OrbiOS 2.1.4 + Homekit

I have only had an ORBI for a month now, I have to say overall I am very happy with it. I am dismayed at the level of negativity here, first of all the verison of firmware is obviously not a full release so those complainng about auto update your device will not auto update to this verison. I understand people want the option to disable auto update, and I am quite sure Netgear has heard you on that. I am not trying to be a troller or personally attack anyone but the level of whinning and complaing does no one any good for many reasons. 

With that said I came over from a LINKSYS device their top end model to be exact (EA9500), and it has many bugs and we get about one Firmware update a year on it and it was terrible. I for one am thankful Netgear updates so awesome because that means they are fixing problems and making the product better in a reasonable time frame. Yes there are problems and isuses, and this is the place to post them allowing Netgear to know about them makes sure they can get addressed quickly which it seems they are doing.

I Also think it is great they are giving people here and oppurtunity do download the beta builds, if you don't want to, don't downlaod it as simple as that, they place them here in the forum because you will NOT GET AN AUTO UPDATE to these builds until they are in full release. 

So again all these updates and beta firmwares are a good thing making this product better, so please try to give constructive feedback, and stop the non-constructive whinning. 

Also I FOUND A FIX for some of my devices geting stuck on 2.4 GHZ wireless I had 2 devices doing this a new iPad Pro and soemtimes my Samsung phone. I only have one legacy 2.4 GHZ device a nest thermostat, so I realized that these devices that were switching to the 2.4 GHZ band were doing so becuase they were seeing a higher recieved signal level, all I did is change the power level on the 2.4 GHZ band down to 50% the thermostat still connects fine and all the other devices stopped getting stuck there and are now switching to the 5 GHZ band with no issues, I left the 5 GHZ at 100% power. 

This actually makes sense becuas the 2.4 GHZ band will normally travel further than the 5 GHZ, so by cutting the power level down to 50% it makes it just a little bit weaker so devices see it but stil connect to the stronger 5 GHZ band now.

I don't even think it is a Netgear issue as I have 2 iPad Pros, a 2017 model and a 2016 model the 2016 model had not had this issue at all the 2017 did have it all the time until I turned the power down to 50%, this tells me it is something specfic to some Apple models or other wireless devices but not all. 

Anyway I hope you find my comments helpful, and I hope to see more bug fixes and more firmware updates being posted in this forum by Netgear, as this means more bug fixes faster, not like Linksys realising one update a year. : ) 

Everyone thinks the grass is greener on the other hill but when they get over there they realize how good they had it, waiting a year for bug fixes or any word from Linksys was horrible, thank you Netgear!