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rudyPHX
Sep 05, 2021Aspirant
orbi router restarts several times a day with firmware 2.7.3.22
with the firmware update 2.7.3.22, my orbi router restarts several times a day. it only started happening with 2.7.3.22. i manually downgraded to 2.7.2.104, and that worked like a champ, but it autom...
- Sep 05, 2021
Can't be turned off. If you have a upstream router for firewall, can be blocked there.
rudyPHX
Sep 05, 2021Aspirant
also, i tried factory resetting first, and that didn't work. when i downgraded the firmware that fixed it completely, i'm just hoping someone can help me turn off auto-update for the firmware, until a new version is available and hopefully not problematic for me. thanks!
- FURRYe38Sep 05, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Can't be turned off. If you have a upstream router for firewall, can be blocked there.
- Haysuz5Sep 09, 2021Aspirant
I have been having the exact problem since the new firmware update...how do you downgrade the firmware to the previous version?
rudyPHX wrote:also, i tried factory resetting first, and that didn't work. when i downgraded the firmware that fixed it completely, i'm just hoping someone can help me turn off auto-update for the firmware, until a new version is available and hopefully not problematic for me. thanks!
- FURRYe38Sep 09, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Just load the FW file from NG download page using same process to upgrade FW files:
https://kb.netgear.com/31573/How-do-I-manually-upgrade-firmware-on-my-Orbi-router-using-orbilogin-com
https://kb.netgear.com/000037217/How-do-I-check-and-manually-upgrade-the-firmware-on-my-Orbi-satellite- Haysuz5Sep 09, 2021Aspirant
Thank you very much! I'll give it a try!