Orbi firmware v2.1.1.16 discussion

All these firmware problems might be excusable if Netgear was a newby, but Netgear has been making routers for decades.  I've been using Netgear routers for decades and I never had a problem with firmware updates causing issues.  This release of v2.1.1.16 firmware looks like a classic case of insufficient testing.  Sure when you first install the firmware everything looks fine, but three hours later, all the attached devices have dissappeared from the satellite and the router has rebooted itself twice.  Someone at Netgear seems to have dropped the ball and it is NOT giving me a good feeling about this product.

If the Netgear software engineers did their job correctly, there wouldn't have to be a magic sequence of updating the satellites before the router, or doing a factor reset or not, or doing a resync or not.  Unless Netgear fixes these firmware issues, word is going to get out that Orbi is NOT a very good router system after all.

I checked with Amazon and I have until the end of January to return my Orbi RBK50.  If the next firmware release doesn't fix the stability and functional problems, I going to send this puppy back to Amazon for a refund.  If ASUS every brings a mesh wifi system to market, you can bet that it will be rock stable, it will function as advertised, and it will have all the features that you wish Orbi had.