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A way to disable auto-update of firmware? (V1.12.0.18)
Hi all, I've searched the forum here for this a few times and come up dry, so I figured I'd just come out and ask: Is there any method to disable automatic firmware updates on the Orbi (RBK50...
Optionally page 5 of this thread has instructions on how to enable telnet using debug mode and disable it by editing the config file.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Firmware-V1-12-0-18-Discussion/td-p/1320421/page/5
Thanks esiebert7625, I'll have to give the Block Sites option a try.
I've manually reverted the firmware to version 1.11.0.20 several times already, but once the system is idle for some unspecified amount of time (usually in the early hours of the morning) it automatically re-updates itself to version 1.12.0.18 and I'm back where I started.
(It'd be real nice if Netgear added a little option in the debug menu or something that would allow us to go in and turn off automatic updates, like most other manufacturers do.)
Optionally page 5 of this thread has instructions on how to enable telnet using debug mode and disable it by editing the config file.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Firmware-V1-12-0-18-Discussion/td-p/1320421/page/5
That's exactly what I need! Thanks esiebert7625!
OK, starting to get a bit hacked-off now...
Despite having gone into the NVRAM and manually disabling the automatic updates, my RBS50 Orbi setup still somehow automatically updated itself to v1.12.0.18 'round 3:15am local time this morning and, in so doing, completely crippled itself again.
Is there any other way to disable automatic updates? This is getting incredibly frustrating.
Any passing moderator, please un-mark this as "Solved" because it definitely isn't.
Went I set mine I did note that one of the NVRAM settings is different on mine from what was in the instructiions. I think it was the orbi_auto_upgrade one which was actually listed as orbi_auto_upg when I listed the settings with the nvram show command. View your settings before you change them and make sur eyou are changing the correct ones.