New RBR850 / RBS850 Firmware Version 4.6.3.16 Released

Yup. That was actually the first thing I did. Powered down the satellite, base, router/firewall, and cable modem for about ten minutes, then brought them back up in reverse order.

I use my RBR850 solely as an access point, as I have a fairly decent firewall/router in front of it and an extensive wired network as well. I was able to isolate the issue to ONLY occur when I had my Orbi in AP mode, not when I had it in router mode. But running it in router mode breaks a major portion of my network.

I ended up downgrading to 3.2.15.25_1.3.15 and inserting a firewall rule to block any automatic updates. I've been thinking about upgrading to the Orbi Pro, to take advantage of VLANs on the wireless network to have a decent Guest network, but I may have to think twice about that now.

I do this stuff for a living. I'm fortunate that I didn't have to jump online today to deal with something at work. But I spent what I spent on the Orbi because Netgear has a reputation for reliability. I'm disappointed that they didn't test this firmware update better than they did, and that they've let the issues with it go on for six weeks after release without a fix. Unfortunately, I'm out of my 90-day support, and I can't even submit a ticket.