Firmware upgrade issue

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Popcorn2007 wrote:
Received email advising firmware upgrade. However when I check for updates just comes back with ‘Firmware check error’

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How I envy customers who get email from Netgear. Bought my Orbi in 2016. Registered it. Have never received any sort of email.

This situation reflects the disjointed nature of Netgear support mechanism.  It appears that the mechanism sending out email notices (to some customers) and the mechanism that "flips a switch" so that routers find updates when they search are not in sync.

There is a sort of mantra on the forum, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Meaning that a customer who is not experiencing any sort of issue with the system should feel no urgency to change the firmware.  (Customers who are having problems are a different issue.)

Until the router "finds" the new firmware, the only was to update the firmware is to browse to the Netgear support site:

https://netgear.com/support Enter the product name (such as RBR750). Click on the link that comes up. Click on Downloads.

Then, download the firmware version you want (latest in your case).

Unpack the zip file to extract the firmware image.

Use the Manual Tab on the firmware update page to upload the firmware image.

Or..... wait until the router does it automatically.