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ORBI NEWSFLASH - Netgear Disabling Forced Auto-Update on Upcoming Orbi Firmware
Hello Netgear Community,
I have exciting news that pertains to Orbi users! A Netgear representative notified me today via Facebook Messenger that over the next Orbi firmware releases that they ...
I am delighted to inform you all that as of Monday, February 25th, 2019, Netgear has released the firmware version allowing you to now disable automatic updates along with multitudes of bug fixes. I have yet to update to this new FW version yet as I don’t have time to do so as of this moment along with monitoring my system’s stability, but will update my system’s firmware tomorrow afternoon. I will start a separate discussion to later outline my review of the firmware update.
Please navigate to your product’s webpage and click on “downloads” and install the new FW version to get access to disable automatic updates!
We have finally been heard!
Best,
Even more ironic would be if they suggested to us that to avoid getting firmware updates, simply keep your Orbi disconnected from the internet. Viola!
loomis1975, LOL!
The only problem is that mine appears to have broken itself during an update two days ago. Router ring continuously flashing white, no WiFi network, can't access the router via cable, factory resets unsuccesful! Just a dead brick flashing mournfully on the desk and two useless pink glowing satellites!
My router is setup as an AP to share a mesh through a second building. It connects via cable to the primary router which is a Nighthawk X6. This has been working nicely for about 10 months but is now useless.
I will post this in a separate discussion but thought I would add it here to add my bravo to stopping auto updates!
Rudders64, sounds like a bad case of corrupted firmware and/or failing hardware as you stated factory resets are not doing anything. You'll need to get in touch with Netgear support, as likely the unit needs to be replaced. :smileysad:
Rudders64 wrote:
The only problem is that mine appears to have broken itself during an update two days ago. Router ring continuously flashing white, no WiFi network, can't access the router via cable, factory resets unsuccesful! Just a dead brick flashing mournfully on the desk and two useless pink glowing satellites!
My router is setup as an AP to share a mesh through a second building. It connects via cable to the primary router which is a Nighthawk X6. This has been working nicely for about 10 months but is now useless.
I will post this in a separate discussion but thought I would add it here to add my bravo to stopping auto updates!
Wish I had things for you to try, rathe than give you bad news.
Best...
Thanks, I thought that it might come down to that but wanted to try a few avenues before pushing that far. Small peice of progress, it stopped flashing white and went to solid red but still couldn't access it in any way to try to solve the issue.
I'll get in touch with support and see what they can do for me.
Regards
