Orbi won't save my wifi password?

[lowepg]

For some reason, orbi keeps changing my wifi password- and its one ive been using forever!

for example:

my password is "password%%"

orbi keeps changing it to "password12345"

ive tried rebooting, making sure mosrt recent firmware, etc.- still keeps doing it.

btw- it saves the guest password just fine.

[st_shaw]

There is a recent issue with special characters in the password, particulalry "$".  Try a password with only letters and numbers and see if that resolves the issue.

[lowepg]

thanks- I see that now after searching a bit.

It appears they've known about it for a while and still no fix?

Changing passwords is really unacceptable - especially given the premium price Netgear demands for this product. I have a dozen+ devices that need to connect to wifi throughut the house (smart home devices, ring products, tv boxes, etc, etc, etc). Changing all the passwords becuase Netgear can't get this fixed is infurating.

[supercubdude]

Can we revert to the firmware before V2.1.1.16 where it seemed to work fine?

sj

[DarrenM]

Yes you can go back to the 2.0 if needed but you have a beat 2.1.2 that has fixes for the 2.1.1 firmware you can find that here.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/OrbiOS-2-1-1/m-p/1476960#M19962

DarrenM

[lowepg]

Reading the notice for that beta firmware, it sounds like it only addresses the cpu issue and reboot issue NOT the passowrd bug.

that's still "coming soon" 😞