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Wow!!! Orbi Firmware V2.0.0.72 Released
Just logged into my router and it gave me the option to upgrade the firmware.
Have now Upgraded to V2.0.0.72
Haven’t had too much time to explore but early indications are WOW !!!
There are some serious improvements that are going to make all the difference to an already impressive system.
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What brings the latest firmware?
glad to see this hit the servers , its been brewing in beta for quite some time
apart from the daisy chain topology users should notice stability improvements as well as an improved attached device list and a few new things in the advanced setup section including vlan support
pete
I'd expect the daisy chaining to come with a throughput penalty, similar to a repeater. I have only one satellite, so I can't test it.
Well, considering I’ve been banging on about ethernet backhaul for months I’m glad I held the faith and stuck with it.
One happy camper here :smileyhappy: :smileyhappy: :smileyhappy:
Any way to force the Daisy Chain? My router in the media room connects to the Router, not to the Satellite that is closer and on the same floor.
Tigerman4LSU wrote:Any way to force the Daisy Chain? My router in the media room connects to the Router, not to the Satellite that is closer and on the same floor.
Your router? are you using the Orbi in AP Mode? if so the router is not supposed to connect to your Orbi but the other way around, Do you mean a Wi-Fi extender or repeater? in that case the Daisy Chain feature is I supposed only supported wile using the Orbi main unit and any additional satellites you connect to it.
Wish they would add VPN client capability, so I can put my whole network on a VPN.
Also, wish they would add real time throughput and cumulative data use for each device.
Update seems to have fixed my random Orbi freezing after streaming to my 2017 Samsung Q7 smart TV. August update did fix the previous wifi dropouts on the S7 and S8 phones as well.
Bravo so far!
This firmware finally fixes all the outstanding issues I've seen, both iOS dropouts as well as a Macbook Pro disconnect. It also is significantly faster (get another 100Mbps out so 500+ now) and latency went down from around 5 to 3.5ms in my test. Overall a great upgrade.
Daisy-chaining and transmitt power control are the icing on the cake.
There is now only one single thing I would like to see, and that is ethernet backhaul - after that, the Orbi is full-featured and seems to perform just great. Running for a few more weeks and it will end up being recommended to friends and family (which I reserve for well working great products).
bum - I decided to go into the office today instead of working at home ! Now I miss all the excitement !
Interesting to use the phrase daisy-chain instead of mesh. Does that mean this evolves to an extended start-type configuration instead of a true mesh ? Not sure it makes much difference to me either way, just curious.
Was using a wired machine and just lost connection. I knew it was a FW update!
So daisy chain is enabled now? That's cool. Does it require a manual setup or qill router and satelites detect and auto configure the best configuration?
And it's ok to enabled all 3 now:
Enable Implicit BEAMFORMING - Boosts WiFi speed, reliability, & range for all mobile devices
Enable MU-MIMO
Enable Fast Roaming
- Truly amazing!!!!! Love this update!!! Wow finally we get daisy chain topology and no more disconnects so for. Thx Netgear its better late than never! 😉
Ran into this firmware last night...looks promising. Still like to be able to temporarily stop firmware auto-update (and totally disable 2.4GHz. wireless), but I'd also like to think that this and forthcoming firmware will work well enough that I won't care.
Upgraded this morning, everything seems to be working smooth and absolute stability for me so far, no issues to report so far, loving the new features!
Updated to the newest firmware and everything seems to be stable. Am I correct that it is safe to check the box next to "fast roaming." Also, if I would like my devices to try to have a better chance to connect to 5ghz, rather than 2.4, should I reduce 2.4 to say 75%? Thanks!
Bing-Stroller wrote:Just logged into my router and it gave me the option to upgrade the firmware.
Have now Upgraded to V2.0.0.72
Haven’t had too much time to explore but early indications are WOW !!!
There are some serious improvements that are going to make all the difference to an already impressive system.
V2 is garbage, just like v1.12 before it. My working setup auto-upgraded to 2 and now I'm back to 1/10 the speed. I am so freaking mad right now.
BEWARE: After doing a factory reset I discovered I could no longer edit VLAN tag settings in the administrative interface. I tried this on Safari and Chrome on macOS, as well as Edge on Windows. I would enable VLAN, select the second option ("By VLAN tag group"), hit Edit, and then change the tag. Upon hitting APPLY, the page would reload but it would not save the new values. I can't say if it's specific to my Orbi, if it's a bad firmware update, or if it's a new GUI bug, but this one hit me.
Ultimately I figured out the setting in NVRAM and was able to manually set the correct VLAN through telnet and then use the GUI to "apply" the setting. That got me back online. If you run into this trouble yourself, you can do the following:
- Enable telnet at orbilogin.com/debug.htm
- Sign into telnet (instructions for macOS):
telnet 192.168.1.1 23
- Manually change the VLAN tag (instructions for CenturyLink Gigabit, replace the XXX with the VLAN you need):
nvram set vlan_tag_1=1 Internet XXX 0 0 0
- Then go to the VLAN settings in the admin, enable VLAN. You should see the new VLAN tag you entered in place of the default. Hit APPLY.
So tired of having to find new ways to fix this thing.
nxc wrote:BEWARE: After doing a factory reset I discovered I could no longer edit VLAN tag settings in the administrative interface. I tried this on Safari and Chrome on macOS, as well as Edge on Windows. I would enable VLAN, select the second option ("By VLAN tag group"), hit Edit, and then change the tag. Upon hitting APPLY, the page would reload but it would not save the new values. I can't say if it's specific to my Orbi, if it's a bad firmware update, or if it's a new GUI bug, but this one hit me.
Ultimately I figured out the setting in NVRAM and was able to manually set the correct VLAN through telnet and then use the GUI to "apply" the setting. That got me back online. If you run into this trouble yourself, you can do the following:
- Enable telnet at orbilogin.com/debug.htm
- Sign into telnet (instructions for macOS):
telnet 192.168.1.1 23
- Manually change the VLAN tag (instructions for CenturyLink Gigabit, replace the XXX with the VLAN you need):
nvram set vlan_tag_1=1 Internet XXX 0 0 0
- Then go to the VLAN settings in the admin, enable VLAN. You should see the new VLAN tag you entered in place of the default. Hit APPLY.
So tired of having to find new ways to fix this thing.
Welp, after discovering some flakiness among my Amazon Echos around the house, I rebooted the router (running 2.0.0.74) and discovered my speeds had cratered again.
At that point I threw up my hands and reinstalled the Asus RT-AC88U as the router and have now relegated the Orbi to Access Point duties only. Flying smooth and fast now.
I will never buy another Netgear product.
nxc wrote:
nxc wrote:
BEWARE: After doing a factory reset I discovered I could no longer edit VLAN tag settings in the administrative interface. I tried this on Safari and Chrome on macOS, as well as Edge on Windows. I would enable VLAN, select the second option ("By VLAN tag group"), hit Edit, and then change the tag. Upon hitting APPLY, the page would reload but it would not save the new values. I can't say if it's specific to my Orbi, if it's a bad firmware update, or if it's a new GUI bug, but this one hit me.
. note vlan tagging is currently a know issue and is being worked on , will be fixed in the next fw version
- Can someone help. I tried updating but the RBS 50 and RBS 40 link that was provided in the community posts wont work. I updated the RBR 50 but that its my satalites wont update. It says no new firmware and its stuck on the firmware before this new one. Cant find any other download links online and I called netgear said they dont sent download links or firmware to customers . SMH
