is definitely better in that respect ... harkens back to the good ole days.