Firmware V1.12.0.18 Discussion

Captain,

I have posted a review of Lyra on Amazon and started a fair, and unbiased, discussion.

I have fully disclosed that Lyra is much slower than Orbi.

However, I have used Lyra for 5 days now and it wins the stability argument without question.

You are correct with your comments, except you are wrong with the auto-updating. Lyra will not auto-update, but notify you with the option to execute the update. It will not update unless you click or tap update. And, as of the latest firmware it does allow manual updating.

As you have written, Netgear is unstable and they are now stripping features, rather than adding features. If an automaker did this to you, I am sure there would be a lawsuit.

Netgear does not feel they need to respond to any of you with any real response of value.

Guess what. ASUS just replied to my Amazon post, and are ready to work with me to make Lyra great. It’s only been on market for 1 week. My Amazon post in only 24 hours old. How long has Orbi been on market, and how many meaningful responses have you seen from Netgear?

Like you, I spent my hard-earned cash on Orbi. Like you, and many others, I am beyond belief that Netgear could operate so poorly.

And, like you, and many others, I have given up. I want my life back. I am only trying to help others by sharing my experience as we try to solve the “Orbi Issues”. And maybe that resolve includes looking at, and discussing, other products such as Velop. Have you seen Linksys Velop’s forum. Linksys engineers are very active and very responsive with REAL results. They actually have a daily/weekly dialog with the Velop users to fix problems and add new features and they do it quickly. From what I have read, Velop is actually faster than Orbi and covers more space. Plus is has more advance controls when compared to Orbi. Lyra offering even more advanced control.

How many months have we asked Netgear to disable auto-update. Have they? Everyone else has that option.

I am not telling anyone that Lyra is better than Orbi. You must each make that choice yourself. What is best, is always an individual choice, based on your needs. I need stable WIFI, and Orbi cannot do that, and Netgear doesn’t seem to care. If I must sacrifice some speed, or a USB port (that I never use), and this sacrifice leads to less time playing technical support and hearing my family complain and being able to do my job (work from home)…Yeah…Sign me up!