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FURRYe38
Oct 08, 2021Guru - Experienced User
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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- Oct 10, 2021
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.
jaideepdoc
Nov 28, 2021Guide
hi All
Just an update on the same.
The sattellite unit kept on facing frequent reboots. I then emailed netgearsupport with the issue.
They opened a case and suggested that i reload the firmware manually.
Did the same but the issues continued .
Post that they agreed to replace the sattelite unit and rasied what is called as as RMA number. I then returned the sattelite unit to the designated service unit but the RMA number was not updated as yet. This took another 3 days.
Once same was updated there was a mail of dispatch of a replacement unit
I received the same. It took a while to get the orbi to sync together and had to do a system reset. The current status seems to be better and have not faced any disconections ect
Anyways in the interim had a TP Link X20 mesh system as back up which i have upgraded and now is the main wifi Its is giving me solid performance without any fuss
Since there is no option of returning the Orbi have packed up the same.
Thanks everyone.
- Dazza762Nov 28, 2021Luminary
This all seems like a mess for what should be a simple update. Finally did the update yesterday but despite selecting "update all" from the router admin website, it's only updated the RBR. Apparently updating the RBS after the RBR will cause "issues" so now I've got an RBR on the current FM and 2 RBS's on the previous FM. Reticent to manually update the RBS's now beacuse of these "issues".
- FURRYe38Nov 28, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Is the system working for you as is. if it is, you can leave the RBS alone. If not, then you can manually update the RBS to the same.
It's possible that the UPDATE All function failed to update the RBS first, or the RBS were not in a good state and did not process the newer FW at the time they recieved it. So to bring the RBS to the same version of FW as the RBR, you'll need to manually update. Or wait for something newer to arrive.
Personally I prefer to manually update systems myself. Been using this method for years. That way I KNOW it's updated correctly on each unit.
Dazza762 wrote:
This all seems like a mess for what should be a simple update. Finally did the update yesterday but despite selecting "update all" from the router admin website, it's only updated the RBR. Apparently updating the RBS after the RBR will cause "issues" so now I've got an RBR on the current FM and 2 RBS's on the previous FM. Reticent to manually update the RBS's now beacuse of these "issues".
- Dazza762Nov 28, 2021Luminary
FURRYe38 wrote:Is the system working for you as is. if it is, you can leave the RBS alone. If not, then you can manually update the RBS to the same.
It's possible that the UPDATE All function failed to update the RBS first, or the RBS were not in a good state and did not process the newer FW at the time they recieved it. So to bring the RBS to the same version of FW as the RBR, you'll need to manually update. Or wait for something newer to arrive.
Personally I prefer to manually update systems myself. Been using this method for years. That way I KNOW it's updated correctly on each unit.
Dazza762 wrote:This all seems like a mess for what should be a simple update. Finally did the update yesterday but despite selecting "update all" from the router admin website, it's only updated the RBR. Apparently updating the RBS after the RBR will cause "issues" so now I've got an RBR on the current FM and 2 RBS's on the previous FM. Reticent to manually update the RBS's now beacuse of these "issues".
I guess my mian point it is yes, I can update the RBS's manually but you have said this would casue "issues" if the RBR was already on the latest FM so I was wondering what these "issues" were.