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EX7300 extender - cannot connect to existing 5G network
Hello Been fighting this for several hours with no progress. I have an ORBI RBR50 which works well. I have it set to 192.168.2.1. I turned off access control for the purposes of this conn...
thinking this over some more, I think my next step is to try backing down the firmware back by 1 or 2 versions. This used to work, and I cannot think of any reason for it not working now other than a firmware upgrade at some point.
Ben
OK - my hunch worked - I downgraded to firmware version 72, and now it is working.
not sure exactly what my next steps will be, but probably just sit for a few months and see if Netgear figures out the latest firmware has issues, then if they publish something higher than 140 I might give it a try.
I thought it was just me. i upgraded orbi to V2.3.5.30 last night and now my ex7300 couldn't connec to orbit router whereas my other netgear extender connecting fine.
- Interesting to hear others are having the same problem. I resolved it by downgrading the EX7300 firmware rather than the ORBI firmware. Interested to hear if downgrading the ORBI firmware is an alternate solution.
i rolled back the orbi firmware to 2.2.1.212 and everything works like before until orbi auto update to newest firmware again and ex7300 stopped connecting right away. i guess i will roll back the ex7300 firmware as temporary measure.