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donawalt
Jun 24, 2025Mentor - Experienced User
Installed 9.13.1.2 - initial results (positive)
I installed 9.13.1.2 on two 971s and a 970 Orbi router tonight. I am looking to test 6 basic issues I have seen on the 970 series; some of these may take days or even weeks to surface. But my test li...
donawalt
Jul 02, 2025Mentor - Experienced User
I am 9 days in. Things seem better with this version of firmware, but there is work to do on the four major issues I have suffered from. I have power cycled but have not done a full factory reset.
Summary so far:
- IPv6 - as noted above - had to disable, not working on Apple iPhone and iPad;
- Flips to cellular when on WiFi - I have had 2 occurrences of this, the first was day two and the second was day 8, so the frequency is much less so far - plus I have been testing and looking for this.
- Memory creep on Orbis - nothing obvious so far, but I am starting to get suspicious of one satellite 970 (which is the one that crashed, see below) - it has slowly moved from ~605MB used to 630MB. I only check it once a day and mem usage jumps around, but this will become obvious or not in the next 2 weeks.
- Restarts due to crashes - one unfortunately. I sent the logs in. According to the logs the restart happened overnight about 4 days ago, a kernel panic crash.
- twallerJul 02, 2025Initiate
This FW has improved behavior with my iPhone 16, but not completely fixed it. It still drops occasionally when I'm between nodes, but the drops are less frequent. When I turn off and turn back on Wifi it connects and usually stays connected. Improved, yes, completely fixed, no.