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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 17, 2021

New RBR850 / RBS850 Firmware Version 4.6.3.16 Released

Security Fixes: Fixes security vulnerabilities. For more information about security vulnerabilities, visit https://www.netgear.com/about/security. Bug Fixes: Fixes the issue where the s...
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kelf
Tutor
Dec 17, 2021

I recently upgraded from Orbi  rbr50 (running Voxel firmware)  to  a set of Orbi rbr850 set,   I loaded V4.6.3.16_2.0.51 firmware and factory resetted, and wow what a disappointment.  First thing is the firmware is buggy.. my webex and google meet constantly disconnects (once every 10min,  and takes 30 seconds to recover),  and my laptop is wired directly to the router.

 

I did a ping -t www.yahoo.com to test, and saw these  request timeouts in the outputs very frequently:

 

Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=49
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=50
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=49
Reply from 74.6.143.26: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=49

 

 

I downloaded to 4.6.3.9 , factory resetted and same result.   Since I gave my RBR50 set to my sister,    I then used my super old Netgear R7000 with Asuswrt to be the rotuer, and set RBR850 as the AP, and loaded latest firmware again.  This time no more "Request timed out" after an hour of ping's.  There's definitely something wrong with the RBR850 firmware with the constant drops.

 

Other than the above,  I really dislike the lack of USB.  Now I can't connect my old USB printer via network (used to work with "Netgear USB control centre,   on RBR50 ) .   I also hate that they took away telnet and there's no way to enable easily.   I tried to run python script that someone developed but keep getting some require 4 byte message :( 

 

 

Anyway, hope someone from Netgear Orbi team seems like message and upgrade the firmware to fix the drops,   and let people have telnet and customizations again.  We didn't pay all this $ for a worst product