NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Orbi firmware update v2.1.4.16 availability
We’ve been monitoring issues that some customers have experienced in OrbiOS 2.1.4. In response, we’re releasing firmware that provides a permanent fix for the homekit issue along with various other f...
I will say that rolling back the firmware to 2.0.1.4 has worked out well so far even though my router has gone back to the latest firmware version, I after the manual rollback I did a complete factory reset of the router and satellites. One thing I did differently from my normal rebooting process is I used the smart wizard and totally let it set up everything except for changing admin page password, network SSID name and password. I used to get buffering often on my IPTV android boxes but it has been very smooth so far (probably just jinxed myself but whatever). I wonder how many users who are having good experiences with the Orbi used the smart wizard vs those who didn’t like myself and what their results have been?
Very glad to hear it Placeesandspaces,
Further confirmation there is a problem wiht the newer FW....
It also seems there is a newer FW beta code floating around in secret that solves speed problems for Orbi. It’s a shame Netgear will not share it, and insist the problems reported are the users fault…
- I agree and Netgear should definitely allow the consumer of the Orbi product to determine what firmware they want to keep versus forcing an auto update. Should be one button to click in the firmware update section of the GUI that you can opt out of new updates. That is inexcusable not to allow that. I have seen some posts where people use Telnet or something to block the Orbi updates but I have no idea what Telnet is and I would probably screw things up worse trying to use it.
Looks like this will make some people happy:
Placesandspaces wrote:
I agree and Netgear should definitely allow the consumer of the Orbi product to determine what firmware they want to keep versus forcing an auto update. Should be one button to click in the firmware update section of the GUI that you can opt out of new updates. That is inexcusable not to allow that. I have seen some posts where people use Telnet or something to block the Orbi updates but I have no idea what Telnet is and I would probably screw things up worse trying to use it.
