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Will my RBR850 auto update without the console available?
I have a hybrid system with a RBR850 and a couple of RBS750s. Unfortunately, during the last 'silent' firmware upgrade, I got hit with the "hey, you don't need to know jack squat about what we are doing" syndrome, and they removed my console webpage(s). In response to that attack, I decided to change out my hardware for an Asus ZenWifi AX system, which is working pretty well. However, I'm not getting the speeds from my ISP that make me happy, and I'm pretty sure it's the router, as hooking a laptop directly to the cable modem gives me in the neighborhood of 850-900 Mbps, but going through the router, it's more like 260 Mbps. My VPN connection also doesn't seem to be quite as stable as with the Orbi setup (I seem to get many, random "client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset by peer" faults on my ssh terminals).
Anyway, I see that the latest firmware apparently restores the missing webpages, so...
I was wondering if I were to put my old RBR850/RBS750 units back in service in place of the ASUS units, would they eventually auto-magically apply the latest firmware and restore the console (Can't do that right now, which is why I changed everything out...) or am I going to have to do a manual reset and manually update to the latest firmware, hopefully before the stupid console gets tired of hanging around and takes another hike?
(Not sure I can determine the version of Firmware on the unit w/o being able to access the console either. And I was hoping to not have to reset the router, just to determine that)
Thanks
mgpaulus wrote:So, back to my original question: How do I convert a .chk file to a .img file, since the instructions clearly indicate I should upload a .img file to the router?
It's confusing and incorrect. The CHK file is the correct Orbi firmware file. Try uploading it or else first rename the CHK file to IMG and then upload, as was recommended for this other Orbi firmware thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/RBW30-Firmware-Update-chk-vs-img/td-p/1956195
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What FW version do you have loaded now?
Do you mean telnet? Telnet was removed back in mid v3 FW versions. I guess you hadn't had a FW update since then or things were auto updated with out changing that. Telnet is not longer supported on Orbi systems. Security risk.
Nope, not talking about telnet. I'm talking about opening a browser and trying to get to 192.168.0.1 and getting a "page not found" error, with both http and https. Also, the Orbi app on my iPhone wasn't giving me any kind of response, I'm presuming for the same reason. Oh, and if I did try a 'telnet 192.168.0.1 80' or a 'telnet 192.168.0.443' from one of my linux boxes, I got back nothing, nada, squat.
What FW version do you have loaded now?
There was a auto update event that caused many users to loose access to the RBRs web page. As mentioned, A factory reset and setup from scratch solved that.
mgpaulus wrote:
Nope, not talking about telnet. I'm talking about opening a browser and trying to get to 192.168.0.1 and getting a "page not found" error, with both http and https. Also, the Orbi app on my iPhone wasn't giving me any kind of response, I'm presuming for the same reason. Oh, and if I did try a 'telnet 192.168.0.1 80' or a 'telnet 192.168.0.443' from one of my linux boxes, I got back nothing, nada, squat.
mgpaulus wrote:
I was wondering if I were to put my old RBR850/RBS750 units back in service in place of the ASUS units, would they eventually auto-magically apply the latest firmware and restore the console (Can't do that right now, which is why I changed everything out...) or am I going to have to do a manual reset and manually update to the latest firmware, hopefully before the stupid console gets tired of hanging around and takes another hike?
Well, yes, that was the goal that Netgear announced back in May-June when that update debacle happened. And, quite a number of customers reported their systems "healing themselves" (and a number of people reported "why hasn't anything happened yet?").
If the goal is to place the Orbi back into service, I would do a Factory Reset on it when it is not connected to the internet. Verify that a web browser connects to the router correctly. (hint: use the IP address of the router, which should be 192.168.1.1 from a computer that is connected to the router either with Ethernet cable or the WiFi name printed on the router label.)
You can then configure anything you want on the router except for changing the WiFi name (If you did as I do and assigned the WiFi name to that new Asus. I have kept the same WiFi name for almost 20 years through several sets of routers.)
Once you are ready to unplug the Asus, do so, change the Orbi WiFi name to the preferred login, then connect it to the internet.
