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Testing status of 9.13.1.2 (ongoing updates)
Summary: IPv6 failed, 1 flip to 5G cellular from iPhone, memory use growing a little on 970 - watching that one.
I installed FW 9.13.1.2 yesterday. All seemed to go fine (although IPv6 failed quickly on iPad and iPhone after I re-enabled it. So now I have disabled IPv6 again.
Overnight my iPhone 16 Pro Max was on the night stand. Strong WiFi connection. This morning, I pick it up off its wireless charger stand, walk about 8 feet, sit down to start checking the morning emails. In about 1 minute it went from strong WiFi connection to 5G cellular, even though settings still showed it connected to my WiFi. Router IP was blank, no IP address:
I waited about minute doing nothing then WiFi came back:
Also in the device list, the iPhone 16 is current connected at 6GHz with a router 4 feet away - it's usually connected at 5GHz + 6GHz. That will probably correct over the morning, it's an existing problem from FW 9.12.5.3.
So after about 12 hours, flips to 5G and IPv6 failure is still problem with this firmware.
Summary status of issues I saw on 9.12.5.3:
- IPv6 fail - still an issue. IPv6 has failed on both iPad and iPhone.
- Flips to 5G - one failure so far
- memory creep - After restart, this morning the two 970s are up to 620MB and 627MB. I'll be keeping an eye on this to see if memory continues to grow, on 9.12.5.3 before the upgrade they had been around 610MB for about a week. It's not an issue if memory use stabilizes at some point soon.
- restarts - none yet
- phantom devices - none yet/no new devices visiting the house
I will keep posting updates here as things happen.
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Try turning on "Enable RIPng" in the IPv6 configuration area. It worked for me with my Galaxy S25.
Are iPhone updates all this update fixes? We havr no apple devices here of any kind. Ill update just in case
All info we have.
So if you don't have any Apple devices and you load this FW version up, please make a new post regarding any new problems or issues seen or feedback regarding this new FW.
Are iPhone updates all this update fixes? We havr no apple devices here of any kind. Ill update just in case
The update seems to be just for the iPhone 16? The previous version was working fine for me, but updated anyway just in case there's something else. I don't actually have an iPhone 16.
Did a reboot cycle of router and both satellites. Appeared purple on the satellites for a bit, but then came back blue. Everything connected again.
I have two Wifi networks, one main WPA3-Personal and the other is IoT Network 2.4GHz only. No Guest Wifi network.
However, I noticed a new Wifi network called "NTGRBH_(numbers)" appear available to connect to upon wifi devices. It seems to be the Netgear backhaul connection? It didn't appear in previous versions of the firmware and I believe show be hidden?
Ya most of the issues seen on prior version of FW was with new gen Apple and Android devices and 6Ghz along with IPv6 and flipping back and forth on wifi signals. Was not seen on older gen or model phones and pads. I hadn't seen this either, however like you, I don't have a new gen phone. iPhone 12 Pro Max here and a Android Pad that doesn't support 6Ghz or WiFi7.
You should have 3 networks on Orbi AX, AXE and BE systems, Main WLAN, IoT and Guest Network.
The NTGRBH_(numbers) has always been there since the beginning. It's locked and not usable. Only for the RBS BH system. We've already asked about this early on, however, not sure if or when NG will hid that.
The update seems to be just for the iPhone 16? The previous version was working fine for me, but updated anyway just in case there's something else. I don't actually have an iPhone 16.
Did a reboot cycle of router and both satellites. Appeared purple on the satellites for a bit, but then came back blue. Everything connected again.
I have two Wifi networks, one main WPA3-Personal and the other is IoT Network 2.4GHz only. No Guest Wifi network.
However, I noticed a new Wifi network called "NTGRBH_(numbers)" appear available to connect to upon wifi devices. It seems to be the Netgear backhaul connection? It didn't appear in previous versions of the firmware and I believe show be hidden?I reported the backhaul network showing to NG when 9.12.5.3 first came out, I saw it then. They closed the case and said it will just have to show, you can't connect to it. It's not new at least in some cases.
