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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 07, 2022

New - RBR850 / RBS850 Firmware Version v4.6.7.5 Released

No Release Notes at this time. I'll see if I can get some.   Download Link: https://ntgr.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#300000000xsV/a/8b000000saFy/gnaaQgriSv_NWgvrN.dvn786cl4eG45R2.62LEI3edU   F...
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Garwoofoo
Apprentice
Feb 03, 2022

Sadly after a few weeks of flawless operation with this firmware (barring memory creep), I started encountering problems again yesterday.

 

During a long Teams call (so - a period of sustained usage), the wired satellite I was connected to kicked all clients and wouldn't reconnect anything for around 5 minutes. After this time, the satellite then showed as Disconnected in the main router dashboard and the mobile app, although it was actually working and I could log on via the IP address of the satellite itself and see the devices that were connected.

 

About 20 minutes later the same thing happened again. All clients were kicked and were unable to reconnect for around 5 minutes. Sadly I was in another room (and on a videocall) so couldn't observe what was happening in terms of lights on the satellite or effect on wired devices. However this clearly didn't count as a full reboot of the device as the uptime shown on the debug page for the satellite remained at 25 days.

 

I've now rebooted the whole system and will keep an eye on it to see how it behaves. I've also enabled RTS/CTS with a threshold of 500, to see if that makes any difference, as someone in this thread said it appeared to aid stability and I'd previously been running with it disabled.

 

Disappointed though as I really thought this firmware was looking stable.

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RafS
Apprentice
Feb 03, 2022

I've had my RTS/CTS set to 500 for the past 6 months without issues and all devices running smoothly, including Nest t-stat.   I've also had firmware 4.6.7.5 running for approximately 3 weeks without issues and hopefully this continues.  Only issue I ran into was right after loading 4.6.7.5, and after powering up the RBR and RBS, all devices showed with generic names for each device but after doing a Reboot via the Orbi app, everything returned to normal.