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New Firmware v2.5.0.38
All RBK 5 series Orbi's. FW not yet available on the download site for manual installation... Please perform a BACKUP configuration to file. Then update the RBS first then RBR lastly. Factory re...
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My recommendation is IF your network is running with no problems, leave it alone.
Fixes the guest isolation issue for multicast and broadcast traffic between the main host and guest.
Hell yes, an update to fix it!!! I would update!!
"Fixes the guest isolation issue for multicast and broadcast traffic between the main host and guest."
Thank for letting us know your experiences. Be sure to do a backup configuration to file for safe keeping.
BIG9MM wrote:Fixes the guest isolation issue for multicast and broadcast traffic between the main host and guest.
Hell yes, an update to fix it!!! I would update!!
"Fixes the guest isolation issue for multicast and broadcast traffic between the main host and guest."
Retired_Member wrote:My recommendation is IF your network is running with no problems, leave it alone.
My IPTV setup was acting up intermittently, and the release notes mentioned multicast changes, so dove in. After wasting the whole day going down various rabbit holes, including so many factory resets I lost count, was left with a sad decision to pull my Uverse traffic off of the Orbi. Settings were entered both manually and via restore, made no difference. IGMP appears to be completely broken.
I can no longer recommend the Orbi product for this use case. There are a class of users that would have benefited from removing the gateway from the active configuration.
The worst part turned out a factory reset of one of the set-top boxes failed, and ended up having to research the issue and determined the device could not access the internet to pull the latest firmware either through the satellite or thorough the base router.
Wow, is there any way to roll this back off??? As stated here, my IPTV is now no longer working reliably. And, all of my named devices are randomly messed up. For example, it says one of my cell phone is on a "wired" connection. My Vonage box (wired) is wireless, etc. This is a really bad release.
I just downloaded V2.3.5.30 manually and put my RBR50 and RBS50 both back to that. All my labels are back, and I think IPTV is better. Hopefullyt hey figure it out, I'm not touching V2.3.5.30 again.
