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New Orbi RBR50/RBS50 Firmware Version 2.3.1.44
Netgear is pushing out yet another a new Orbi firmware update.
Hopefully it's better than the last version v32.
Please share your experience.
Firmware Update
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Thanks. Is it safe to revert from 2.3.1.44 back to 2.3.0.32 directly?
Yes, it's safe to revert back to v32.
To lock it down and prevent auto-update, you can follow this:
mith_it wrote:
>> If you manually downgrade to .210 you can then telnet and disable autoupdates. See https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/8ke43v/how_to_disable_autoupdate/dz6xz9l/
>> This worked fine for me. As far as I can tell, once you update to .44 if you change those settings it will autoupgrade once (even if you're already on .44) and then not do it again.
- I’ll report back if it fixes my download speed. I thought it maybe the wifi but I connected my laptop to one of the ethernet ports on the main Orbi router and the download speed was similar to the wifi. It’s strange as I’ve had no real issues with previous firmware versions.
I'm running a default config of .44 on RBR50/RBS50 setup. Only settings I changed were enabling MU-MIMO and Implicit Beamforming. I have not see any decrease in speed from my iPhone 8(or any other devices for that matter). I'm wondering if the issues people are seeing are more related to the state of wireless after the reboot required to install firmware vs the actual firmware itself. Being in the IT field, I've seen upgrades and/or patches blamed for issues when the reboot required to apply the patch/upgrade has been the root cause. From what I understand everytime you reboot your wireless there is a potential for the channles used to change which could create variations in performance. Maybe this could be the issue.
Seen many issues with Orbi. Some has been FW. Mostly other issues are mis-configurations. Yes, Beamforming and MIMO should be enabled along with WMM. Seen it were somehow WMM gets disabled. WMM should always be enabled. MIMO is not as important due to some users ma not have MIMO supporting devices. Beamforming is always good to have on.
Also FW updates seem to go back on auto updates and continuing rather than doing a factory reset and setup from scratch. Seems that lingering old code and configurations seems to not migrate well into newer FW. Factory resets and setup from scratch clears this up in most cases.
Joboo7777 wrote:
I'm running a default config of .44 on RBR50/RBS50 setup. Only settings I changed were enabling MU-MIMO and Implicit Beamforming. I have not see any decrease in speed from my iPhone 8(or any other devices for that matter). I'm wondering if the issues people are seeing are more related to the state of wireless after the reboot required to install firmware vs the actual firmware itself. Being in the IT field, I've seen upgrades and/or patches blamed for issues when the reboot required to apply the patch/upgrade has been the root cause. From what I understand everytime you reboot your wireless there is a potential for the channles used to change which could create variations in performance. Maybe this could be the issue.
