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New Online Update 4.6.3.16 (RBR850/RBS850)
Just did a downgrade from 4.6.3.9 to 3.2.18.1, factory resetted and I see Netgear are pushing an update automatically to 4.6.3.16. (see attached screenshot) This firmware is not available as an o...
FURRYe38 wrote:v3.2.11.2 was last version with telnet in the debug.htm UI.
jayeshm wrote:Thanks.
I will throw it up in my guest room and see how it holds up for a few days.
Just for checking, if one has to stick with a 3.xx firmware which one do you personally recommend?
Firstly thanks for all the help furry. You have been patiently helping everyone here, and while i was being sarcastic earlier, your help is much appreciated.
Using PFsense i threw up on an old nuc, i was able to block all updates and manually shift to 3.2.18xx which is the last v3 update. So far it seems to work. Taking your advice i reset them entirely, kept them off for half a day, and then plugged them back in and added them back. I think one of my satellites is a bit wonky, since it oddly loses connection once in a while, but the rest of them seem to be holding up fine.
I have been able to successfully block updates via pfsense, since whenever i check via firmware updates manually, it gives a connection error. I looked up all the names suggested here in the various threads and added all of them to a small blocklist.
I'm currently on 4.6.3.9. I noticed the following within the Online Update page tonight -- how is this possible (i.e., router being offered update to 4.6.3.16 but satellites offered 3.2.16.6)?? Boy, if I were to hit the "Update All" button, I'm sure I'd have quite a problem....
Quaksyx wrote:I'm currently on 4.6.3.9. I noticed the following within the Online Update page tonight -- how is this possible (i.e., router being offered update to 4.6.3.16 but satellites offered 3.2.16.6)?? Boy, if I were to hit the "Update All" button, I'm sure I'd have quite a problem....
I think the simple answer is that they butchered this release. There was obviously a reason they felt the need to rush this out, but in doing so they've created quite a mess.
I still do not understand why Netgear does not publish a new release which will be actually the old V3 release. In that way we will be all fine and they will get more time to fix the problem. In this way they are only producing more anger and loosing customers.
The old v3 release had major issues too, specifically the DNS lookups intermittently failing when using the Orbi in router mode.
That's been fixed in v4, but they've broken a lot of other stuff in the process. As I use the Orbi in AP mode, v3 was fine for me and v4 is a disaster.
It took them months and months to fix the DNS issues (even after they'd fixed the exact same problem in their enterprise-level routers) so I'm not holding out much hope for a quick fix to v4.