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Orbi RBR50 firmware question
Greetings, I have an Orbi RBR50 currently with firmware V2.7.2.104. It's been dropping my connection a number of times over the last week so I thought I'd check for a firmware update. On Netgear's su...
jomelia wrote:Greetings, I have an Orbi RBR50 currently with firmware V2.7.2.104. It's been dropping my connection a number of times over the last week so I thought I'd check for a firmware update. On Netgear's support site the latest available is 2.7.3.22. When I do a Check for Update on both the Orbi web app and the iOS app, it comes back "No new firmware version available." So is 2.7.3.22 a beta? Is it safe to update this manually? I've had this for a year with no problems at all. Now it starts dropping me. Thanks in advance.
v2.7.3.22 is not a beta. Netgear seems to have a practice of making the newest firmware available on the support web site where people who like to "live on the edge" can find it and try it out. If there are no reports of serious problems, then they activate the process of informing users of the new firmware.
My practice is to "wait and see". If 3-4 weeks go by and the reports are positive, I may update. If the forum fills up with complaints, I wait longer.
Is the WiFi connection dropping or the Internet connection?
CrimpOn wrote:Netgear seems to have a practice of making the newest firmware available on the support web site where people who like to "live on the edge" can find it and try it out. If there are no reports of serious problems, then they activate the process of informing users of the new firmware.
That, to me at least, is the very definition of a beta! Netgear are allowing those who are willing to live on the 'cutting edge' to try the software out before it's made widely available to all.
If they were confident in their own internal testing methods Netgear would surely be happy to release any FW updates to all users at the same time, not make it available to those willing to go through the manual update process first and then only make it available via auto-update if there are no complaints on these forums.