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cmftblynu
Jan 19, 2018Star
The 2.1.2.18 nightmare
I won't bother going through how angry I am at Netgear for this firmware MESS (I already have in several posts) since they don't bother offering ANY customer support after they screw you out of your ...
litgear
Jan 21, 2018Guide
For what it's worth I'm on 2.1.2.18 with the Google Play Services 11.9.75 beta on all android phones and it removed all reboots. My orbi has never been quicker. All fine here. The issue was Google, not Orbi for almost everyone's reboots.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-11-9-75-release/
I had a tiny bit of trouble getting my satelitte to sync with the router on 2.1.2.18 but I left it be for about 10 minutes and it was fine after that.
- sleepr88Jan 22, 2018Apprentice
TP-Link, Linksys, and others were all was able to patch against the Chromecast/Android issue, so yes, it's still Netgear's fault for the reboots
- sleepr88Jan 22, 2018Apprentice
Netgear, since you can't seem to fix the Orbi, are you going to start issuing refunds? or exchanging everyone to Orbi Pros (which doesn't appear to have these problems, because you value business customers over regular consumers?)?