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Orbi6 Intermittent Performance Degradation
I've had an Orbi 6 system (router + 2 satellites) for almost 2 years now. Worked like a charm until about 2 months ago. Since then at times, I can see painfully slow connectivity on my laptop, connec...
Thanks a lot, I'm going to work through a few of these. The FW part surprised me, but now I'm going through the manual upgrade process. Btw, I don't know if you have the ability to do this, but it'd be great if Netgear updated the instructions for the manual upgrade. Most of it just seems to be 'download file, upload and install', but the file you download is a zip and it's rejected by the UI without much of a message. Somewhere else I read that the system is expected a .chk file, so that made me unzip and I'm now successful.
I'm planning on asking NG to update there KBs with what I posted here in the forums that gives better details and explanation of how to do a manual update. Glad it helped.