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Christian_R
Oct 23, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Orbi Firmware v2.5.0.38
Hello Orbi Community,
As you may be aware, there has been a new firmware version available for the RBR50 & RBS50. To access the firmware version, please use the links below:
RBR50: v2.5....
abonko
Nov 06, 2019Star
FURRYe38 - I appreciate that your intentions are pure and you are genuinely trying to help, but as ryanaroha pointed out, if everything was working perfectly beforehand then why are these questions even necessary? Maybe it's a mistake on my part for not pointing out such detail in the first place. So allow me to set the record straight.
My satellite Orbi is connected to the primary Orbi via a physical LAN cable, utilizing Ethernet Backhaul. My primary router is connected to my Comcast router which is setup in bridge mode. This is the exact configuration I have run for nearly a year now without a single issue. In fact, the performance and stability of this configuration has been so amazing I have raved about the Orbis to friends, family and anyone else who would listen.
You could argue I chose to apply the firmware update, but given how much I was pestered to upgrade via the Orbi app I'm not sure that's an entirely fair assessment. Nonetheless, I upgraded. Within an hour of upgrading all of my issues began. I can say with absolute certainty that not a single other aspect of my network configuration changed. Hence, the only logical cause of my issues is the firmware upgrade. All other possible variables are irrelevant.
Someone earlier mentioned downgrading back to the previous version. How do you do that? Is it only through the desktop login?
Thank you everyone for the feedback.
ryanaroha
Nov 06, 2019Star
abonko wrote:Someone earlier mentioned downgrading back to the previous version. How do you do that? Is it only through the desktop login?
I don't use any of the phone apps, so I'm completely ignorant as to the capabilities there. I also don't allow any remote management, so if there's some cool central website or something, I can't speak to that either. You can find instructions online for downgrading, but here's how I did my downgrade to v2.3.5.30:
- Download RBR & RBS files from https://kb.netgear.com/000061080/RBR50-RBS50-Firmware-Version-2-3-5-30
- Unzip both files
- Use desktop web-browser to login to web-ui of satellite(s) (e.g., https://ip.of.my.satellite)
- Select firmware update, browse to RBS*.img file and follow directions
- Go get a cup of coffee ... after ~10min when satellite comes back up, check if performance is back to normal (some folks have reported that everything was good after downgrading just their satellite, but that wasn't the case for me)
- Login to web-ui of main router (e.g., https://ip.of.my.router)
- Go to Advanced > Administration > Firmware Update > Manual Update
- Browse to the RBR*.img file and follow directions
- Go do some yoga and say a little prayer that Netgear will start investing in QA