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The Curse of the Changing Names
I've recently been re=victimized by the dreaded "Curse of the Changing Names"--i.e., when I go through the effort to change the name of a device connected to the Orbi network, it typically rapidly cha...
subarctic wrote:I'm on 2.5.0.38.
Device rename was broken on v2.5.0.38, which was pulled from NG support website. Manually upgrade Orbi/Satellite to the latest firmware version 2.5.1.8, which contains the fixes for device rename issue.
I'm on 2.5.0.38.
I don't know if I tried renaming devices when I was on 2.3.5.30. But I have tried it several times in the past, on a few different firmware varriants, and the results were similar--sometimes my names "stuck" but most of the time they did not. This is the first time, however, that the Orbi has assigned my devices inaccurate names.
subarctic wrote:I'm on 2.5.0.38.
Device rename was broken on v2.5.0.38, which was pulled from NG support website. Manually upgrade Orbi/Satellite to the latest firmware version 2.5.1.8, which contains the fixes for device rename issue.