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New - RBR750 / RBS750 Firmware Version 4.6.5.14 Released
Enhancements:
Adds support for the RBS350
Security Fixes:
Fixes security vulnerabilities.
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WOW, this morning about 2am i decided to update my two ORBI RBS satillites first. and that went ok, till a fantom ORBI showed up in my Orbi App. i then proceeded to update the RBR750, that went well till it said it was online but it wasnt. i followed the directions according to Furrye38, (ty) and i unplugged the sats and then the router, waited 2-3 minutes then i plugged in the router and then the sats and waited........it took a few minutes and the router came online then the sats followed. it still took some time for all my devices to get back on line (about 60), which is normal thing that has been happening. then today was the test. we had some heavy thunderstorms roll in, these south florida storms alway knock out some power or damages some weak transformers to were the power goes on and off real quick. it happened 3 times in a half hour i also have the comcast modem and the RBR750 plugged into a surge and battery back up. the weakest like here is the sats, no battery-back up for them and they used to take forever to re-sync but after the upgraded firmware last night, WOW, the ORBI's came right back online which shocked me, i thought i would need to reboot the sats. but no input from me and the whole system came back online quick. i am no IT guy here but this is a major inprovement from the previous firmware that almost killed the ORBI system. thanks to all here on this forum, i have learned alot from here.
Ok, to clear the record, apologies to Netgear. Netgear unfairly took criticism from me in these forums. They responded to my email inquiry, opened a case and was prepared to do exhaustive dive with engineering to resolved. However it turns out the problem was not with the Orbi or the switches I've tried, problem was with a new Macbook dock.
I've been up for a solid week, no interruptions since removing the USB - C dock w/ethernet connection. I substituted an Ethernet to USB-A adapter plugged into the same dock's USB-A port and have had no interruptions or reboots to my Orbi RBK753 /D-Link Switch System since. I am amazed that one stray device (the dock's ethernet) could actively wipe out a switch like that...but now I know.
Router hardwired to 2 satellites and 1 D-Link DGS108 switch, everything smooth, super fast and great wifi Coverage.
Here's my ethernet connectivity past week every time I've checked, I don't think it can get much better in my area:
The only suggestion I made to Netgear at end of it, was to put more messages in the standard log so mere mortals could at least get a clue what might be causing problems when networking isn't stable. In my case, if the log had shown "disabling DHCP to Swtich due to xyz" would have saved me dozens of hours of troubleshooting. Netgear could probably save some customers by more verbose logging and perhaps a searchable index of "known trouble issues/components"
