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V2.3.5.30 Broke Bridge Mode Dont Upgrade
Frustrating weekend troubleshooting. I use Orbi RBR50 and a RBS50 also use a R7000 in Bridge mode for my pc, using 5GHz, for last couple years. I had updated the Orbi and the R7000. After this It wo...
Hi In5iDi0uZ
I replicated this scenario in our laboratory and was not able to reproduce the issue.
How often does it disconnection?
When you say "no connection", is it just the R7000 or both Orbi and R7000?
Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
Welp. Netgear decided to auto-update my firmware to 2.3.5.30 and it broke my r7000 bridgemode again. Everything else connects fine to the Orbi. I also forgot to mention that I bought a new r7000 around the last time i was having issues. I now downgraded to 2.3.1.44 and it is working fine. How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
In5iDi0uZ wrote:How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
You don't.
In5iDi0uZ wrote:
Welp. Netgear decided to auto-update my firmware to 2.3.5.30 and it broke my r7000 bridgemode again. Everything else connects fine to the Orbi. I also forgot to mention that I bought a new r7000 around the last time i was having issues. I now downgraded to 2.3.1.44 and it is working fine. How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
You genuises previsouly said one could prevent auto upgrade. Some rhetoric about only for minor releases, though specific details never quite got posted.
In5iDi0uZ wrote:... How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
If you're really desperate, you can enable the hidden option to disable auto-firmware update via Orbi Firmware Update page. Check out this post on how to do it. By default, it's enabled. Once you select "disable" and hit the APPLY button to disable it, the change is persistence across reboots. If you ever want to re-enable auto-firmware update in the future, repeate the same steps.
Good Luck!
SW_ wrote:
In5iDi0uZ wrote:... How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
If you're really desperate, you can enable the hidden option to disable auto-firmware update via Orbi Firmware Update page. Check out this post on how to do it. By default, it's enabled. Once you select "disable" and hit the APPLY button to disable it, the change is persistence across reboots. If you ever want to re-enable auto-firmware update in the future, repeate the same steps.
Good Luck!
The post you cited says the change is NOT persistent across reboots, which makes it pretty worthless. We all finally in agreement that there is not anyway to consistently block firmware updates?
I and other user saw similar issues with EX8000 and EX7700, turns out it was incompatible bad FW on these units that would not work well with Orbi. NG fixed the EX problem and got new FW updates.
Ensure your R7000 FW is up to date as well.
You might contact NG support about this and see if they might be able to fix the R7000 wireless bridge mode to work with the Orbi system for long term use.
In5iDi0uZ wrote:Welp. Netgear decided to auto-update my firmware to 2.3.5.30 and it broke my r7000 bridgemode again. Everything else connects fine to the Orbi. I also forgot to mention that I bought a new r7000 around the last time i was having issues. I now downgraded to 2.3.1.44 and it is working fine. How do i disable auto-update on the Orbi?
I do wonder what's going on with V2.3.5.30.....
#1 - I saw much slower 2.4Ghz speeds - so downgraded to V2.3.1.60 - problem resolved - speeds back
#2 - Auto Updated back to V2.3.5.30 on Router - Satellite recognized it but remained on V2.3.1.60 - but terrible speeds returned on 2.4 Ghz
Any idea on keeping router from auto updating? Do I go back further - Current Versions on download page now list V2.2.1.212 as backup - but older shows a few V2.3.x still listed?
