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Your experience with Firmware 2.2.1.210 released as of 10/3/18
The other long thread on the new firmware is useless and has become a tech support thread. Please only post your experience after upgrading to the new firmware, good or bad. I'd like to see everyone'...
nanohead wrote:
Yep, too bad too, as I've had decent luck with their stuff over the years. Most of the consumer network providers have gotten better since the early days. But these messy firmware changes have become a horror for all of us that rely on their hardware to enable our networks. You don't see these kind of really bad problems with the companies that sell enterprise/commercial products as often, which is why I've used mostly that stuff for years. Figured I'd try some new consumer stuff this time around, and I now regret it. The consumer network companies are completely non communicative with their customer bases, which is somewhat undstandable as they are enormous, but these are true Severity 1 problems, and Netgear is really failing us all.
No kidding.. after years of getting by with cheap routers and messing around with OpenWRT, I finally bit the bullet and decided to spend the money for one of these supposedly better systems, especially as I needed something to extend the range. I tried the Orbi and another one (I forget which), and stuck with Orbi for some reason.
Like you, I regret the purchase, it isn't worth the money I shelled out for it.
Regarding my report of auto-update-blocking not taking:
When I originally attempted to block the auto-update, it looks like I didn't change the orbi_auto_upg setting - the 4th one that was added after the common instructions were written.
Aggravating matters this weekend was that I think I went through three rounds of downgrade-then-immediately-auto-update. In one of the more memorable iterations, it auto-updated while I was working on the nvram settings.
My threat to shop for Ubiquity gear seems to have done the trick, as my Orbi became stable (on .146, without auto-updates) shortly thereafter.