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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 27, 2025Mentor - Experienced User
Hi Mooose welcome to the thread! I forgot about this thread, let us know how it goes. I have been on this release 34 days now, and I am going on 18 since I had to restart anything. This is a better FW release than the prior one, but it's not perfect yet. I'll update my "6 issues" to help if you have trouble with any of these issues. Netgear is continuing to work on this firmware, hopefully we see something sooner vs. later!
My issues status:
- 1) Do late model devices (iPhones, iPads, Macs) maintain IPv6 connectivity? NO - IPv6 has "issues". Acknowledged by Netgear. I have disabled it until they say it's working, as I have nothing that specifically needs it right now. I think having IPv6 disabled has contributed to overall stability(especially being a contributor to issue #2) too!
- 2) iPhone flipping to 5G cellular where it should have a strong WiFi signal in the house - still an issue. I have had over 2 weeks of use with no disconnects by setting any late model (Wifi 6, 6E or 7) devices to use a 'manual' ip address and manual dns server address. (Note - this is NOT the same as creating reservations on the router - that still uses dhcp, and the solution appears to be eliminating dhcp from being used by these devices). This requires IPv6 to be disabled, since with Apple devices I cannot change IPv6/DNS addressing to manual.
- 3) Memory creep on router or satellites, resulting eventually in a crash - So far so good; I am monitoring this one, no significant growth in memory used by the satellites in the last 9 days.
- 4) Router/satellite crashes unrelated to memory creep -had 1 of these crashes early on, there didn't seem to be any memory creep going on prior. It was a panic crash per the log.
- 5) Phantom devices showing up in router and Orbi app device list - devices that were in the house in the past, showing up as "connected" until a reboot clears them. - None - monitoring
- 6) Weird reporting in router device list - showing every device as Wired, connected to the wrong Orbi, etc. - I have not seen all devices reported as wired, but I did discover a bug that if you take a device using automatic IP/DNS and change it to manual per #2 above, after its lease expires, or the devices drops connectivity due to leaving the house then coming back etc., it will be reported as 'wired' from then on.
So all in all much better - #2, #3, #4 are the three most serious issues that are very disruptive to WiFi use in the house, and they are either working fine or there is a suitable workaround. #1 can be eliminated by disabling it. #5 and #6 are cosmetic once you know what's going on.