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My Orbi RBK753S Has Been Stable Under V4.6.3.16_2.0.51 For 2 Weeks
I'll try to be brief. When the first 4.x update was pushed onto my mesh, it was immediately destabilized after 3 months of smooth operation. I immediately opened a case with support. I have had 2 sup...
I have 4 satellites, two wired and two wireless and all four get DHCP and work no issues. I have 9 devices with reserved IP's which are what they were assigned by DHCP originally, so for me, DHCP plus reserved IP's are working fine. I did have the one satellite that did not update that was an issue and I posted about that elsewhere. My system has been stable since that update was brought current and all my units are on .16 firmware.
It was still annoying that I had to find this out because it was not working and then turned out it was because of a forced update. That should not have happened without informed consent, where Netgear informs me and then I consent!
NG has been pushing FW updates since the beginning of Orbi product line first started in 2016/7.
- Has NG been pushing defective firmware that bricks or nearly bricks consumers' products since the beginning of the Orbi?
My RBK753 worked with its 3.x version that was factory installed and a higher 3.x rev that I manually applied. It was the pushed process that fouled everything up. (Ruined my nightly backups by interrupting my network and not automatically returning to a functional state)I said 'NG has been pushing FW updates since the beginning of Orbi product line first started in 2016/7." Nothing said about bricking users systems.
Sorry to hear, but not everyone is having issues with the firmware. I have been running almost 3 weeks on three different firmwares (shipped with 3.x then subsequent 4.x) with one slight issue that was resolved when I assigned a static IP to the router. I'm very happy with the Orbi performance and don't regret my purchase.
- Same here working fine for me for the most part.
