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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...
Flash008 wrote:Rolling back to 1.8.x.
1.9.x has proven to make my WIFI in my home useless for all devices. I cant use SlingTV, WIFI calling or much of anything that requires a stable connection.
Netgear. Per my previous post, please open the Orbi advance options to allow us to tweak and tune this product to match our needs. You do not know my home, nor my devices, nor my enviroment and any other factors which may prove incompatible with your configuration.
I need control.
Asking me to disable beamforming, MU-MIMO, reduce power levels, and other changes, effectively disables the prime feature set of this product and is not a solution.
BMW asking me to not use anti-roll stability, iDrive, adapative cruise control, other special BMW features, and to keep it under 50MPH, somewhat defeats the purpose of owning a BMW.
I tried rolling back 1.8.x yesterday and couldn't. It acted like it was going to work but when the Orbi came back up the version was still 1.9.1.12. Perrhaps you'll have better luck.
If you do, please provide the steps taken to do so.
I had to jump through hoops to get this to work. What ends up happening is the Orbi's will auto update themselves once they get online. I wrote up step by step what I did to block the updates in this thread. The section that reads How I solved my problem: outlines the steps I had to to do. Link of post is below.
fbraz50,
Great post for how to block auto-update. I will try that now. Thank You!
Shame this is required, and what solution exist for those who do not have third-party routers/firewalls. I guess it will suck to be them. Trapped on a bad code level until Netgear removes it or pushes a fixed code level.....So sad.
I have to say that the system with one satellite is working fine for me too.
Fyi I am on yet another disconnect free day. Adding 3 more echo devices in today. No issues at all.
Probably not not the most complex network for a home. But 30 devices spread all over the house.. have a chromebook and a garmin fenix 5 on my wifi as well.
Please don't roll back.... just give people the option to block updates at least for a period of time.
Flash008Yeah it took me a bit to figure it all out. I'm just thankful my Asus router had the ability to block outbound traffic down to the port level and specific LAN device, I would've been screwed if I couldn't do that. I still want the ability to disable auto updates though. Let the system notify me when an update is available and if I run into issues let me roll it back.
Ts937kmGlad to hear of your success. I wonder if you're still getting packet loss though. I ask because my problem was not disconnects. In fact my clients stayed connected with zero problems reported on the client side. My problem was that I would get packet loss at an interval of about 15-25 minutes. Sometimes for a few moments and other times for a few seconds. This may appear to be just general Internet lag to users but it is in fact a connection issue. It's not long enough to completely drop Internet or cause video to drop out since most Internet video is pre-buffered. I only noticed it because I have been gaming again lately. I started noticing random lag spikes at those intervals, 15-25 minutes, while playing Overwatch. Overwatch is very sensitive to dropped packets and will drop you from a game if you drop packets for several seconds.
I think my packet loss issue is a problem between the Orbi satellite and the base and not the clients. I believe this to be the case because none of my clients would drop off of WiFi nor would they complain about being offline.
It is very likely that the SlingTV buffer problems and disconnects could have been additionally related to packet loss, even though I run in AP mode. I did not test at that level. Again (Netgear), I have a life, family, hobbies, and spending countless hours troubleshooting your Orbi is not on that list.
What I do know is my SlingTV, WIFI Calling and other services which require stable connectivity are not happy for the most part going on 6+ hours since my role back to 1.8.x. Far better than the 1.9.x code level.
For those having success I am happy for them, but they only prove my point that one single "locked in" configuration may work for some, but not all.
Let us hope Netgear will surprise us and respond to this thread and give us hope they are listening, and perhaps will give their customers what they want.