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jefferis
Guide
Oct 29, 2024
Solved

RBR50 slows to a crawl till I reboot

Firmware is current    V2.7.4.24 In the last few days,  I thought my internet provider was slowing down, but I have narrowed it to the RBR50    The problem clears after a reboot.   What happens is ...
  • jefferis's avatar
    jefferis
    Oct 30, 2024

    WOW,  well thank you to all. I finally got it working but it was so weird how I did it. 

    I first had to go to manual update, then select a satellite (even though it said no updates were available) and then go back to Online update and login and upload the file and then run the firmware update. I had to do that for each satellite in turn and then the router .   

     

    Doesn't make sense but  finally everything is up to date. 

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FURRYe38
Guru
Oct 30, 2024

Are the extracted FW files .IMG or .CHK? 

Can you try using a Windows PC? 

 

What Apple OSX version are you using on Mac? 

jefferis's avatar
jefferis
Guide
Oct 30, 2024

WOW,  well thank you to all. I finally got it working but it was so weird how I did it. 

I first had to go to manual update, then select a satellite (even though it said no updates were available) and then go back to Online update and login and upload the file and then run the firmware update. I had to do that for each satellite in turn and then the router .   

 

Doesn't make sense but  finally everything is up to date.