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New Orbi RBR50/RBS50 Firmware Version 2.3.1.44
Netgear is pushing out yet another a new Orbi firmware update.
Hopefully it's better than the last version v32.
Please share your experience.
Firmware Update
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After testing WiFi download speed from both Satellites and Router with latest v44 firmware, the results are pretty close to what I had achieved earlier with v210. I still got around 370-450Mbps. I'll accept the pain of reconfiguring all the 2.4GHz devices to look for new unified SSID to avoid having to deal with 'config_sync' madness.
SW_ wrote:
I'll accept the pain of reconfiguring all the 2.4GHz devices to look for new unified SSID to avoid having to deal with 'config_sync' madness.
From my somewhat limited knowledge of this product, I don't see a user configurable option to break band steering that many other routers provide. Having said that and using my RBK50 in its default operating mode, my 5G capable devices never fall back to 2.4G.
When my Orbi was autoupdated the other night, I did notice some devices were connected on 2.4G and was one of the reasons I decided to factory reset the base and satellite. I bit the bullet of reconnecting all devices to the Orbi's SSID during initial install, and I do agree it is a big time suck.
As for the comments about speed loss, they do appear to be slower to me as well.