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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,
Where in the UI is this disable of auto updates feature? Please post a picture.
DorkiOrbiFW wrote:
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,
That's the whole point: there is no option... :smileysad:
Although the release notes of the latest FW say:
New feature and enhancements:
- Adds NETGEAR Armor support for SKUs with the RBR50 router. This includes the RBK50, RBK53, RBK50V, and RBK52W.
- Adds customer firmware pull.
- Expands the IP reservation function from 64 clients to 253 devices.
- Adds weak admin password checking
I guess this feature is something else.