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Update V1.9.1.12 Netgear officially announcing 'Improvement in wireless connection Stability'
Just downloaded the latest release V1.9.1.12 and noticed in the official release notes from Netgear it states as fix 'Continious Improvement in wireless connection stability'..Dosent spefically makre...
My Messages was for flash. I receiver the 1.11.0.8 yesterday but sinne I have lost hope that Netgear actually gonna manage to fix all issues I didn’t care to test it.
But if its works as well as flash saying I maybe should give the new beta a try...
I tested the 1.11.0.8 beta today and after 20 minutes got the first iOS Wifi disconnection (like with every previous firmware version, too). I sent them debug logs, but I'm quite pessimistic that it will get fixed soon or ever....
I said it was a good day yesterday with this new beta. But that was only 14-15 hours before the day was over.
I will update in 24-48 hours. It would not be the first time a Netgear firmware seemed promising, then tanked hours or a day later.
But I was TRYING to be positive yesterday.
What bothers me is, if it took Netgear this LONG to fix the Orbi problems, then how long until we see evolutions and Orbi made better?
The Multi-AP playground is getting crowded, and with Google, Luma, Eero, Unifu, and the other MESH OEMs learning and improving...AND...ASUS (Netgear's closest competitor in my opinion) still not in the game. What happens when ASUS Lyra comes to market and the other OEMs improve.
Will Netgear still be KING with Orbi. It’s easy to be KING when you are the only person in the game with a dedicated backhaul.
Lyra is going to have a dedicated backhaul using 5Ghz, it will be TRUE MESH from day 1. It will be Orbi on steroids. I have no doubt the ASUS Dev team has been watching Netgear Orbi and delaying Lyra to insure it doesn’t fall victim to the same problems. And ASUS being the company we know. It will most likely have auto-updates optional, and many requests we have made to Netgear.
My concern with those on this forum is, we have been dealing with Orbi problems so long now that simply making Orbi do its “basic job” may be viewed as a good thing. When in fact these problems should not have existed, or been fixed much faster...and we still have not seen a SINGLE request we have made implemented.
What does that tell us? Maybe we will see one or two requests 1 FULL YEAR after Orbi release?
The only reason I have not replaced Orbi is:
- I promised my wife I would not replace Orbi 6 months after I bought it.
- I cannot get my money back.
- The other Google and Eero and Luma and UBNT systems all have their deficiencies. But are all more stable than Orbi which for me matters the most. Netgear, what good is FAST is it drops our connections every 30 minutes?
- Trying to be patient and see what ASUS and others come out with this year. Long story short, Orbi is a version 1.0 product and based on how Netgear has handled us these past months, it will most likely stay a 1.0 product.