Orbi System: Disable automatic firmware updates

I can't agree enough. 2.1.4.10 broke my ethernet satellite backhaul for my Orbi system and caused the entire network to lose connection to the Internet.  Spent hours troubleshooting.  Netgear support had me manually downgrade to 2.1.3.4 to veriy that etherenet backhaul works on that version (yes), but the auto update overwrote my downgrade in less than an hour.  So I cannot use ethernet backhaul from my satellite nor can I even leave the ethernet canle connected to it without the network going down.  The wifi speed from that distant satellite is <10% of the speed I get from the main router.  Terrible.

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This last update 2.4.0.10 has been a nightmare.  And no way to reverse back to last version which was working perfectly for me.  Now with this new update, a number of my home automation products, stopped working.  Am I going to have to trash this router and by one from another company that works?

Would like this feature added as well

Please add this feature so those of us who have found a version that is stable in our specific environment can keep it that way.

This should have the ability to turn off auto updates im on orbi 2.1.4.10 in ap mode and this pice of trash breaks apples homekit makes devices unresponsive please fix asap no reason this should be a major release.

I'd maybe suggest, as a compromise, a downgrade/revert setting, which then pauses updates until the next new version comes out, effectively skipping the version you downgraded from. Perhaps even better, data on reversions can be sent to NG, so they can see quickly that many users are downgrading their firmware.

For instance:

If the current version is 2.1.4.10, but it is (hypothetically) problematic, I can go into the admin settings, tell it to downgrade, and it'll downgrade to 2.1.3.4, and then won't update to 2.1.4.10, instead "sitting out" updates until at least 2.1.4.11 comes out, at which point it goes back to applying every update until reverted again. Revert, and then the upgrade you abandoned is, effectively, invisible to the router.

please please please add this!!

Definitely add this feature. It’s a must-have.

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This should be an option on any router.  Maybe on the Advanced/Advanced Setup tab.  But it should always be available on this type of appliance.