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Your experience with Firmware 2.2.1.210 released as of 10/3/18
The other long thread on the new firmware is useless and has become a tech support thread. Please only post your experience after upgrading to the new firmware, good or bad. I'd like to see everyone'...
After again disappointed kids because the rented online movie keeped stopping (on a smart tv with a LAN cable connected), called our cable internet provider to switch the modem back to router modus (i was on bridge modus, as i hoped the orbi system could handle all the router "things").
So now back on the (ziggo) modem & router and switched Orbi to AP modus.
FURRYe38 did all the things you suggested here (and also other tips on other topics).
My conclusion: The 210 firmware of Orbi can't handle big streams Lan or Wlan
You can down grade to v.16 and see if this might help:
Download version 2.1.1.16 for both the router and satellite.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBK50-firmware-V2-2-1-210-update-slows-WAN-speed-with-30-to/m-p/1651159/highlight/true#M43338
You'll need to block the auto updater...
JeroenM wrote:
After again disappointed kids because the rented online movie keeped stopping (on a smart tv with a LAN cable connected), called our cable internet provider to switch the modem back to router modus (i was on bridge modus, as i hoped the orbi system could handle all the router "things").
So now back on the (ziggo) modem & router and switched Orbi to AP modus.
FURRYe38 did all the things you suggested here (and also other tips on other topics).
My conclusion: The 210 firmware of Orbi can't handle big streams Lan or Wlan
I did downgrade to 2.1.4.16 and telnetted to block auto update.
Fortunate the orbi's felt like updating and did??? (could it be because i logged in with the orbi app??)
I now downgraded to 2.1.1.16 and again blocked auto upgrade.
Wil post an update if i got news :-)
Ya, possible the app checks updates regardless of whats set on the Router itself.
Let us know...
JeroenM wrote:
I did downgrade to 2.1.4.16 and telnetted to block auto update.
Fortunate the orbi's felt like updating and did??? (could it be because i logged in with the orbi app??)
I now downgraded to 2.1.1.16 and again blocked auto upgrade.
Wil post an update if i got news :-)
You didn't forget the "nvram commit" or something?
It'll be frustrating if blocking auto-updates doesn't work. Next step will be to figure out what traffic to block.
Yes i did the commit :-)
Don't be surprised if NG is working to disable any kind of update blocking. :smileyfrustrated:
They shouldn't be surprised either if I never buy one of their products again.
Not the first one and probably not the last.
should they be focussing on fixing the 210 ????? :robottongue:
UnhappyOrbiUser wrote:
They shouldn't be surprised either if I never buy one of their products again.
Yep, too bad too, as I've had decent luck with their stuff over the years. Most of the consumer network providers have gotten better since the early days. But these messy firmware changes have become a horror for all of us that rely on their hardware to enable our networks. You don't see these kind of really bad problems with the companies that sell enterprise/commercial products as often, which is why I've used mostly that stuff for years. Figured I'd try some new consumer stuff this time around, and I now regret it. The consumer network companies are completely non communicative with their customer bases, which is somewhat undstandable as they are enormous, but these are true Severity 1 problems, and Netgear is really failing us all.
nanohead wrote:
Yep, too bad too, as I've had decent luck with their stuff over the years. Most of the consumer network providers have gotten better since the early days. But these messy firmware changes have become a horror for all of us that rely on their hardware to enable our networks. You don't see these kind of really bad problems with the companies that sell enterprise/commercial products as often, which is why I've used mostly that stuff for years. Figured I'd try some new consumer stuff this time around, and I now regret it. The consumer network companies are completely non communicative with their customer bases, which is somewhat undstandable as they are enormous, but these are true Severity 1 problems, and Netgear is really failing us all.
No kidding.. after years of getting by with cheap routers and messing around with OpenWRT, I finally bit the bullet and decided to spend the money for one of these supposedly better systems, especially as I needed something to extend the range. I tried the Orbi and another one (I forget which), and stuck with Orbi for some reason.
Like you, I regret the purchase, it isn't worth the money I shelled out for it.
Regarding my report of auto-update-blocking not taking:
When I originally attempted to block the auto-update, it looks like I didn't change the orbi_auto_upg setting - the 4th one that was added after the common instructions were written.
Aggravating matters this weekend was that I think I went through three rounds of downgrade-then-immediately-auto-update. In one of the more memorable iterations, it auto-updated while I was working on the nvram settings.
My threat to shop for Ubiquity gear seems to have done the trick, as my Orbi became stable (on .146, without auto-updates) shortly thereafter.