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Apprentice

Jan 25, 2019

FIX - Orbi Firmware 2.2.1.210 Performance Issues

Hello Orbi Community, If any of you are struggling with performance issues with your Orbi system that is currently running on FW version 2.2.1.210, you are not the only one. Countless amount of...

Troubleshooting

Jedarius

Initiate

Jan 28, 2019

Thanks for this!

I'm sure 2.2.1.210 is fine for other folks, but I was getting constant random reboots on 2.2.1.210 despite hard resetting and troubleshooting.

I did manage to stop my Orbi from auto updating to 2.2.1.210 with this method and have been running stable on the previous firmware (2.1.4.16). Thanks!

My suggestion to Netgear still stands: please give us the option to turn off the auto update from within the GUI itself.

FURRYe38

Guru

Jan 28, 2019

Looks like it will be forth coming:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/ORBI-NEWSFLASH-Netgear-Disabling-Forced-Auto-Update-on-Upcoming/td-p/1697058/jump-to/first-unread-message

Jedarius wrote:

Thanks for this!

I'm sure 2.2.1.210 is fine for other folks, but I was getting constant random reboots on 2.2.1.210 despite hard resetting and troubleshooting.

I did manage to stop my Orbi from auto updating to 2.2.1.210 with this method and have been running stable on the previous firmware (2.1.4.16). Thanks!

My suggestion to Netgear still stands: please give us the option to turn off the auto update from within the GUI itself.