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AmitR
Mar 23, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Orbi MR 2.1 Update 3/23/18
Our teams are still working through the issues, but I wanted to provide a quick update on OrbiOS 2.1. We usually wait to release our software until it's available across all Orbi product lines, but ...
doccelo
Apr 08, 2018Star
Sure did. For every firmware update we've gotten I've done a full factory reset and setup from scratch. Will keep an eye on things and report back. The only thing I've done since the last internet drop is to reboot modem and router and turned off both satellites. Only router is up at the moment.
doccelo
Apr 09, 2018Star
doccelo wrote:Sure did. For every firmware update we've gotten I've done a full factory reset and setup from scratch. Will keep an eye on things and report back. The only thing I've done since the last internet drop is to reboot modem and router and turned off both satellites. Only router is up at the moment.
Ok, have been running router-only for past 24 hours. I haven't had an internet dropout yet, but I did notice something strange last night (not just last night, this same behavior has been happening since I've owned the Orbi from back in Dec '17). Sitting right next to my Macbook Pro, I had my Note 8 in my hand and the Note 8 would constanstly drop wifi and regain almost instantly (a few seconds after losing wifi). Macbook Pro had no wifi drops during that time. This was happening before, and I thought maybe it was switching between Router and Satellite, but last night I only had Router on and it still did it.
I had full bars on my Note 8 for wifi reception (both before and after the drop when it regained). This was not a weak signal issue as far as I could tell, and I was only 30-40 feet away from the router. It would just suddenly lose wifi connection and then regain. It did this multiple times (at least 5-10 times). Sitting in that same spot, sometimes it goes crazy and does this wifi lose/gain thing and sometimes it's stable. Not sure what to make of it. Obviously it's something with the phone, because the Macbook Pro never lost its wifi connection during those drops. Again, full signal bars on the phone...
What could be causing this?
- FURRYe38Apr 09, 2018Guru
Is IPv6 enabled on the Note8 and router?
Since updating, do you have Beamforming, MIMO, Daisy chaing and Fast Roaming enabled or disabled?
- RocketSquirrelApr 10, 2018Luminary
So it looks like the 2.1.3 firmware for the 50 series has been pulled? The links in post 1 of this thread no longer work and 2.1.3 isn’t on the official download page either.
If there was discussion of this, I missed it. What’s going on? And where oh where is 2.2?