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Orbi RBR50 2.1.1.12 Wifi Password issue
I am in access point mode and I updated to the latest firmware (2.1.1.12) ealier in the week and everything seemed fine, then all of a sudden last night none of my devices would connect to the wifi s...
There is also a reddit thread about this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/7io469/orbi_has_been_a_nightmare_today/
Would be good to hear some response from Netgear on this issue.
Yes I responded to him as well, it is definitly a $ issue as pointed out in the reddit thread and apparently it existed in 2.0.0.76 as well as when I downgraded I had the same issue, only difference is when it reboots it doesn't truncate everytthing after the $. I still cant save the password though unless I use the mobile app. Hopefully someone from Orbi sees this and gets it fixed in the next firmware.
Are you using special characters with that long password? I will check if it is limited to a certain character length.
Yes I am, the issue it seems is that it doesn't like the $ character, it truncates everything after the $ of my password as well as someone else on Reddit, since mine was so long I didn't realize it was the $ sign until the person on Reddit pointed it out. I can confirm though that the $ is causing the issue. I rolled back to 2.0.0.76 and it is not truncating every time it reboots anymore, but again it still wont accept the $ sign in the password unless I use the mobile app. The web interface just crashes. Following thew IEEE standard for wifi passwords, there should be no reason we cant use the $ special character, which should allow any Ascii character decimal between 32 and 126, the $ is decimal 36.
