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Orbi - Wireless Network not available or LED flashing white on Router or Satellite
The NETGEAR team has noticed an issue with upgrading some Orbi Tri-Band WiFi System Model RBK40, RBK43 and RBK30 units in the field to OrbiOS 1.12.0.18. If your Orbi are affected, the symptoms are: ...
Think the issue does effect RBK50.
My parents router got updated to 1.12. I rolled back, manually downgraded.
It looks like it happened again, because they say the front of the house no longer works again.
How do we prevent upgrades for a period of time?
If you go to the discussion thread for this release, on page 5 there's a mostly-complete set of instructions on how to Telnet into the router and manually disable the update process. (There's some minor adjustments to the instructions on the last few pages of the topic.)