Hello, iv had the orbi a year.. It had issues with some hardware problem so replaced about 2 months ago. Was running smooth till this firmware. It's causing spastic 900+ ping spikes every 30 sec - 2 Min. It's driving me up the wall and I'm ready to return the product under defective and never use it again. Especially since tech support is impossible to reach without going through ungodly methods. Iv tried countless times to revert the firmware but it just auto updates.. Iv even tried the debug method of removing auto update but.. The stupid thing still does it while I'm in the debug section.
Any solutions available or is netgear able to just let me return this and be done with it? It's unusable in its current state.
Sadly nothing In the thread solves my specific issues.
I'll give the store a call tomorrow and discuss returning and refunding the product I think as netgear have no live tech support available to assist their customers. It's a shame cus it was a good product that they broke with firmware update.
OK...so the lesson learned is 'stop doing manual' FW updates.
I don't think there is a difference if you do manual or auto update here.
2.3.5.30 has few issues, but I think that there are workarounds for every single issue. The software has also fixes for many other issues so -with some extra troubleshooting effort- this software can turn your Orbi into a stable robust wifi mesh network.
I hope that Netgear will soon fix the few issues in 2.5.5.30 so that no workarounds will be needed.
What the hell u guys on about.. Manual is only option to downgrade, it auto upgrades on its own. It's the problem. Net gear need to sort their **bleep** and not release bugged crap firmware updates or atleast disable the feature as an option. Atm u need to use putty in debug mode to disable auto update.. Which is retarded.
So the moral of the story is net gear can't deliver a good firmware and forces us all to update to broken ones.
..........Talk to NG as to why they stopped pushing most FW updates.
I think that Netgear stopped pushing FW updates because they realised that they are introducing new faults with most of the new updates.
I really hope that Netgear is working on improving their system and regression testing to avoid this in future updates.
That said, I still think that with every new Orbi software I see improvements in the Orbi functionality. I think that I have a vey good system now with 2.3.5.30.
..........Talk to NG as to why they stopped pushing most FW updates.
I think that Netgear stopped pushing FW updates because they realised that they are introducing new faults with most of the new updates.
I really hope that Netgear is working on improving their system and regression testing to avoid this in future updates.
That said, I still think that with every new Orbi software I see improvements in the Orbi functionality. I think that I have a vey good system now with 2.3.5.30.
NG stopped pushing FW updates because folks were whining and most of the updates were minor which most people did not need. From what I understand major changes will be will be pushed (auto). The bottom line is IF your network works, leave it alone.
