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RBK50 v2 - hardware changes
What are the differences between the RBK50 system and the RBK50 v2 system? I assume there were some hardware changes.
Yes, compare the data sheets:
https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/orbi/RBK50.pdf
https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/orbi/RBK50v2.pdf
One thing I noticed was the v2 does NOT have a USB port. Also, for whatever reason, the v2 uses a 2.5A power adapter versus the 3.5A for v1. The memory on the v2 is listed as 512MB NAND Flash and 512MB RAM while the v1 states 4GB flash and 512MB RAM.
tagteam wrote:One thing I noticed was the v2 does NOT have a USB port. Also, for whatever reason, the v2 uses a 2.5A power adapter versus the 3.5A for v1. The memory on the v2 is listed as 512MB NAND Flash and 512MB RAM while the v1 states 4GB flash and 512MB RAM.
Interesting, since the debug page on my RBR50 shows 149mb used of 495mb total memory and 2945mb used of 4096mb flash. Somehow I am using 5 times the available flash on the v2.
My guess is that this may be becauses I have done numerous debug captures to memory over the past several months, and maybe the last capture "hangs around" until the next capture is done. Sort of ironic, since the alternative to capturing packets to memory is to capture to USB. No USB port = no capture to USB. And, maybe not much capture at all.