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AmitR
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 05, 2017

Announcing availability of OrbiOS 2.1

We’re excited to announce that OrbiOS 2.1 is now available for immediate download here:

https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK50.aspx#download

https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RBK40.aspx#download

 

To manually upgrade your Orbi, see the KB article here: https://kb.netgear.com/31573/How-do-I-manually-upgrade-firmware-on-my-Orbi-Satellite

 

This firmware contains several new features that have been eagerly awaited by the community.

  1. Parental Controls using Circle with Disney
  2. Ethernet Backhaul, which allows to use Ethernet to connect two Orbi
  3. Backhaul Status & Quality on the Attached Devices Page
  4. Other smaller features
  5. bug fixes 

 

OrbiOS 2.1 will be available through auto-firmware upgrade soon, but if you want to get started on it sooner, feel free to download and install.

 

Orbi Product Management 

 

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